Two things have happened recently that you need to be aware of if you’re a Canadian SEC registrant.

In June, the Canadian Securities Administrators issued their annual report on the results of their continuous disclosure review program for their year ended March 31, 2012.

On August 22, 2012 the SEC adopted two new rules mandated by the Dodd-Frank Wall Act.

One of the downsides for Canadian companies that moved to IFRS in 2011 is that it came in the middle of the IASB’s and FASB’s joint program to improve and converge IFRS and US GAAP.

On August 14, 2012, the Department of Finance released for consultation draft legislative proposals that implement measures included in the March 29, 2012 federal budget. Comments on the proposals are due by September 13, 2012.

It is hard to believe that another six months have already passed by and that only a few weeks remain to the Farnborough International Airshow in July.

On August 14, 2012, the Department of Finance released for consultation draft legislative proposals that implement measures included in the March 29, 2012 federal budget. Comments on the proposals are due by September 13, 2012.

PwC and BIOTECanada invite Canada's Life Sciences and Biotechnology sectors to participate in the fourth Canadian Life Sciences Forecast.

More than 200 of Alberta’s business leaders and more than 900 consumers indicated that their overall confidence in the economy is increasing since July 2012, reversing a downward trend that began in March 2012.

With more than 4,000 staff worldwide dedicated to the Utilities sector, PwC has the industry knowledge and expertise to meet your needs.

On March 29, 2012, the Federal Minister of Finance, Jim Flaherty, presented the majority government’s budget, which included a number of tax initiatives that are particularly relevant to the insurance industry.

Insurance industry: Key tax rates and updates features selected recent tax changes and cases, and tax rates.

Insurance industry: Key tax rates and updates features selected recent tax changes and cases, and tax rates.

The EU’s likely endorsement of a wave of standards for 2014 means that IFRS reporters will have to early adopt the standards in 2013 if they need to claim compliance with IFRS and EU IFRS.

Alas, the 2013 IFRS changes on the preceding page are just the beginning – there’s much more in the pipeline.

The IASB And FASB Impairment Models For Financial Assets Could Differ If The FASB's Plans To Find An Alternative To The "Three Bucket" Approach Are Successful.

On October 9, 2012, European Union (EU) Tax Commissioner, Algirdas Semeta, informed the EU-27 Finance Ministers that 11 Member States support the introduction of a common "EUwide" financial transactions tax (FTT) in their countries via enhanced cooperation.

This Tax memo is an update to our August 30, 2012 Tax memo "Asset management industry tax issues: France’s new filing requirements and Canada's prohibited investment rules."

This publication summarizes the main features of how Canadian oil and gas operations are taxed by the Canadian government and primarily the provincial governments of Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan.

In Copthorne Holdings Ltd. v. The Queen, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) unanimously held that GAAR applied to planning in which cross-border paid-up capital was duplicated and used to make a tax-free return of capital through a share redemption.