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With the first budget of its majority mandate, Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government delivered a moderated strategy for achieving budgetary [...]

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There are a few questions that chartered accountants get asked all the time. They include (but are in no way [...]

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  Owners of small and medium-sized businesses across Canada can finally breathe a sigh of relief. For the most part, [...]

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The Kestenberg Rabinowicz Partners LLP management team is growing once again. We’re proud to announce that Adriano Romeo, a KRP [...]

Shortly after the release of the report by the Standing Senate Committee on National Finance, which is highly critical of [...]

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A new package of labour and employment law reforms in Ontario is poised to potentially impact the competitiveness and the [...]

In more than 30 years of practice as a Chartered Accountant, one of the most common two questions I’ve been [...]

When the Department of Finance released its proposed changes to the taxation of private corporations in Canada on July 18, [...]

Small business owners in Ontario are getting a break on their taxes. This week Minister of Finance Charles Sousa delivered [...]

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After several weeks of insistent rhetoric from Ottawa, entrepreneurs across Canada finally received some good news when the federal government [...]

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We want to take this opportunity to remind clients that they need to ensure that all interest payable on all [...]

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