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Canadian Small Business Owners and CPP – What is the Deal?

For business owners in British Columbia, the trend of remunerating shareholders with dividends instead of salaries and/or management bonuses has been going on for years.  The low corporate tax rate of 13.5% on the first $500,000 of corporate profits in conjunction with total CPP premiums of $4,712 on the first $51,100 of salary paid to each shareholder/manager created a strong

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Choose Quickbooks For Your Vancouver-based Small Business

Selecting the right accounting software for your small business seems like a daunting task but it really isn’t. This is because there is one software that is far superior even to the second best-in-its-class competitor. Also, 99 percent of all Vancouver professional accountants servicing small businesses use and recommend this software – Quickbooks (“QB”) or Cloud-based Quickbooks (“QBO”). Why is

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Incorporate Your Medical Practice in Vancouver

In my previous articles, the benefits of incorporating a business have been discussed at length. The tax advantages for corporations are substantial enough that some taxpayers structure the financial relationship with their “vendors” so that they are deemed self-employed, thus qualifying to operate as a corporation earning active business income. This allows the corporation to deduct expenses otherwise not deductible

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