Tax
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April 09, 2026
Taxpayers’ Ombudsperson asks CRA to improve online resources for user experience
Taxpayers’ Ombudsperson François Boileau has asked the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) to make improvements to its online resources to help reduce the number of calls to its contact centres.
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April 09, 2026
Federal Court fines operator, company over inadequate efforts to comply with disclosure order
The Federal Court has ordered a business operator and his company to pay more than $14,000 in fines and costs after they pleaded guilty to contempt for failing to comply with a court order to provide information to the CRA, finding they failed to take reasonable steps to purge their contempt.
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April 09, 2026
Broadening Canada’s hybrid mismatch rules
On Jan. 29, 2026, the Department of Finance released draft legislation that contained the second package of hybrid mismatch rules that was first announced in the federal government’s 2021 Budget (the Proposals).
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April 08, 2026
Corinne Grigoriu joins McCarthy Tétrault’s national tax group
McCarthy Tétrault has added Corinne Grigoriu as a partner in its national tax group in Calgary.
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April 08, 2026
The rule of law is not a given
Most of us who have grown up in Canada, whether we realize it or not, have always taken the rule of law for granted. We never really thought about it, or what it even was, but that is precisely the point. It has always just been there, like oxygen. You don’t think about oxygen until you have trouble breathing. We as a society are now having trouble breathing.
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April 02, 2026
Ontario to cut small business tax rate to 2.2%
Ontario is proposing to cut the small business corporate income tax rate from 3.2 per cent to 2.2 per cent in its 2026 budget, a move expected to save more than 375,000 businesses up to $5,000 annually, according to an April 2 release.
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April 02, 2026
Can you possess dual citizenship in Canada and should you keep it?
Canadian immigration and nationality policy are rooted in the objective of supporting individuals and families in building meaningful and long-standing connections with Canada. Through its multiplicity of immigration pathways, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has developed innovative programs and shifted immigration policy to provide opportunities for individuals to build their lives in Canada, or if required, to renounce Canadian citizenship.
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April 01, 2026
Carney mandates shortlist of 3+ bilingual western jurists for SCC, but only 2 were found last time
The Carney government has opted to stick with the predecessor Liberal government’s requirement that the prime minister be handed a shortlist of at least three bilingual qualified candidates to fill an impending western/northern vacancy on the Supreme Court of Canada, despite the inability of the advisory committee that created the shortlist for the last such vacancy to recommend more than two bilingual qualified jurists.
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April 01, 2026
Feds extend excise duty relief, direct support to breweries, distilleries and winemakers
On April 1, the Government of Canada announced a two-year extension of alcohol excise duty relief to “protect brewers, distillers, and winemakers during a period of global uncertainty.”
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April 01, 2026
Real estate: HST relief for buyers, although temporary
On March 25, the Ontario government announced some temporary relief for buyers who are purchasing new homes. The harmonized sales tax (HST) rebate in Ontario is being expanded to all buyers to a maximum of $130,000. Both provincial and federal governments will eat up the entire 13 per cent HST. The province will cover its eight per cent, and federal will cover five per cent of the HST.