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Alexander Marino is quoted in an article titled “Trump bump: U.S. citizenship renunciation inquiries surge in Canada, lawyers say” on CBC News, January 28, 2025.

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Alexander Marino is quoted in an article titled “‘Scary’: Why US expats are tossing their citizenships – and it’s not just Trump” in The Sydney Morning Herald, November 1, 2024

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Kenneth Keung is quoted in the Investment Executive article titled “Quirk in capital gains tax rules raises risks for incorporated clients,” published on July 24, 2024.

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Kenneth Keung is quoted in the Investment Executive article titled “How should trusts flow out capital gains to beneficiaries in 2024?”, July 5, 2024.

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Kim G C Moody, Kenneth Keung, and Christopher Ellett are quoted in the Investment Executive article titled “When is the latest clients can sell assets prior to June 25?”, published on May 17, 2024.

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An early Christmas present for agriculture

The second week of November holds a special place in my heart; harvest is generally done, calves…

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From T.S. Eliot to BoJo: Why the List of Britons Giving Up US Status Continues to Grow

Oscar Wilde’s characters quipped in multiple instances that “when good Americans die they go to Paris,” while bad Americans stay in America. Wilde commented elsewhere about taxes, but he probably did not contemplate the irony that even the supposedly good Americans who make it to the City of Light are followed there—during life and after death—by the IRS.

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Where do we now stand on the Canadian Private Corporation Tax Proposals?

What a roller-coaster of a week it’s been! It seems like many moons ago when the Government…

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Our firm’s correspondence to the Minister of Finance: Round 2

Ever since the release of the July 18, 2017 private corporation tax proposals by the Canadian government, our firm has been very active in studying the proposals and informing the public of the consequences to the extent that they become implemented into law. In Advance of September 5-7, 2017 Kelowna, BC Caucus Meetings, our firm sent an email correspondence to the Liberal MPs.

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The Liberals want to wipe out the family farm!?

I don’t write as many blogs as other members of my firm, however, today my concern rose enough to put fingers to keyboard. On the September 7, 2017 edition of the CBC Alberta @Noon show (the portion that you’ll be interested in starts at about 39:25 and ends at about 42:45), Liberal advisor Michael Wolfson, a University of Ottawa economist, admitted to some of the consequences that the private corporation tax proposals may have for family farms.

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Our firm’s correspondence to the Minister of Finance

Ever since the release of the July 18, 2017 private corporation tax proposals by the Canadian government, our firm has been very active in studying the proposals and informing the public of the consequences to the extent that they become implemented into law. In Advance of September 5-7, 2017 Kelowna, BC Caucus Meetings, our firm sent an email correspondence to the Liberal MPs.

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Alexander Marino is quoted in an article titled “Trump bump: U.S. citizenship renunciation inquiries surge in Canada, lawyers say” on CBC News, January 28, 2025.

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Alexander Marino is quoted in an article titled “‘Scary’: Why US expats are tossing their citizenships – and it’s not just Trump” in The Sydney Morning Herald, November 1, 2024

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Kenneth Keung is quoted in the Investment Executive article titled “Quirk in capital gains tax rules raises risks for incorporated clients,” published on July 24, 2024.

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Kenneth Keung is quoted in the Investment Executive article titled “How should trusts flow out capital gains to beneficiaries in 2024?”, July 5, 2024.

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Kim G C Moody, Kenneth Keung, and Christopher Ellett are quoted in the Investment Executive article titled “When is the latest clients can sell assets prior to June 25?”, published on May 17, 2024.