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How High Will Property Taxes in Ottawa, Canada Rise? Owners should expect to pay a few hundred dollars more per year.  Valentin Erikson, the owner of Erikson Law Firm, a leading real estate and tax law firm in Ottawa, was interviewed last week by Mansion Global, a real estate website … Read More

“We are in the business of resolving problems…” says Valentin Erikson in his recent interview by the Canadian Bar Association. Read full article published by the National Magazine here: https://nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articles/the-practice/young-lawyers/2019/what-to-do-when-you-screw-up?fbclid=IwAR2R2MKvnmu7RUcABlOQYwDfWuPeDkNHsOOZ_nJ98bHg_fGFhx2fTsm0Dw8

The Liberal Party of Canada has gone for the Millennial vote in this election year with 2019 Budget measures that it says will help make housing more affordable for young people. Its key new measure is the First Time Home Buyer Incentive – an interest-free shared mortgage with the Canada … Read More

When Valentin Erikson testified before the Parliamentary Committee last fall, he was very critical of the federal government’s decision to introduce legislation to increase taxes on Canadian controlled private corporations (“CCPCs”). https://eriksonlaw.ca/october-25-2017-valentin-erikson-testified-parliamentary-committee-national-finance/ Val now welcomes the Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s announcement to cut the small business tax rate from 10.5 … Read More

Valentin Erikson’s analysis of the Supreme Court’s decision (June 15, 2018) www.eriksonlaw.ca Supreme Court of Canada: If Trinity Western University (“TWU”) drops its mandatory covenant, prohibiting “sexual intimacy that violates the sacredness of marriage between a man and a woman”, graduates from TWU’s proposed law school could be admitted to … Read More

Weighing the pros and cons of hanging out your shingle on a professional corporation. It could be a very good tax-planning strategy, says Valentin Erikson of Erikson Law Firm Source: National Magazine- http://nationalmagazine.ca/…/The-argument-for-hanging-out-y…

Valentin Erikson was interviewed by the Canadian Bar Association for this article “THE ARGUMENT FOR HANGING OUT YOUR SHINGLE ON A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION”. You can read the article here: https://www.cba.org/Publications-Resources/CBA-Practice-Link/Young-Lawyers/2018/The-argument-for-hanging-out-your-shingle-on-a-pro 

Standing Senate Committee on National Finance has invited Valentin Erikson to testify on the proposed changes to the Income Tax Act on October 25, 2017. Parliamentary committee will look to Canadians as they embark on an in-depth Study on the Minister of Finance’s proposed changes to the Income Tax Act … Read More