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2014 - 2nd Tuesday (dates below) at 9 30 am Pacific Time
January 14: GST/HST compliance & reporting methods | Working papers & annual adjustments
February 11: Investments - Calculation of ACB and Income Reconciliation
March 11: Personal Taxes Review of What's New
April 8: Vehicles - employment, self-employment, trucking
May 13 Transitions from teen to adult, and from adult to senior
Meetings will resume in the fall:
September 9 Rental property - change in use / deemed proceeds / Terminal losses on buildings
October 21 Attribution rules
November 18 Clearance Certificate requests - Estate windups
December 9 Quick Method GST/HST - self-employed
The fine print:
Canadian CPA's Only. This is NOT for your students or staff, it's only for you...
These sessions are NOT recorded and are confidential. Why? No one would speak up if there were students or staff on the calls, that's why it's exclusively for CPAs.
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Topics 2013
Payroll & taxable benefits: QuickBooks Premier Accountant v 2013
Dividends, T5's, shareholder benefits
Time Management, Office organization, PST in BC update
Federal budget 2013 - What's new? | PST, treatment of reimbursements, uptake round robin on how implementation is working for participants
New rules for T1135 | Immigration (topic change request April 9th meeting)
Estate accounting using QuickBooks/Quicken software and T3 preparation
Capital Gains; Public Practice Exit Strategy & FallBack?
Tax update
Shareholder loans | Personal Services Businesses
Capital Cost Allowance
Self-employed, home office, vehicles
Topics 2012:
Families: Separation/Divorce, marital status, claiming dependents (see CGA PPM Fall 2010 Newsletter)
Personal Tax Credits including disability, medical, disability supports, child care, attendant care
What's New for T1 Season / Federal Budget
Keeping records, electronic record keeping
Investments, capital property, real estate, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, flow thru's
Accounting for Estates (by request)
Tax returns: T3's for Estates (by request)
Assisting Accountant Preparation / Mandatory e-File: T1s and T2s Jan 1 2013 - have you made plans yet?
Meals / Trucker Meals / Employee benefits ??
Vehicles, owned, leased, self-employed, corporate, partners
Home office, self-employed, corporate, employee
Topics from prior years
How to complete T2's
How to complete T3's (August 27, 2025)
Personal Tax Credits (see TaxDetective Boot-Camp if you can't wait)
Vehicles (see above)
Capital Cost Allowance
Rental properties, change in use, partial change in use
Not for Profit and Charities: Compliance with employment standards, payroll, GST/HST, Income Tax, etc.
Employees & contractors / Self-employed or employed? / Personal Service Business or Specified Investment Business (PSB's and SIB's) / Contract payment reporting
Tax research
Voluntary disclosures, fairness, administrative relief
Estate accounting and taxation (see August 27, 2025)
Investment accounting and taxation (www.ipbc.ca is hosting a Quicken overview September 13, 2012, and an indepth 4 part series in January 2013)
Shareholder benefits
Tax return software review: Profile® T1/T2/T3 and FX and TurboTax® Online
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