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Is Vancouver on the verge of a housing crash?

It appears that old saying, “what goes up, must come down” is playing true for Vancouver’s current housing market. For the past five years, the Lower Mainland has seen a very steady increase in home...

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Charitable Donations – Critical Information for Haiti Donors

CRA has set up a special website to help advisors and their clients avoid scam artists in the huge effort to help Haiti earthquake survivors. To access the website, link here. Advisors and their...

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How Virtual Accounting is helping companies today

Outsourcing a non core competency such as accounting has become an increasingly common trend for today’s businesses. Virtual accounting is the newest model to traditional outsourced methods which is...

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How Much Do People Pay in Taxes from other Countries?

Ever questioned how much people pay in taxes in other countries? The interactive infographic below will allow you to select each country from the map for this information. You may be surprised by which...

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PST is returning to BC, Know the Facts

In 2011 BC held a referendum to decide whether or not to keep the harmonized sales tax (HST) in effect or revert back to Provincial Sales Tax (PST). After calculating the results BC will be...

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Sales Tax For Amazon from September 15th

Come September 15th Amazon will be charging sales tax on purchases for California residents. Up to now you were able to generate savings by shopping on Amazon as no sales tax was collected. An...

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American Taxpayer Relief Act : Affects on the Individual Taxpayer

There has been a lot of talk in the past couple days about the American Taxpayer Relief Act, which was eventually agreed upon by the Senate on January 1 2013. Signed into law by US President Barack...

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Obama Taxes – 3 Tax Policies Small Business Owners Should be Aware of

With every newly re-elected president comes new policies and actions with Obama been is no different. These new tax related policies and actions often affect the small business owner but some...

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PST Information & Webinars for BC Small Businesses

  It is getting close to the return of the PST, and we can tell that some businesses are getting anxious. On April 1, 2013, the reimplementation of our Provincial Sales Tax and Goods and Services Tax...

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PST in BC – Better news for the Construction and Food Industry

The PST has been in effect for almost a month now, and we have heard mixed reviews from many of our clients. One thing we have noticed is that our clients from the construction and food industries have...

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