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Expanding Your Business into the United States
July 27th, 2011

This is a big step for many Canadian companies and careful consideration to the business structure should be undertaken. There are number alternative ways Canadian businesses can access customers in the United States...each of these alternatives has significant tax and business implications which sh... Read more »

National Energy Board Approves Horn River Pipeline
February 23rd, 2011

He crossed out the name Canada and replaced it with “America's Energy Cow”. Read more »

Canada Changing Stock Option Tax Treatment
December 9th, 2010

December 9,2010 The good folks at Valiant Trust sent this alert to me this morning and I think it is worth passing along. Beginning January 1, 2011, subject to the passing of Bill C-47, several significant changes to the tax treatment of employee stock options will take place. Among the changes is a... Read more »

Canada Moves Closer to International Financial Reporting Standards
October 5th, 2010

In a new release, BCN 2010/28, the British Columbia Securities Commission confirmed its commitiment to IFRS which will be phased in effective January 1, 2011. read the notice here: http://www.bcsc.bc.ca/policy.aspx?id=10800&cat=BC%20Notices... Read more »

Dodd-Frank Just Keeps on Rolling
October 5th, 2010

Effective September 29, 2010, the Securities and Exchange Commission,(SEC) in response to Section 939B of the Dodd-Frank Act released a final rule that amends Regulation FD “to remove the specific exemption … for disclosures made to nationally recognized statistical rating organizations and cred... Read more »

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