Shadow Flipping and Contract Assignment in the Vancouver Real Estate Market
Real Estate, Shadow Flipping and Contract Assignment in the Vancouver Market
The City of Vancouver’s Response to Short-Term Rental Services
The state of short term rentals in the City of Vancouver, and the Mayor's response to it.
Real Estate Prices, Disclosure and the UK Market
Foreign companies will be forced to disclose ownership before buying English property.
CRA’s Revised Position on Private Health Services Plans
Effective January 1, 2015, a plan is considered a PHSP as long as the premiums paid under the plan relate “all or substantially all” to medical expenses that would otherwise qualify for METC (assuming all other conditions to…
Taxation and “Small Business”
Given MP Trudeau's commitment to running deficits for the next few years, he will be simultaneously looking for new forms of revenue. Perhaps small business is in his cross-hairs. Let's hope the Minister focuses her energies on those…
Charities – Deed or Declaration of Trust?
The benefits of a trust, rather than a corporation or society, for a Canadian charity.
Your Estate Plan and the New Tax Rules
Following amendments proposed to the Income Tax Act (Canada) to become effective on January 1st 2016, certain trusts will now be taxed at the top marginal tax rate rather than the lower graduated tax rates that some trusts…
B.C. Society Act Revamp – Part 2
BC Registry Services have produced an initial transition guide for existing societies operating under the current Society Act, to allow those existing societies to transition to the rules under the new Societies Act.