The Latest at Baker Tilly Ottawa
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Baker Tilly strengthens presence in Saskatchewan
Yorkton, SK – Building on its strong provincial roots in Saskatoon and Yorkton, Baker Tilly is further expanding in Saskatchewan with a new office in Emerald Park.
Budget 2024 summer draft updates and amendments
On Aug. 12, the Department of Finance released its summer package of draft legislation and technical amendments. This proposed legislation includes substantially all outstanding measures from Budget 2024 and other previously announced amendments.
Corporate finance
If your company is on the hunt for transaction structuring, funding sources, capital or support with corporate investment decisions, our specialty advisors are ready to serve as your one‑stop‑shop resource.
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Why more farmers are seeing smaller corporate tax bills
Many farmers across Canada can expect to benefit from a change in the small business deduction (SBD) rules. In fact, you may have already noticed your corporate tax bill has gone down this year. This is because the change came into effect starting with corporate year‑ends ending
April 30, 2023. 
4 cyber concerns every business should consider
Cyber criminals are constantly developing new techniques to compromise the security of unsuspecting businesses. The threat spectrum is always changing due to emerging technology and the expansion of cloud services, automation, artificial intelligence and machine learning. Against the backdrop of this evolving threat landscape, the risk paradigm for our public and private sector clients has evolved. What follows is an overview of the four most common cybersecurity threats and concerns we currently warn clients about.
Investment funds
As leading advisors to the mid‑market investment funds sector, Baker Tilly is the ideal partner to bring greater financial clarity and guidance to your business.
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Arctic expansion opens new horizons for Baker Tilly
Iqaluit, NU – Baker Tilly, one of the country’s largest associations of chartered professional accounting firms, is further broadening its national presence by expanding into Northern Canada.
The difference between expenses and capital expenditures
The tax implications of expenses and capital assets are quite different, so it’s important farm businesses understand these implications before making a significant investment in new assets or renovations. Unfortunately, the difference is not always clear. When a farm business spends money on a project that is deemed a repair, this can be deducted in the current tax year as an expense. However, if money is spent on a capital improvement, that gets added to the cost of the asset, which is then depreciated over time. In other words, rather than get the full benefit of the deduction in the year the investment is made, businesses see this benefit gradually, over a number of years, depending on the class of the asset and the depreciation rate. That is the fundamental difference between expenses and capital expenditures.
Digital Services Tax Act update
In August 2023, the Department of Finance released its draft of the Digital Services Tax Act (DSTA) with the intent to introduce legislation aiming to tax certain large domestic (and foreign) businesses on their Canadian digital services revenue.
