I love math. I appreciate the coexistence of precision and
ambiguity within math. I enjoy the patterns and randomness that
present simultaneously within math. I smirk looking back at the
quirky symbols and the superscripts and subscripts I once used
studying algebra, trigonometry, and calculus. What I truly love
about math is the adrenaline rush of reaching a solution.
Solving for tax minimization means locating arbitrage
opportunities within our patchwork quilt of Canadian tax
legislation. With the federal government and all thirteen
provincial and territorial governments autonomously setting income
tax rates, brackets, and tax credit amounts and rates for
individuals and corporations, differences in effective tax rates
for the same type of income is inevitable. I wrote a paper in 2006
for the Canadian Tax Foundation that I titled “Land of a
Thousand Rates” – today I would have to at least double
that number as provinces and territories continue to flex their
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