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Salary or Dividend? Shareholder Remuneration Revisited 2021

Recently, I decided to crunch some tax numbers for shareholders of a CCPC who are hoping to increase their take home pay in order to get into the BC real estate market.  Canadian taxpayers know that the tax rates in recent years have crept up.  What is commonly less known is that the tax rules and rates pertaining to dividends

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Thinking About Buying a Small Business? Vancouver Tax Advice You Need to Know!

Successful entrepreneurs are often on the hunt to acquire other businesses for strategic reasons. Acquiring a competitor to increase market share or buying out a supplier to add synergy to an existing business are just a few of the reason entrepreneurs seek acquisitions. When a business is up for sale negotiation, the seller of the business has a huge advantage

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Tax Structure When Buying an Incorporated Business

A very quiet and painful spring 2020 comes to an end in BC.  As the BC economy reopens pieces at a time, the impact of the Vancouver covid-19 pandemic lockdown on different sectors of the economy will become more evident. For young or mature business owners, this past spring was a time of inner reflection.  There was plenty time for

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