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Halwa ceremony launches Budget process

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Sitharaman discards briefcase, carries 'bahi-khata'

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Is zero budget farming the solution to India's woes?

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'Ford Endeavour is indeed the best SUV in its segment'

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Trucking apps make fleet-owners' lives a smooth ride

Apps are improving the earnings of thousands of truckers by using data science and a host of technologies such as telematics, artificial intelligence, machine learning and Internet of Things. Peerzada Abrar reports.




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Secret behind the success of 90-year old Brand MTR

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Wainberg's Society Meetings Including Rules of Order, 2nd Edition

This edition of Wainberg's Society Meetings Including Rules of Order is an updated version of the very popular first edition that was published in 1992. Easy reading and authoritative discussion of many of the issues that would arise at, before, or during, the holding of meetings of directors or members of societies make this book an indispensable reference guide for members of various charities and other non-share capital corporations.

Editors

Hartley R. Nathan, Q.C.
J. Glyde Hone, LL.B., LL.M.

Publication Year: 2001

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The Estate Planner Newsletter

Bringing you timely and relevant estate planning insights

Issued monthly, The Estate Planner keeps you up-to-date on the latest developments in estate planning and includes practical and timely feature articles written by experts in the field, including Robert Spenceley, Brian Nichols and Michael Atlas. Includes case summaries and legislative updates.

The Estate Planner is included free with your subscription to the Canadian Estate Planning Guide.

Wolters Kluwer CCH research subscriptions deliver the most timely, relevant and reliable tax information and commentary to Canada's tax professionals, significantly reducing research time.





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Tax Window Files

Essential primary source documents from the CRA

Wolters Kluwer CCH Tax Window Files is a collection of published Technical Interpretations, Advance Tax Rulings and internal memoranda from CRA staff written in response to questions and inquiries.

Tax Window Files provides you with an enormous volume of internal CRA documents, complete with comprehensive linking to related documents to power your research.

Combine Tax Window Files with the commentary provided in Window on Canadian Tax to gain a comprehensive understanding of how the CRA works.

The Internet version is updated weekly.

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  • Free training and technical support

Wolters Kluwer CCH research subscriptions deliver the most timely, relevant and reliable tax information and commentary to Canada's tax professionals, significantly reducing research time.



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Tax Planning For Small Business Guide

Valuable insights and tips for strategic tax planning

With authoritative advice from some of the leading experts in the industry, this focused resource gives you quick answers to questions that commonly arise when developing tax strategies for owner-managers of privately held corporations and small businesses.

It discusses tax issues for various stages of the small business lifecycle and provides valuable insights and tips for delivering the best solutions to your clients. Designed as an all-in-one small business resource, it also includes information relating to federal income tax, GST/HST and provincial tax.

Topics covered include:

  • Incorporation and basic corporate tax planning
  • Distributions to owner-managers (salaries and bonuses)
  • Income splitting through an incorporated business
  • Small business deduction for qualifying businesses
  • Retirement compensation arrangements (stock options)
  • Employee equity participation
  • Business deductions and tax incentives
  • Capital cost allowance (depreciation)
  • Purchase and sale of a business
  • Capital gains exemption
  • GST/HST
  • Provincial commodity tax
Bonus features:
  • Small Business Times newsletter
  • News Tracker brings you up-to-the-minute information on the latest tax developments. You choose the topic and how frequently you want to be updated.
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Tax Notes

Tax Notes is one of Canada's most widely read tax newsletters. See for yourself why this monthly newsletter is so popular among Canadian tax practitioners with small to medium size practices. You'll find that its timely and incisive feature articles keep you abreast of the latest developments in federal income tax. It gives you cutting-edge analysis from Canadian tax practitioners. Plus, each month you'll have an article written by David Louis, JD, CA, the chair at Minden Gross Taxation Group and one of Canada's leading tax authorities.

So why not take a moment right now and look over this sample issue of Tax Notes?

