Session Descriptions
Tax Refresher / HST Update
Speaker(s):
Darren Bank
Trevor Goetz
Darren Taylor
The Income Tax and HST Update is geared towards providing CMAs working in financial leadership roles, entrepreneurs and business owners with an overview of issues and opportunities for themselves and their businesses as well as an update of recent changes that may affect their tax strategies. This seminar will cover two specific areas associated with tax:
Income Tax Update will include:
- Remuneration strategies
- Integration Update
- Asset Protection
- Loss Utilization Planning
- Succession Planning & Exit Strategies
- What’s new, including stock option rules changes
- Planning with refundable taxes and GRIP
- Taxable Benefits
- CRA top audit areas
HST Update will cover:
- Update on HST and review of post-implementation issues: what controllers should be looking for to manage internal risk.
- Collection-side issues, including place of supply rules, employee benefits, real property issues.
- Input tax credit-side issues,
- Review of new pension plan rules and how they affect commercial businesses with employees contributing to a single- or multi-employer defined benefit or defined contribution employee pension plan.
- Review of top 10 hot audit exposure issues
Session Times:
- Thursday 1:45 - 3:15 - FULL
- Thursday 3:30 - 5:00 - FULL
