Tax

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Tax News

The case for spousal RRSPs

With the advent of pension income splitting in 2007, many think spousal RRSPs aren’t necessary

By Gena Katz |June 24, 2011

3 min read

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Industry

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

4 min read

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Estate Planning

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

5 min read

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Tax News

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

1 min read