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SABIC purchase of Clariant stake delayed




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SEBI shuts down Mumbai offices due to Covid-19 scare

Two office buildings of SEBI were shutdown as an Assistant General Manager was found Covid-19 positive, sources confirmed to BusinessLine. SEBI has it




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All about the A13 Bionic chip powering the iPhone 11

Apple says the A13 Bionic was the most power-efficient chip it's ever made -- it needs 40 per cent less power than the previous chip in the Apple Bionic series to perform the same tasks as the previous phones, says Devangshu Datta.




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This RBI museum blends technology with history

In the museum, RBI's history is shown in panels that illuminate while moving on a rotating table, and begins with the commencement of RBI in 1934 and ends with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's famous speech on November 8, 2016 announcing demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 2,000 notes.




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British Columbia Tax Reporter - Newsletter

British Columbia Tax Reporter newsletter is designed to keep you up-to-date on legislative changes and other tax developments in British Columbia. You'll also benefit from practical feature articles and columns written by prominent practitioners.

Updated monthly. Available to be e-mailed in PDF format only.

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British Columbia Real Estate Law Guide

If you practice real estate law in British Columbia, this is the publication that will ensure that you are up-to-date. The British Columbia Real Estate Law Guide gives you comprehensive coverage of topics related to real estate transactions in British Columbia. To simplify your research, it includes all relevant statutes and regulations plus summaries of recent cases.

It helps speed up your work with numerous precedents and forms in various areas. It also includes comprehensive, interactive Smart Charts on Residential Loan and Owners Title Insurance Policy Comparisons.

You also get comprehensive and practical commentary on the following topics:

  • Professional Duties and Responsibilities
  • Purchase and Sale Agreements
  • Mortgages
  • Land Title Registration
  • Remedies (Purchase/Sale and Mortgage Default)
  • Residential Tenancies
  • Commercial Tenancies
  • Strata Titles (Condominium Law, Residential and Commercial)

Included with your subscription is British Columbia Real Estate Law Developments, a bi-monthly newsletter that summarizes all recent developments in British Columbia real estate law.

Included with your Online subscription is the Real Estate Law News Tracker. With News Tracker, you get notices of all updates via e-mail. Your updates give you instant access to changes in the law that originate from a variety of primary and secondary sources such as press releases, legislation, and cases.

 

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British Columbia Real Estate Law Developments

British Columbia Real Estate Law Developments is a newsletter that summarizes the most recent developments in the practice of real estate law in British Columbia, including summaries of cases and updates on legislative changes.


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Archived Webinar – Taxation of Private Businesses

Webinar information current as of February 25, 2008.

Recent tax changes, including declining corporate tax rates, eligible dividends and an increasingly vigilant Revenue Agency have changed the ground rules for the taxation of private companies and their owner-managers. Because of new tax planning opportunities and traps, practitioners who simply follow past practices risk missing out on important tax planning opportunities – and may be putting their clients in tax jeopardy.

Audience: Advisors who want an overview of the key strategies that should be considered for Canadian-controlled private corporations and their shareholders should not miss this session.

AGENDA

Recent Developments in Remuneration - Robert Korne, BCF, Montreal and Quebec
  • Declining Corporate Tax Rates and Eligible Dividends
  • Integration: Bonuses Revisited
  • Rethinking RRSPs for the Owner/Manager
Maximizing the Capital Gains Exemption - Michael Goldberg, Minden Gross LLP, Toronto
  • Presale and Ongoing Purification Structures
  • Crystallization Strategies
  • Tax Effective Structures
  • The Section 84.1 Trap
Maximizing Low Rate Income - Ray Hupfer, McLennan Ross LLP, Calgary and Edmonton
  • Issues in Respect of “Association”
  • Benefits of Separating Businesses
  • Partnership Structures
  • Consulting Business Opportunities
Potpourri of Tips and Traps - William Cooper, Boughton Law Corporation, Vancouver
  • Asset Sales Trump Share Sales
  • Simplifying the Business Sale
  • Rethinking the Personal Services Business Rules
  • Trouble with Trusts
  • Tax Reporting Traps

This webinar will be presented by five tax specialists from the MERITAS Canada Tax Group.

David Louis LLB, CA has 30 years of experience in income tax matters, including personal, corporate, international, and estate planning, focusing largely on entrepreneurs.



Michael Goldberg LLB has been working with his clients and their advisors to assist them with their corporate, estate, personal and international tax planning needs.




William Cooper LLB, CGA has a broad range of experience in tax and corporate finance, including senior financial positions with a multinational forest products company.



Raymond Hupfer LLB, CA focuses on taxation matters, purchase and sale of businesse

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Archived Webinar – In-Depth Dividend Taxation

Webinar information current as of November 21, 2007.

On June 29, 2006, draft legislation was introduced to lower the income tax rate on large corporation dividends received by Canadians. The objective is to eliminate the double taxation of large corporation dividends and so to make these investments more attractive relative to income trusts and other investments. This webinar will deal with some of the issues arising from this proposed legislation.

Audience: Public practice accountants, tax preparers, lawyers – anyone who advises clients (personal and/or corporate) on taxation matters.

AGENDA

  1. Overview of the rules
  2. Two new tax accounts:
    1. GRIP (general rate income pool)
    2. LRIP (low rate income pool)
  3. Change of status:
    1. CCPC to non-CCPC
    2. Non-CCPC to CCPC
    3. Amalgamations and winding-ups
  4. Eligible dividends
  5. Excessive eligible dividends:
    1. Anti-avoidance rule
    2. Election to treat part as a non-eligible dividend
  6. Bonus vs. dividends
  7. Interaction with RDTOH
  8. Sale of assets vs. shares – How do these rules affect the decision?
  9. Impact on post-mortem planning
  10. Impact on holding company structures and estate freezes
  11. How to structure share capital to stream eligible dividend payments
  12. Impact on income splitting
  13. Impact on corporate-owned life insurance

This webinar will be presented by three tax specialists from Aird & Berlis LLP.

Jack Bernstein LLB is the senior tax partner and chair of International Tax Practice at Aird & Berlis LLP. He is a member of the firm’s Tax Group and Tax Litigation Group, as well as the Mergers and Acquisitions Team.
Barbara Worndl LLB has been a partner with Aird & Berlis LLP since 1988. She is practice group leader of the firm’s Tax Group. Barbara’s practice is focused on income tax with an emphasis on corporate and partnership taxation.
Andrew Nicholls LLB joined Aird & Berlis LLP in 1999. He is a partner and a member of the firm’s Tax Group. Andrew’s tax practice focuses on income tax in the areas of derivatives, corporate and international tax.

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Business Combinations and Consolidations Under IFRS

Webinar information current as of May 14, 2008

CCH IFRS Webinar Series 2008 - Seminar 2

Business combinations represent a growing number of firms within Canada. They will be treated differently after the convergence with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in Canada. Mergers and acquisitions are happening everyday - can you afford to not understand the new consequences?

CCH Canadian presents the second in a series of online seminars on IFRS for Canada. This 90-minute online seminar is presented by Peter D. Chant, FCA, Ph.D., Partner at Deloitte Canada and author of the upcoming book, iGAAP 2008: IFRS for Canada.

