This guide is designed as a discussion of specific features in Cantax and was used during the Fall 2014 Cantax Productivity seminars. 

We are offering this comprehensive 340 page Seminar Guide to all Cantax customers until December 31, 2014. Quantities are limited so order today!

More specifically this guide covers:

• Cantax T1
  • Interview/Billing
  • Client Invoice
  • Options Preference Settings
  • T183 – What’s New
  • New! - Cantax Connect
  • Preparing Coupled Returns
  • Dependants and Family Returns
  • Reviewing the Return
  • Quick Entry Forms
  • Tax Summaries
  • Cantax T1 Forms, CRA Schedules and Features for 2014
  • Spotlight on - T2125
  • T1135
  • Provincial Form Changes
• 2014 Federal Tax Changes
  • Spotlight on – Claiming Auto Expenses, T2200
  • Provincial Tax Changes
  • Spotlight on – Non Refundable Credits in Various Scenarios
  • Reports
  • Attaching Schedules
  • Columnar Worksheets
  • Breakdown Feature
  • Local and Global Annotations
  • Printing and Printing Defaults
  • Options Form Selection
  • Printing a Return
  • EFILE
• Cantax T2 & T2 Plus
  • T2 Program New and Revised Forms
  • T2 Tax and Form Changes Federal 2014
  • T2 Provincial Tax and Form Changes 2014
  • T2 Print Settings
  • Corporate Internet Filing
  • Alberta Netfile
  • Payment methods
• FormMaster
  • 2014 Tax and Form Changes
  • Preparing Returns
  • Form Manager
  • Print Formats
  • Electronic Filing or Information Returns
  • FormMaster Features
  • Spotlight on – Amending T Slips
  • Cantax T1 Hotkeys Combinations
  • Cantax T2 Hotkeys Combinations

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Published: November 2012

Canadian Securities Regulatory Requirements Applicable to Non-Resident Broker-Dealers, Advisers and Investment Fund Managers provides foreign securities and investment firms with essential information they need about Canadian securities regulatory licensing requirements.

Written with Canada’s top securities law experts at McCarthy Tétrault LLP, this resource serves as a comprehensive guide to foreign securities and investment firms seeking Canadian clients. In short, anyone who has clients conducting securities business in Canada will require this resource. Foreign investment managers will also require this information to act as an investment fund manager in Canada.

The book covers topics that should be addressed by non-residents before trading securities or providing investment advice to any person or company within Canada.

What's included:

• Dealer registration
• Adviser registration
• Investment fund manager registration
• Prospectus requirements

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When it comes to staying on top of the latest tax laws, Canadian Income Tax Act with Regulations, Annotated is the defi nitive guide on the Income Tax Act in Canada. Containing the full text of the Act, with comprehensive notes, annotations, references and commentary, it’s the resource of choice for more than 10,000 tax professionals across the country. No other single reference offers the same degree of authoritative analysis and editorial excellence on the Income Tax Act.

Provide your students with valuable insight and analysis from our 23-member editorial board, which includes some of the most distinguished tax experts in Canada.

This guide is also available in eBook format featuring the same familiar look and feel of the print edition, with robust search functionality and the convenience and portability of the iPad.

Also, available as a special bundle with

Introduction to Federal Income Taxation in Canada, 35th Edition, 2014-2015

Federal Income Taxation: Fundamentals, 7th Edition, 2014-2015

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The Canadian Commercial Law Guide provides you with in-depth and up-to-date expert commentary and coverage of a wide variety of business and commercial law areas across Canada.

Your subscription includes:

• a monthly newsletter, the Commercial Times, that explains changes to relevant law, summarizes recent cases, and provides in-depth articles that examine current topics of interest to commercial lawyers
• the News Tracker, which lets you know the status of legislative changes (available only to online subscribers)
• tables of concordance comparing significant pieces of legislation across the country
• in-depth commentary on the following key commercial topics:
  • sales contracts
  • debt collection
  • consumer protection
  • negotiable instruments
  • intellectual property
  • personal property security
  • other forms of security
  • bankruptcy and insolvency
  • product liability
  • competition law

Areas covered include franchising, consumer disclosures, trade secrets, class actions, secured transactions, and much, much more!

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This comprehensive volume provides full text of the California personal and corporate income (franchise) tax law and Franchise Tax Board regulations as amended through January 1, 2013.

