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Assessing Drake’s Estate Planning Needs

By Demetre Vasilounis • September 24, 2021 • 2 Comments

As a Toronto native, I couldn’t help but listen to rapper Drake’s highly-anticipated new album Certified Lover Boy, which he released just a few weeks ago. In fact, it has been enjoying record-breaking streaming numbers from music fans around the world, amassing a staggering 153 million global Spotify streams in…

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INSURANCE TRACKING SHARES

By Steven Frye • September 21, 2021 • 0 Comments

If a taxpayer owns shares of a corporation and passes away, he or she is deemed to have disposed of their shareholding at fair market value (“FMV”) unless a tax-free rollover is applied (e.g., rollover to a surviving spouse). The disposition of shares may cause a tax liability. In the…

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When Leaving Your Premises for Medical Reasons and Never Go Back: Need a Plan

By Steven Frye • July 20, 2021 • 0 Comments

I do a lot of work in the insurance industry. Recently, I came across a court case which I thik is a cautionary tale for estate planners and executors. In Gregson v. CAA Insurance., 2021 ONSC 3041, Ms. Gregson was a property owner and name insured on March 17,2017 when…

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Tax on principal residence? How to plan for a change of use

By Derek de Gannes • June 29, 2021 • 0 Comments

No, the government did not eliminate or claw back the principal residence exemption in the 2021 Budget, as had been speculated. Yet, there is a circumstance in which a taxpayer could face an unexpected tax burden in respect of a principal residence: when there is a change in use of a…

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Some Ins and Outs of RRSPs & RRIFs Transfers on Death

By Steven Frye • June 8, 2021 • 1 Comment

Generally the RRSP or RRIF of a deceased can be transferred by specific bequest under the terms of the deceased’s will to a qualifying survivor tax-free. A qualifying survivor would be the deceased annuitant spouse or common-law partner or a financially dependent child or grandchild. When payments from a deceased…

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Today’s Executor is a Digital Executor

By Demetre Vasilounis • June 4, 2021 • 0 Comments

Today’s Executor is a Digital Executor The estates and trusts world has taken notice of the importance of digital assets—there is no question about that. Now that we know that an individual’s digital assets are something that advisors and clients alike need to consider for every estate planning matter, the…

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What is a Reasonable Error

By Steven Frye • May 11, 2021 • 0 Comments

Further to my last post, the Canada Revenue Agency (“CRA”) does have the discretion to waive tax penalties on excess (or deemed to be excess) contributions to Tax Free Savings Accounts (“TFSA’s) and Registered Retirement Savings Plans (“RRSP”) if an excess contribution  to a TFSA or RRSP resulted from a…

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New Privacy Legislation Aims to Address Digital Assets in Estate Administration

By Demetre Vasilounis • March 26, 2021 • 0 Comments

Practitioners and clients alike have come to realize that there can be numerous legal challenges to administering a testator’s digital assets, including, among them, ambiguous or restrictive privacy legislation. For most Canadian provinces,[1] the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (“PIPEDA”) does not appear to grant executors, trustees, or…

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Valuing Estate Assets – A Hierarchy of Evidence

By Gillian Fournie • February 10, 2021 • 0 Comments

Acting as an estate trustee can be a difficult job. It is often made more difficult when you have to work with a sibling. While the types of disputes co-estate trustees can have with one another are seemingly infinite, one common fight is over valuing an estate asset. Valuing estate…

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Use of Cottage By Children of Settlor of an Alter Ego/Joint Partner Trust

By Derek de Gannes • February 9, 2021 • 0 Comments

Both alter ego and joint partner trusts (the trust) allow a settlor to transfer capital assets into the trust on a tax-deferred basis if the following conditions are met: The trust is created after 1999. The settlor is at least 65 at the time of creation. In the case of…

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