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The Government of Canada passed legislation requiring disclosure of reportable transactions to the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). The legislation addresses concerns about how aggressive tax avoidance transactions affect the fairness of the income tax system – everyone must…
As an update to our prior posting on this matter, the British Columbia Court of Appeal have recently considered another factual scenario where the purchaser failed to complete on a contract of purchase and sale in the case…
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) has opened a new Trademark Clearinghouse as part of its gTLD program (N.B. see here for our prior posting on gTLD’s). With this service Trademark holders can register their…
The People's Republic of China recently introduced new money laundering rules to reduce the number of unwarranted suspicious activity reports relating to money laundering. The new rules now instruct banks to perform risk assessments on clients according to…
Today, April 1, 2013, is the official implementation day for the new Provincial Sales Tax ("PST"), and returns British Columbia to a two-tax PST and Goods and Services Tax ("GST") system. The province has now returned to a…
The Canadian Government released its 2013 Federal Budget on March 21st, 2013, with a renewed focus on skills and training for workers, assistance for manufacturers and businesses to succeed in the global economy (including measures to support a…
On March 18, 2013, the new Family Law Act (the “Act”) is coming into effect and along with it are several changes to the law as we know it in British Columbia. Although we are not family law…
C3s coming at the end of July
The British Columbia Business Corporations Act has been amended to provide for Canadian Contribution Companies (“CCC’s”) or (“C3’s”) which will be able to be incorporated in British Columbia from July 29, 2013. C3s, which are based on a…