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Tax and Family Business Succession Planning – A Checklist
June 2008 - David Louis, B. Com., J.D., C.A.

Eligible Dividends – A Prediction
May 2008 - David Louis, B. Com., J.D., C.A.

Stranger Than Fiction:
The Bizarre New World of Share Sales

April 2008 - David Louis, B. Com., J.D., C.A.

Parallel Universe:
La Survivance and the Capital Gains Exemption

April 2008 - David Louis, B. Com., J.D., C.A.

Repealing Section 46(3) of the
Ontario Personal Property Security Act

April 2008 - Glen Lewis

Private Corporations and Their Shareholders
– Brave New Tax World

March 2008 - David Louis, B. Com., J.D., C.A.

The Capital Gains Exemption: Keeping it Pure
February 2008 - Michael Goldberg

New Statutory Holiday - Family Day - February 18
February 2008 - Tracy A. Kay

Can’t Always Get What You Want: 2007 Tax Cases
January 2008 - David Louis, B. Com., J.D., C.A.

Navigating the Litigation Landscape in Canada:
Obtaining Evidence from Canadian Witnesses and Enforcing Judgments Against Canadian Parties
January 2008 - Stephen C. Nadler

Recent Ontario Business Law Changes and Related Tax Considerations (PDF)
November 2007 - Joan E. Jung

Wills for the Owner-Manager – Some Special Considerations
November 2007 - David Louis, B. Com., J.D., C.A. and Samantha A. Prasad

The Economic Statement: Some Comments
November 2007 - David Louis, B. Com., J.D., C.A.

Alter Ego and Joint Partner Trusts: Some Issues - Part II
October 2007 - David Louis, B. Com., J.D., C.A.

Tax Consequences of Different Types of Transfers and Different Business Transactions
September 2007 - Joan Jung

Alter Ego and Joint Partner Trusts: Some Issues - Part I
August 2007 - David Louis, B. Com., J.D., C.A.

Mr. Flaherty, Tear Down These Rules
August 2007 - David Louis, B. Com., J.D., C.A.

Heavy Case Load
July 2007 - David Louis, B. Com., J.D., C.A.

Clear and Present Danger - The Saga Continues
June 2007 - David Louis, B. Com., J.D., C.A.

Aging Baby Boomers up the Estate Planning Ante - Part II
May 2007 - David Louis, B. Com., J.D., C.A.

Eligible Dividend Legislation
April 2007 - David Louis, B. Com., J.D., C.A.

The Federal Budget’s Interest Restrictions
– Clear and Present Danger?

April 2007 - David Louis, B. Com., J.D., C.A.

2007 Federal Budget
March 2007 - Samantha Prasad

Dividend Taxation - Ontario Alone
March 2007 - Michael A. Goldberg

Aging Boomers up the Estate Planning Ante - Part I
March 2007 - David Louis, B. Com., J.D., C.A.

Going Global
February 2007 - Canadian Lawyer

Revealed: New Tax and Estate Planning Issues
February 2007 - David Louis, B. Com., J.D., C.A.

Civil Penalties - A Half-Dozen Years On
January 2007 - David Louis, B. Com., J.D., C.A.

Hidden Agendas - A Month in the Life
December 2006 - David Louis, B. Com., J.D., C.A.

Life is a Highway: Another Update
November 2006 - David Louis, B. Com., J.D., C.A.

Anniversary Waltz
October 2006 - David Louis, B. Com., J.D., C.A.

Reality Bites:  Tax News from the Summer
September 2006 - David Louis, B. Com., J.D., C.A.

Tax Notes: Eligible Dividends
- the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

August 2006 - David Louis, B. Com., J.D., C.A.

Eligible Dividend Legislation:  Some Comments
August 2006 - David Louis, B. Com., J.D., C.A.

Tax Notes: Uncertain Times
June 2006 - David Louis, B. Com., J.D., C.A.

Walk the Line - Lipson v. The Queen
May 2006 - David Louis, B. Com., J.D., C.A.

The New (or not so new) Conservative Budget
May 2006 - Samantha Prasad with comments by David Louis, B. Com.,
J.D., C.A.

The Budget and Ontario's Economy - Marked for Death?
April 2006 - David Louis, B. Com.,
J.D., C.A.

Three Dog Night
March 2006 - David Louis, B. Com.,
J.D., C.A.

Post Mortem Planning - a primer and case study -
(Powerpoint presentation)
January 2006 - Joan E. Jung

What's News
January 2006 - David Louis, B. Com.,
J.D., C.A.

Dividend Proposals – A New Ballgame for Private Companies?
December 2005 - David Louis, B. Com.,
J.D., C.A.

Shareholders Agreements: Selected Tax Issues
December 2005 - Joan E. Jung

A Selection of Income Tax Issues in the Downsizing and Restructuring of an Insolvent Company
December 2005 - Joan E. Jung

Magical Mystery Tour – The Supreme Court’s GAAR Cases
November 2005 - David Louis, B. Com.,
J.D., C.A.

