If you feel like the IRS is not heeding your call, you are not alone. As the IRS continues to dig itself out of its pandemic-induced backlog, taxpayer service has ...
Tax compliance or tax avoidance? Supreme Court rules in Loblaw’s favour
The Supreme Court’s recent tax appeal ruling in favour of Loblaw Financial Holdings ended a lengthy and complicated dispute over how a dissolved subsidiary company – run from Barbados – ...
Ontario tweaks Business Corporations Act, making it more business-friendly
This summer, two small but important amendments to the Business Corporations Act (Ontario) came into effect. These amendments eased restrictions on governance so that Ontario businesses can operate more efficiently, ...
Psychedelics treatments are in the public eye
Recently the use of psychedelics in health care experienced an interesting turning point – not through political gains, but through television. Hulu’s latest hit, Nine Perfect Strangers, depicts the use of psychedelics ...
Proposed legislation introduced to reform cannabis taxation in the US
On July 14, 2021, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer released a discussion draft of a detailed cannabis reform bill which, if enacted, would restore the deductibility of all expenses related ...
The Biden Tax Plan: Where it stands
There has been a lot of talk in the recent news about the Biden tax plan moving forward in Congress. However, there is no need for panic (yet!), as the ...
US Court of Appeals Applies a Multi-Million Dollar Penalty on a Trust Distribution
In a recent case, the US Court of Appeals has upheld a significant penalty against the owner and beneficiary of a foreign trust distribution who did not file timely returns. ...
US Tax Update: Remote Sellers Sales Tax
Bloomberg Law reports that state revenue agencies are finally getting serious about requiring out-of-state retailers to collect tax on e-commerce transactions, frustrated that less than half of such sellers are ...
Will stock option taxation changes hurt hiring?
Employers in Canada’s emerging industries like cannabis, psychedelics, and agritech are concerned about how upcoming changes to the taxation of stock options will impact their ability to recruit top talent. ...