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On January 1, 1993, Czechoslovakia ceased to exist. Two peoples who had shared a country for seventy-five years agreed to part ways. They divided the federal debt, split federal assets roughly two-to-one by population, negotiated separate currencies, and went home as Czechs and Slovaks, citizens of two sovereign states. The political decision for separation took…

Well, what a hell of a night it was on April 22, 2025 in Vancouver, BC. Perhaps some think that I should have been home in Calgary, AB helping out my colleagues finish up tax season with April 30 looming and no extensions in sight but, nope, I instead was at BC Place, watching one of the greatest rock bands of all time tear it up on stage with two of…

‘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…

‘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…

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…

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…

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…

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]

So how many of you know that Canada subsidizes our journalism industry?  It’s amazing to me that not many average Canadians know this.  And the knowledge of these credits amongst the professional community is also quite low… [Read more]