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Consider a voluntary disclosure where tax filings are either missing or incomplete

Your responsibilities as a trustee or executor of an estate may include completing the tax filings of the deceased and requesting tax clearance prior to the distribution of the estate in accordance with the will terms. Let’s say you find out that the deceased’s tax filings were not all up to date or incomplete and you have read about the possibility of tax penalties.

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Canada Revenue Agency, Estate Administration, Estate Planning, Executors, IRS, Tax Issues, Wills

TIME FOR A REFREEZE – PART 2

In my last blog, I wrote about how you might consider refreezing your existing freeze shares if the enterprise has recently declined in value, so that your chosen successors can participate sooner in the future growth of your enterprise and in the meantime your tax liability can be reduced on the disposition of those shares by you or your estate. Today I would like to write about how you might accomplish a refreeze and provide you with a few words of caution.
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Business Succession Planning, Canada Revenue Agency, Estate Administration, Estate Planning, Investments, Small Business, Succession Planning, Tax Issues
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