Agenda

Business Combinations: IFRS 3 (Revised) and SFAS 141(R)

FASB 141(R):

A. Business Combinations

  • Key dates
  • Scope
  • Definition of a business
  • Measuring the exchange
  • Elements of the purchase equation
  • The “Measurement Period”
  • Disclosures

B. Consolidation and Non-controlling interests

C. IFRS 3 Differences

Speaker

Dr. Peter Chant, FCA, is a partner in the National Assurance and Advisory group at Deloitte & Touche LLP. He is a former member and Chair of the Canadian Accounting Standards Board and was co-Chair of the CICA/FASB Task Force that developed the current Canadian and FASB standard on segmented information. He was also a member of the FASB's Task Force on Business Combinations that developed the FASB's current standard on that topic, and a member of the G4+1 Group of standard setters, which included the Chairs of the IASB, FASB and the Canadian Accounting Standards Board. Peter D. Chant has published a textbook on advanced accounting in Canada, and was co-author of a research paper on accounting for joint ventures that was published by the G4+1. He is currently the Chair of Task Force on Non-GAAP Performance Measures of the Canadian Performance Reporting Board of the CICA. He has a Ph.D. in Accounting and Information Systems from Northwestern University.

Format

Participate right from your desk or office. All you need is an internet connection and a sound card.
 
CCH IFRS Webinar Series
Business Combinations and Consolidations Under IFRS is the second webinar in the series of six.  Learn more about the CCH IFRS Webinar Series.

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Archived Webinar – GST Update

This webcast was recorded on March 5, 2008

The purpose of GST Update is to inform Canadian businesses of some of the more significant GST developments including recent legislative changes, CRA administrative policy developments, and recent GST jurisprudence. Through participation in this seminar, registrants will receive timely information on current issues and practical advice in dealing with day-to-day GST issues.

GST Update is intended for tax directors and corporate controllers responsible for GST compliance and planning initiatives.

Agenda

  • GST Rate Reduction
  • ITC Documentation Requirements & GST Registry
  • Corporate Reorganizations (GST Tips & Traps)
  • Hot Audit Topics
  • Standardized Accounting & Voluntary Disclosures
  • Case Law Update on Financial Services
  • Excise Tax & Insurance Premiums

The Speaker
Brent Murray is a partner in Wilson & Partners LLP, an independent tax law firm affiliated with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, whose practice focuses exclusively on commodity tax, customs and related matters including Goods and Services Tax (GST), Provincial Sales Tax (PST) and related cross-border matters. He has authored numerous articles and papers on commodity tax matters including conference papers for the Canadian Tax Foundation, Canadian Bar Association and CICA Commodity Tax Symposium and is a regular contributor to the GST Monitor and GST & Commodity Tax.

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Archived Webinar – Cross-Border Tax Update

This webcast was recoreded on March 26, 2008

Cross-Border Tax Update will discuss a number of changes affecting Canadian tax laws that have recently been enacted or that are expected to come into force in 2008 and will have a significant impact on cross-border taxation.

This webinar is intended to provide valuable updates to those with at least an intermediate understanding of cross-border tax issues including those working in private practice and those working in-house.

Agenda

  • Updates regarding the protocol to the Canada-U.S. Income Tax Convention
  • The elimination of withholding tax on interest paid to non-residents
  • Changes to the Canada Revenue Agency policy regarding amalgamations and non-residents
  • The status of the foreign investment entity/non-resident trust rules
  • Developments in the area of transfer pricing

The Speakers
Jules Lewy, LLB, is a Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP partner who focuses on all aspects of taxation, including corporate, international, and personal tax law, and frequently provides business and tax advice to owner-managed businesses, including advice on corporate reorganizations, acquisitions and divestitures.

Duane Milot, LLB, is a Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP lawyer whose practice focuses on general corporate income tax law for both domestic and international tax issues, and represents taxpayers in disputes with the Canada Revenue Agency and provincial tax authorities.

Christopher Steeves, LLB, is a Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP partner who practices tax law with particular expertise in the area of corporate restructurings and acquisitions involving Canadian businesses.

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Annotated British Columbia Securities Legislation, 9th Edition

This title is available as an eBook.

What's an eBook?
An eBook is a digital version of a conventional printed book. Portable and perfect for your office or home, the eBook is easy to access from wherever your business may take you.

Adobe Digital Editions is a highly recommended free download eBook program designed to view and keep your eBooks organized
and centralized.


Published: September 2014


Get the most accurate and current information on British Columbia securities legislation. Annotated British Columbia Securities Legislation, 9th Edition has been prepared in consultation with the British Columbia Securities Commission and the Vancouver office of McCarthy Tétrault LLP.

What's included:

  • Everything in the five-digit numbering system in force as of July 1, 2014
  • Updated Tables of Concordance to help you quickly compare requirements in different jurisdictions
  • Updated Topical index to help you find relevant references quickly and easily
  • History notes and pending amendments to the British Columbia Securities Act to help you conduct accurate research
  • ALL NEW Case Table to help you navigate quickly to relevant case annotations

What's new in the 9th Edition:

  • Revised annotations to the British Columbia Securities Act, updated July 1, 2014
  • New amendments to the British Columbia Securities Act and Securities Regulation
  • All new and amended national and British Columbia securities documents, including:
    – Amended BC Form 15-901F, Summons to Attend before an Investigator Under Section 144
    – Amended BC Form 15-902F, Demand for Production under Section 144
    – New BC Instrument 31-510, Exemption for Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada Members from Obligation to Provide Relationship Disclosure to Existing Clients
    – Amended BC Instrument 32-517, Exemption from Dealer Registration Requirement for Trades in Securities of Mortgage Investment Entities
    – New BC I

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British Columbia Tax Reporter

Complete, up-to-date coverage of tax law in the province

British Columbia Tax Reporter is an essential resource for tax professionals who have clients with business interests in the province. Updated frequently, it provides full coverage of the latest tax developments for BC as well as valuable time-saving tools and commentary. Content includes:

  • Statutes and regulations pertaining to:
    • Income tax (personal and corporate)
    • Capital tax, hotel room tax, carbon tax, tobacco tax, logging tax and mineral tax
  • Official government publications and commentary related to personal and corporate income tax
  • Social service tax (sales tax)
  • Comprehensive commentary on BC Social Service Tax, authored by the experts at Ryan

Bonus features:

  • Provincial Tax News monthly newsletter
  • Handy federal and provincial tax charts
  • Inter-provincial sales tax charts
  • Budget dispatches
  • News releases
  • Case digests
  • Full-text case law
  • Administration and personnel chart
  • A summary of the progress of provincial legislation

CCH research subscriptions deliver the most timely, relevant and reliable tax information and commentary to Canada's tax professionals, significantly reducing research time.



Professionals who subscribe to British Columbia Tax Reporter also find these publications instrumental to their practice:

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World Trade and Arbitration Materials

Practitioners in arbitration and trade must have timely access to current information in those fields. But the rapid and continual growth in practical and academic research in these areas makes staying current nearly impossible.

World Trade and Arbitration Materials publishes the texts of all of the most important current documents relating to international trade not readily available elsewhere. Its coverage and currency make it an indispensable tool for those working in the fields of arbitration and trade, especially those involved in research in these areas.

