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Unlock Your Path to Homeownership: The Power of Tax-Free First Home Savings Accounts!
Are you dreaming of owning your first home but worried about saving up for it? Enter the First Home Savings Account (FHSA), a brilliant solution tailored for first-time homebuyers in ...
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How will my business be affected by the new taxation of owner-managed business? Part 2: Income splitting
Yesterday, we took a look at how the draft legislation recently released by the Department of Finance would affect taxation of passive investments. Today, in Part 2 of our 4-Part ...
How will my business be affected by the new taxation of owner-managed business? Part 1: Passive investment
There has been a lot of buzz in the media lately about the draft legislation released by the Department of Finance on July 18, 2017. It’s our belief that if ...
A Tax Trap in Estate Law Mediation
David Posner, Partner and Charles Wagner of Wagner Sidlofsky LLP discuss joint accounts where a foreign based deceased who has Canadian assets holds an Ontario account in joint tenancy in, A ...
Zeifmans Celebrates 2017 Nexia Day with Alumni in Toronto
On September 13, 2017, to celebrate Nexia Day, and the enduring relationships we’ve built within our ethnically diverse global community, we invited Zeifmans alumni to visit our office in Toronto, ...
Investing in Real Estate
The right structure to achieve your real estate investment goals Investing in real estate can be a sound business move, especially for those looking to diversify their holdings or optimize ...
The building blocks of success(ion planning)
Many entrepreneurs and business owners avoid succession planning because they think of it as something that will happen far off in the future, or as an indication of the end ...
Significant U.S. tax exposures for Canadian family trusts with U.S. beneficiaries or U.S. Settlors/Grantors
As most are aware, the IRS has undertaken an initiative to identify unreported foreign income of U.S. taxpayers. While most of the attention has been focused on U.S. expatriate citizens ...
Own land in an Ontario corporation? Learn the new rules that apply
If an Ontario corporation owns land in Ontario, it is now required to prepare and maintain registers of ownership interests in the land at it’s registered office. The register must ...
Highlights of the proposed Trump Tax Plan
President Donald Trump has released a brief document outlining what his administration is calling “the biggest tax cut in U.S. history”. Canadians should not assume the proposed Trump Tax Plan ...