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Tax and Family Business Succession Planning, 3rd Edition

An accurate and well written guide to estate planning, estate freeze, income splitting and post mortem tax planning.
Implementing Estate Freezes Estate Planning with Life Insurance, 5th Edition

The successful transfer of a family business from one generation to the next is notoriously difficult. In Tax and Family Business Succession Planning, authors David Louis, Samantha Prasad and new co-author Michael Goldberg, of Minden Gross LLP, provide an in-depth discussion of the myriad aspects of planning a successful transfer of a family business from one generation to the next.

Expert guidance on such complex income tax matters as:
  • Implementing, adjusting and – if necessary – undoing an estate freeze
  • Reversionary trust rules
  • Crystallization of capital gains
  • Life insurance
  • Stop-loss rules
  • Small business deduction
  • Attribution rules
  • Spin-outs
  • Post-mortem issues
Non-tax matters integral to the succession planning process also considered include:
  • Trustees’ powers and duties
  • Shareholders’ agreements
  • Buy-sell agreements
  • Family law
  • Creditor proofing
  • RRSP, RRIF and life insurance designations
Updated and expanded:

The third edition of Tax and Family Business Succession Planning has been updated and expanded to reflect budgetary pronouncements, legislative changes and new case law, including:

  • Control premium issues
  • Valuation of discretionary trust
  • Planning for 21st anniversary of a trust 
  • Shareholder agreements relating to buy outs on death
  • Association rules and trusts/choice of executor
  • New developments in distributions to non-residents
  • Estates and acquisition of control rules
  • Structures to multiply the capital gains exemption
  • Discussion of recent technical interpretations (including APFF and STEP Round Tables) and case law developments
Abbreviated Table of Contents
  • Chapter 1 – Introduction to Tax and Family Business Succession
  • Chapter 2 – Estate Freezes
  • Chapter 3 – Trusts
  • Chapter 4 – Capital Gains Exemption & Crystallizat

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Securities Law News Tracker

There is no better way to stay on top of key developments in securities law in Canada. When you subscribe to the Securities Law News Tracker, you get notices of all updates via e-mail. Your updates give you instant access to changes that originate from a variety of primary and secondary sources such as:

  • Press releases
  • Cases
  • National Instruments, Policies, and Notices
  • Securities Commission Rules, Policies, and Notices
  • Stock Exchange By-Laws, Rules, and Policies
  • By-Laws and Regulations of the Investment Dealers Association (IDA)
  • By-Laws and Regulations of the Mutual Fund Dealers Association of Canada (MFDA)

This current awareness tool also give you a 10-day summary and 60-day archive of past news items, organized federally and provincially, in a searchable format.


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Retail Sales Taxation in Canada

This webcast was recorded on June 11, 2008

The purpose of Retail Sales Taxation in Canada is to keep organizations up-to-date about recent developments and ongoing compliance issues with respect to retail sales tax (RST) in Canada. Participants will receive timely information about legislative changes and current administrative policy in each of the five RST provinces – British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and Prince Edward Island. This webinar also offers practical advice on how to deal with many common RST issues.

Retail Sales Taxation in Canada is intended for finance professionals working in industry or public practice who are responsible for managing RST issues for their organization or their clients.

Agenda
Overview of RST in Canada

  • Application of tax
  • Real property
  • Exemptions
  • Recovery of tax

2008 Provincial Budget Developments

  • British Columbia
  • Saskatchewan
  • Manitoba
  • Ontario
  • Prince Edward Island

Common RST Compliance and Audit Issues

  • Records retention
  • Tax on consumption
  • Real property
  • Audit period
  • Overview of audits

Recent Case Law

Format
Participate right from your desk or office. All you need is an Internet connection and a sound card.

This archived webinar will include:

  • PowerPoint presentation with slides
  • Speaker and facilitator voice-over presenting the slides and answering pre-recorded questions

The total length of recording: 172 minutes and 35 seconds.

The Speakers
This webinar is presented by specialists from Ryan (formerly Robert Brakel & Associates), the leading tax services firm in North America.

Jim Day is a CA and the Director of Tax Advisory Services for Ryan, where he advises a broad range of clients on all aspects of federal and provincial sales taxes in Canada.

