Stay ahead with critical tax updates and strategic insights specifically for small practitioners, ensuring compliance and optimizing client outcomes in a dynamic 2025 tax landscape.
This course goes beyond mere updates, offering insightful analysis and practical implications for accounting professionals. It explores the evolving landscape of Canadian tax policy, the challenges of tax administration, and the pressing need for reform.
Participants will gain a deep understanding of the interplay between politics, policy, and professional practice, while also developing strategies to navigate today’s complex tax environment. Drawing on decades of expertise, the presenter examines the structure of the Canadian tax system, its historical reform efforts, and the growing administrative and compliance burdens faced by practitioners.
Through a blend of technical review and critical commentary, this course helps professionals see beyond the legislation—offering context, foresight, and clarity amidst continual change.
Topics Covered
1. The Politics and Drama of Tax Policy in 2025
2. CRA Administration and Practical Realities
3. Federal Budget Highlights and Impacts
4. Legislative Updates and Emerging Issues
5. The Broader Imperative for Reform
The CPA Small Practitioners’ Forum was created to offer an inviting, semi-causal, and easygoing professional development weekend that provides substantial professional development value to small practitioners. All profit earned by the CPA Small Practitioners’ Forum is donated to the Alberta CPA Education Foundation, so you are helping young people in Canada get scholarships for university. All these courses are reviewed by the delegates at the Forum in Banff annually so we have a great lineup that is adjusted every year to keep things relevant to small practitioners. If you work at a public accounting firm in Canada with employees of 1-50 people, you are our target demographic and you should find this course useful.
CEO | Moodys Private Client Accounting, Moodys TaxCEO
The antithesis of the status quo, Kim is driven to innovate new and better ways to do things for the clients he serves, the advancement of the firm, and other professionals in tax. His relentless obsession with getting to know everything in the Tax Act makes him a highly sought-out resource for peers and clients. In March 2020, Kim published his first book, Making Life Less Taxing: Pay Attention To Your Taxes So You Can Pay Less Tax and Build a Strong, Smarter Canada – an Amazon bestseller in a number of categories. Kim’s primary area of expertise is tax and estate planning for owner-managers of private corporations and executives, particularly those who have entered into the tax complexities that come with being affluent. Though admittedly not one himself, Kim works with many professional athletes (a guy has got to dream after all). Kim also has expertise in trust and estate taxation and enjoys solving the complexities that arise in developing a well-thought-out estate and succession plan and dealing with testamentary taxation matters.
This portal is provided as a training and development resource for City of Markham employees. Every course is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, is quantifiable in hours, and is verifiable — you receive a documented certificate of completion for every course you finish, stored on LearnFormula indefinitely.
If you hold a professional designation (for example in engineering, accounting, human resources, or law), courses may be counted as professionally relevant, verifiable learning activities toward your continuing professional development. Individual practitioners are responsible for confirming that an activity meets the requirements of their professional body. For questions about the City of Markham's training and development policies, please speak with your people leader or Human Resources.
