Dates and location
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Dates and location
Pricing
Hours
Description
CPAs in public practice who assist clients with income tax compliance and plans find that even routine matters can have complexities, alternatives, and uncertainties.
The simplest matters can involve various issues and ambiguities, even in the field of accounting. Those who assist clients with income tax compliance and plans find that routine matters can entail complexities, alternatives, and uncertainties.
This seminar identifies income tax matters that practitioners frequently encounter and demonstrates how income tax rules apply in everyday situations. In order to enhance the practicality of the seminar, the seminar presents topics as practical issues rather than technical details. After providing general background information for each issue, the seminar emphasizes opportunities, problems, suggestions, and plans for each topic.
This seminar provides an opportunity for practitioners, who routinely deal with income tax, to focus on issues they frequently encounter. Many participants take this seminar on an annual basis because the content relates directly to client situations and timely topics are added each year.
Topics Include:
- Taxation for select sources of income - including active business income, small business deduction, employees vs. contractors, personal services businesses, and investment income.
- Remuneration issues - including salary vs. dividends, bonuses payable, and family member income splitting.
- Expenses and assets with personal and business elements - including meals and entertainment, automobiles, and taxable benefits.
- Shareholder benefits and loans issues - including debit balances.
- Timely and topical practical matters.
- Newsworthy and notable information - including recent developments.
- Challenging ethical situations encountered in tax practice.
NOTE: This course description has been revised and reflects updates for 2023. If you have any questions, please contact pdevents@cpaontario.ca.
Key Takeaways
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Evaluate and characterize sources of income and develop remuneration strategies.
- Recognize, assess and advise on shareholder benefit and loan problems.
- Identify best practices for expenses/assets with personal and business elements.
- Discover new and notable recent income tax developments.
- Analyze ethical considerations related to providing tax services to clients.
Who Will Benefit
While all tax professionals, whether seasoned or new, will gain new insights from this seminar, this seminar particularly targets practitioners who deal with small and medium-sized owner-managed businesses. Practitioners, transitioning to take on more owner-manager planning responsibilities, will find the course to be a valuable training resource.
Prerequisite(s)
Participants enrolling in this seminar should possess general corporate and personal income tax knowledge.
How to Access the Course
To access the course please visit our BlackBoard site, and log-in using the same login and password used for the Registration Portal.
Please allow up to 15 minutes after registration for the course to appear on your BlackBoard page.
Registration, cancellation, withdrawal and all other CPA Ontario PD policies can be found here.