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Real Estate Gains and Canadian Income Tax – A Brief Analysis

A Brief Analysis of Real Estate Gains & Canadian Income Tax Recently there has been a lot of media attention focused on financial gains being made in Vancouver’s housing market and the favorable tax treatment given to real estate used as a principal residence through the Canadian Income Tax Act. Without getting into the technical details of this tax treatment and

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Inheritance and the Canadian Taxpayer

While Inheritance is Non-taxable, A Word of Caution Inheritances are non-taxable for Canadian taxpayers regardless of whether or not the inheritance comes from a Canadian citizen or a foreign citizen. This non-taxable tax treatment is also consistent regardless of whether or not the inheritance is straight cash, a summer house, a rental building or shares of a company. Before you

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Late Tax Returns & Getting Mortgage or Credit

If I Ignore CRA’s Request to File Outstanding Returns – Tales of Two Taxpayers – submitted by Lilly Woo, CA, CFE, CFP It has been a strange summer for me. As the 2014 tax season came to an end on April 30, 2015, I was relieved as always and mentally plan for the lazy summer I wanted to enjoy. Then

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