Category: Real estate corporations

A few days ago, I came across an article written by Jamie Golombek, CIBC Managing Director, Tax & Estate Planning on Financial Post. The title of the article is: “Difference between current and capital expenses has big tax consequences for...

We had been helping many real estate agents setup corporations in the past few months.   Many of them are high income earner, high commission income with little deductions.  One thing we suggested to those who are interested in buying a...

It’s March 18.  Our team is getting extremely busy during tax season.  With the lockdown rules changing by the minute, we were fortunate enough to visit a ski hill for a couple of runs this past weekend.  I learned skiing...

Recently, our team has been getting a lot of questions about cash damming and how to turn a non-deductible primary mortgage into a deductible mortgage, also known as smith maneuver. It would be nice to take today’s blog post to...

Today is a big day.   Today is the first day of 3-day full day training for our March Stock Hacker Academy beginner course. We added in an all-new day to make sure our students can get the most out of...

I just finished a webinar on how to use RRSP & TFSA to split income with low income spouses and minimize overall family taxes for my clients last Friday.  It is RRSP contribution season right now.  I thought I would...

Happy Lunar New Year.  I spent the New Years Eve last night sharing about my journey with stock hacking.  It was a tough presentation to do, given that I wasn’t the subject matter expert.   If you missed it, it’s okay. ...

It’s chilly today.   We had so much excitement from the last week.  We listed our home for sale the last week and we relocated our entire family to the hotel to accommodate all the showings.   Yes, we had to get...

Today is a special day.  Today is the day my own home is listed for sale.  Yes, we’re moving! I’m no stranger to moving.  I moved from Hong Kong to Toronto over 20 years ago.  I stayed in North York...

Here’s a Quick Guide to Understand Bitcoin Taxation Happy New Year. We celebrated my daughter’s birthday over the holidays, I couldn’t believe she turned 7 already! It’s unfortunate that we have to start our new year in a lockdown. I’m...