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Open Banking Is Coming to Canada: What It Means for Your Business and Bookkeeping

October 5, 2026 You may have heard the term ‘Open Banking’ recently—or, more likely, you haven’t. That’s because about 80% of the general public…

Canada’s New Productivity Mega Deduction Proposal for Immediate Expensing

September 28, 2026 You may have heard that last week our Prime Minister announced a significant new tax proposal called Canada’s Productivity Mega Deduction,…

Maybe Not a Capital Idea After All – Part 3?

By Jules Hawkins on February 4, 2025

May I vent for a minute? OK, I felt I had to wait 48 hours between the news dropping, and writing this blog post….

Why is my accountant so tired and grumpy in June?

By Jules Hawkins on June 13, 2024

“I’m sure you must be glad tax season is over. Are you enjoying this beautiful spring weather? Do you have time for a new…

Maybe Not a Capital Idea After All.

By Jules Hawkins on May 2, 2024

PART 1 of 2 Many of our regular readers are aware that the recent budget proposed to increase the “capital gains* inclusion rate” from…

CRA Penalties & Interest – how to avoid them

By Jules Hawkins on June 27, 2023

This is a very exciting blog, about CRA penalties, interest, and how to avoid them. Nothing that’s new, but – in this era of…

New(ish) rules for nonprofits in Ontario

By Margaret Deneau, CPA on November 11, 2022

Is your organization a non-profit incorporated in Ontario? If yes, this applies to you! The Ontario Not-for-profit Corporations Act (ONCA) came into effect on…

Beyond Beans – Part 2

By Jules Hawkins on August 29, 2022

We have one key goal in mind for our clients: to improve business owners’ lives. As I’ve said earlier (Beyond Beans Blog Post), we…

COVID support still continues. Somewhat.

** UPDATE ** As if to illustrate the speed at which the new Omicron variant is moving…. as soon as we hit “publish”, this…

Work-from-Home Write-Offs

By Jaclyn Webb, CPA on May 4, 2021

It’s me again, Jaclyn, the original Hawkins & Co work-from-home warrior. You may remember me from my original blog “Are you wearing pants today?”…