Jeffrey Shaw is the Manager of Tax Advisory Services at Ryan, where his current responsibilities focus on providing commodity tax advice and guidance to clients throughout North America.

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Regulation of Securities: SEC Answer Book, 3rd Edition

Do you need timely, accurate answers to today's tough regulatory questions? You'll find the answers in this completely revised and updated edition of Regulation of Securities: SEC Answer Book. Featuring a practical question and answer format similar to that embraced by the SEC, it answers virtually any question that could arise in day-to-day corporate compliance, and provides convenient access to relevant rules, procedures, case law, and forms. It gives you straightforward answers to relevant, real-world securities law questions.

An extensive array of time-saving tables simplifies your work. Other research tools for streamlining your research include Securities Act registration forms, Exchange Act forms and schedules, and key SEC releases by topic.

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Real Estate Law News Tracker

There is no better way to stay on top of key developments in real estate law in Canada. When you subscribe to Real Estate Law News Tracker, you get notices of all updates via e-mail. Your updates give you instant access to changes in the law that originate from a variety of primary and secondary sources such as press releases and cases.

This current awareness tool also gives you a 10-day summary and 60-day archive of past news items, organized federally and provincially, in a searchable format.


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Ontario Retail Sales Tax with Commentary

This edition is current to July 31, 2007

Now in its 28th edition, this well-known title consolidates the full text of the Ontario Retail Sales Tax Act and Regulations and includes current Retail Sales Tax Guides, Small Business Pointers, Information Notices, Interpretation Letters, and General Information Bulletins. The expert comprehensive commentary, by the firm of Ryan (formerly Robert Brakel & Associates), reflects recent changes, including those announced in the 2007 Ontario Budget.

Topics covered:

  • Specific applications of Ontario sales tax
  • Exemptions
  • Refunds
  • Vendor responsibilities
  • Audits
  • Assessments
  • Appeals

Features include:

  • Quick reference charts, including an overview of taxable and exempt goods and services
  • Frequently asked questions and answers highlighted throughout the commentary

Updates include:

  • New rules for the application of sales tax to computer software and related services
  • Changes to the rules pertaining to purchase exemption certificates
  • Changes to the rules pertaining to related party transactions
  • Consequential amendments to the change in the GST rate
  • Changes to various exemptions and rebates
  • 2005, 2006, and 2007 Ontario Budget changes
  • Updated commentary, for all recent changes in legislation and case law
  • Updated legislation, incorporating all recent amendments to July 31, 2007
  • New and revised administrative guides and publications, including updated guides on computer software and purchase exemption certificates
  • A new guide on common audit issues and additional interpretations on leases and rentals and telecommunications services

Table of Contents

  • Foreword
  • Summary of Amendments
  • Quick Reference Charts
  • Ontario Retail Sales Tax Commentary
  • Retail Sales Tax Act
  • Regulation 1012: Definitions, Exemptions and Rebates
  • Regulation 1013: General
  • Regulation 10/03: Rebate for Energy-Efficient Appliances
  • Retail Sales Tax Information Notices
  • Retail Sales Tax Guides
  • Small Business Pointers and Small Business Guide
  • Retail Sales Tax Interpretation Letters
  • Ministry of Revenue Tax Offices
  • Topical Index

About the Author
Formerly known as Robert Brakel & Associates, Ryan is the leading tax services firm in North America, with the largest transaction tax practice in the United States and Canada. Since 1974, the firm's Canadian practice, located in Toronto, Ontario, has performed work for more than 5500 organizations on a variety of tax matters, both provincially and nationally. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, the firm provides a comprehensive range o

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Ontario Real Estate Law Guide

This is the 'must have' publication for real estate practitioners in Ontario. The Ontario Real Estate Law Guide gives you complete monthly coverage of topics related to real estate transactions in Ontario. It is comprehensive; it provides you with text of all relevant Acts and regulations, as well as related forms and precedents, and checklists of procedures.

