March 10, 2010By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
Recently, I have been informed of two NAFTA verifications being conducted by the Canadian Government in order to verify the correctness of NAFTA certificates of origin provided by U.S. companies and one NAFTA verification being...
Posted in Trade Law, Canada, Mexico, USA, Customs Duties, NAFTA Dispute Settlement, Free Trade Agreements, Global Compliance & Risk Management, Government Relations, NAFTA Developments | No Comments
March 10, 2010By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
On March 8, 2010, Canada's Export & Import Controls Bureau of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (the "EICB") announced it is engaging in consultations with interested Canadian companies and wishes to...
Posted in Aviation & Aerospace Law, Internet & E-Commerce Law, Trade Law, Canada, Border Security Initiatives, Export Controls and Economic Sanctions, Global Compliance & Risk Management, Government Relations, International Intellectual Property Protection | No Comments
March 10, 2010By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
On March 10, 2010, Canada's Minister of International Trade, Peter Van Loan, tabled in the House of Commons legislation to implement the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, the Canada-Colombia Agreement on Labour Cooperation...
Posted in Trade Law, Canada, Free Trade Agreement Negotiations, Preferential Tariffs | No Comments
March 06, 2010By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
To little fanfare and no media attention, on January 4, 2010, The Honourable Jean-Pierre Blackburn, Minister of National Revenue and Minister of State (Agriculture and Agri-Food) announced proposed changes to electronic filing...
Posted in GST/PST and Other Non-Income Taxes, Harmonization, Canada, Government Relations, Global Compliance & Risk Management | No Comments
March 06, 2010By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) is developing and posting webcasts to help businesses prepare for harmonized sales tax (HST). The three that are available can be found at this link -...
Posted in Harmonization, GST/PST and Other Non-Income Taxes, Canada, Government Relations, Global Compliance & Risk Management | No Comments
March 05, 2010By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
The March 4, 2010 Canadian Federal Budget attaches a Ways and Mean Motion amending the "financial services" definition in the Excise Tax Act (a.k.a. the GST Legislation). These legislative amendments are not discussed in...
Posted in GST/PST and Other Non-Income Taxes, Canada Law Blog, Administrative and Regulatory Law, Canada, Global Compliance & Risk Management, Government Relations, International Tax | No Comments
March 03, 2010By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
As the present time, the Ontario Government does not pay goods and services tax on any supplies of property and services. The reason is that the Federal Government does not currently pay goods and services tax is that it cannot,...
Posted in Canada Law Blog, Harmonization, GST/PST and Other Non-Income Taxes, Public Private Partnerships/Project Finance, Canada, Global Compliance & Risk Management, Government Relations, Government Procurement Bid Challenges | No Comments
March 01, 2010By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
On February 25, 2010, Canada's Department of Finance released its proposed harmonized sales tax (HST) place of supply rules which will be used to determine whether a supplier must charge, collect and remit HST in connection with...
Posted in GST/PST and Other Non-Income Taxes, Harmonization, Administrative and Regulatory Law, Canada, Global Compliance & Risk Management, Government Relations, International Tax | No Comments
March 01, 2010By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
On February 26, 2010, the Canada Border Services Agency released Customs Notice CN-10-002 "Key Changes to the Administrative Monetary Penalty System (AMPS) Regime as a Result if the AMPS Fundamental Review". Please go to the...
Posted in GST/PST and Other Non-Income Taxes, Canada, Border Security Initiatives, Customs Duties, Global Compliance & Risk Management, Government Relations | No Comments
March 01, 2010By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
Last week at the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants Commodity Tax Symposium West in Calgary, a representative of Ontario stated to the audience that Ontario planned to conduct retail sales tax audits of most businesses...
Posted in GST/PST and Other Non-Income Taxes, Harmonization, Canada, Government Relations, Global Compliance & Risk Management, International Tax | No Comments
February 28, 2010By: Susan Kohn Ross
There was much fanfare in the general press in January concerning Department of Justice’s arrest and indictment of 22 executives and employees of companies that transact business involving military and law-enforcement products....
Posted in Anti-Bribery/Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Corruption - Foreign Corrupt Practices Act/Corruption of Foreign Public Officials, Africa, Australia / New Zealand, Canada, China, European Economic Community, India, Mexico, South Korea | No Comments
February 28, 2010By: Susan Kohn Ross
In a January 2010 Alert, we mentioned the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) indictment of John Warwick of Ports Engineering Consultants Corp. (PECC). For more details and background, click...
Posted in Anti-Bribery/Anti-Money Laundering, Africa, Australia / New Zealand, Canada, China, European Economic Community, India, Mexico, South Korea, Thailand | No Comments
February 28, 2010By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
On February 25, 2010, Canada's Department of Finance released its proposed harmonized sales tax (HST) place of supply rules which will be used to determine whether a supplier (Seller) must charge, collect and remit HST in...
Posted in Canada Law Blog, GST/PST and Other Non-Income Taxes, Harmonization, Canada, International Transactions | No Comments
February 26, 2010By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
I am a huge fan of Seth Godin. However, he scared me this morning by beating me to a post. While Seth's post entitled "It's easier to teach compliance than initiative" (go to the following link - sethgodin.typepad.com) has...
Posted in GST/PST and Other Non-Income Taxes, Harmonization, Administrative and Regulatory Law, Canada, Customs Duties, Global Compliance & Risk Management, Government Relations, International Tax, International Transactions | No Comments
February 25, 2010By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
On February 25, 2010 (88 days until harmonization implementation in Ontario and British Columbia), the Department of Finance released the proposed harmonized sales tax (HST) place of supply rules. Here is a link to the pages of...
Posted in Canada Law Blog, GST/PST and Other Non-Income Taxes, Canada, Government Relations, Global Compliance & Risk Management, International Tax, International Transactions, Taxation, Harmonization | No Comments
February 23, 2010By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
On February 22, 2010, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has issued final determinations of dumping and subsidizing in respect of oil country tubular goods, made of carbon or alloy steel, welded or seamless,...
Posted in Canada, China, Government Relations, Global Compliance & Risk Management, Anti-Dumping, Countervailing Duties | No Comments
