Welcome to the Spring Edition of The Blachford Brief, where we share content to help your clients avoid tax disputes and news from our professional community.

CPA Ottawa's Tax Update 2024 is going to provide you with a ton of valuable information for advising your clients.

This virtual event is on March 5th from 1:30 - 3pm EST and we've lined up top speakers on critical topics.

Dean explains his frustrations with changes that CPA Ontario imposed on CPA Ottawa’s annual Tax Update. He also wonders if CPA Ontario’s approach to dealing with CPA Ottawa is indicative of their dealings with CPA Canada, leading to the pending split.

Welcome to the Winter Edition of The Blachford Brief, where we share content to help your clients avoid tax disputes and news from our professional community.

The Tax Court of Canada’s decision to grant the appeal of Fiera Foods, allowing the company its input tax credits, will help prevent CRA from increasing the administrative burden on businesses when it comes to proving their ITC claims.

On November 1st, over 300 professionals attended our 7th annual Tax Dispute Update. We covered the most common surprises that clients, and their accountants, experience when facing a tax dispute.

In our very first edition of the Blachford Brief, we included an article about recent promotions in Ottawa’s accounting sector. Now that we have published over 10 editions of our e-newsletter, Dean circles back to this fun and encouraging topic.

Welcome to the Fall edition of The Blachford Brief. As we say goodbye to Summer, we share more content to help your clients avoid tax disputes and news of our engagement with our professional community.

In our continued effort to serve clients facing net worth audits, Dean collaborates with Caitlin Butler of Video Tax News on a one-hour, virtual course titled, “First 7 Steps for a CRA Net Worth Audit: A Guide for Accountants in Canada”.

Registration now open for Tax Dispute Update 2023. In this year's Tax Dispute Update, Dean will cover the most common surprises that clients (and their accountants) experience when involved with a tax dispute with CRA. Register for our free, one-hour webinar on November 1, which was attended by over 380 professionals last year.

This year the Blachford Tax Law Charity Game raised $10,500 for the Ottawa Food Bank and the Canadian Council of the Blind. Thanks to our sponsors, TAG HR, DC Foresight Financial, Accountancy Insurance, and Exponent. Thanks also to the fans who came to cheer us on.

Welcome to the Summer edition of The Blachford Brief, where we provide content to help your clients avoid tax disputes and keep you updated on our professional community.

Sara Mojtehedzadeh, the journalist who went undercover into a Fiera Foods factory to investigate the working conditions after the death of a refugee worker, recently published an article about the company’s Tax Court case. She quotes Dean in her analysis.

For the 5-year anniversary of our softball initiative, we’re inviting accounting firms to send fans to watch the game and attend the after party. Check-out our exciting highlight video, read a short history of the event, and block off August 16th in your calendar.

Welcome to the Spring edition of The Blachford Brief. Each quarter we share content to help your clients avoid tax disputes and catch you up on news from our professional community.

CRA is increasingly using Net Worth Audits (NWAs) to identify potential unreported income. This audit method compares a taxpayer's assets, liabilities, and personal expenditures to their reported income to identify any discrepancies.

CPA Ottawa's Tax Update 2023 is going to provide you with a ton of valuable information for advising your clients.

This virtual event is on March 7th from 1:30 - 3pm EST and we've lined up top speakers on critical topics:

This is the most personal article Dean has ever shared. But he suspects his musings may resonate with the high achievers who read this column each quarter.