New to the guide are comprehensive, interactive Smart Charts on the following topics:

  • Residential/Commercial Owners Title Insurance Policy Comparison
  • Residential/Commercial Loan Title Insurance Policy Comparison
  • Mortgage Remedies
  • Eviction Notice Periods

Also included are summaries of recent cases, as well as relevant and practical editorial commentary on the following topics:

  • Professional Duties and Liabilities
  • Purchase andSale Agreements
  • Document Registration Guide
  • Taxes
  • Mortgages
  • Title Conveyancing
  • Condominiums
  • Remedies
  • Cottages/Rural Property
  • Residential Tenancies
  • Commercial Tenancies
  • Environmental Issues
  • Aboriginal Issues

Included with your subscription is Ontario Real Estate Law Developments, a monthly newsletter that summarizes all recent developments in real estate law across Ontario.

Included with your Online subscription is the Real Estate Law News Tracker. With News Tracker, you get notices of all updates via e-mail. Your updates give you instant access to changes in the law that originate from a variety of primary and secondary sources such as press releases, legislation, and cases.

 

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Ontario Real Estate Law Developments

Ontario Real Estate Law Developments is a newsletter that summarizes all recent developments in real estate law in Ontario, including a legislative updates and case summaries.


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Ontario Accident Benefit Case Summaries Newsletter

The Ontario Accident Benefit Case Summaries Newsletter summarizes Ontario accident benefit cases from the Financial Services Commission of Ontario, private arbitration, and the courts.


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Ontario Accident Benefit Case Summaries

Ontario Accident Benefit Case Summaries gives you concise summaries of every relevant decision from the Financial Services Commission of Ontario, private arbitration, and the courts. It includes extensive Finding Lists and a detailed Topical Index so you can locate information quickly. You can also access archived case summaries dating back to 1991 in the Online version of this product.

Information is divided under the following headings:

  • Appeals
  • Case Summaries
  • Legislation
  • Expanded Topical Index
  • Case Tables

Included with your subscription is a bi-monthly newsletter, Ontario Accident Benefit Case Summaries

About the Author
Eric Grossman, BA, LLB, is a founding partner of the Toronto law firm Zarek Taylor Grossman Hanrahan LLP, where he represents insurers in casualty and property disputes. Eric is a founding partner of this firm, which opened in October 1997. Eric was recognized as a Certified Specialist in Civil Litigation by the Law Society of Upper Canada in December of 1999 and has been recognized by Lexpert in the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory as a repeatedly recommended expert in personal injury law.


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oneSource, The Financial Planner's Search Engine

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Whatever you need to know about Wealth Management And Estate Planning, you'll find it in this one comprehensive source. With a key word searchable database, you'll find it faster and easier than you can imagine. With Internet updating, you'll know about any news and changes as soon as they are reported. When you subscribe to this database, you'll also receive free subscriptions to two electronic newsletters: The Estate Planner and the Wealth Management Times.

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  • Business Succession Planing
  • Immigration and Emigration

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Offerings of Asset-Backed Securities

Offerings of Asset-Backed Securities is an accessible, easy-to-use guide to the new SEC rules and the key issues associated with structuring and executing securitization transactions. It is the only detailed guide on regulation AB and the new securities offering reform rules.

Features include:

  • A step-by-step approach to spotting issues and solving problems
  • Practical, transaction-oriented advice from the perspective of experienced practitioners
  • Insights into specific issues that frequently arise in transactions
  • Solutions to common problems

Includes issue spotting checklists and other practice aids to ensure that this resource serves as a reliable, quick reference.

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McCarthy Tétrault on Tax Disputes

Tax disputes don't just take place in a courtroom. Controversies occur before and during tax audits. You need to be ready to maximize your client's position. In fact, if you have the right tool - one that helps you to maximize your client's position - you may be able to end the dispute and avoid the courtroom completely. McCarthy Tétrault on Tax Disputes is the right tool. It's loaded with practical, useable information that will help keep you up-to-date and well-equipped to handle potential disputes.

