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Estate Administration in Ontario: A Practical Guide provides step-by-step instruction on the various estate administration procedures. Contains estate conveyancing, the ramifications of the Family Law Act, income taxation at death, U.S. estate tax, executors' and solicitors' compensation, testamentary capacity/undue influence, and the Substitute Decisions Act.

Publication Year: 1999

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Published: September 2012

An essential resource for any lawyer who is asked to draft wills, Drafting Wills in Canada: A Lawyer's Practical Guide covers over a hundred precedents.

Authors Mary-Alice Thompson and Robyn Solnik are two of the most respected practitioners in the field. In the book, they demonstrate the most common errors made by solicitors in drafting wills, powers of attorney, and other estate planning documents. The detailed explanations that they provide give readers deep insight into why the errors are wrong and what can be done to correct them.

The authors also provide helpful examples of good and bad drafting, along with dozens of practical tips both for drafting and for managing a wills practice. From the general practitioner who does a few wills to the experienced senior lawyer with a significant wills and estates practice, all will be sure to find valuable tips in this practical guide.

What's included:

• Line-by-line analysis of good and bad will drafting
• Numerous cross-references for you to find answers to your questions quickly
• A complimentary DVD containing hundreds of precedents

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This book provides corporations with valuable information about the benefits of alternative dispute resolution and how to apply ADR techniques and processes in the business environment. It offers both a theoretical and practical guide to ADR and the process of system design, exploring specific tools to engage in system design analysis and implementation. This text offers a model dispute resolution design system process with step-by-step explanations of disputes, ADR processes and how to implement the various processes within the business structure. Discontinued

Publication Year: 1999

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The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) issues income tax interpretation bulletins (ITs) to provide technical interpretations and positions regarding certain provisions contained in income tax law. Due to their technical nature, ITs are used primarily by CRA staff and tax specialists. An interpretation or position contained in an IT generally applies as of the date on which it was published, unless otherwise specified.

If you seek to provide the optimal solution on income tax related matters, then you need these invaluable resources. Income Tax Bulletins, Circulars, and Technical News is the only comprehensive print reference book that consolidates the Canada Revenue Agency's interpretations of the Income Tax Act; CRA procedures, practices, and administration policies; and CRA's position on recent court decisions. It offers three separate indexes to assist you in searching for the information you need fast.

• The Topical Index references specific topics of interest.
• The Sectional Index allows you to search for a document applicable to a provision in the Income Tax Act
• The Numerical Finding Index references the exact page of the circular, bulletin, or technical news that you need

This reference book is produced annually. The 2010 edition is consolidated to May 31, 2010.

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• Changes to the “tie-breaker” rule for determining the residence of a corporation that qualifies as a resident of both Contracting States
• Entitlement to Treaty benefits for “fiscally transparent entities”
• New permanent establishment rules
• Elimination of withholding tax on certain interest payments
• Taxation of a non-resident’s emigrant gains
• Taxation of “income from employment” earned by non-residents
• Taxation of stock options received by individuals employed in both Canada and the United States
• Introduction of a reciprocal limitation of benefits provision

• Annotations of related Dominion Tax Cases
• Memorandum of Understanding between the Competent Authorities of Canada and the United States Regarding the Mutual Agreement Procedure
• Agreement between the Government of Canada and the Government of the United States of America with Respect to Social Security
• Income Tax Conventions Interpretation Act
• Rates of Withholding Tax under Income Tax Agreements Signed by Canada

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Available: July 2011

Authors: Robert Ricketts and Larry Tunnell

Discusses the complex issues involving partnership taxation with utmost clarity. It uses hundreds of illustrative examples, practice observations, helpful charts and insightful explanations to make even the most difficult concepts understandable. The book reflects the authors' penchant for communicating the pertinent facts in very direct language and creating a context for understanding the multifaceted issues and applying them to practice.

This new edition fully reflects all the latest developments in this complex area. These include changes affecting:

• partnership basis adjustments
• transfers to partnerships of property with built-in losses
• sale of an interest in a partnership with built-in loss property
• disproportionate distributions from partnerships with built-in loss property exp
• ensing and amortization of partnership organizational expenses
• partnership treatment of the deduction for domestic production activities
• recognition of cancellation-of-indebtedness income, and more

In six parts, Practical Guide to Partnerships and LLCs covers the critical aspects of this complicated area, with individual parts focusing on partnership characteristics, funding, taxation of operations, partner's share of partnership debt, disposition of partnership interest, and distributions. From choice-of-entity considerations to sales and liquidations, the entire breadth of partnership and LLC taxation is covered. Special attention is given throughout to the complex inter-workings of rules that bind, tax and control these entity operations.

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Available: August 2011

Authors: Dominic Daher, Joshua Rosenberg and Steve Johnson

Offers practitioners current and practical explanation and analysis on corporations, giving them the guidance needed to manage the C Corporation election, compliance, tax planning, and life cycle needs. In addition to thorough coverage of how the tax laws impact C corporations, the Practical Guide details corporate formation, distributions, redemptions, liquidations, reorganizations and issues related to corporate tax practice and procedure. Practical Guide to C Corporations provides business entity practitioners with complete coverage of C corporation taxation issues.

• Formation of a Corporation
• Application of Federal Income Tax to Corporations
• Nonliquidating Distributions
• Redemptions
• Liquidations and Partial Liquidations
• Acquisitive Corporate Reorganizations
• Procedural Aspects

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Available: August 2011

Authors: Michael S. Schadewald, Ph.D., CPA and Robert J.Misey, Jr., J.D., MBA and LL.M.

Provides readers with a practical command of the tax issues raised by international transactions and how those issues are resolved by U.S. tax laws. The book emphasizes those areas generally accepted to be essential to tax practice.

The book is written primarily as a desk reference for tax practitioners and is organized into four parts.

Part I provides an overview of the U.S. system for taxing international transactions, and also discusses the U.S. jurisdictional rules and source-of-income rules.

Part II explains how the United States taxes the foreign activities of U.S. persons, and includes chapters on the foreign tax credit, deemed paid foreign tax credit, anti-deferral provisions, foreign currency translation and transactions, export tax benefits, planning for foreign operations, and state taxation of foreign operations.

Part III describes how the United States taxes the U.S. activities of foreign persons, including the taxation of U.S.-source investment-type income and U.S. trade or business activities, as well as planning for foreign-owned U.S. operations.

Finally, Part IV covers issues common to both outbound and inbound activities, including intercompany transfer pricing, tax treaties, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, and international tax practice and procedure.

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