From Alexander Graham Bell to the Canadarm, Canada has long been a hub for tech innovation. And within our country in recent years, few regions can rival Toronto’s skyrocketing tech ...
5 big ways M&A activity will impact the Canadian cannabis market
Big changes have been taking place in the Canadian cannabis market and among them is a significant increase in M&A activity. Within the first six months of 2018 alone[1], 48 ...
Top 10 reasons why cannabis companies need accounting leadership: Part 2
In Part 2 of this series, we continue to examine why cannabis companies need accounting leadership and the biggest challenges they face. It’s a positive problem: A start-up grows so ...
Top 10 reasons why cannabis companies need accounting leadership: Part 1
As many cannabis companies across the globe prepare for a public offering, or for purchase by a public company, the nascent industry’s accounting challenges are beginning to present themselves in ...
The future of buying and selling real estate with cryptocurrency
With cryptocurrency becoming more prevalent in today’s economy, discussion has turned to business transactions being made using cryptocurrency, in particular when buying and selling real estate with cryptocurrency. Already, certain American ...
Canadian cannabis stocks – the Canada-Israel link
The combination of Canada’s cannabis capital markets and Israel’s clinical research expertise have poised the nations for fruitful collaboration for Canadian cannabis stocks. While Canada has postponed the legalization of ...
Navigating the U.S. e-commerce state sales tax collection rules
On June 21, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favour of allowing South Dakota to impose an e-commerce sales tax by Wayfair Inc. (“Wayfair”), a large online furniture ...
Update for CFC owners on mitigating the impact of U.S. tax reforms
U.S. citizens abroad who own an interest in a Controlled Foreign Corporation (“CFC”) have been unfairly targeted by two provisions of the U.S. tax reform that was legislated at the ...
Doing Business Globally: A Tax Update
In June 2018, in conjunction with hosting the international tax conference of Nexia International – a global network of independent accounting and consulting firms and one of the top ten global ...