This publication gives you the edge with:

  • Current knowledge of assessing practices and audit projects
  • References to current cases
  • Tips on tax dispute preparation
  • Techniques for dispute resolution
  • Necessary skills for settlement negotiation

Loose leaf, DVD, and Internet updated bi-monthly.

McCarthy Tetrault on Tax Disputes represents the views and experience of lawyers in the Tax Dispute Resolution Group of McCarthy Tetrault.

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Labour Notes

If it's important for you to be aware of current events and issues in Canadian employment and labour law, this newsletter is what you need. Labour Notes® will keep you abreast of legislative developments in employment, human rights, labour relations, pay equity and employment insurance law across Canada. It provides you with digests of ground-breaking cases that affect how you deal with employees, and includes vital economic statistics, and much more.

Feature articles give you practical insights into trends and emerging issues in this dynamic field to help you keep yourself current and protect your company's interests and its employees.

Updated bi-weekly.

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Internet and Wireless Privacy: A Legal Guide to Global Business Practices

IT Lawyer Éloïse Gratton addresses the emerging issues created by the new privacy laws and cutting-edge online and wireless technologies. Help your clients who operate or host websites, are involved in e-commerce or online advertising take advantage of the Internet and mobile technologies while still respecting consumers' privacy.

Topics covered

  • Website privacy compliance, online advertising, spam and e-commerce privacy issues
  • the European and North American legal framework
  • mobile services, tracking technology and privacy issues
  • translating the legal framework into best business practices

About the Author

Éloïse Gratton LL.B., LL.M. is a leading expert in new media and privacy issues and is Counsel to the firm for information technology issues. She is also pursuing a PhD degree at the University of Montreal and Université de Panthéon-Assas (Paris II). She also acts as privacy officer for our Montreal office. She was previously partner at McMillan (Corporate Law group) which she joined in 2002. Prior to joining the firm, she acted as Director of Corporate & Legal Affairs for a wireless technology company.

Publication Year: 2003

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International Securities Law Handbook

International Securities Law Handbook answers the need for a user-friendly source of information that addresses securities law in the most significant jurisdictions. This invaluable reference presents key elements of securities law and regulations in 30 jurisdictions.

Countries include Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada (including Quebec), Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, The Netherlands, Norway, The Philippines, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom, and United States of America.

Country chapters, each written by an expert in the particular country's securities law, appear alphabetically. Readers can also make easy comparisons between treatments of particular issues by different jurisdictions. International Securities Law Handbook is an easily accessible desk reference on multinational and cross-border transactions.

Topics covered:

  • Description of the securities markets
  • Principal laws regulating the securities markets
  • Quasi-securities and derivatives
  • Exemptions available
  • Special cases such as employee share schemes, rights issues, and takeovers

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Implementing Estate Freezes, 3rd Edition

Estate Planning with Life Insurance, 5th Edition Tax and Family Business Succession Planning

Published December 2011

Implementing Estate Freezes provides expert, yet highly practical guidance on implementing estate freezes. The author, David Louis, C.A., LL.B. of Minden Gross LLP., is one of Canada's most respected tax commentators. It's an essential addition to the library of all estate planners!

Topics covered:

  • Transferring Assets
  • Internal and Holding Company Freezes
  • Corporate Estate Freezes – Technical Issues
  • Alternative Methods and Variations
  • Capitalization Considerations and Shareholders Provisions for Estate Freezes
  • Estate Freeze Work Sheets
  • Section 85 Basics
  • Valuation Issues
  • Use of a Trust to Hold Common Shares
  • Checklist for Section 85 Rollovers
  • Control of the Corporation
  • Paid-up Capital
  • Section 86 Freezes
  • Section 51 Freezes
  • Stock Dividend Freezes
  • Personal, Trust, and Corporate Attribution Rules
  • Distributions from a Family Trust
  • GAAR
  • 'Melts', 'Thaws', 'Gels', and 'Refreezes'
  • Shareholders' Agreements
  • Redemption Rights
  • Retraction Rights
  • Family Law Issues
  • Accounting Considerations

Features include:

  • An appendix containing an extensive case study, "Inter Vivos Trusts - Current Tax Issues", that highlights potential complications, not only with regard to income tax, but also with regard to family law, trust law, corporate law, and cross border taxation issues
  • Diagrams, charts, checklists, and precedents that will be valued by both novice and seasoned practitioners alike

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Getting and Staying Listed: A Primer for Public Company Executives and their Professional Advisors

Published: November 2003


Considering going public? Concerned about the risks? Want to know more about the advantages?

