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…

One Comment About Taxation – The Taxation of Signing Bonuses For Cross-Border Athletes; The Case of John Tavares and Patrick Marleau I’m a huge hockey fan. I love the anticipation of a game starting – two centres crouch at the face-off dot. The referee holds the puck at arm’s length, waits half a beat, and drops…

One Comment About Taxation – So Why Are Hutterite Colonies Able to Split Their Income But Private Business Owners Have TOSI? Mismatched Socks Tax Policy Last week, a young relative showed up at a family gathering in flip-flops with one white sock and one black. When I pointed it out, she shrugged – she’d been rushing…

One Comment About Taxation – Canada’s Process of Developing Tax Policy Needs Massive Change Every time I drive across a bridge, I quietly thank the engineers who designed it. They respect the laws of physics because they know gravity doesn’t compromise. Tax policy should be no different. Ignore economic gravity long enough, and reality will…