Topics covered:

  • Anti-dumping and unfair trade practices decisions
  • Pending legislation and new statutes
  • Policy statements, position papers, proposals, and reports concerning trade negotiations
  • New arbitration rules and news of arbitration centres
  • Reports of trade dispute settlement panels
  • Arbitral awards and court decisions

The journal also includes a selection of essential current documents relating to international arbitration as a means of settling international business disputes. It provides arbitral awards, news of adhesion to international conventions, court decisions, statutes, reports from official authorities, arbitration rules, and news of arbitration centres and associations.


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Why Financial Planning is Important to Accountants Archived Webinar 2012

This webinar series consists of a panel of highly successfully accounting professionals who have each approached the integration of financial planning into their practice in different ways. This first webinar covers:

  • Why accounting professionals should be providing financial planning
  • The revenue opportunities
  • The benefits for clients and the Accountant
  • Finding the right fit – in-house resource or partnering with an external financial advisor.
  • The challenges of launching financial planning services

Part Two:
Best Practices in Financial Planning for Accountants Archived Webinar 2012

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The Osler Guide to Commercial Arbitration in Canada: A Practical Introduction to Domestic and International Commercial Arbitration

Published: February 2006


Osler is internationally known as one of Canada's leading corporate/commercial law firms. In this incomparable guide for practitioners, three experienced Osler lawyers - one each in Ontario, Quebec, and Alberta - provide an easy-to-use practical overview of the law of domestic and international arbitrations.

With lucid clarification of applicable legislation, both federal and provincial, and analysis of relevant case law, The Osler Guide to Commercial Arbitration in Canada offers great assistance in the preparation, negotiation, process, and conclusion of arbitration agreements in Canada.

Topcs covered:

  • Important issues and key cases in all Canadian provinces and territories and under federal legislation
  • Practical reasons to use arbitration and what to consider in preparing arbitration agreements
  • Drafting arbitration clauses to manage risk
  • Protection of confidential information
  • Staying court proceedings in favour of arbitration
  • Appealing and enforcing awards

Emphasizing the major jurisdictions of Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, and British Columbia, it offers immeasurable value to in-house and external corporate counsel, litigation lawyers, international lawyers, and business people, as well as to students of dispute resolution.


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Private Dispute Resolution in International Business: Negotiation, Mediation, Arbitration 2nd Revised Edition

Published: August 2009


Private Dispute Resolution in International Business: Negotiation, Mediation, Arbitration 2nd Revised Edition consists of two books and an interactive DVD.

Volume I follows the progress of a dispute between two companies, in step-by-step detail, through negotiation, mediation, and arbitration in turn. Volume II provides precise, informed solutions to the problems raised in the first volume’s case study.

The DVD contains not only all contracts and other written documentation produced during the dispute — including all procedural orders and awards rendered by the arbitral tribunal during the arbitration, the text of legal materials such as arbitration laws and rules and international conventions, and further learning and teaching aids — but also almost 100 videos dramatising the negotiation, mediation, and arbitration proceedings described in the books, conducted by highly experienced practitioners active in the field of international dispute resolution. Subtitles in the videos refer the viewer to paragraphs in the books where each relevant legal problem is analysed.

With its concrete and highly practical approach, this innovative teaching and training tool for international dispute resolution will be of immeasurable value to students and teachers of dispute resolution, corporate counsel, international lawyers, and business people.


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Kluwer Arbitration.com

KluwerArbitration.com is the leading online service for international commercial arbitrators. With a subscription to the service you will gain access to a valuable collection of arbitration related material saving you both time and money.

Kluwer Arbitration includes:

  • Case Law – Organised by court decisions and awards you can browse relevant institutions whose rules apply to the award and convention upon which the award is based. It covers over 3000 court decisions and 1,500 awards, many of which are exclusive to the site.
  • Commentary – Gain access to a wealth of authoritative publications from the extensive Kluwer Law International arbitration catalogue. These include books, journals and loose-leafs.
  • Conventions – The full text of the most important arbitration treaties.
  • Legislation – Access to the text of over 300 laws for key jurisdictions.
  • Rules – Over 400 rules from major institutions.

It also includes a new Investment Arbitration section. This new section provides you with a wealth of fully searchable investment materials including:

  • The full text of almost 1700 Bilateral Investment Treaties
  • The full text of 20 Multilateral Investment Treaties
  • Investment related court decisions and awards
  • Authoritative commentary from leading experts

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Journal of International Arbitration

The growing importance of arbitration as a means for international commercial dispute resolution necessitates independent platforms for ideas on the development and application of international arbitration.

Since its 1984 launch, the Journal of International Arbitration has established itself as a thought-provoking, ground-breaking journal aimed at the specific requirements of those involved in international arbitration. The journal now appears bimonthly (six times a year) rather than quarterly, giving it even more immediacy as a forum for original thinking, penetrating analysis, and lively discussion of international arbitration issues.

As always each issue contains in-depth investigations of the most important current issues in international arbitration, focusing on business, investment, and economic disputes between private corporations, state-controlled entities, and states. The journal's worldwide coverage ensures regular reporting on regional trends which can serve as an example for other regions and countries.


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International Commercial Arbitration 3 Volume Set, Second Edition

Published April 2014

Watch an Exclusive Interview with Gary B. Born on the book

Practitioners, academics, clients, institutions and other users of international commercial arbitration will find clear and authoritative guidance in this work.

The first edition of International Commercial Arbitration is widely acknowledged as the preeminent commentary in the field. It was awarded the 2011 Certificate of Merit by the American Society of International Law and was voted the “International Dispute Resolution Book of the Year” by the Oil, Gas, Mining and Infrastructure Dispute Management list serve in 2010. The first edition has been extensively cited in national court decisions and arbitral awards around the world.
The treatise comprehensively examines the law and practice of contemporary international commercial arbitration, thoroughly explicating all relevant international conventions, national arbitration statutes and institutional arbitration rules. It focuses on both international instruments (particularly the New York Convention) and national law provisions in all leading jurisdictions (including the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration).

Please click here to read an introduction to this treatise.

The second edition of International Commercial Arbitration has been extensively revised, expanded and updated, to include all legislative, judicial and arbitral authorities material in the field of international arbitration prior to January 2014. It also includes expanded treatment of annulment, recognition of awards, counsel ethics, arbitrator independence and impartiality and applicable law.The revised 4,000 page text contains references to more than 20,000 cases, awards and other authorities.

Overview of volumes:
Volume I
, covering International Arbitration Agreements, provides a comprehensive discussion of international commercial arbitration agreements. It includes chapters dealing with the legal framework for enforcing international arbitration agreements; the separability presumption; choice of law; formation and validity; nonarbitrability; competence-competence and the allocation of jurisdictional competence; the effects of arbitration agreements; interpretation and non-signatory issues.

Volume II, covering International Arbitration Procedures, provides a detailed discussion of international arbitral procedures. It includes chapters dealing with the legal framework for international arbitral proceedings; the selection, challenge and replacement of arbitrators; the rights and duties of international arbitrators; selection of the arbitral seat; arbitration procedures; disclosure and discovery; provisional

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International Commercial Arbitration

Published: March 2010


International Commercial Arbitration is an authoritative treatise providing the most complete available commentary and analysis on all aspects of the international commercial arbitration process.

