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Canadians will pay the bill for COVID-19 in higher taxes — here’s how it will likely happen

Gordon Pape on eight potential Canadian tax increases post-pandemic
Profession

Friday News Roundup 20.10.02: ex-MP faces tax evasion charges, Taxpayers Ombudsperson and more

Wrapping up the odds and ends in this week’s Canadian accounting news
Business

WE Charity demise shows why trust, transparency are so critical for NGOs

Most NGOs fund their operations from taxpayer dollars, says accounting doctoral candidate Nelson Duenas
Thought Leaders

Free trade 2.0: How USMCA does a better job than NAFTA of protecting the environment

USMCA introduces Article 24.8 that allows Canadian environmental standards to take precedence
Profession

Friday News Roundup 20.09.25: Leafs losses, Ex-CPA jailed, tax judge named, snow washing and more

Wrapping up the odds and ends in this week’s Canadian accounting news
Business

Focus on today and tomorrow to help Canada’s economic recovery: CPA Canada

CPA Canada applauds Throne Speech's staged approach to economic recovery
Business

Canadian accountants lack economic optimism, reports CPA Canada Business Monitor

But CPAs in senior leadership positions show surprising business optimism
Profession

Friday News Roundup 20.09.18: Tax Court complaints, audit quality, ZBB and more

Wrapping up the odds and ends in this week’s Canadian accounting news
Thought Leaders

The throne speech: Fiscal prudes are fretting about the wrong issues

Finance public policy professor Marc-Andre Pigeon says much of government debt is simply accounting entries
Profession

Friday News Roundup 20.09.11: Hotel New CFE, CRA shocks woman, and sustainable stuff

Wrapping up the odds and ends in this week’s Canadian accounting news
Business

What will be the impact of the WE Charity scandal on the Canadian charity sector?

A longform article by charity sector lawyer Mark Blumberg on the We Charity, its governance and for-profit activities
Thought Leaders

Ant Group: why America is missing out on the biggest IPO in history

The biggest losers of the fight over Chinese audit transparency will be capital markets and investment funds says Daniel Broby
Profession

Friday News Roundup 20.08.28: Chinese audit opacity, Sage practice report, ex-CPA fraud

Wrapping up the odds and ends in this week’s Canadian accounting news
Thought Leaders

The weak dollar: why it won’t be replaced as global reserve currency

We should not expect a new financial order; the US dollar is soft but not for long
Taxation

Me Too defeats You Too in Tax Court

The Penate decision by the Tax Court of Canada is welcome awareness of racial and gender discrimination, says Claire M.C. Kennedy and Anu Nijhawan of Bennett Jones LLP
Business

Editorial: Morneau out, Freeland in as Trudeau cuts his losses

To many Canadian accountants, Morneau would be an ideal, high net worth client
Profession

Friday News Roundup 20.08.14: KPMG, Grant Thornton, rehiring stats, and fraudster jailed      

Wrapping up the odds and ends in this week’s Canadian accounting news
Business

Tax deadlines extended and CEWS amended by Bill C-20

Bhuvana Rai of BLG reviews Bill C-20 and its details relevant to tax practitioners
Thought Leaders

A second COVID-19 wave? Here are 6 lessons from the first

Lives can be saved while also stabilizing business, say Loren Falkenberg of the University of Calgary and Jillian Walsh of University of York
Business

E-commerce businesses now face PST registration in Saskatchewan

New rules part of a broader trend to tax digital platforms, say Nicolas Désy, Kassandra Grenier and Fred Purkey of McCarthy Tétrault
Profession

Friday News Roundup 20.07.31: CPA Canada applauds Chamber, Morneau smoke, CFIB & more   

Wrapping up the odds and ends in this week’s Canadian accounting news
Profession

Friday News Roundup 20.07.24: Pandemic debt, WFH tax breaks, Love & Money and more

Wrapping up the odds and ends in this week’s Canadian accounting news
Thought Leaders

COVID-19’s economic impact could be stressing out our kids

Parental economic stress due to COVID-19 may have a substantially negative effect on our children, say economist Shelley Phipps and researcher Nancy Kong
Business

Will CRA pursue directors for deferred GST/HST?

Directors should take steps to maximize their ability to successfully invoke the due diligence defence in regards to GST/HST remittance deferral
Thought Leaders

Paying for coronavirus will have to be like war debt — spread over generations

There is no magic money tree in economics, says Anton Muscatelli