California Income Tax Laws and Regulations Annotated presents the following divisions of the Revenue and Taxation Code in the order in which they appear in the California Code:


-    Personal Income Tax

-    Administration of Franchise and Income Tax

-    Senior Citizens Property Tax Assistance and Postponement Law

-    Taxpayers' Bill of Rights

-    Corporation Tax

-    Multistate Tax Compact



Each Code section is annotated with significant rulings, court decisions, and decisions of the State Board of Equalization, organized according to pertinent sections of the law.  Detailed indexes precede the Personal Income Tax, Administration of Franchise and Income Tax Laws, and the Corporation Tax provisions.  In addition, Federal-California and California-Federal cross reference tables make research thorough and easy.

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In a landmark decision, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in Signature Financial v. State Street Bank held that business methods may be patented. Recently, the US Supreme Court in Bilski v. Kappos left the door open for the availability of patents for business methods. These holdings, together with the explosive growth of electronic commerce and technology, make the business method patent an important growth area of intellectual property.

Now in a revised Looseleaf format, this completely updated second edition is your guide to the unique opportunities and risks in this emerging area of intellectual property law.

Business Method Patents, Second Edition is your authoritative source for expert guidance on:

• The landmark Supreme Court decision in Bilski v. Kappos
• USPTO view on business method patents, including an overview of BPAI rulings
• Mechanics of the patent application
• Prior art searches
• Drafting claims for business method or model and e-commerce inventions
• Drafting the complete specification
• Drawings required for business method patents
• Building a strategic patent portfolio
• Litigating business method patents
• International protection for business methods

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In a landmark decision, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in Signature Financial v State Street Bank 1998 held that business methods may be patented. This holding together with the explosive growth of the internet has turned the business method patent into the "hot" new growth area of intellectual property. Business Method Patents is your guide to the unique opportunities and risks in this emerging area of IP law.

This is the authoritative source for court-tested guidance on mechanics of the patent application; prior art researching; drafting claims; drafting the complete specification; drawings required for business method patents; illustrating the business system through drawings; building a patent portfolio for attracting capital; and enforcing and licensing business method patents.

Table of contents:
Chapter 1 Business Method Patents - The Controversy
Chapter 2 State Street Bank v Signature Financial - Judge Rich's Legacy
Chapter 3 A Philosophy for Business Model Patents
Chapter 4 The Origins of Commerce
Chapter 5 The Nature of Commerce Today - Electronic Commerce
Chapter 6 Judicial Decisions - Before State Street Bank
Chapter 7 E-Commerce Technology
Chapter 8 Pure Business Model Patents
Chapter 9 Prior Art
Chapter 10 Claiming Business Model and E-Commerce Inventions
Chapter 11 Drawings for E-Commerce and Business Model Patents
Chapter 12 The Patent Specification
Chapter 13 Exploiting the Business Model and E-Commerce Patent Portfolio
Appendix A UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Commerce 1996
Appendix B Proposed Bill - Business Method Patent Improvement Act of 2000

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The British Columbia Corporations Law Guide provides you and your firm with comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of British Columbia company law and includes all relevant Acts and Regulations, decisions, rulings, and releases affecting the formation of companies and societies and their legal operation under British Columbia law.

To further assist you in maintaining compliance, the Guide includes relevant commentary, a Table of Concordance and numerous precedents pertaining to each topical area within the Guide, all of which have been updated to incorporate recent legislative changes. The Guide also includes the full text of recent court decisions.

Topics covered include:

• Incorporation and Organization
• Company Alterations
• Directors and Officers
• Corporate Finance
• Shareholders' Meetings and Agreements
• Records and Returns
• Audits and Financial Statements
• Liquidation, Dissolution and Restoration
• Shareholders' Remedies
• Extra-Provincial Corporations
• Societies

Included with your subscription is Corporate Brief, a monthly newsletter containing feature articles, digests of recent cases, and updates to legislation.

Subscribe to the online version and access Corporate Law News Tracker. With the News Tracker, you get notices of all updates via e-mail. Your updates give you instant access to changes in corporate law that originate from a variety of primary and secondary sources such as press releases, legislation, and cases.

 

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The new five volume Blumberg on Corporate Groups, 2nd Edition provides a complete treatment of corporate groups and the legal interrelationships of their component parent, subsidiary and affiliated companies. It offers in-depth coverage of statutory and judicial law, federal and state, that affects parent and subsidiaries, franchisors and franchisees, licensors and licensees, health care institutions and medical staff as well as other corporate groups.

Traditional corporation law and "piercing the veil" no longer provide adequate guides to the law of parent and subsidiary corporations. In numerous areas, courts and legislatures are today allocating legal rights and liabilities according to modern enterprise principles. Blumberg's ground-breaking analysis of the law of corporate groups, with thousands of cases and detailed review of major regulatory areas provides the bench, the bar and the academy with a comprehensive review of the new legal principles at work.

