R. v. Castro: Tough Decision on Charitable Receipts Bill Innes has some interesting things to say about a tough and uncompromising decision from the Federal Court of Appeal... Read More →
Voluntary Disclosures to CRA I can do little better than to encourage you to read this Globe & Mail piece from my former... Read More →
Critically Important Changes to the “Closely Related Corporations” Election: File Your Old GST25 Forms! As I am reminded by MNP’s John Frim, there has been a critically important change to the GST/HST regime... Read More →
Mini-storage and self-storage: update John Loukidelis helpfully provided a note that the 2015 federal budget announced a review on the rules under which... Read More →
CRA on some Tax Consequences of Crowdfunding CRA has released a short letter (thanks to taxinterpretations.com for doing a great job providing CRA’s ‘severed letters’ to the... Read More →
Bill C-51 I haven’t had much time to focus on it, but I wrote a short letter to my Member of... Read More →
CRA Fishing Expeditions John Loukidelis has posted about a questionnaire a taxpayer has received in response to an item listed on its... Read More →
Tax Court rules favourably on capital protection hedge Profits made under currency swap transactions designed to hedge currency risk in a taxpayer’s investment in foreign subsidiaries have... Read More →
Tort Actions Against CRA The Federal Court has denied an appeal by the Crown in Scheuer v. Canada against a decision to dismiss CRA’s motion... Read More →
IRS Offshore Filing Compliance Sunita Doobay has an excellent summary of new IRS “Streamlined Foreign Offshore Procedures” for US non-resident citizens. Shame that... Read More →