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Internal Control Systems Maximized Through Monitoring by CPAs in Ontario

By Glenna MacDougalSeptember 2, 20200 comments

Monitoring by CPAs in Ontario Whenever a team of CPAs performs an audit or a review engagement for a company, those team members have certain obligations. One of these obligations is to assess the organization’s system of internal control and to monitor it. Experienced ...

Big Advantages Found in GTA Paperless Accounting

By Dean CarlisleSeptember 2, 20200 comments

Going Paperless Pays Off for CPA Clients What can paperless accounting tell you about an accounting firm? As it turns out, quite a bit. The move to paperless offices has laudable environmental advantages with the reduction of paper, ink and copier parts. But it’s ...

Cyclical Monitoring by CPAs Ensures Financial Quality Control

By Dean CarlisleSeptember 2, 20200 comments

Assurance Engagements Require Cyclical Monitoring Quality control of the Cyclical monitoring of Ontario Chartered Professional Accountants (CPAs) establishes procedures of implementing and monitoring compliance with those QC policies. CPA firms providing assurance ...

Proposed CEWS Changes- Stay Tuned

By Jones & O'Connell LLPAccounting, Auditing, Tax & Consulting NewsJuly 21, 20200 comments

There are some proposed potential changes to the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) which are being debated in the House of Commons this week. The proposed changes include (as per https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2020/07/supporting-canadian-workers-and-businesses-with-a-redesigned-canada-emergency-wage-subsidy.html): ...

Whether (and when) to stop contributing to the Canada Pension Plan

By Jones & O'Connell LLPAccounting, Auditing, Tax & Consulting NewsJuly 15, 20200 comments

When the Canada Pension Plan was put in place on January 1,1966, it was a relatively simple retirement savings model. Working Canadians started making contributions to the CPP when they turned 18 years of age and continued making those contributions throughout their working life. ...

Fixing a mistake in your (already filed) tax return

By Jones & O'Connell LLPAccounting, Auditing, Tax & Consulting NewsJuly 9, 20200 comments

While Canadians had an extended time this year to file their income tax returns for the 2019 tax year, the extended filing deadlines (June 1 for the majority of Canadians, and June 15 for self-employed individuals and their spouses) have passed and returns should be filed. In most ...

Tax and financial planning for the pandemic

By Jones & O'Connell LLPAccounting, Auditing, Tax & Consulting NewsJuly 3, 20200 comments

While the standard (and accurate) advice is that tax and financial planning are best approached as activities to be carried on throughout the year, it’s also the case that a mid-year tax and financial checkup makes good sense, and that’s especially the case this year. For ...

The tax benefits of working from home

By Jones & O'Connell LLPAccounting, Auditing, Tax & Consulting NewsJune 17, 20200 comments

Working from home isn’t really a new phenomenon — employees have been doing so for more than 25 years, ever since changes in technology made such remote work arrangements feasible. Over the past two months or so, however, millions of Canadian employees have had to adapt to working ...

Ins and outs of the Canada Emergency Response Benefit

By Jones & O'Connell LLPAccounting, Auditing, Tax & Consulting NewsJune 15, 20200 comments

Since mid-March, the federal and provincial governments have announced the creation of numerous programs to help both individuals and Canadian businesses with the financial fallout of the current pandemic. Of those programs, none has had a more direct impact on the lives of Canadians ...

What to do when you can’t pay your tax bill

By Jones & O'Connell LLPAccounting, Auditing, Tax & Consulting NewsJune 8, 20200 comments

Although we’re not even halfway through the calendar, 2020 has already been a year of significant financial upheaval and stress for millions of Canadians. The number of employed Canadians fell by one million during the month of March 2020 — and then by another two million ...

Deciding when to begin receiving Old Age Security benefits

By Jones & O'Connell LLPAccounting, Auditing, Tax & Consulting NewsMay 19, 20200 comments

The Old Age Security program is the only aspect of Canada’s retirement income system which does not require a direct contribution from recipients of program benefits. Rather, the OAS program is funded through general tax revenues, and eligibility to receive OAS is based solely ...

Changes to RRIF withdrawal requirements for 2020

By Jones & O'Connell LLPAccounting, Auditing, Tax & Consulting NewsMay 15, 20200 comments

The past few months have been an almost perfect storm of bad financial news for Canadian retirees. The historic stock market downturn which occurred in mid-March resulted in a significant loss of value for many retirement savings portfolios, whether those savings were held in registered ...

Making sense of the new tax filing and payment deadlines

By Jones & O'Connell LLPAccounting, Auditing, Tax & Consulting NewsMay 12, 20200 comments

There have been so many announcements over the past couple of months with respect to temporary changes to individual and business tax obligations that keeping up with all of the new rules and altered deadlines isn’t easy. The good news is that, in all cases, individual taxpayers ...

Calculate Your CEWS Today - New Wage Subsidy Calculator

By Jones & O'Connell LLPAccounting, Auditing, Tax & Consulting NewsApril 22, 20200 comments

Businesses can start to apply for the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) on April 27, 2020. Ensure your business is applicable and that you have all of the information required, such as the total number of eligible employees and gross payroll. Please see this useful link, ...

Business measures - COVID-19

By Jones & O'Connell LLPAccounting, Auditing, Tax & Consulting NewsApril 15, 20200 comments

Wage subsidy program for employers The federal government will be providing eligible employers who have experienced a significant decline in revenues with a wage subsidy. For purposes of the subsidy, eligible employers include individuals, taxable corporations, and partnerships consisting ...

Individual tax measures - COVID-19

By Jones & O'Connell LLPAccounting, Auditing, Tax & Consulting NewsApril 15, 20200 comments

Changes to filing and payment deadlines for 2019 returns Individual Canadians are generally required to file their tax returns for the 2019 tax year on or before April 30, 2020. Self-employed Canadians (and their spouses) have until June 15, 2020 to file such returns. All individual ...