Table of Contents:

• Volume 1: Introduction to Corporate Groups
  • Part II: Common Law Veil Piercing Theory
  • Part III: Jurisdiction, Practice & Procedure
• Volume 2
  • Part IV: Substantive Common Law (Contracts, Torts, Property, Conflicts of Law)
  • Part V: Bankcruptcy
• Volume 3
  • Part VI: General Statutory Law
  • Part VII: Enterprise Statutes
• Volume 4
  • Part VIII: World Trade and Enterprise Regulation
• Volume 5
  • Part IX: Franchising and Other Relational Law (Successors, Licensors, Subcontractors)
• Table of Cases
• Table of Statutes
• Index

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 Authors: Lois Ruffner Plank, Donald Morris, Bryan R. Plank and Christie Plank Ciraulo

Provides a detailed explanation of the tax-related provisions contained in over 40 pieces of legislation enacted in the 112th Congress during 2011 and 2012.

The Blue Book provides the legislative history for each Act, a provision-by-provision description of the prior law and new law, the reasons for the law change if the provision was reported out of committee before enactment, and the effective date of each law change. Descriptions prepared by the Joint Committee on Taxation were included in the absence of other committee reports or when the Joint Committee issued a contemporaneous technical explanation of the bill. An Appendix shows the estimated budget effects of the tax legislation enacted in the 112th Congress for fiscal years 2010 – 2012.

The Blue Book's explanations serve as a useful guide in understanding the intent and meaning of the new tax laws and, along with committee and conference reports, is considered substantial authority for the tax treatment of an item for purposes of avoiding the Code Sec. 6662 accuracy-related penalty on substantial understatements of income tax (Reg. §1.6662-4(d)(3)(iii)).

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Comprehensive how-to book that guides the reader on performing risk management-based audits. The book covers the Enterprise Risk Management Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations (COSO).

Following the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley and its strict corporate governance and accountability provisions, developing better risk management techniques is becoming more important in meeting higher audit committee expectations.

The first part of the Auditor's Risk Management Guide provides a broad understanding of corporate governance, ERM principles, and different auditing approaches. It also provides step-by-step instructions on how to execute the risk management-based audit, including frequently asked questions.

The second part of the book is devoted to detailed case studies that illustrate the risk management-based audit methodology and tools in different scenarios, beginning with a business risk assessment and working through common audit areas such as closing the books, accounts payable, and accounts receivable. Practice Pointers and Observations throughout provide additional commentary to assist the reader in understanding the methodology.

A free CD-ROM is included with the book provides electronic versions of the various work programs, checklists, and other tools in the book.

PART I: Risk Management-Based Auditing
1.      Overview of Enterprise Risk Management
2.      The Enterprise Risk Management Funnel
3.      Evolution of Auditing Approaches
4.      Strategy: The Beginning of the Journey
5.      Risk Assessment: Business Level
6.      Risk Assessment Qualification Techniques
7.      Entity-Level Control
8.      Risk Assessment: Process Level
9.      Process Design Phase
10.      Testing Phase
11.      Risk Infrastructure Assessment
12.      Action Planning Phase: The Real Value
13.      Monitoring and Follow-Up
14.      Auditing the ERM Process
15.      The Future of Risk Management-Based Auditing
16.     Frequently Asked Questions

PART II: Case Studies
17.  Case Study: Business Risk Assessment
18.  Case Study: Risk Management Infrastructure
19.  Case Study: Close the Books
20.  Case Study: Inventory
21.  Case Study: Procurement
22.  Case Study: Accounts Payable and Disbursements
23.  Case Study: Accounts Receivable and Collections
24.  Case Study: Quality Assurance
25.  Case Study: Payroll and Relat

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In our current economic environment lawyers, both in in-house and external counsel, need to apply stronger and more transparent legal project management practices.  To ensure legal matters are handled efficiently, and to meet the needs and expectations of the business, in-house counsel need to partner with the business, and with external counsel, to scope, plan, staff and monitor the work. This webinar will provide an introduction to the primary elements of legal project management and discuss the benefits LPM can produce for in-house counsel in working with the business, and when working with external counsel. However, implementing LPM often means changing the way we practice.  This is not easy. We will look at the issues and challenges in getting a team to engage in this new approach and provide strategies for success.  The panel will include both internal and external counsel and will discuss real implementation scenarios and issues.