This completely revised and expanded edition of Gary Born's authoritative work is divided into three main parts, dealing with the International Arbitration Agreement, International Arbitral Procedures and International Arbitral Awards. The book provides a systematic framework for both current analysis and future developments as well as exhaustive citations from all leading legal systems. p>

Table of Contents:

     
  • International Arbitration Agreement
    • Chapter 1: Legal Framework for International Arbitration Agreements
    • Chapter 2: International Arbitration Agreements and the Separability Presumption
    • Chapter 3: Choice-of-Law Governing International Arbitration Agreements
    • Chapter 4: Formation, Validity and Legality of International Arbitration Agreements
    • Chapter 5: International Arbitration Agreements and Competence-Competence
    • Chapter 6: Effects and Enforcement of International Arbitration Agreements
    • Chapter 7: Interpretation of International Arbitration Agreements
    • Chapter 8: Parties to International Arbitration Agreement
  • International Arbitral Procedures and Proceedings
    • Chapter 9: Legal Framework for International Arbitral Proceedings
    • Chapter 10: Selection, Challenge and Replacement of Arbitrators in International Arbitration
    • Chapter 11: Rights and Duties of International Arbitrators
    • Chapter 12: Selection of Arbitral Seat in International Arbitration
    • Chapter 13: Procedures in International Arbitration
    • Chapter 14: Disclosure and Discovery in International Arbitration
    • Chapter 15: Provisional Measures in International Arbitration
    • Chapter 16: Consolidation, Joinder and Intervention in International Arbitration
    • Chapter 17: Choice of Substantive Law in International Arbitration
    • Chapter 18: Confidentiality in International Arbitration
    • Chapter 19: Legal Representation and Professional Conduct in International Arbitration
  • International Arbitral Awards
    • Chapter 20: Legal Framework for International Arbitral Awards
    • Chapter 21: Form and Content of International Arbitral Awards
    • Chapter 22: Correction, Interpretation and Supplementation of International Arbitral Awards
    • Chapter 23: Annulment of International Arbitral Awards
    • Chapter 24: Recognition and E

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International Arbitration: Law and Practice

Published: November 2012


International Arbitration: Law and Practice provides a concise overview of the legal principles and practice of international arbitration. It offers an accessible, straightforward introduction to the legal framework for international commercial arbitration, including discussions of international arbitration agreements, international arbitral procedures and international arbitral awards.

This book also provides an introduction to international investment arbitration, including a discussion of the ICSID Convention and issues arising under bilateral investment treaties, and state-to-state arbitration. It also includes descriptions of the contemporary practice and tactics of international arbitration.

Among other things, this title addresses the drafting of arbitration clauses, selection and challenge of arbitrators, structure of arbitral proceedings, process of disclosure or discovery, witness preparation and testimony, conduct of evidentiary hearings and other key procedural steps in international arbitrations.

It contains an Introduction and three principal parts:

  • Part I: International Arbitration Agreements, including the separability presumption, choice of law issues, competence-competence doctrine, recognition and enforcement of arbitration agreements, formation and validity, formal validity and writing requirements, interpretative issues, non-signatory doctrines and multi-party/multi-contract issues.
  • Part II: International Arbitral Proceedings, including importance and choice of arbitral seat, selection and challenge of arbitrators, parties’ procedural autonomy, arbitrators’ procedural discretion, conduct of arbitral proceedings, disclosure and discovery, provisional measures, choice of substantive law, confidentiality, consolidation and intervention.
  • Part III: International Arbitral Awards, including form and content of awards, relief, costs, forums for annulment of awards, grounds for annulment or set-aside of awards, recognition and enforcement of awards, preclusion and precedent, and recognition of annulled awards.

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International Arbitration and Mediation: A Practical Guide

Published: February 2010


Optimising the outcome of disputes connected with international business forms the subject matter of International Arbitration and Mediation: A Practical Guide.

Rather than adopt an idealised approach of pursuing victories at any cost, the authors help parties predict the realistic consequences (and costs) of their decisions and provide a step-by-step guide to opportunities to influence the course of a dispute as it unfolds in its various stages. They discuss techniques for productively resolving disputes through negotiation, mediation, and arbitration, frequently illustrating critical steps through real-world examples drawn from past experiences.

The book is intended as an easily accessible desktop resource for lawyers who regularly counsel businesses when negotiating international deals, and for those who represent the same clients in achieving a successful resolution when disputes emerge.

The practical guidance includes:

  • How to determine which dispute resolution clauses work best for different international contracts, and how to negotiate those clauses
  • What preliminary steps parties should consider to preserve their rights when a dispute arises
  • Whether and how to appoint counsel
  • When and how to perform an early case assessment (ECA)
  • How to organise and conduct international mediations and arbitration proceedings
  • How to enforce (or set aside) arbitral awards
  • Securing the benefit of additional protections available through investment treaties

The text is divided into chapters that follow the life cycle of an international commercial dispute as seen through the eyes of the parties, from when they agree how to resolve disputes in their contracts to the endgame of enforcement. Additionally, the appendices include a number of model submissions for further reference.


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International Arbitration and Forum Selection Agreements: Drafting and Enforcing, 4th Edition

Published: May 2013


International Arbitration and Forum Selection Agreements: Drafting and Enforcing, 4th Edition is a concise, practical primer on the fundamentals of drafting and enforcing arbitration agreements and other dispute resolution clauses. It offers model arbitration and forum selection clauses for international contracts and explains the advantages and disadvantages of different approaches.

Table of contents:

  • Chapter 1 – Planning For International Dispute Resolution
  • Chapter 2 – Drafting International Forum Selection Clauses
  • Chapter 3 – Drafting International Arbitration Agreements
  • Chapter 4 – Enforcing International Forum Selection Agreements
  • Chapter 5 – Enforcing International Arbitration Agreements
  • Chapter 6 – Enforcing Foreign Judgments
  • Chapter 7 – Enforcing International Arbitral Awards
  • Chapter 8 – Drafting And Enforcing Choice-Of-Law Clauses
  • Appendices

The book is an essential resource for any international practitioner or corporate counsel engaged in international matters.


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Federal and State Taxation of Limited Liability Companies (2015) (U.S.)

David J. Cartano, J.D.

Provides clear and reliable guidance on what the latest tax treatment is for limited liability companies and what it means for your clients or your business. It answers all of your questions with an analysis of all federal tax issues applicable to LLCs with detailed references to related Code Sections and Treasury Regulations, plus cases, revenue rulings and private letter rulings. It provides a state-by-state analysis of state tax laws and filing requirements in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, with references to the applicable tax forms and places of filing listed. It explains how to prepare the most common LLC tax forms, state tax forms, checklists, practice tips, tables, and examples.

