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| July 2017 |
| Finance targets tax planning for private corporations |
| Rainer Vietze is a senior tax manager in the Toronto office of Collins Barrow |
| On July 18, the Department of Finance released a consultation paper outlining a number of measures designed to close down various tax planning strategies currently available to owners of private corporations in Canada with hopes to halt “unfair advantages.” The paper was accompanied by draft legislation and explanatory notes for some of the proposed measures. The Government had previously signaled its intent to change how Canadian-controlled private corporations (“CCPCs”) were taxed in its March 2017 budget. |
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