The decision to go public is not an easy one. It can be a time-consuming and expensive process and the company becomes subject to a host of ongoing requirements. However, management at most companies who've gone public would say that it was worth the effort and expense.

Getting and Staying Listed: A Primer for Public Company Executives and their Professional Advisors discusses the pros and cons of going public, along with a description of the process. Throughout, extensive footnotes help you locate the rules easily. The chapter breakdown allows you to find the relevant material quickly. Its scope is national, with all applicable securities legislation and rules of the three Canadian marketplaces covered: the Toronto Stock Exchange, the TSX Venture Exchange, and the Canadian Trading and Quotation System.


About the Author
Timothy S. Baikie LL.B., B.C.L., LL.M., is head counsel to the Canadian Trading and Quotation System Inc. (CNQ) and has played an instrumental role in shaping its rules and policies.

 

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Fundamentals of Securities Regulation, 5th Edition

When you need a quick answer to a securities question, turn to Fundamentals of Securities Regulation. Loss and Seligman have distilled their authoritative 11-volume treatise, Securities Regulation, into one convenient volume, offering expert analysis of every significant aspect of securities law including:

  • Primary liability under 10(b), insider trading
  • Sanctions
  • Disclosure requirements
  • Rules and forms for offerings
  • SEC reporting
  • Forward-looking statements
  • Class action suits
  • Bespeaks caution cases
  • ADR in securities disputes
  • And more

The 5th edition covers recent developments such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and impact on federal securities rules and regulations, amendment and interpretation of the SEC's Management Discussion and Analysis, new insider trading rules, recent global research analyst settlements and ensuing SEC, NYSE and NASD rules and more.

To facilitate more detailed analysis, its 14 chapters parallel the organization of the full treatise, and extensive cross-references show you exactly where to turn. Find the answers to your securities law questions quickly with this sensible volume.

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Estate Administration News Tracker

There is no better way to stay on top of key developments in estate administration law in Canada. When you subscribe to the Estate Administration News Tracker, you get notices of all updates via e-mail. Your updates give you instant access to changes in the law that originate from a variety of primary and secondary sources such as press releases and cases.

This current awareness tool also gives you a 10-day summary and 60-day archive of past news items, organized federally and provincially, in a searchable format.


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Estate Administration in Ontario: A Practical Guide, 2nd Edition

Estate Administration in Ontario: A Practical Guide provides step-by-step instruction on the various estate administration procedures. Contains estate conveyancing, the ramifications of the Family Law Act, income taxation at death, U.S. estate tax, executors' and solicitors' compensation, testamentary capacity/undue influence, and the Substitute Decisions Act.

Publication Year: 1999

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Essential Estate Administration in Ontario

Estate administration is one of the most technical and complex areas of legal practice. If you are a legal practitioner, law clerk, student or estate trustee, Essential Estate Administration in Ontario provides you with the knowledge and tools to administer an estate and deal with the legal issues that will inevitably arise. Providing precedents and forms on an accompanying DVD (in Word and WordPerfect formats), this new book from CCH will be your one-stop guide to estate administration in Ontario.

Highlights of topics covered include:

  • Inter Vivos Trusts; Intestacy; Certificates of Appointment
  • Estate Administration
  • Administration of Assets and Liabilities
  • Real Estate Conveyancing and Estates; Family Law
  • Estate Litigation: Orders for Assistance and Non-Contentious Matters; Contested Matters
  • Powers of Attorney and Guardianships of Property; Powers of Attorney and Guardianships of Personal Care
  • Estate Accounting; Formal Passing of Accounts; Income Taxes and Estates

Publication Year: 2002

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