Category: Wealth Management

Looming legal changes that will affect Canadians’ ability to pay less tax

In 1936, the Duke of Westminster structured his affairs to allow for a deduction of an amount paid to his gardener that would otherwise not be deductible. The British tax authorities of the day didn’t like it, but the judge, Lord Tomlin, ruled that, “every man is entitled…to order his affairs so that the tax..is less than it would otherwise be.”

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