See below for a list of tax planning considerations. Please contact us for further details or to discuss whether these may apply to your tax situation. SOME 2022 YEAR-END TAX PLANNING TIPS INCLUDE: 1) Certain expenditures made by individuals by December 31, 2022 will be eligible for 2022 tax deductions or credits, including digital news subscriptions, moving expenses, labour mobility tax credit expenditures (NEW), child care expenses, charitable donations, political contributions, registered journalism organization contributions,…

Directors can be personally liable for payroll source deductions (CPP, EI and income tax withholdings) and GST/HST unless they exercise due diligence to prevent the corporation from failing to remit these amounts on a timely basis. An August 31, 2022 Tax Court of Canada case found that the director was not duly diligent and therefore was personally liable for the corporation’s unremitted payroll deductions, interest and penalties of $78,121 from January 2011 to April 2012.…

In a June 6, 2022 Federal Court of Appeal case, the Court addressed an application for judicial review of the Social Security Tribunal’s decision to deny the taxpayer’s CPP disability benefits claim on the basis that he did not have a severe and prolonged disability. The General Division of the Social Security Tribunal stated that while the taxpayer had significant impairments (chronic back pain and osteoarthritis in both knees), he had not made reasonable efforts…