Corporate Tax - Update 2026 (In-Person)
Former Title: Previously part of Income Tax - Update
Overview
Participants will receive an up-to-date overview of key corporate tax developments from the past year, including rate changes, enacted legislative changes, proposed legislation, emerging tax developments (e.g., draft legislation and budget measures), CRA interpretations, administrative guidance, and recent case law affecting private corporations.
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Course Description
Advisory: Due to the nature of this course and the wide range of topics covered, none of the topics are covered with in-depth material. The intent is to provide knowledge and awareness of the recent tax changes. One or more of the topics may be covered in more detail in other available courses.
Applicable for
- Practitioners and finance professionals who work with owner-managed and privately held corporations.
Learning Objectives
- Interpret current federal and provincial corporate tax rate changes and understand their impact on planning for Canadian-controlled private corporations (CCPCs).
- Apply recent legislative amendments, CRA technical interpretations, and administrative positions that influence corporate income, deductions, and tax attributes.
- Recognize the implications of recent court decisions affecting corporate taxation, including areas such as intergenerational transfers, shareholder transactions, and anti-avoidance frameworks.
- Explain updates related to integration, dividends, passive income, income splitting, and the small business deduction.
- Identify areas requiring deeper research or specialist support when advising corporate clients or preparing filings.
- Identify evolving corporate compliance and reporting requirements, including international filings and CRA administrative processes.
Content
- Corporate rates and integration: current federal and provincial corporate tax rates, updates to integration concepts, impacts on dividend planning.
- Legislative updates affecting corporations: changes related to business income, deductions, passive investment income, small business deduction rules, and anti-avoidance provisions.
- CRA interpretations & administrative matters: updates affecting corporate compliance, filing obligations, deductions, and application of various corporate tax rules.
- Capital and shareholder transactions: key updates on capital gains, corporate reorganizations, safe income, intergenerational business transfer rules, and related CRA guidance.
- Partnerships, charities & NPO matters impacting corporations: selected changes relevant to organizations interacting with or operating within corporate groups.
- International tax considerations: highlight of any relevant cross-border updates and corporate-level impacts.
- Budget-driven changes: important measures affecting corporations introduced through the latest federal and provincial/territorial budgets.
- Corporate compliance and filing obligations, including CRA administrative practices and e services.
Registration terms and conditions, including the cancellation policy can be found here. If you require further assistance, please contact the PD Department.
Course Dates & Registration
- 5
- CPD Hours
- 0
- Ethics Hours
- 0
- AML Hours
- 7
- Credits
Starting April 1, 2026, a 2.1% fee will be applied to all credit card transactions. Learn more about this fee and how it relates to PD registrations.
Corporate Tax - Update 2026 (In-Person)
Former Title: Previously part of Income Tax - Update
- 5
- CPD Hours
- 0
- Ethics Hours
- 0
- AML Hours
- 7
- Credits
Overview
Participants will receive an up-to-date overview of key corporate tax developments from the past year, including rate changes, enacted legislative changes, proposed legislation, emerging tax developments (e.g., draft legislation and budget measures), CRA interpretations, administrative guidance, and recent case law affecting private corporations.
|
|
Course Description
Advisory: Due to the nature of this course and the wide range of topics covered, none of the topics are covered with in-depth material. The intent is to provide knowledge and awareness of the recent tax changes. One or more of the topics may be covered in more detail in other available courses.
Applicable for
- Practitioners and finance professionals who work with owner-managed and privately held corporations.
Learning Objectives
- Interpret current federal and provincial corporate tax rate changes and understand their impact on planning for Canadian-controlled private corporations (CCPCs).
- Apply recent legislative amendments, CRA technical interpretations, and administrative positions that influence corporate income, deductions, and tax attributes.
- Recognize the implications of recent court decisions affecting corporate taxation, including areas such as intergenerational transfers, shareholder transactions, and anti-avoidance frameworks.
- Explain updates related to integration, dividends, passive income, income splitting, and the small business deduction.
- Identify areas requiring deeper research or specialist support when advising corporate clients or preparing filings.
- Identify evolving corporate compliance and reporting requirements, including international filings and CRA administrative processes.
Content
- Corporate rates and integration: current federal and provincial corporate tax rates, updates to integration concepts, impacts on dividend planning.
- Legislative updates affecting corporations: changes related to business income, deductions, passive investment income, small business deduction rules, and anti-avoidance provisions.
- CRA interpretations & administrative matters: updates affecting corporate compliance, filing obligations, deductions, and application of various corporate tax rules.
- Capital and shareholder transactions: key updates on capital gains, corporate reorganizations, safe income, intergenerational business transfer rules, and related CRA guidance.
- Partnerships, charities & NPO matters impacting corporations: selected changes relevant to organizations interacting with or operating within corporate groups.
- International tax considerations: highlight of any relevant cross-border updates and corporate-level impacts.
- Budget-driven changes: important measures affecting corporations introduced through the latest federal and provincial/territorial budgets.
- Corporate compliance and filing obligations, including CRA administrative practices and e services.
Registration terms and conditions, including the cancellation policy can be found here. If you require further assistance, please contact the PD Department.
Course Dates & Registration
Starting April 1, 2026, a 2.1% fee will be applied to all credit card transactions. Learn more about this fee and how it relates to PD registrations.
Kenneth Keung, CPA, CA, brings nearly 24 years of extensive tax planning experience. His expertise spans the full spectrum of tax issues that matter to private businesses and their owners, including personal/corporate/partnership/trust taxation, internal reorganizations, business succession, M&A, trust and estate planning, and cross-border matters. Kenneth is an award-winning author of many published papers on taxation and has been deeply involved in the tax community including acting as Director of STEP Canada and Chair of its Tax Technical Committee; former Governor of the Canadian Tax Foundation; former Facilitator and Course Material Developer for the CPA Canada In-Depth Tax Program.