1. Introduction
2. Summary of LLC Laws
3. Advantages and Disadvantages of LLCs
4. Special Issues Regarding S Corporations and LLCs
5. Classification of LLCs
6. Contributions
7. Taxation of LLC Income
8. Allocations
9. Basis and Member's Share of Debt
10. Distributions
11. Reorganizations
12. Terminations
13. Loss Limitations
14. Payments and Benefits to Members
15. Transfer of Membership Interests
16. Self-Employment and Employment Taxes
17. Accounting Methods and Procedures
18. Foreign LLCs
19. Foreign-Owned Domestic LLCs
20. Investment LLCs
21. Estate and Gift Tax Planning
22. Federal and State Filing Requirements
23. State Tax Laws
24. Asset Protection, Charging Orders and Creditors' Rights

7" x 10" 1,064 pages

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Income Tax Regulations (Winter 2015 Edition), December 2014 (U.S.)
State Tax Handbook (2015)
U.S. Master Depreciation Guide (2015)
Affordable Care Act – Law, Regulatory Explanation and Analysis (2015) (U.S.)

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Federal and State Taxation of Limited Liability Companies (2014) (U.S.)

Author: David J. Cartano

This hands-on treatise is dedicated entirely to the taxation of LLCs. It answers all of your questions with an analysis of all federal tax issues applicable to LLCs with detailed references to related Code Sections and Treasury Regulations, plus cases, revenue rulings and private letter rulings. It provides a state-by-state analysis of state tax laws and filing requirements in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, with references to the applicable tax forms and places of filing listed. It explains how to prepare the most common LLC tax forms, state tax forms, checklists, practice tips, tables, and examples. This comprehensive manual offers scrupulous and exhaustive coverage of LLC taxation that accountants, tax attorneys, and CPAs working with LLCs will find invaluable for daily reference.

CONTENTS:

  1. Introduction
  2. Summary of LLC Laws
  3. Advantages and Disadvantages of LLCs
  4. Special Issues Regarding S Corporations and LLCs
  5. Classification of LLCs
  6. Contributions
  7. Taxation of LLC Income
  8. Allocations
  9. Basis and Member's Share of Debt
  10. Distributions
  11. Reorganizations
  12. Terminations
  13. Loss Limitations
  14. Payments and Benefits to Members
  15. Transfer of Membership Interests
  16. Self-Employment and Employment Taxes
  17. Accounting Methods and Procedures
  18. Foreign LLCs
  19. Foreign-Owned Domestic LLCs
  20. Investment LLCs
  21. Estate and Gift Tax Planning
  22. Federal and State Filing Requirements
  23. State Tax Laws
  24. Asset Protection, Charging Orders and Creditors' Rights

1,064 pages

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    Federal and State Taxation of Limited Liability Companies (2013)

    Author: David J. Cartano

    This hands-on treatise is dedicated entirely to the taxation of LLCs.  It answers all of your questions with an analysis of all federal tax issues applicable to LLCs with detailed references to related Code Sections and Treasury Regulations, plus cases, revenue rulings and private letter rulings. It provides a state-by-state analysis of state tax laws and filing requirements in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, with references to the applicable tax forms and places of filing listed. It explains how to prepare the most common LLC tax forms, state tax forms, checklists, practice tips, tables, and examples. This comprehensive manual offers scrupulous and exhaustive coverage of LLC taxation that accountants, tax attorneys, and CPAs working with LLCs will find invaluable for daily reference.

    CONTENTS:

    1. Introduction
    2. Summary of LLC Laws
    3. Advantages and Disadvantages of LLCs
    4. Special Issues Regarding S Corporations and LLCs
    5. Classification of LLCs
    6. Contributions
    7. Taxation of LLC Income
    8. Allocations
    9. Basis and Member's Share of Debt
    10. Distributions
    11. Reorganizations
    12. Terminations
    13. Loss Limitations
    14. Payments and Benefits to Members
    15. Transfer of Membership Interests
    16. Self-Employment and Employment Taxes
    17. Accounting Methods and Procedures
    18. Foreign LLCs
    19. Foreign-Owned Domestic LLCs
    20. Investment LLCs
    21. Estate and Gift Tax Planning
    22. Federal and State Filing Requirements
    23. State Tax Laws
    24. Asset Protection, Charging Orders and Creditors' Rights

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    Federal and State Taxation of Limited Liability Companies (2013)

    Available: June 2012

    Author: David J. Cartano

    Provides clear and reliable guidance on what the latest tax treatment is for limited liability companies and what it means for your clients or your business. This hands-on treatise is dedicated entirely to the taxation of LLCs. It answers all of your questions with an analysis of all federal tax issues applicable to LLCs with detailed references to related Code Sections and Treasury Regulations, plus cases, revenue rulings and private letter rulings. It provides a state-by-state analysis of state tax laws and filing requirements in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, with references to the applicable tax forms and places of filing listed. It explains how to prepare the most common LLC tax forms, state tax forms, checklists, practice tips, tables, and examples. 

    CONTENTS:

    1. Introduction
    2. Summary of LLC Laws
    3. Advantages and Disadvantages of LLCs
    4. Special Issues Regarding S Corporations and LLCs
    5. Classification of LLCs
    6. Contributions
    7. Taxation of LLC Income
    8. Allocations
    9. Basis and Member's Share of Debt
    10. Distributions
    11. Reorganizations
    12. Terminations
    13. Loss Limitations
    14. Payments and Benefits to Members
    15. Transfer of Membership Interests
    16. Self-Employment and Employment Taxes
    17. Accounting Methods and Procedures
    18. Foreign LLCs
    19. Foreign-Owned Domestic LLCs
    20. Investment LLCs
    21. Estate and Gift Tax Planning
    22. Federal and State Filing Requirements
    23. State Tax Laws
    24. Asset Protection, Charging Orders and Creditors' Rights

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    Disability Insurance and Other Living Benefits, 3rd Edition

    The 1990’s witnessed the end of job creation in the sectors that historically purchased disability insurance. A new era has begun: roughly 1 million contract workers have emerged. They are found in almost all industries and occupations. As diverse as the general public – there is an equal number of men and women, many highly educated, others not, with wide-ranging earnings levels and all in need of disability and other healthcare benefits.

    Insurers have responded by unbundling disability insurance and expanding their offerings to include critical illness, health, drug, dental, travel, and other classless, non- income based products.

    The author, Jacqueline Figas, looks at disability insurance and other living benefits in the context of the realities faced in today’s challenging work and lifestyle environment.

    Included in this edition:

    • Health benefits planning for pre and post-retirement years
    • Traditional products and coverage for specialized markets
    • Insuring “temps” and “independent contractors”
    • Critical illness insurance
    • Private health and dental insurance
    • Checklists, charts and other planning tools

    Jacqueline is a benefits consultant through her company, Health Assured Financial Group, and has over 30 years of experience in health benefits. She is a noted speaker and author on seniors’ issues and benefits planning for an aging clientele.

    She is a Chartered Life Underwriter, a Registered Health Underwriter, and an Elder Planning Counselor, and is on the faculty of Seneca College where she educates on a range of aging issues including both health and social aspects of aging.

    She is the author of the Long Term Care Insurance training module produced by ADVOCIS under their Registered Health Underwriter (RHU) Designation Program. Her published works through CCH Canadian Limited include “The Aging Client and Long-Term Care Issues” and “Disability Insurance and Other Living Benefits”.

    Available March 1st, 2009 – Pre-order your copy today!

