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How Advisors Can Offer Tax Planning And Stay In Compliance

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And the consequences for incorrect tax advice can include legal and financial penalties if a client were to be harmed by the wrong advice – which is often not covered by the firm’s E&O insurance –creating an expensive liability when tax advice goes wrong. Affects how much can be saved to pre- and after-tax accounts !

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Canada Seeks Digital Tax On Google, Netflix And Other Global Web Giants

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Facing a growing budget deficit and the cries from local businesses about fairness, the Canadian government is proposing a new digital tax on foreign web giants such as Netflix, Facebook, Amazon and Google. The digital tax is part of a broader five-year, $3.4 billion levy that was unveiled in parliament Monday (Nov.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

It’s part of their own tax planning. And what’s their budget like a fraction of it, right? So you go back a couple of years and you could say, “Well, what return is available buying a treasury?” RITHOLTZ: But some of these guys are sitting with a lot more than a billion dollars, and why not?

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Transcript: Gary Cohn

Barry Ritholtz

Hank Paulson had left to go become treasury secretary. Well 00:39:25 [Speaker Changed] Then, then a week or two later, I think it was within a week or two, that’s when treasury decided they were gonna put tarp money into all the banks, regardless of those that had raised capital or not. I said, treasury can. I said, sure.

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