Every business owner wants to increase his sales for the months to come and most don’t even have a clue what to do. Here are some Tips and suggestions that you can put into practice. What to do to increase sales? First understand that all businesses need products and services to market and as a [...]
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Better Business Bureau warns of credit card phishing scam
If you’re planning to stay in a hotel sometime soon, keep an ear out for fishy phone calls in the early morning. The Better Business Bureau issued a nationwide alert due to an increase in hotel phishing scams involving credit cards. According to reports from several victims from a hotel in Dallas, someone called their [...]
Caution! Financial fraud through fake e-mails
Now a days fake and fraudulent e-mails regarding, WINNING OF LOTTERY, BUSINESS INVESTMENT PROPOSALS, TRANSFER OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, CHARITY GIVING, ASSISTANCE FOR RELEASING BOX CONTAINING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, APPOINTMENT OF COLLECTION AGENTS etc. etc. are being sent to various internet users by some imposters mainly from African countries. These cheaters and imposters introduce themselves [...]
Your life is limited not by opportunities; but by your imagination
“Imagination is more important than knowledge,” said Albert Einstein. How is it relevant to every day life? In every day life, you come across unlimited obstacles; problems one after another. How to overcome all that? Many times you believe that what you know is the complete truth and refuse to understand that there are alternatives [...]
Canada’s Economy
The world’s 10th-largest economy grew 2 percent in November from a year earlier, the slowest pace since February 2010, Statistics Canada said. Growth will weaken to an average of 1.8 percent in the first three months of this year, according to a monthly Bloomberg economist forecast. Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney and Finance Minister [...]
IMF Lowers Canada’s Growth Forecasts
According to the International Monetary Fund’s latest economic outlook, Canada’s recovery is being held back by the current climate in Europe and elsewhere. They have predicted that Canada’s economy will grow by only 1.7 % considerably lower than the Bank of Canada’s estimate of 1.9 %. The IMF has also suggested that Canada’s economy will [...]
Old Age Security
What is OAS? The Old Age Security pension is a monthly payment available to Canadians aged 65 and older who apply and meet certain requirements. Unlike CPP, it is not dependent on a person’s employment history and a person does not need to be retired from a job to qualify. The government adjusts the OAS [...]
Canada Pension Plan
What is CPP? The Canada Pension Plan is a form of retirement income that is open to all Canadians who have worked and paid into the system through deductions from their pay cheques. The amount a person receives under the system depends on how much and for how long a person contributed, along with the [...]
Tax Alert – CRA is charging stiff 20% Penalty For Missing Tax Slips
The CRA is imposing harsh penalties on individuals who do not report income from a T-slip on their tax return — even if the omission was inadvertent. The CRA runs a sophisticated T-slip matching program that checks the amounts and slips reported on your tax return with data filed by your employer (T4 slips) or [...]
BOC publishes Winter Survey
Here’s the Overview • Responses to the winter survey suggest that the global economic outlook and concerns about demand continue to weigh on firms’ expectations for business activity. • While the indicator of past sales activity has held up, the balance of opinion on future sales has turned slightly negative, as firms in Western Canada [...]
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