CRA asks Shopify to hand over records for more than 120,000 Canadian businesses to check for tax evasion
The Canada Revenue Agency is demanding six years’ worth of…
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GST/HST tax fraud is a ‘special operation’ at the Canada Revenue Agency
After reviewing Canada's GST/HST system, this article compares two of…
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The case for employee ownership trusts
“There have been heavy lobbying efforts pressing the government to…
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Nine ways to prevent triggering a CRA tax audit
One thing that raises the CRA’s suspicions is when reported…
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Yes, you should pay the Canada Revenue Agency for day trading in tax-free savings accounts
The court was right last week in ordering an investor…
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When the CRA reassessed a taxpayer’s tax returns beyond the normal reassessment period
Canadian accountant and tax lawyer David J. Rotfleisch explains how, in Goldhar v The King, a toy salesman successfully appealed a CRA reassessment.…
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Cryptoassets raise questions about foreign property disclosure
In addition, real estate held abroad for personal use —…
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When a tax-free savings account is a business & stripped of tax benefits
While the experienced Canadian tax litigation lawyer for the taxpayer…
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SR&ED: The CRA cannot use its civil tax audit power to gather information for a criminal investigation
David J Rotfleisch explains why the Federal Court of Appeal…
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Proposed amendments to GST/HST rules for cryptocurrency mining, part two
The proposed cryptocurrency-mining tax rules contain an exception when a…
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