‘Twas the Night Before New Year (2025)

‘Twas the night before New Years, when all through the Canadian land, Not a taxpayer was happy, not even the taxman’s band; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that good economic and taxation policy soon would be there.   The Canadian citizens were nestled all snug in their beds, While…

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‘Twas the Night Before New Year (2025)

‘Twas the night before New Years, when all through the Canadian land, Not a taxpayer was happy, not even the taxman’s band; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that good economic and taxation policy soon would be there.   The Canadian citizens were nestled all snug in their beds, While…

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Tax Professionals in the AI Era: Adapt and Thrive

In this day and age where finding information is not hard – especially with the proliferation of generative artificial intelligence, where should one find reliable information about tax?     I’m old enough to recall a day when the internet was not instantly available, and tax practitioners needed to research in-house / firm libraries that…

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Tax Professionals in the AI Era: Adapt and Thrive

In this day and age where finding information is not hard – especially with the proliferation of generative artificial intelligence, where should one find reliable information about tax?     I’m old enough to recall a day when the internet was not instantly available, and tax practitioners needed to research in-house / firm libraries that…

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Tax Mythology

In 2020, I published my first book – Making Life Less Taxing.  It’s a breezy read and was intended to put my toe in the water in the field of publishing while trying to push my message that people should take their tax affairs a lot more seriously than I have experienced over my career…

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Concern For the Future of the Tax Profession

I’ve often said – and most recently in a published article – that taxation is not for the faint of heart.  There’s a reason why Albert Einstein is often quoted as saying that the hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.  I think he was correct… [Read more]

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