Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Professionals who advise their clients to enter into creditor-proofing transactions need to think twice in light of Abakhan & Associates Inc. v. Braydon Investments Ltd., 2009 BCCA 521. In this case, the B.C. Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal from … Continue reading →

I just returned from the Canadian Tax Foundation’s Ontario Conference where Ruth Cummings (KPMG LLP) and Jane Bowen (University of Ontario Institute of Technology) gave a presentation on the new standards set out in the “Accounting Standards for Private Enterprises” … Continue reading →

It’s never easy to give a client bad news, but I doubt Wayne Montgomery expected a meeting with his client to end in criminal charges.  His client, a former NFL player, was so dissatisfied with his tax refund that he tried … Continue reading →

One of my favourite tax quotes is the following, which was written by the judge in J.F. Newton Ltd. v. Riddell, 45 D.T.C. 5276, [1991] 2 C.T.C. 91, 50 B.L.R. 136, 1990 CanLII 933 (BC S.C.), who was forced to … Continue reading →

Do I dare to write about the HST? I don’t, much, because I don’t know much about it. Nonetheless, let me share with you an insight about the Ontario HST that might make your practice life a little easier.

Professor Ben Alarie at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law (my alma mater, I’m proud to say) has started a tax wiki, which is meant to help “Canadians confused with complicated tax laws”.

Accountants who recommended tax shelters and earned commissions for doing so that weren’t disclosed to their clients need to think twice about their bank account balances. In Lemberg v. Perris, 2010 ONSC 3690, the Ontario Superior Court ordered an Oakville … Continue reading →