Contributing Lawyers

Canada

Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
Michael Flavell
Geoff Kubrick

United States

Susan Kohn Ross

India

China

Thailand

Apisith John Southam

Korea

Economist Magazine Ranks Canada as 4th Best To Do Business

I am happy to inform Trade Lawyers Blog readers that Canada has been ranked as the 4th best place in the world to conduct business.

The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), which is part of the same company that publishes The...

Ontario Proposes 10 Year Provincial Income Tax Exemption for Qualifying Businesses that Commercialize Intellectual Property

In the 2008 Ontario Budget delivered by Minister of Finance, Dwight Duncan on March 25, 2008, Ontario proposed a new 10-year income tax exemption for new corporations that commercialize intellectual property in Ontario developed...

Ontario Announces Land Transfer Tax Refund Program Expansion

Effective December 13, 2007, the Government of Ontario will give first-time home buyers or newly constructed and resale homes a refund on up to $2,000 of the land transfer tax paid in connection with the acquisition. ...

Ontario Announces More Tax Reductions, Film Tax Credits and Investments in Ontario Business

On December 13, 2007, the Government of Ontario started handing out holiday goodies in the form of investments and tax reduction.

The proposed tax reduction goodies included:

The elimination of capital tax rates for Ontario...

Canadian Dollar Hits 1.0617, A 130 Year High

On October 31, 2007, the Canadian dollar closed at its highest point in 130 years - at $1.0617 to a U.S. dollar.  The increase is, in part, the result of the U.S. Federal Reserve rate cut.  Canadians are not talking...