Key Learning Objectives:

• Understand the professional obligations to adopt legal project management practices;
• Understand the benefits of legal project management working within an organization and for an in-house team working with external counsel;
• Understand the basic components of legal project management;
• Understand the different approaches to preparing budgets and estimates; and
• Be aware of the issues and challenges in implementing LPM.

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It's often a very difficult decision for your client to make, when they must decide whether to transfer holdings in their farm or farm property. But the complexity doesn't end there. While that decision is being made, the advisors must step in and help to ensure that the transactions are arranged in the most tax efficient and practical manner. For those approaching any potential farm restructurings or sales, this webinar will be essential.

This archive webinar covers a comprehensive look at the preferential tax treatment that transfers of qualifying farms or farm property can enjoy on passing to the next generation or on the sale to outside parties. This includes an overview of the capital gains exemption available for the sale of qualifying farm property shares and partnership interests, and rollovers to certain family members (both inter vivos and on death). While similarities do exist with among these transfers, there are traps and nuances that practitioners must be aware of to ensure their transactions qualify for beneficial tax treatment desired.

More specifically, for each of the above types of transfers, this archived webinar will explore:

• What property qualifies for the treatment?
• Who is entitled to the preferential tax benefit?
• What does farming mean in these contexts?
  • What is the business of farming for tax purposes?
  • What is being "actively engaged on a regular and continuous basis"?
  • Who must farm the property?
  • When must farming activity take place?
  • How much of the property must be used in farming?
• What are the common things farms may do to fall offside?
• Putting it all together - a compare & contrast with examples
• Bonus Issue (time permitting) - Craig vs. the Queen - restricted farm losses

Note: This webinar took place on October 1, 2013.

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Webinar information current as of November 5, 2009

Barry Reiter and a panel of experts provide a closer look at the key legal developments influencing Canadian Corporate Counsel today.

Key Learning Objectives

1. You will understand how recent developments in internet and privacy law have changed how businesses operate
2. You will be aware of how the employee/employer relationship has changed as a result of recent developments in employment law
3. You will be cognizant of the curent changing and challenging environment in which in-house counsel operate and how they must respond to a variety of external and internal challenges
4. You will understand why changes to the Competition Act, the current scrutiny of executive compensation, privilege and access to information requests, and the move to IFRS require your attention.

Panel of experts

Barry Reiter - Chair, Technology, Media and Entertainment Group and Chair, Corporate Governance and Director Protection Group, Bennett Jones LLP
Robert Fabes - Assistant General Counsel, Legal Affairds, Canada Post
Anne Fitzgerald - Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Cineplex Entertainment
Andrea Wood - Chielf Legal Officer, Globalive Wireless Management Group

Format

The following is required to access the archived webinar:

• Flash Player installed in your computer
• Internet Connection
• Sound Card

The webinar consists of a recording only of the live event. There is no time limitation in usage, you can play, pause and stop the presentation at your convenience.

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This 3-hour recorded Webinar is entitled "Preparing and Conducting a Consultation with CCH Profit Driver." It is a high energy, informative session led by Mark Holton: an internationally renowned taxation and business management consultant and an expert in CCH Profit Driver implementation. Step by step you will learn how to become a trusted advisor to your clients, earning additional revenue by providing them with the consultation services they not only want, but need in today's economy.

Here are just some of the topics that will be covered at this important event:

• How to determine which clients are potential prospects for your consultation service
• How to efficiently prepare a consultation using CCH Profit Driver
• How to explain financial formulas using terms that are easy to understand
• How to conduct the ideal consultation
• What your next steps should be after the consultation has been completed
• What your pricing strategy should be for these value-added services
• And more!

Here’s what people have to say about Mark Holton’s sessions:

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One of the tax planning strategies often employed in estate planning involves the use of an estate freeze to transfer future growth in assets to the next generation. Estate freezes come in many forms, and each bears its own unique set of risks and complexities.

Join the tax lawyers of Minden Gross LLP for a practical two-part discussion of estate freezes. This webinar will highlight some of the topics found in CCH's "Implementing Estate Freezes", authored by David Louis of Minden Gross. More particularly, the first part of this webinar series will review the "why's" and "how-to's" of implementing estate freezes, and provide guidance on avoiding common traps associated with such types of succession plans. More specifically, topics covered in Part 1 will include:

• What is an estate freeze?
• When should a freeze be implemented?
• Basic configuration
• Share provisions
• Section 85 vs section 86 freezes
• Common pitfalls
• The use of trusts
• Tax traps associated with estate freezes

Part 2 of this series will air during the winter semester. Details can be found at [link coming later].

