August 2017

Fair Tax Plan is Not Fair

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When I was a child I would get together with kids in the neighborhood and we would play games like racing toy cars. Someone would call out the rules and the games would go for hours to the delight of our parents. On occasion one of the kids would do something that appeared to others as outside the rules which would be greeted with howls of protest “… not fair”…..

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Estate Planning, Executors, Succession Planning, Tax Issues, Uncategorized

Pre-Conception Parentage Agreements

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Over my past several blogs I have looked at the new rules for determining parentage introduced in the All Families Are Equal Act (Parentage and Related Registrations Statute Law Amendment), 2016, S.O. 2016, c. 23 (“Act”), since it is important for estate planners to understand and appreciate the variety of family structures that our clients, and their intended beneficiaries, may have. The final component of the new parentage rules I….

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Estate Planning

How to Donate Art

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[caption id="attachment_11663" align="aligncenter" width="640"] The Leaf by Germaine Richier. Gift of Nora E. Vaughan, 1981, to the Art Gallery of Ontario[/caption]   I get a lot of inquiries from clients with art or collectibles that they want to donate – sometimes during life and sometimes as part of an estate plan.  These long-term collectors often believe a public gallery, museum or educational institution is the best “one stop” destination for….

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Estate Planning, Philanthropy/Charitable Giving

For Whom the Bells Toll: It Tolls for Family Trusts?

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As we continue to absorb the draft legislation (together with explanatory notes and consultation paper) introduced by the Department of Finance to overhaul the system of taxation for private companies, some things have are becoming clear. If essentially enacted as currently drafted, the legislation will likely spell the end of family trusts for tax planning arrangements, particularly in the private company setting. Traditionally, for tax planning purposes, family trusts are….

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