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Alexander Marino recently appeared on the Global Investment Voice Podcast to discuss the benefits of renouncing US citizenship on March 14, 2024.

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Alexander Marino guested on the Snowbirds US Expats Radio Podcast about the benefits of renouncing your US citizenship on January 17, 2024.

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Kenneth Keung and Evan Crocker are quoted in Investment Executive article titled “CRAʼs 10% interest rate on overdue tax raises risks“, published on November 13, 2023.

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Kenneth Keung quoted in Investment Executive article titled “Window closing on family business transfers using Bill C-208”, published on October 10, 2023.

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Kim G C Moody is quoted in the Tax Notes article titled “Canada’s Supreme Court Upholds GAAR Application in Deans Knight”, May 30, 2023

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What is the benefit of a tax specialist?

Please be warned that this blog may sound like marketing and it is different from our normal blogs.  The reason for this is that we were recently asked by a prospect and a client the question:

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US foreign bank account reporting rules: Update

The US Government has required its citizens to report on their foreign bank accounts since 1970; however, its controversial revisions of October 2008 continue to cause tax practitioners, citizens and persons doing business in the US headaches.  We expect the US Government to aggressively enforce these reporting requirements since they assist the US Government in identifying abusive offshore accounts such as the UBS accounts (discussed in our blogs on September 8, 2009 and February 10, 2010).

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2010 Federal Budget

On March 4, 2010, Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty released the 2010 Federal Budget (the “Budget”).  The Budget contained a significant amount of tax material in comparison to recent budgets.  Find below the relevant tax measures that are worthy of discussion. 

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Olympics and new tax legislation: Employee Life and Health Trusts

First off, what an Olympics!  As a proud Canadian, yesterday will certainly go down in the memory banks as one of the most significant days in Canadian sports history.  Vancouver did an amazing job hosting the Olympics and did Canada proud.  Of course, many of us were interested in the Canadian men’s hockey team result and watching the game was a “pins and needles” exercise but when Sidney Crosby scored the overtime goal what a rush of excitement!  Oh Canada!!

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Bill 53 proclaimed!

Further to our blog postings of November 26, 2009 and October 27, 2009, this legislation was finally proclaimed on February 4, 2010 and comes into force on March 1, 2010. 

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Miscellaneous updates: Alberta Budget, Supreme Court to hear new GAAR decision and other tidbits

 

The tax world moves quickly. This blog entry will highlight a few miscellaneous updates that are of relevance to most of our friends and clients.

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Alexander Marino recently appeared on the Global Investment Voice Podcast to discuss the benefits of renouncing US citizenship on March 14, 2024.

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Alexander Marino guested on the Snowbirds US Expats Radio Podcast about the benefits of renouncing your US citizenship on January 17, 2024.

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Kenneth Keung and Evan Crocker are quoted in Investment Executive article titled “CRAʼs 10% interest rate on overdue tax raises risks“, published on November 13, 2023.

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Kenneth Keung quoted in Investment Executive article titled “Window closing on family business transfers using Bill C-208”, published on October 10, 2023.

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Kim G C Moody is quoted in the Tax Notes article titled “Canada’s Supreme Court Upholds GAAR Application in Deans Knight”, May 30, 2023