Tax

Watch your clients get taxed to the bone!

Advisor.ca is proud to congratulate Yves Bonneau, Editor in Chief of our Quebec affiliate Conseiller.ca, on winning the Kenneth R. Wilson (KRW) Award for Best Editorial in 2010. The KRW Awards recognize the best in Canadian business press journalism. Here is his Silver Award winning editorial: In 1999, Claude Laferrière, professor of tax policy at […]

By Yves Bonneau |June 10, 2011

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CRA on the prowl

More and more, the Canada Revenue Agency is taking a keen interest in how companies, both small and large, structure their tax planning. And it is asking increasingly intrusive questions—not quite audits, but compelling questionnaires. All of this is the name of the GAAR: the General Anti-Avoidance Rule promulgated some 20 years ago. Still, while […]

By Scot Blythe |June 9, 2011

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CRA announces interest rates for Q3

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) today announced the prescribed annual interest rates that will apply to any amounts owed to the CRA and to any amounts the CRA owes to individuals and corporations. These rates are calculated quarterly in accordance with applicable legislation and will be in effect from July 1, 2011 to September 30, […]

By Staff |June 9, 2011

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Five risks to retirement income

In a speech today at the Canadian Institute of Financial Planners annual conference in Ottawa, Peter Drake, vice president, Retirement and Economic Research, Fidelity Investments Canada ULC called attention to the new retirement realities facing Canada’s baby boomer generation and highlighted the importance of taking account of the five key risks to retirement income as part of the retirement planning process.

By Staff |June 7, 2011

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