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THE SHAREHOLDERS AGREEMENT: The most important agreement of your Company!

First and foremost a contract, a shareholders agreement has all the ingredients thereof, for it to be binding and legal.  There is an offer and acceptance,...

PIERCING THE CORPORATE VEIL: The Doctrine of Alter Ego

I recently got a phone call from a client after he had been served with a law suit. He had entered into an agreement of purchase and...

BUYING A RESIDENTIAL INCOME PROPERTY – A Primer

With the Ontario real estate market demonstrating continued resilience, many people are still putting their confidence in real estate as an investment option across Ontario.  These...

The Income Tax Consequences for Selling Real Estate in Canada as a Non-Resident

Under section 116 of the Canadian Income Tax Act, non-resident vendors disposing of certain taxable Canadian property (partially listed below) are to notify the Canada Revenue...

The Basics of Corporate Income Tax and Shareholders’ Dividend Tax

A corporation is a legal entity separate from its owners, the share holders, and is subject to federal and provincial income taxes (like individuals). There are...

Death Tax, Probate Tax, Estate Tax, Inheritance Tax, Wealth Tax and Final Income Taxes; which of these should we Canadians be concerned for?

Unlike some other countries in the world, Canada does not impose taxes on wealth or the value of an inheritance upon death; but in its place Canada...

BUSINESS SUCCESSION PLANNING: Passing down your business

Why plan who will take over your business now? What’s the need? It is estimated that in the next ten years just about half the number of...

CORPORATE LAW & THEORY: Examples of Share Classes (Rights & Restrictions) and Corporate Organization

Much too often I receive questions about the rights and restrictions that corporate shares carry with them, and what the concept of having different classes of...

DIRECTOR’S LIABILITY

Having regard to the wide scope of authority exercised by a company’s management (its directors and senior management officers), a broad range of duties and liabilities...

PROVINCIAL INCORPORATION: Deeper into Federal vs. Provincial

The provincial law in Ontario stipulates that a company doing business in the province should also incorporate there. Meticulously satisfying the incorporating requirements therein, along with advice...