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The Newfoundland and Labrador Court of Appeal recently confirmed that accounting/auditing firms may take on several mandates...

In Fort Hills Energy Corporation v Alberta, 2018 ABQB 905, the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench reviewed Alberta Energy decision which rejected Fort Hills Energy Corporation's PNCB claim of approximately $1.9 billion...

Canadian securities regulators have amended Multilateral Instrument 52-110, <I>Audit Committees</I>, which contains the tests for determining whether directors are independent.

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) recently made headlines when it asked Shopify for six years' worth of records for more than 120,000 of its Canadian customers.

All businesses should prepare for the possibility of a search warrant being executed at their premises by the police or a regulatory authority. One area in particular that ought to be a cause for concern...

The B.C. Court of Appeal ruled that companies incorporated under the Canada Business Corporations Act must, by operation of law, appoint an auditor.

Canada's income tax system is designed around every taxpayer, individual, corporation or trust, filing an annual return which reports all of the income that taxpayer earned during the year.

On September 18, 2020, the CRA filed a Federal Court application against Coinsquare in order to compell the Toronto-based cryptocurrency platform to disclose tax information related to its customers.

The Income Tax Act grants the CRA a broad range of powers and discretions when conducting tax audits of Canadian taxpayers.

The CRA could not set consistent expected times with respect to settlements of tax objections.

The independence and integrity of third party assurance and verification under TIER is at the core of a transparent, reliable and functional carbon pricing and emissions trading system.

After numerous false starts, Canada's Parliament on May 3, passed a human rights and supply chain transparency law, formerly Bill S-211, the Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour...

The case involved the sending by the Minister of National Revenue of requirements to notaries to provide documents or information concerning their clients to the Minister for tax collection or audit purposes.

From 2020 to 2025, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has significantly increased the use of administrative penalties as a core enforcement tool.

Mid-market companies - those with annual revenues typically ranging from $10 million to $250 million - form the backbone of Canada's private sector...

Canadian taxpayers, especially entrepreneurs, real estate investors, high-net-worth professionals, and crypto traders, must understand that a CRA tax audit or a Revenu Québec tax audit may evolve into a criminal investigation.