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Published: October 2011

Advocacy in international arbitration is the focus of this collection of articles emanating from the twentieth Congress of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) held in Rio de Janeiro in 2010.

The topics addressed by renowned arbitration practitioners and scholars in Arbitration Advocacy in Changing Times include:

• Effective advocacy in arbitration
• The advocate's role at different stages of arbitration proceedings
• The role of experts
• Arbitration advocacy and Constitutional law
• Advocacy and ethics in international arbitration

The volume also contains a new approach to expert evidence – the Protocol on Expert Teaming – and closes with a proposal for an International Code of Ethics for Lawyers Practicing Before International Arbitral Tribunals.

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Published: March 2009

It often seems today that no dispute is barred from resolution by arbitration. Even the fundamental question of whether a dispute falls under the exclusive jurisdiction of a judicial body may itself be arbitrable. Arbitrability is thus an elusive concept; yet a systematic study of it, as this book shows, yields innumerable guidelines and insights that are of substantial value to arbitral practice.

Although Arbitrability: International and Comparative Perspectives takes the form of a collection of essays, it is designed as a comprehensive commentary on practical issues that emerge from the idea of arbitrability. Fifteen leading academics and practitioners from Europe and the United States each explore different facets of arbitrability always with a perspective open to international developments and comparative evaluation of standards.

The presentation falls into two parts: in the first the focus is on the general features of arbitrability, its rationale and the laws applicable to it. In the second, arbitrability is specifically examined in the context of administrative, criminal, corporate, IP, financial, commercial, and criminal law.

This book has its origins in an International Conference on Arbitrability held at Athens in September 2005. Seven papers presented there are here reviewed and updated, and nine others are added.

The subject of the book – arbitrability – is one that is much talked about, but seldom if ever given the in-depth treatment presented here. Arbitrators and other practitioners in the field will welcome the way the analysis moves logically from theory to practice regarding every issue, and academics will recognize a definitive treatment of arbitrability as understood and applied in the settlement of disputes today.

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The Alternative Dispute Resolution Practice Manual has been carefully compiled to give you everything you need to speed up the resolution of disputes in the following practice areas:

• Commercial Law
• Insurance Law
• Environmental Law
• Family Law
• School Mediation
• Employment and Labour Law
• Landlord and Tenant Law

Key topics include:

• Dispute Resolution Spectrum
• Arbitration
• Mediation
• Mini-trials
• Negotiation
• Liability of ADR Neutrals
• Court-annexed ADR
• Preparing for and Attending Mediation
• ADR in the Workplace

The manual also provides checklists, legislation, rules of various arbitration and mediation organizations, selected international material, a directory of dispute resolution centers and services, as well as sample agreements, clauses and practical “how to” advice. Included with your subscription is the quarterly newsletter, ADR Forum.

Number of Volumes: 2

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Philip Wilson

The comprehensive resource puts 50 comparative performance indicators at the practitioner's command and covers all of North America (U.S., Canada, and Mexico) using NAICS data. The Almanac provides financial information that is calculated and derived from the latest available IRS data on nearly 5 million U.S. and international companies. The Almanac gives you accurate performance data for 50 operating and financial factors in 199 industries.

Data for each industry is divided into 13 categories based on company size, so you'll find a precise benchmark against which to measure any company's performance. One quick glance at the appropriate field of business and company-size category and you've found the definitive starting point for competitive performance analysis. The Almanac provides competitive norms in actual dollar amounts for revenue and capital factors, such as net receivables, net property, inventories, total assets, portfolio income, and more. It then gives you important average operating costs in percent of net sales, including cost of operations, pensions and benefits, interest, and more.

The Almanac provides ratios for industry-wide results for inventory turnover, current assets to working capital, quick ratio, asset turnover, and others. It also provides other critical financial factors in percentages, including debt ratio, return on assets, and return on equity, and profit margin.

It comes complete with a CD that contains a special Excel Spreadsheet Template that can be used to input data on a given company to see how a company compares with the data provided in the Almanac.

The book is organized by the following major industry sectors, which in turn cover 199 industries, including:

• Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting
• Mining
• Utilities
• Construction
• Manufacturing
• Wholesale trade
• Retail trade
• Transportation and warehousing
• Information
• Finance and insurance
• Real estate and rental leasing
• Professional, scientific and technical services
• Management of companies (holding companies)
• Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
• Health care and social assistance
• Arts, entertainment and recreation
• Accommodation and food services
• Other services (including repair and maintenance, automotive repair and maintenance, personal and laundry services, and religious, grant-making, civic, and professional organizations)

8 ½" x 11"   824 pages

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