Your business-owner clients need to figure out how to harness technology as well as leverage Canada’s shifting labour demographics, suggests a BDC study. (Registration is required to download the study.) One reason for this, the study reveals, is businesses that have embraced digital tech have not only improved their customer experience (49%) but also boosted […]
Small and medium-sized businesses are showing signs of fatigue and reporting lower confidence, finds a CIBC Capital Markets report.
The comment period for Finance’s proposed tax changes for businesses is officially closed, and Finance Minister Bill Morneau says he’s open to making changes to the proposal. Read: Urgent: Talk to business clients ahead of income sprinkling measures While critics contend the proposal hurts middle-class business owners, it could also overturn decades of settled law. […]
Finance says Canadians who hold passive investments in private corporations get an unfair tax advantage. That view is problematic
Data from Industry Canada shows that, of all the exporting firms in Canada, more than 90% are considered small businesses.
The Coalition for Small Business Tax Fairness has written a new letter to Finance Minister Bill Morneau with professional analysis confirming that Ottawa’s tax proposals will affect middle-class business owners. Read: Drop tax proposals aimed at business, urges coalition “It is the farmers, mom-and-pop shops, and entrepreneurs, who invested everything into their businesses, that will […]
Amid recently proposed tax reforms, there’s finally some good news for your business owner client: the Canada–European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) comes into effect tomorrow. The deal eliminates 98% of tariffs between Canada and the EU. But only about one in five (18%) of small and medium-sized businesses are very or somewhat […]
Small business is up in arms about the proposals on tax planning using private corporations
Coalition membership includes Advocis
Consequences of Finance's proposed tax measures