Course content

    1. Richard Yasny's Presentation

    2. Jean-Pierre Laporte's Presentation

    1. Richard Yasny's Recording

    2. Jean-Pierre Laporte's Recording

About this course

  • $59.00
  • 3 CPD hours
  • October 23, 2018

Course Description

There will be two topics covered during this webinar:

1. Representing Taxpayers in Tax Disputes with CRA

In 2015-2016, CRA completed 31,000 small and medium enterprise income tax audits, 68,000 GST/HST audits, and reviewed over 715,000 payroll accounts. Nearly half of taxpayers are unrepresented in Tax Court and likely at earlier stages also. This seminar gives you an overview of the tax disputes process from audit through Tax Court and collections.

  • Audit – how to reduce the risks
  • Objection – time limits, conditions, and skipping it
  • Tax Court – how to file an appeal and present the case. (Accountants can represent taxpayers in the Informal Procedure for disputes of nearly $250,000 of small business income or about $135,000 of personal income per tax year and almost $400,000 of GST taxable supplies.)
  • Collection – CRA powers and how to deal with them, including garnishment, and “memo assessments” against related parties of tax debtors or directors of corporations
  • Other remedies – taxpayer relief for interest and penalties, 10-year T1 adjustments, remission orders, and bankruptcy proposals

Speaker: Richard Yasny, LL.B., LL.M.

2. Personal Pension Plans for Business Owners

Speaker: Jean-Pierre A. Laporte, M.A., J.D. (of the Bar of Ontario) of INTEGRIS Pension Management Corp.

Instructor(s)

Jean-Pierre Laporte

Drawing on over a decade of experience as a pension lawyer for several prestigious Toronto firms, including Bennett Jones LLP, Fasken Martineau LLP, Osler and Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, Jean-Pierre Laporte has dedicated his career to improving pension legislation. Frustrated that the significant benefits of pensions were not readily available to those outside of large companies, Jean-Pierre created the Personal Pension Plan ™ to level the playing field and open up a new world of financial options and increased retirement savings for incorporated professionals. In 2004, Jean-Pierre Laporte set out to create a better solution for investors that wanted improved asset protection while minimizing taxes. With an impressive academic background at the University of Toronto, Osgoode Hall Law School and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, he is often called upon as an expert witness before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance, and he has written several seminal articles on pension reform, including an expansion of the Canada Pension Plan. In 2012, for his efforts are improving retirement solutions for Canadians, he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Media by the Governor General of Canada.

Richard Yasny

Richard Yasny, LL.M., is a lawyer who began his law practice in 1992 in the tax group of a full-service law firm in Toronto and after worked in the international tax group of a multinational accounting firm. He now represents clients exclusively in their income tax and GST/HST disputes with the Canada Revenue Agency, from audits and objections through to appeals to the Tax Court of Canada. He has authored many articles on technical topics and tax litigation for various publications and assists in the editing of The Practitioner's Income Tax Act, The Practitioner's Goods and Services Tax Annotated, and the Canada GST Service/Taxnet Pro GST/HST commentary.