One Comment About Taxation – Why You Should Be Concerned About The Federal Government’s Deceptive Budgeting Exercise of Separating the Operating Budget From the Capital Budget Picture a couple at the kitchen table reviewing the family budget. Their paycheques don’t cover their spending, so they’ve been topping up the difference on a home equity line…

One Comment About Taxation – The Constant “Pause” of Introduced Tax Policy A number of years ago, a relative of mine started building a garage. The site was levelled, gravel poured, rebar laid down, and then everything stopped. The project, I was told, was “paused.” The money had run out, and frankly, so had the…

One Comment About Taxation – Is the “Mega Productivity Deduction” Really “Mega”?? Walk down any grocery aisle and you’ll find a paper towel roll labelled “Mega” sitting next to a “Regular” one – same width, often similar sheet count, just marketed as though it were categorically different. That’s a communications and marketing strategy, not a…

One Comment About Taxation – Canada’s Trust Reporting System is Too Complex and Unnecessary As a tax practitioner, I’m used to complexity. I deal with it daily. Artificial intelligence has become a genuinely useful tool for navigating some of that complexity, and combined with a few decades of experience, it makes tax a bit easier…

One Comment About Taxation – Canada’s Tax System Needs Structural Reform Not Surface Level “Repairs” A few years ago, a contractor looked at my deck and found rotting boards underneath. His fix: sand it down, apply filler, add a coat of paint. Cheap and fast, so I agreed. Recently, a second contractor pulled back the…

One Comment About Taxation – Canada’s Personal Tax System Needs to Change My wife and I have some long-term friends. We get along swimmingly, but like most friendships, we sometimes disagree. We work through it maturely because we value the history and the relationship. We don’t use disagreements as an excuse to rupture something built…

One Comment About Taxation – “Tax Reform” Should Not Be A Bunch of New Ideas Added Onto A Tattered House in Disrepair My wife and I once bought a house. It needed obvious renovations. So, we started doing them. But every time we pulled something apart with the renovators, it revealed a previous patchwork, and…