Accounting technology has been evolving, from manual accounting systems to computerized accounting on your desktop computer, and now we welcome the next step, Accounting in the Cloud. We have been watching the development of accounting solutions in the cloud, and believe they have developed to the stage where they can fully suit your business needs,…
Author: Bert Mulder
Bert Mulder Scholarship for Church Organists
Congratulations to Heather Ball on winning the Bert Mulder Scholarship. Wish you the Lord’s blessing in your organ studies
Just had a client fall for the I-Tune gift card scam today...
I just had a client today that fell for the scammers, and was taken for $2,500. Must be a coincidence, but they said they talked to ‘Jenny’ at my office… DO NOT! DO NOT FALL FOR THIS SCAM! So happens that I have a Jennifer at my office. They however did not talk to her,…
Interest rates for the fourth calendar quarter
Interest rates for the fourth calendar quarter The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) announced today the prescribed annual interest rates that will apply to any amounts owed to the CRA and to any amounts owed by the CRA to individuals and corporations. These rates will be in effect from October 1, 2017, to December 31, 2017. There…
Canada Revenue Agency announces maximum pensionable earnings for 2018
The maximum pensionable earnings under the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) for 2018 will be $55,900—up from $55,300 in 2017. The new ceiling was calculated according to a CPP legislated formula that takes into account the growth in average weekly wages and salaries in Canada. Contributors who earn more than $55,900 in 2018 are not required or permitted…
Government in full damage control mode
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/10/16/feds-to-cut-small-business-tax.html Thus, the Trudeau government is in full damage control mode… Reducing the small business rate as per election promise, which they flipped on, and now flopped on, before ‘fixing’ the so called small business ‘tax loopholes’, which they previously placed as a condition. They altogether dropped the so called ‘converting income into capital gains’…
Counterpoint: Why taking CPP at 60 can make sense, even when the hard math says otherwise
Ted Rechtshaffen | March 21, 2017 1:52 PM ET More from Ted Rechtshaffen Pawel Dwulit/Bloomberg News Earlier this week, Lisa Bjornson and Fred Vettese wrote an excellent article suggesting that one should wait to take the CPP until age 70. The pure math is hard to dispute, as the government provides a bit of an…
RCCO Edmonton Organ Scholarships Recipients Concert
I wish to invite you to the 2016 RCCO Edmonton Organ Scholarships Recipients Concert, which will take place in First Presbyterian Church, 10025 105 Street, Edmonton on Monday March 27, 2017 at 7:30 pm. One of the scholarship recipients, Ms Kathleen Seutter, recipient of the Bert Mulder Organ Scholarship of $500, will be performing with…