Author: Bert Mulder

Government in full damage control mode

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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

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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

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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…

Ten things you need to know about passport restrictions on delinquent taxpayers

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http://www.accountingtoday.com/opinion/ten-things-you-need-to-know-about-passport-restrictions-on-delinquent-taxpayers In late 2015, Congress passed the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act, a law that, among other things, helps the IRS collect larger tax debts. Included in the FAST Act is Section 7345 of the Internal Revenue Code, which requires the IRS to provide information to the U.S. State Department about people who owe “seriously…