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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.

• Declining Corporate Tax Rates and Eligible Dividends
• Integration: Bonuses Revisited
• Rethinking RRSPs for the Owner/Manager

• Presale and Ongoing Purification Structures
• Crystallization Strategies
• Tax Effective Structures
• The Section 84.1 Trap

• Issues in Respect of “Association”
• Benefits of Separating Businesses
• Partnership Structures
• Consulting Business Opportunities

• 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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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.

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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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:

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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!

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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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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.

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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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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In the first of our bi-weekly links shows we chat about the latest news on the Editorially team, have some friendly banter about startup culture and Kieran delves into the world of devices.

• Editorially team goes to Vox Media
• The 10 Things You Should Do When You Have Your Next Web Idea
• How Startup Funding Really Works (Infographic)
• Disney Engineers Invented an Algorithm That Automatically Edits Multi-Cam Footage
• By-pass App Store QA with Rollout
• Connect SDK

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