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    Confidentiality in International Commercial Arbitration

    Published: June 2011


    Confidentiality in International Commercial Arbitration deciphers the current degree of confidentiality in international commercial arbitration as reflected by the most important arbitration rules, national laws, other arbitration-related enactments, and practices of arbitral tribunals and domestic courts globally. Drawing on this data and analysis, the author then sets forth criteria to assess the breach of confidentiality in international arbitration and the proper rules for protecting or sanctioning such breaches.

    What do we understand by confidentiality in arbitration? What are its limitations? Who is bound to observe it? How can we quantify its breach? In addressing these questions, the book engages such issues as the following:

    • Reasons for disclosure – e.g., for the establishment of a defence, for the enforcement of rights, in the public interest or in the interests of justice
    • Disclosure by consent, express or implied
    • Circumstances triggering statutory obligation of disclosure
    • Recent trends towards greater transparency in investor-State arbitration
    • Court measures in support of arbitral confidentiality such as award of damages for breach of confidentiality
    • Categories of persons bound by confidentiality, including third parties such as witnesses and experts

    Structured along the main stages of the arbitral process, the analysis covers the duty of confidentiality from the initiation of arbitral proceedings through their unfolding to the issuance of the award and after. The scope of confidentiality is reviewed in the practice of arbitral tribunals and domestic courts, and from the perspective of international arbitration institutions, with detailed attention to various arbitration rules and numerous significant cases.

    In its elucidation of the amount of confidentiality that ‘veils’ each phase of the arbitral process, and its ground-breaking identification of ‘patterns of disclosure’, this book is sure to raise awareness about the various facets and problems posed by confidentiality in arbitration. Although its scholarly contribution to the law of international commercial arbitration cannot be gainsaid, corporate counsel worldwide will quickly prize its more practical value.


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    British Columbia Corporations Law Guide

    The British Columbia Corporations Law Guide provides you and your firm with comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of British Columbia company law and includes all relevant Acts and Regulations, decisions, rulings, and releases affecting the formation of companies and societies and their legal operation under British Columbia law.

    To further assist you in maintaining compliance, the Guide includes relevant commentary, a Table of Concordance and numerous precedents pertaining to each topical area within the Guide, all of which have been updated to incorporate recent legislative changes. The Guide also includes the full text of recent court decisions.

    Topics covered include:

    • Incorporation and Organization
    • Company Alterations
    • Directors and Officers
    • Corporate Finance
    • Shareholders' Meetings and Agreements
    • Records and Returns
    • Audits and Financial Statements
    • Liquidation, Dissolution and Restoration
    • Shareholders' Remedies
    • Extra-Provincial Corporations
    • Societies

    Included with your subscription is Corporate Brief, a monthly newsletter containing feature articles, digests of recent cases, and updates to legislation.

    Subscribe to the online version and access Corporate Law News Tracker. With the News Tracker, you get notices of all updates via e-mail. Your updates give you instant access to changes in corporate law that originate from a variety of primary and secondary sources such as press releases, legislation, and cases.

     

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    Best Practices in Financial Planning for Accountants Archived Webinar 2012

    This webinar series consists of a panel of highly successfully accounting professionals who have each approached the integration of financial planning into their practice in different ways. This second webinar will cover:

    • The role of the accountant in financial planning
    • What is permitted and what is prohibited
    • The importance of the engagement letter
    • The financial planning process from setting goals to presenting the plan
    • Best practices and lessons learned

    Part One:
    Why Financial Planning is Important to Accountants Archived Webinar 2012

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    Archived Webinar: Legal Project Management: Why, What and How

    In our current economic environment lawyers, both in in-house and external counsel, need to apply stronger and more transparent legal project management practices.  To ensure legal matters are handled efficiently, and to meet the needs and expectations of the business, in-house counsel need to partner with the business, and with external counsel, to scope, plan, staff and monitor the work. This webinar will provide an introduction to the primary elements of legal project management and discuss the benefits LPM can produce for in-house counsel in working with the business, and when working with external counsel. However, implementing LPM often means changing the way we practice.  This is not easy. We will look at the issues and challenges in getting a team to engage in this new approach and provide strategies for success.  The panel will include both internal and external counsel and will discuss real implementation scenarios and issues.

    Key Learning Objectives:

    • Understand the professional obligations to adopt legal project management practices;
    • Understand the benefits of legal project management working within an organization and for an in-house team working with external counsel;
    • Understand the basic components of legal project management;
    • Understand the different approaches to preparing budgets and estimates; and
    • Be aware of the issues and challenges in implementing LPM.

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    Archived Webinar: Conflicts of Interest: Professional Duties and Best Practices for In-House Counsel

    A lawyer’s duty to avoid conflicts of interest is an important aspect of the duty of loyalty that lawyers owe to their clients. For Canadian in-house counsel, the duty to avoid conflicts of interest presents special challenges due to the nature of the relationship of in-house counsel to their employer. This webinar will enable in-house counsel to effectively navigate the conflict rules in the Canadian legal system, and provide participants with the knowledge to successfully implement best practices to avoid conflicts of interest.

    This webinar will provide participants with an introduction to key cases including the recent Supreme Court of Canada case of Canadian Railway Co. v McKercher LLP, 2013 SCC 39, and provincial law society rules on conflicts of interest. It will also address when representation might attract a bright line rule, and when a contextual test will be applied; the circumstances in which a lawyer might be disqualified from representation of a client; and why a waiver might be insufficient. It will provide an opportunity to learn about the unique duties of in-house counsel in relation to conflicts of interest. Finally, it will provide discussion on some best practices for creating effective policies and procedures to avoid the creation of circumstances in which a conflict of interest would arise.

    Key Learning Objectives:

    • Learn about the provincial Law Society rules on conflicts of interest in Canada;
    • Learn the key Canadian cases on conflict of interests, the rules that have emerged from the jurisprudence, and the policy concerns of the Canadian courts in relation to a lawyer’s duty to avoid conflicts;
    • Understand and reflect on your professional duties to your employer, and to your professional regulator, in circumstances in which a conflict of interest may arise; and
    • Learn about best practices and policies to avoid conflicts of interest.

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    Archived Webinar - They Bought the Farm - Tax Benefits on Farm Transfers

    It's often a very difficult decision for your client to make, when they must decide whether to transfer holdings in their farm or farm property. But the complexity doesn't end there. While that decision is being made, the advisors must step in and help to ensure that the transactions are arranged in the most tax efficient and practical manner. For those approaching any potential farm restructurings or sales, this webinar will be essential.

    This archive webinar covers a comprehensive look at the preferential tax treatment that transfers of qualifying farms or farm property can enjoy on passing to the next generation or on the sale to outside parties. This includes an overview of the capital gains exemption available for the sale of qualifying farm property shares and partnership interests, and rollovers to certain family members (both inter vivos and on death). While similarities do exist with among these transfers, there are traps and nuances that practitioners must be aware of to ensure their transactions qualify for beneficial tax treatment desired.

