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Thought Leaders
Is capitalism dead? Yanis Varoufakis thinks it is – and he knows who killed it
In light of the deal between Canada and Google, we present this thought leadership article on technofeudalism, an economics term coined by Yanis Varoufakis
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Wealthy but worried: why the UK’s top 10% are turning their backs on the rest of society
A thought leadership article on high income earners in the UK may hold some insights into Canadian attitudes towards inequality and taxation among the wealthy
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IRS is using $60B funding boost to ramp up use of technology to collect taxes — not just hiring more enforcement agents
After a decade of underfunding, the Internal Revenue Agency is receiving a cash injection, similar to the reinvestment in the CRA by the Trudeau government
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Profession
CIMA and CPA Canada sign Memorandum of Understanding
MOU will mean a wider range of employment opportunities for CPAs and will allow Canadian businesses access to a deeper pool of management accounting talent
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Challenges to free trade reveal a big change in conservative ideology
A shift in conservative ideology towards protectionism, not free trade, is not new in Canada and could have profound effects for business leaders such as CPAs
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Transfer Pricing
Royal Bank Of Canada: A common sense approach to tax treaty interpretation
Michael Hunt and Steven Wenham of Herbert Smith Freehills LLP explain a transfer pricing ruling in the UK Supreme Court in favour of RBC and an oil exploration loan
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Practice
How to legitimately defer the worst of Canada's departure tax when becoming a non-resident and moving to another country
The departure tax can create a substantial and unforeseen tax bill for the unaware emigrating taxpayer explains tax lawyer and accountant David J. Rotfleisch
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Taxing the wealthy to the hilt would make us all much better off
Western University professor Tom Malleson presents five reasons for levying high taxes on the very rich, from the environment to (reduced) social friction
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Profession
Sunday News Roundup 22.09.11: EY announces split and more Canadian accounting news
Wrapping up the odds and ends from the past week in Canadian accounting news
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The United States has rejected the OECD minimum tax. Canada should as well – Part II
Allan Lanthier: The OECD rules were developed by committee after committee and compromise after compromise, and it shows
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The United States has rejected the OECD minimum tax. Canada should as well – Part I
Allan Lanthier: We should not hamstring our job creators at the precise time when our giant competitor to the south has rejected the tax
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Profession
We called it: Former CPA Canada head appointed ISSB regional director
Charles-Antoine St-Jean appointed Regional Director—Americas of the International Sustainability Standards Board — an appointment we predicted
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