Heartbreak Hotel – Foreign Estates and the FIE Rules
September 2005 - David Louis

Purchase and Sale of a Small Business - Recent Developments
September 2005 - Michael A. Goldberg

Change of Trustees = Tax Disaster?
June 2005 - David Louis, J.D., C.A.

UPDATE: Non-Professionals as Shareholders
of Ontario Professional Corporations

June 2005 - Michael A. Goldberg

Banana Republic
June 2005 - David Louis, J.D., C.A.

LANDLORD AS CREDITOR: What Remedies Are Available?
May 2005 - Timothy R. Dunn and Glenn O. Lewis

Understanding the Plight of the Landlord on the Insolvency of a Tenant
May 2005 - Timothy R. Dunn

FIE-ASCO 2005
May 2005 - David Louis, J.D., C.A.

Buckaroo Bureaucracy
May 2005 - David Louis, J.D., C.A.

Federal Budget 2005
March 2005 - Samantha Prasad and David Louis

Eligible Capital - Some Big Changes - Part II
March 2005 - David Louis, J.D., C.A.

Eligible Capital - Some Big Changes - Part I
February 2005 - David Louis, J.D., C.A.

Recent Significant Amendments to the TSX Company Manual
February 2005 - Jack Tannerya

Stupid Tax Tricks
January  2005 - David Louis, J.D., C.A.

Spam and Canadian Law - PowerPoint Presentation
November 26, 2004 - David Ullmann and Ignatius Navascues

Tax Notes: NRT Rules: Harsher Than You Think
November 2004 - David Louis with Michael Goldberg & Joan Jung

Recent Supreme Court Judgment on Directors' Liability
November 2004 - Catherine Francis

Single-Purpose Reprieve
October 2004 - David Louis

Corporate Tax Rates - How They (Now) Work
September 2004 - David Louis

Preparing for Financing
August 2004 - Daniel Rothberg

Technology Companies - The Decision to go Public
August 2004 - Daniel Rothberg

Life Insurance: Exploring the Corporate Edge, Part II
June 2004 - David Louis and Michael Goldberg

Life Insurance: Exploring the Corporate Edge, Part I
May 2004 - David Louis and Michael Goldberg

Sunset, Sunrise - The Strange Rules of U.S. Estate Tax
May 2004 - David Louis

Snowbirds: U.S. Tax Issues You Won't Be Able To Fly Away From
May 2004 - Samantha Prasad

The Implications of the New Privacy Act on Property Management
(Powerpoint presentation)
March 2004 - Jack B. Tannerya and David T. Ullmann

Federal Budget 2004
March 2004 - Samantha Prasad and David Louis

"The Rule of Law" - A Thing of the Past?
March 2004 - David Louis

FLASH! - the CRA Can Reallocate to a Non-compete
March 2004 - David Louis

Corporate Governance - The New Rules
February 2004 - Phillip G. Bevans

Corporate Governance - The New Investor Confidence Rules
February 2004 - Phillip G. Bevans

Hard to Kill - Donation Deals Live On
January 2004 - David Louis

What's New


News

Samantha Prasad and the Meritas Leadership Institute's Green Initiatives

Spring 2008
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David Louis and Meritas Tax Group in Financial Post

April 9, 2008
[more]

Tax and Family Business Succession Planning recommended in Tax Notes

March 13, 2008
[more]
See David's comments here.

Billy Bee Honey Products Limited sale to McCormick & Company, Incorporated

February 20, 2008
[more]

Minden Gross retained for $2.556 billion financing

January 8, 2008
[more]

Minden Gross LLP Canadian counsel for APN Holding Company, Inc. in acquisition by Salton, Inc.

December 2007
[more]

Articles

Tax and Family Business Succession Planning – A Checklist

June 2008
David Louis
A list of tax-related issues that should be considered in the formulation of a family business succession plan.

Eligible Dividends – A Prediction

May 2008
David Louis
Looking into the future after the Conservative government's SIFT regime completes its phase-in in 2012.

Repealing Section 46(3) of the Ontario Personal Property Security Act

April 2008
Glen Lewis
How changes to the Ontario Personal Property Security Act affects security interests and how additional information provided in the collateral description area of a financing statement limits the scope of the collateral classifications marked by the secured party.

Private Corporations and Their Shareholders
– Brave New Tax World

March 2008
David Louis
A discussion of the overhaul of the fundamentals of how Canadian-controlled private corporations and their shareholders are taxed.

Stranger Than Fiction:
The Bizarre New World of Share Sales

April 2008
David Louis
La Survivance created a parallel tax universe where, by the time the sale of shares actually takes place, the target corporation is no longer a Canadian-controlled private corporation. David Louis explains.

Parallel Universe:
La Survivance and the Capital Gains Exemption

April 2008
David Louis
The results of La Survivance on capital gains exemptions when non-residents and/or public corporations acquire control of an otherwise-qualifying small business corporation.

Stephen Nadler's "Navigating the Litigation Landscape in Canada" published in Business Law Today

Jan/Feb 2008
Stephen C. Nadler
This article on cross-border litigation originally appeared in the American Bar Association's magazine Business Law Today.

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