Dates and location
Pricing
Hours
Dates and location
Pricing
Hours
Description
Like a tightrope walker demonstrating exquisite balance, income tax planning requires practitioners to help clients pay the lowest amount of tax while staying on the right side of the law and within the guidelines of the Income Tax Act (ITA). This practical in-depth course provides a comprehensive review of various anti-avoidance provisions designed to prevent or discourage aggressive tax planning through the presentation of factual scenarios that address objectives, statutory provisions, current case law, and risk analysis. The course will enable you to understand and identify various tax planning opportunities for your clients, while navigating the application of various anti-avoidance provisions in the ITA.
This course is structured for practitioners with a strong Canadian tax planning background seeking to keep abreast of tax and estate planning issues. The course identifies tax-planning opportunities that are particularly relevant to practitioners working with Canadian private corporations, Canadian partnerships and high net worth individuals. The course utilizes practical examples to present planning opportunities with respect to restructuring of asset profiles, the sale of a business, business succession and estate planning, as well as the use of partnerships and trusts. The course will also provide a high-level review of anti-avoidance provisions frequently encountered in the context of these plans, primarily in the context of specific plans or examples.
Topics Include:
- Managing tax avoidance risks, including the following:
- General anti-avoidance rule
- Arm’s length relationships
- Planning for Tax on Split Income
- Attribution provisions
- Stop-loss provisions
- Surplus stripping (Section 84.1) in factual non-arm’s length circumstances
- Subsection 55(2)
- Five categories of tax planning strategies: restructuring asset profiles, sale of business, use of partnerships, use of trusts, and general tax planning for private corporations and their shareholders
- Interprovincial planning
NOTE: This course description has an addendum update for 2025. If you have any questions, please contact pdevents@cpaontario.ca.
Schedule
- October 6, 2025, 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
- October 8, 2025, 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Key Takeaways
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Identify and analyze tax risks in a variety of tax and estate planning scenarios.
- Identify tax planning opportunities for individuals, corporations, trusts, and partnerships, particularly within the private enterprise sphere.
- Identify relationships between individuals, corporations, trusts, and partnerships and analyze how those relationships affect the tax implications of various transactions.
- Compare the tax impact of various structures available to achieve a client’s business or estate planning objectives.
Who Will Benefit
This course will advance the skills and knowledge of public practitioners specializing in Canadian tax planning and seeking to refine advanced tax and looking to enhance their tax, business succession, and estate planning skills. This course will also benefit industry practitioners working for Canadian private corporations.
Prerequisite(s)
A participant should have previously taken the following courses:
- Corporate Restructuring: Fundamentals; and
- Corporate Restructuring Section 85: Transfer of Property
Disclaimer
The views expressed in the course are non-authoritative and have not been formally endorsed by CPA Ontario and do not reflect the views of CPA Ontario. The information included in the course if for general information purposes only.
CPA Ontario, the presenters and the authors do not accept any responsibility or liability that might occur directly or indirectly as a consequence of the use or application of or reliance on this material.
How to Access the Course
This course is a live webinar. You must attend the live course to receive verifiable CPD hours. We recommend you join five minutes prior to the scheduled starting time. To get the full experience of this interactive course, use a computer that has video and microphone capabilities.
Electronic material can be accessed one week prior to the course and should be downloaded in advance.
Registration, cancellation, withdrawal and all other CPA Ontario PD policies can be found here.
Speaker(s)
Babar Khan has over 13 years of experience working with the Big 4 and mid-size accounting firms in cross-border (US & Canadian) tax compliance & advisory area. He also teaches BBA and MBA courses at Canada’s Schulich School of Business. In addition, Babar has been involved in teaching with Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario. He also sits on the board of a UK based EdTech company. He holds an MSc (Tax) from University of Oxford (UK), an MBA from Schulich School of Business and a BBA from University of Toronto. He is also a dual US and Canadian CPA.