Submitted by inclawyers on Mon, 19/11/2012 - 11:16am
Tim Cestnick writes a weekly column on taxes in the Globe and Mail. He's worth paying attention to. But be sure to consult your own professional advisers about implementing any particular strategy. Tim's November 15, 2012 column, "For business owners, six tax-saving strategies for the year-end checklist" is timely and well worth considering.
Submitted by inclawyers on Mon, 19/11/2012 - 10:00am
It bears repeating. In Trademarkland in Canada, your right to obtain registration of your mark mostly depends on whether you have “used” the mark in the ordinary course of business. And your ability to keep the mark alive after obtaining registration also requires continued “use” of the mark, in that special Trademarkland sense of the word “use”.
All trademark owners need clearly to understand what behaviour is required in order to meet the level and kind of “use” required under the rules for trademark registration.
Submitted by admin_top on Wed, 14/11/2012 - 5:29pm
The BC public is getting what it wanted—for better or worse.
Effective April 1, 2013, the PST will come back into force, replacing the BC provincial portion of the HST.
The restaurants are cheering. For other business owners, not so much, because the HST is a far better tax to deal with. Only one registration. Only one payment to remit. Only one return to file. Except in complex situations, a mostly uniform set of goods and services on which the tax applies. The ability to claim input tax credits on purchases.
All of that is out the window on the provincial side.
Submitted by inclawyers on Fri, 09/11/2012 - 10:00am
Our fingernails are a little more ragged than yesterday, but everything is up, working and accessible.
DNS changes took about an hour to propagate, with TTL (time to live) cranked down to minimum values. This blog needed a little clean-up to make it work again, and now we’re back.
Submitted by inclawyers on Thu, 08/11/2012 - 10:00am
We’ve been busy the last few months re-writing our main website, at www.incorporate.ca. We’re getting ready to move it into production, which means changing the hosting company we use. In the computer world, that also means updating the DNS settings for that website and for this website. (DNS settings allow humans to find websites on the internet.)