    More specifically, for each of the above types of transfers, this archived webinar will explore:

    • What property qualifies for the treatment?
    • Who is entitled to the preferential tax benefit?
    • What does farming mean in these contexts?
      • What is the business of farming for tax purposes?
      • What is being "actively engaged on a regular and continuous basis"?
      • Who must farm the property?
      • When must farming activity take place?
      • How much of the property must be used in farming?
    • What are the common things farms may do to fall offside?
    • Putting it all together - a compare & contrast with examples
    • Bonus Issue (time permitting) - Craig vs. the Queen - restricted farm losses

    Note: This webinar took place on October 1, 2013.

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    Archived Webinar - The Use of Trusts in Estate and Business Planning

    Trusts have become extremely valuable tools when planning for the continuance of a person's estate, and are often used in business succession planning as well. For example, discretionary trusts are one of the most flexible tax planning tools available. However, there are many types of trusts, and each can be used to tailor specific planning needs.



    Just as trusts are a valuable tool, there are also many tax and legal traps that one needs to be cognizant of when using them in client situations. For example, the very creation of the trust can be particularly troublesome if it is not set up with the correct attributes or if assets are not transferred to it correctly.

    This 2 hour webinar will provide a practical and complete overview of the legal definitions and considerations of various trust types, as well as reviewing important tax considerations when planning with trusts. Examples of suggested tax planning structures and related tips will also be provided.



    More specifically, topics covered will include:

    • What elements are required for a properly created trust
    • Tax issues to review when creating a trust and in particular the tax attribution rules
    • Review of types of trusts used in estate and business planning - including insurance trusts, spendthrift trusts, asset protection trusts, private foundation trusts and trusts created for probate and estate tax minimization and income splitting
    • Change of trustees - change of control from a tax perspective
    • What are the tax and other limitations of amending a trust once created
    • What ongoing obligations do trustees have to beneficiaries, including reporting and trust accounting

     




     

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    Archived Webinar - The Ultimate Corporate Counsel Webinar

    Webinar information current as of November 5, 2009

    Barry Reiter and a panel of experts provide a closer look at the key legal developments influencing Canadian Corporate Counsel today.

    Key Learning Objectives

    1. You will understand how recent developments in internet and privacy law have changed how businesses operate
    2. You will be aware of how the employee/employer relationship has changed as a result of recent developments in employment law
    3. You will be cognizant of the curent changing and challenging environment in which in-house counsel operate and how they must respond to a variety of external and internal challenges
    4. You will understand why changes to the Competition Act, the current scrutiny of executive compensation, privilege and access to information requests, and the move to IFRS require your attention.

    Panel of experts

    Barry Reiter - Chair, Technology, Media and Entertainment Group and Chair, Corporate Governance and Director Protection Group, Bennett Jones LLP
    Robert Fabes - Assistant General Counsel, Legal Affairds, Canada Post
    Anne Fitzgerald - Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Cineplex Entertainment
    Andrea Wood - Chielf Legal Officer, Globalive Wireless Management Group

    Format

    The following is required to access the archived webinar:

    • Flash Player installed in your computer
    • Internet Connection
    • Sound Card

    The webinar consists of a recording only of the live event. There is no time limitation in usage, you can play, pause and stop the presentation at your convenience.

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    Archived Webinar - Reporting Foreign Property on the T1135

    Interested in Reporting Foreign Property on the T1135, but missed the webinar that took place on May 5, 2014? Here is your chance to purchase the webinar recording.

    The CRA has extended the filing deadline for the T1135 to July 31, 2014. If you will be preparing T1135 forms for T1 clients after tax season, have to prepare T1135 forms for corporations or just want to make sure that you filed your T1135s correctly, then view this webinar for an analysis of the revised T1135.

    Maureen Vance, CPA, CA, a tax consultant with Wolters Kluwer CCH will explain the new reporting requirements on the T1135 and your reporting options, and will also review what constitutes Specified Foreign Property.

    The webinar archive will include the following topics:

    • New T1135 requirements
    • Recap of the definition of Specified Foreign Property
    • The T3/T5 exclusion explained
    • The 2013 Transitional Reporting method
    • Choosing between the T3/T5 exclusion and the transitional reporting method
    • Filing the T1135
    • 2014 year ends
    • Penalties and extended reassessment
    • Q&A
      • Target Audience

      This archive webinar will be of interest to all professionals who prepare a T1135 for a taxpayer, whether the taxpayer is an individual, corporation, trust or partnership.

      This Webinar Includes: 

      • 30 days to review the webinar recording
      • PDF version of the presentation slides


       

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      Archived Webinar - Preparing & Conducting a Consultation with CCH Profit Driver

      This 3-hour recorded Webinar is entitled "Preparing and Conducting a Consultation with CCH Profit Driver." It is a high energy, informative session led by Mark Holton: an internationally renowned taxation and business management consultant and an expert in CCH Profit Driver implementation. Step by step you will learn how to become a trusted advisor to your clients, earning additional revenue by providing them with the consultation services they not only want, but need in today's economy.

      Here are just some of the topics that will be covered at this important event:

      • How to determine which clients are potential prospects for your consultation service
      • How to efficiently prepare a consultation using CCH Profit Driver
      • How to explain financial formulas using terms that are easy to understand
      • How to conduct the ideal consultation
      • What your next steps should be after the consultation has been completed
      • What your pricing strategy should be for these value-added services
      • And more!

        Here’s what people have to say about Mark Holton’s sessions:

        "Great presentation and good ideas to get going on client meetings."
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        "Great speaker. Informative and entertaining."
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        "Excellent presentation. This will really help me get started with CCH Profit Driver."
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        Archived Webinar - Implementing Estate Freezes Part I

        One of the tax planning strategies often employed in estate planning involves the use of an estate freeze to transfer future growth in assets to the next generation. Estate freezes come in many forms, and each bears its own unique set of risks and complexities.

        Join the tax lawyers of Minden Gross LLP for a practical two-part discussion of estate freezes. This webinar will highlight some of the topics found in CCH's "Implementing Estate Freezes", authored by David Louis of Minden Gross. More particularly, the first part of this webinar series will review the "why's" and "how-to's" of implementing estate freezes, and provide guidance on avoiding common traps associated with such types of succession plans. More specifically, topics covered in Part 1 will include:

        • What is an estate freeze?
        • When should a freeze be implemented?
        • Basic configuration
        • Share provisions
        • Section 85 vs section 86 freezes
        • Common pitfalls
        • The use of trusts
        • Tax traps associated with estate freezes

        Part 2 of this series will air during the winter semester. Details can be found at [link coming later].

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        Archived Webinar - GST/HST and Real Property Transactions

        By popular demand, we are now offering an archived version of the webinar GST/HST & Real Property Transactions that took place on November 20, 2014.
         
        Although many GST and HST concepts are well understood by taxpayers, many of the real property rules are less well known. The rules associated with real property are complicated, having led even tax practitioners astray, and the dollar values of these transactions are usually high. Accordingly, audit activity in the sector is also high and GST/HST errors have led to costly CRA reassessments.

        Although many GST and HST concepts are well understood by taxpayers, many of the real property rules are less well known. The rules associated with real property are complicated, having led even tax practitioners astray, and the dollar values of these transactions are usually high. Accordingly, audit activity in the sector is also high and GST/HST errors have led to costly CRA reassessments.

        This archived webinar will provide a practical understanding of the complex rules for real property transactions and the current issues faced by the industry in applying the GST/HST in the development, construction and sale of real property.

