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Canada Federal Legislative Amendments 2025

Danny Guerin 09/23/2025

Overview On August 15, 2025, the Department of Finance released a series of draft legislative proposals for public consultation. Canadians had until September 12, 2025, to make any submissions to the federal government. These proposals include tax measures which had either previously been announced through ...

MedSleep Inc. v. The King

Andersen Team 09/10/2025

In MedSleep Inc. v. The King (2025 TCC 70), the Tax Court of Canada considered whether MedSleep’s fee-sharing arrangements with Sleep Physicians gave rise to a separate taxable supply to the physicians, as alleged by the CRA, or whether all services together constituted a single exempt supply ...

The impact of Canada’s new Digital Services Tax Act on businesses

Andersen Team 09/09/2024

Canada’s Digital Services Tax Act (“DSTA”) impacts both Canadian and foreign large businesses with global consolidated revenues of at least €750M, while earning digital services revenue in Canada. A business that meets the minimum thresholds will be required to pay a 3% Digital Services Tax ...

Taxation of the Hockey Player Versus the Movie Star

Steven Flynn, CPA, CA, CPA (Washington) 03/04/2024

This is a story of the unusual difference between the Canadian taxation of non-Canadian professional athletes versus non-Canadian actors and actresses. Chapter 1 – The Hometown Hockey Hero Jonathan Tavares grew up in Ontario and played nine seasons for the New York Islanders. He became ...

Highlights of the 2022 Fall Economic statement

Léa Duval 11/15/2022

Prepared by Andersen in Canada, Montréal Partner Patrick Coutu, Tax Director Danny Guerin with support from Maya Desrosiers On November 3, 2022, The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Chrystia Freeland, presented the 2022 Fall Economic Statement. Below is an overview of some of the major tax related ...

Draft Legislation – Canada Federal Budget 2021

Léa Duval 03/07/2022

Prepared by Andersen in Canada, Montréal Partner Patrick Coutu and Tax Manager Divya Katyal with support from Inta Simonyan. On February 4, 2022, the government of Canada released draft legislation for comment, implementing new tax measures including some of those remaining from the 2021 Federal Budget (https://ca.andersen.com/blog/canada-federal-budget-2021-highlights/). Below is ...

COVID-19 travel restrictions for cross-border workers

Canadian COVID-19 Guidelines – Cross-Border Workers

Steven Flynn, CPA, CA, CPA (Washington) 01/12/2022

On December 29, 2021, Canada Revenue Agency (“CRA”) updated its guidance with Part VII – Supplemental Guidance (1) which extends administrative relief for Canadian resident cross-border workers in respect of their 2021 income tax obligations. Individuals concerned about their potential income tax issues because of travel ...

Important tax update – Intergenerational transfers

Léa Duval 09/10/2021

Prepared by Andersen in Canada, Montreal Partner Patrick Coutu, Tax Director Danny Guérin and Tax Manager Omar Yassine. The tax community has been asking the Canadian government for several years for legislative changes to address the fact that it is currently impossible for Canadians to ...

Americans Doing Business in Canada: Tax 101 – Webinar

Andersen 06/29/2021

In our latest webinar, Partners Steven Flynn and Krista Rabidoux provide a review of key Canadian tax issues for Americans doing business in Canada. Topics include: Not knowing how the tax laws apply to your business operations in Canada can end up costing you significantly. ...

Canadian COVID-19 Guidelines – International Tax

Steven Flynn, CPA, CA, CPA (Washington) 04/06/2021

On April 1, 2021, Canada Revenue Agency (“CRA”) updated its guidance with Part VII – Supplemental Guidance[1] which provides further relief from Canadian residency and Canadian permanent establishment for certain non-residents of Canada and businesses by extending the relief period to December 31, 2020. The updated ...

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