Breaking News > The Supreme Court of Canada has 7-2 struck down the mandatory victim surcharge enacted in 2013 by the former Conservative government because it inflicts cruel and unusual punishment on impecunious offenders, in violation of s. 12 of the Charter: R. v. Boudreault, 2018 SCC 58. MORE TO COME

Tax

Federal Court of Appeal decision creates uncertainty, tax lawyers say

Monday, February 12, 2018 @ 10:48 AM | By Amanda Jerome

When tax lawyer Robert Kepes read the Federal Court of Appeal’s decision in Canada v. Oxford Properties Group Inc. 2018 FCA 30, he sighed.

Robert Kepes, Morris Kepes Winters LLP“Another GAAR...

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