As of March 19, 2007, the capital gains exemption has been increased to $750,000 from its previous $500,000 limit. This means that if you haven’t already taken advantage of the tax preferred treatment of capital gains on qualified small business shares, you should do so while the getting’s good. If you have already maxed out […]

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Continuing the series of “quick facts” posts (see prior ones about the capital gains exemption and the new financial instru­ments standards), today is all about the principal residence exemption in Canada. Any residence may be desig­nated a principal residence as long as you “ordinarily inhabit” the home. Ordinary inhab­i­tation includes seasonal living such as your […]

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Generally when a dispo­sition of capital property occurs, a gain or loss is recog­nized. Occasionally the dispo­sition results in no real change to the economic interest of the property, like when an individual transfers property to a corpo­ration they own. A rollover provides a way to defer the gain or loss. Section 85 of the Income […]

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Yesterday I was visiting my parents back home on the farm and enjoying a lazy Saturday afternoon away from the big city. In exchange for some really great ice cream, my Mom asked me for some tax advice related to the lifetime $500,000 capital gains exemption. Long story short, she was under the impression she […]

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The Alter­native Minimum Tax is getting a lot of coverage in the US since changes made by Reagan in the 80s are causing it to affect 80% of “families with an adjusted gross income of $75,000 to $100,000,” in other words, a lot of frickin’ families. When the tax was first intro­duced in 1969, it […]

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