Alberta Budget 2026 Decoded: What It Means for Your Business
On February 26, 2026, Finance Minister Nate Horner tabled Alberta's fiscal 2026–27 budget — a document shaped...
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Notes on finance, governance and growth from the partners at RN Canada.
With Rates Holding at 2.25%, How Should BC Businesses Set Financing Strategy in 2026?
After the most volatile interest rate cycle in a generation — from near-zero in 2021, up to a 5 percent peak i...
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RRSP or Leave It in the Corporation? An Owner's Trade-off
Every owner-manager of an incorporated business in Alberta or BC eventually faces the same question: when the...
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What to Watch in Alberta Budget 2026: A Pre-Budget Briefing for Business Owners
Alberta's provincial budget for fiscal year 2026–27 is expected to be tabled in late February 2026. As of the...
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Corporate Tax Season 2026: A Clean T2 Filing Checklist for BC Companies
What does a genuinely clean corporate tax filing look like in 2026? After three years of policy whiplash — a p...
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The Capital Dividend Account: How CCPCs Pay Tax-Free Dividends
Most owners of a private corporation assume that getting money out of the company always triggers tax — salary...
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Filing Alberta's AT1 Corporate Return: The Checklist Every Alberta Owner Needs
Every Alberta corporation files a federal T2 corporate return with the Canada Revenue Agency. That fact is wel...
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The 2026 BC Payroll Cost Outlook: Minimum Wage, CPP2, EHT and What to Budget
What will it actually cost to employ your people in 2026 — not the wages you'll quote, but the fully loaded st...
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Alberta Year-End Tax Planning 2025: The New 8% Bracket and the T2/AT1 Two-Step
December is when tax planning collapses from a year-long discipline into a deadline. The decisions you can sti...
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Building Your 2026 Business Plan and Budget Amid Tariffs and Lower Rates
What single number should anchor your 2026 budget? There isn't one — and pretending there is, is the most comm...
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The November 2025 Federal Budget Through an Alberta Lens: SR&ED and Immediate Expensing
On November 4, 2025, the federal government tabled Budget 2025 — a document heavy on industrial strategy and i...
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2025 Year-End Tax Planning for BC Corporations: Lower Rates, Stable Capital Gains
After two years of policy whiplash, 2025 ends on unusually stable ground for tax planning — and that stability...
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