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Tax Planning for Partners for 2025

With increasing complexity in corporate tax and evolving succession needs, this session offers timely, actionable strategies for 2025 planning. Shane Schepens will guide you through.

Created byClearline Consulting
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AdvancedUpdated Oct 31, 2025
Tax Planning for Partners for 2025

What You'll Learn

check_circleUnderstand tax planning for partners for 2025.
check_circleLeverage family trusts for intergenerational transfers.
check_circleImplement purification strategies for QSBC status.
check_circleOptimize capital gains transactions efficiently.
check_circleNavigate employee ownership trusts effectively.
check_circleConsider tax implications of alter ego trusts.

About This Course

Unlock the secrets to optimizing your tax strategy and enhancing your clients' financial future with "Tax Planning for Partners for 2025." This essential course, led by Shane Schepens, Partner at Clearline CPA and Clearline Consulting, offers an in-depth exploration of the latest tax planning considerations and frequently utilized transactions for the upcoming year.

In a landscape shaped by economic uncertainties and evolving legislation, proactive tax planning is more critical than ever. Shane guides you through strategies designed to navigate these complexities, focusing on the "bread and butter" planning techniques with crucial nuances and recent announcements.

This course will equip you with the knowledge to:

  • Understand Current Tax Legislation: Gain insights into the impact of recent and anticipated tax changes, including the General Anti-Avoidance Rule (GAR) and mandatory disclosure rules, and how they affect your planning.
  • Master Family Trust Strategies: Learn the multifaceted benefits and practical applications of family trusts for capital gains exemption, purification strategies, estate planning, and permissible income splitting, while also understanding their complexities and compliance requirements.
  • Optimize Company Purification: Discover effective methods to purify companies, particularly focusing on structuring for qualifying small business corporation status crucial for capital gains exemptions and intergenerational transfers.
  • Navigate Capital Gains Transactions: Explore various capital gains strategies, including external transfers of rental properties, utilizing capital gains reserves, and the nuances of the intergenerational transfer rules, which allow for significant tax savings.
  • Explore Employee Ownership Trusts (EOTs): Understand the opportunities and challenges presented by EOTs, including the increased capital gains exemption and extended reserve periods, and the practical considerations for their implementation.
  • Implement Refreeze Transactions: Learn when and how a "refreeze" can be an advantageous strategy in situations of declining company value, along with the critical importance of valuation and risk management.
  • Leverage Trust Capitalization & Alter Ego/Joint Partner Trusts: Delve into advanced trust structures for income splitting, utilizing Capital Dividend Accounts (CDA) and Eligible Refundable Dividend Tax On Hand (ERDTOH), alongside the estate planning benefits of alter ego and joint partner trusts for probate savings and asset protection.

Stay ahead of the curve and ensure your clients benefit from the most strategic and compliant tax planning for 2025. This course is a must-attend for any professional dedicated to maximizing their clients’ wealth and securing their financial legacy.

Your Instructors

Clearline Consulting
Clearline Consulting
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Clearline Consulting provides practitioners and their staff with the tools, training and advice they need to succeed and build thriving accounting firms. From tax compliance to estate planning, file monitoring to assisting with practice review, staff training to customized consulting solutions, our team exists to serve the needs of small to mid-sized public practice firms across Canada. Our collaborative, integrated approach means your firm has access to and support from knowledgeable practitioners who are in front of the ever-changing standards environment. Our core services include supporting firms with the implementation of the quality management standards, external file monitoring, services for accounting, assurance and taxation maters, provisions of templates and resources, practice management and risk mitigation consultations.

Shane Schepens, CPA, CA
Shane Schepens, CPA, CA

Tax Partner, Clearline Consulting CPA

Shane is a Tax Partner at Clearline Consulting and Clearline CPA. As such, he primarily focuses on income tax planning, reorganizations, and succession planning for Canadian owner-managed businesses in various industries. He received his Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Northern BC and obtained his CA designation in 2003. Shane started his accounting career in 2000 by working for a large international accounting firm for approximately ten years in their Prince George, Calgary, and Burnaby offices. Shane worked an additional five years for a mid-sized accounting firm located in Surrey, before opening his own accounting and tax practice in Surrey which operated for four years. Now as Clearline Consulting’s Tax Partner, Shane will be assisting practitioners with their client’s tax compliance, planning and corporate restructuring needs.

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