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    2. Recording

About this course

  • $78.00
  • 2 CPD hours
  • September 13, 2022

Course Description

Real estate transactions represents a large percentage of the monetary value of deals in the Canadian economic landscape. Therefore, proper tax planning needs to be implemented both prior to the real estate acquisition throughout the life cycle of holding the real estate until the ultimate sale.

This course will identify significant income tax issues involved in holding, developing and disposition of real estate, including non-resident implications. Starting with the tax implications and issues associated with various forms of ownership choices available to undertake real estate activities, the seminar follows with a detailed look at the tax issues involved in the pre-construction, construction and post-construction phases of Canadian real estate.

Topics to be covered will include:

  • Tax implications and issues of different Real Estate Ownership
  • Non-Resident Ownership Tax Implications
  • Pre-Construction Period
  • Construction Period
  • Post-Construction Period

Instructor(s)

Alex Ghani

Partner

CPA CA, CGA, CPA (Texas)

Alex has close to 20 years of experience working in the accounting departments of large companies and as a public practitioner. Over the years, Alex helped many private clients with their tax structuring and estate planning needs. Alex also assists in Canadian and US tax compliance and various other tax related matters.

Alex is heavily involved in the tax community and is a member of the Canadian Tax Foundation (CTF) where he has published articles for the CTF and presented at various events for the CTF.

In addition, Alex has also presented at events for CPA Ontario, accounting groups and other industry specific events. He also facilitates the CPA Canada In-depth tax course.

Manu Kakkar

Manu has over 20 years of experience in taxation in both domestic and international, personal, and corporate taxation as well as expert witness reports and testimony. He is an award winning and prolific tax writer. His Master of Taxation thesis on butterfly reorganizations won 2 awards and was published in the Canadian Tax Journal. Manu has published and presented over 450 tax articles and presentations since 2001 across Canada. Manu is an authority in taxation as his name has been cited 41 times in the Income Tax Act.