First Time Tax Credit for Charitable Donations

Canada Revenue Agency (“CRA”) has provided a Charitable donation tax credit calculator on their website.  A link to the calculator can be found here. For qualifying first time donors, CRA has published information regarding the First-Time Donor’s Super…

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Can a beneficiary force an Executor/Trustee to make an interim distribution from an Estate?

Although it is an established tenant of estate administration law in British Columbia that an executor has their “executor’s year” before they must start distributing the estate, a recent decision from  the Supreme Court of British Columbia has…

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