        Topics specifically covered include:

        • Current state of affairs
        • Bare trustees
        • Joint ventures
        • Partnerships
        • Sales of vacant land
        • Self-assessments
        • New housing rebates
        • Rental property rebates
        • Documentary requirements for input tax credits

        By purchasing this archive webinar, you will receive:

        • 30 days to review the webinar recording 

        • PDF version of the presentation slides

        Our Speaker: 

        Wayne Mandel, PwC LLP


        Wayne Mandel is an Indirect Tax Manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. He specializes in the Goods and Services Tax and the Harmonized Sales Tax and has concentrated his area of practice primarily in the real estate sector. Wayne has provided advice and interpretation on a wide range of issues and has also provided assistance to clients in preparing for government audits, support during the audit process and resolving assessment issues. Wayne has experience in the appeals process and making submissions under the government's taxpayer relief provisions. He has delivered numerous presentations to clients on changes and new developments in these taxes.

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        Archived Webinar - Death and Taxes - When Life's Two Certainties Collide

        By popular demand, we are now offering an archived version of the webinar Death and Taxes - When Life's Two Certainties Collide that took place on October 28, 2014.

        Many a joke has turned on the axiom about the certainty of death and taxes. However, when the first precipitates the second, the resulting complexities are anything but humorous. The planning opportunities and potential complications in planning for those who have a broad base of asset holdings often leave accountants feeling confused and frustrated. Fret no longer.  

        In this insightful but concise two-hour archived webinar, Shaun Doody will provide a practical overview of the tax issues and considerations that can arise upon the death of a taxpayer. This includes an overview of the deeming rules invoked on death, the tax treatment of various assets, and some planning opportunities and strategies available to deal with these issues.

        More specifically, topics covered will include: 

        • Overview of taxation on death in Canada
        • Income in year of death
        • Deemed realization of income at death
        • Deemed disposition of assets at death
        • Tax treatment of jointly held assets
        • Tax treatment of special assets
          • Principal residence
          • Small business corporations
          • Farming and fishing properties
          • Cottage and vacation properties
          • Partnership interests
          • Trust interests
          • Personal use property
        • Charitable donations
        • Special rules and elections
        • Insurance 
          • Corporate owned policies
          • Valuation issues
          • Capital dividend account
        • Foreign assets
        • Post-mortem tax planning
          • Capital losses of the estate
          • Step up strategy
          • Pipeline strategy
        • Taxation of estates
          • Testamentary trusts
          • Testamentary spousal trusts
          • 21-year rule
          • Distributions to non-residents
          • 2014 Budget changes to taxation of estates/testamentary trusts 
        • Estate planning
          • Objectives
          • Estate freeze
          • Inter vivos trusts
          • Charitable donations
          • Spousal rollovers
          • Income splitting
        • US tax issues

         This archived webinar includes:

        • 30 days to review the webinar recording
        • PDF version of the presentation slides

        Our Speaker: 
        Shaun Doody
        , Tax Lawyer, Fogler Rubinoff LLP

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        Arbitration International

        Launched in 1985, Arbitration International provides quarterly coverage for national and international developments in the world of arbitration. It aims to maintain balance between academic debate and practical contributions to the field, providing both topical material on current developments and analytic scholarship of permanent interest. Arbitrators, counsel, judges, scholars and government officials will find the journal enhances their understanding of a broad range of topics in private dispute resolution.

        Features include:

        • Articles covering all major arbitration rules and national jurisdictions written by respected international practitioners and scholars
        • Cutting edge notes covering recent developments and ongoing debates in the field
        • Book reviews of the latest publications in the world of arbitration
        • Over 100 pages of authoritative information per issue, maintaining an appropriate balance between controversial subjects for debate and topics geared toward practical use

        The journal meets the needs of lawyers and others engaged in the development and application of international arbitration as a means of international commercial dispute resolution.


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        Arbitration Advocacy in Changing Times

        Published: October 2011


        Advocacy in international arbitration is the focus of this collection of articles emanating from the twentieth Congress of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) held in Rio de Janeiro in 2010.

        The topics addressed by renowned arbitration practitioners and scholars in Arbitration Advocacy in Changing Times include:

        • Effective advocacy in arbitration
        • The advocate's role at different stages of arbitration proceedings
        • The role of experts
        • Arbitration advocacy and Constitutional law
        • Advocacy and ethics in international arbitration

        The volume also contains a new approach to expert evidence – the Protocol on Expert Teaming – and closes with a proposal for an International Code of Ethics for Lawyers Practicing Before International Arbitral Tribunals.


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        Arbitrating Under the 2012 ICC Rules: An Introductory User's Guide

        Published: May 2012


        Arbitrating Under the 2012 ICC Rules: An Introductory User's Guide is structured so as to follow the sequence of events that would typically take place in the resolution of a dispute by arbitration.

        Following a discussion of preliminary matters, the authors go on to describe the process leading from negotiation to arbitration, the initial decisions that may be taken by the ICC International Court of Arbitration, and the different steps in the proceedings before the arbitral tribunal. The book concludes with a discussion of the award and its enforcement.

        Focusing on the 2012 ICC Rules – which apply to all ICC arbitrations commenced on or after 1 January 2012 unless the parties have agreed that an earlier version should apply – this book serves the needs of the following parties:

        • Those who want a full introduction to the topic of ICC arbitration
        • Those who already have a good understanding of how ICC arbitration worked under the old 1998 ICC Rules but are looking for an update on the new 2012 ICC Rules
        • Those who need to take a decision on whether to opt for ICC arbitration
        • Those who have opted for ICC arbitration and need to draft an ICC arbitration clause
        • Those who are actually faced with the prospect of an ICC arbitration

        Extensive references to relevant books, articles, websites and other resources as well as a comprehensive glossary further enhance the book's practical value.

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        Arbitrability: International and Comparative Perspectives

        Published: March 2009


        It often seems today that no dispute is barred from resolution by arbitration. Even the fundamental question of whether a dispute falls under the exclusive jurisdiction of a judicial body may itself be arbitrable. Arbitrability is thus an elusive concept; yet a systematic study of it, as this book shows, yields innumerable guidelines and insights that are of substantial value to arbitral practice.

        Although Arbitrability: International and Comparative Perspectives takes the form of a collection of essays, it is designed as a comprehensive commentary on practical issues that emerge from the idea of arbitrability. Fifteen leading academics and practitioners from Europe and the United States each explore different facets of arbitrability always with a perspective open to international developments and comparative evaluation of standards.

        The presentation falls into two parts: in the first the focus is on the general features of arbitrability, its rationale and the laws applicable to it. In the second, arbitrability is specifically examined in the context of administrative, criminal, corporate, IP, financial, commercial, and criminal law.

        This book has its origins in an International Conference on Arbitrability held at Athens in September 2005. Seven papers presented there are here reviewed and updated, and nine others are added.

        The subject of the book – arbitrability – is one that is much talked about, but seldom if ever given the in-depth treatment presented here. Arbitrators and other practitioners in the field will welcome the way the analysis moves logically from theory to practice regarding every issue, and academics will recognize a definitive treatment of arbitrability as understood and applied in the settlement of disputes today.


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