The Land Transfer Tax Act does not recognize partnerships therefore if a partnership owns land it is the owner of a partnership unit that is the beneficial owner of the land for Land Transfer Tax purposes.

The database can be searched by country and when a hit is found it displays related records including other corporations and in some cases individual names.

Richard Cory Stanchfield was an "educator" for the discredited Paradigm Education Group, a de-taxer group that claims Canadians do not have to pay income tax.

PayPal was served with a Federal Court of Canada order on November 10, 2017 requiring them to release to CRA details about PayPal Business account holders who sent or received a payment...

The Department of Finance announced 3 changes to the Canadian Income Tax Act on Tue July 18. The first one related to income sprinkling and is designed to reduce income splitting...

Changes to the Canadian Income Tax Act announced in the middle of the summer have attracted notice after Labour Day.

Tax changes are set to come into force on January 1, 2017 with respect to the income tax treatment of eligible capital property.

If you are reporting self employment your deadline for filing your 2016 T1 return is June 15, 2017.

Some Canadian small businesses may be eligible for a simplified method of filing their GST/HST returns. They be able to elect to use the quick method of GST/HST accounting when filing their GST/HST tax returns.

Rectification is an equitable doctrine that is applicable in situations where parties have agreed on terms of a contract that due to inadvertence is not reflected in their written agreement.

In the case of Randhawa, 2014 Carswell Alta 1291 (Alta. Prov. Ct), the taxpayer did not report gains on sales of agricultural land because he bought replacement land and thought the replacement property deferral applied.

If all other tax appeal recourses have been exhausted, taxpayers faced with wrong tax assessments or large tax balances owing that consist largely of penalties and interest, have one last chance procedure available...

Some income tax planning is possible for an RRSP by designating a spouse as the RRSP beneficiary in the RRSP account, not a will effectively rolling the RRPS to the spouse.

While merely holding bitcoin, dash, or other cryptocurrency does not give rise to tax, the sale will result in a capital gain or full income inclusion.

While CRA has not responded to any of the submissions about the proposed changes to the voluntary disclosure program we are advised by CRA employees that their systems are being updated...

Zero rated supplies are defined in the Excise Tax Act and include prescription drugs, medical assistive devices, feminine hygiene products, basic groceries, agriculture and fishing, exports, transportation services and financial services.

The Offshore Tax Informant Program (OTIP) was originally announced in January 2014 under the name Stop International Tax Evasion program.

Another tax protester, Denise Eddy of Red Deer, Alberta, was convicted of tax evasion and filing false income tax returns.

Car rental in Canada through Turo is the latest participant in the shared economy. Turo has just issued a press release that they are expanding operations throughout Canada.

Names of 350 Canadians with offshore companies and offshore accounts were revealed as part of the Panama Papers tax haven data leak.