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 ...
So you closed a big real estate deal – now what?
So you finally closed that big real estate deal and are left with significant funds in your corporation. You have now moved onto to evaluating various investment options, looking at ...
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 ins and outs of income tax when using cryptocurrencies
Cryptocurrencies has developed into a sizzling topic over the last 2 years. Trending digital currencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum have increased in value resulting in significant market capitalization, transactional ...
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 ...
GILTI or Not GILTI: A guide for U.S. expatriates living in Canada
First, expatriate U.S. citizens who owned a direct or indirect interest in a Canadian corporation had to deal with an unfair transition tax on the amount of earnings and profits ...