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Tax Bytes: Week of June 30, 2025

Welcome to this week’s edition of Tax Bytes. Our team of tax lawyers is actively monitoring for federal and international tax developments and issues of note. Each week we pull together the items we deem most important to...more

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A Look at Canada’s Ongoing Efforts to Combat Bribery and Corruption

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In October 2023, the Working Group on Bribery in International Business Transactions for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released and adopted a report evaluating Canada’s enforcement of the...more

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White House Executive Orders Impacting Tax and Trade – Developments of the Week of February 3, 2025

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Last week, the White House issued two Executive Order (EO) updates delaying the imposition of 25-percent tariffs on both Mexico and Canada until March 4, 2025, stating in both EO updates: “In recognition of the steps taken by...more

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EPA Delays Start Date for PFAS Reporting Under TSCA Section 8(a)(7), While Mandatory PFAS Reporting in Canada Is Still Ongoing

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On September 5, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published in the Federal Register a direct final rule with a parallel proposed rule to delay the reporting period for the October 2023 final rule that...more

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New Excessive and Unfair Pricing Provisions in Force in Canada’s Competition Act: Risk and Compliance Considerations

Canada’s Competition Act was amended effective December 15, 2023 to both (i) establish a new, more expansive framework for challenging anti-competitive conduct by dominant firms and (ii) specifically provide that it is an...more

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Government of Canada Releases Package of Proposed Domestic and International Tax Legislation

The Department of Finance (Finance) released draft tax legislation for public consultation on August 4, 2023, with a stated focus on promoting tax fairness and a clean economy. The most significant item released is the...more

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Quarterly Cartel Catch-Up: Year-End Edition 2022

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In 2022, antitrust authorities around the world were pursuing more investigations, bringing new types of cases, and making policy changes to spark even more enforcement actions. In the United States, the Department of...more

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Reviewing the 2022 Fall Economic Statement and Other Announcements

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The past week was a busy one for Canada’s Department of Finance (“Finance”). On November 3, 2022, Finance released its 2022 Fall Economic Statement (the “Fall Economic Statement”) and the following day, it introduced Bill...more

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Highlights of Canada’s Latest Legislative Tax Proposals

The Department of Finance recently released a package of materials containing potential changes to the Canadian tax system (Tax Proposals). The materials, released on August 9, 2022, include draft amendments to the Income Tax...more

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Canada Confirms Intention to Institute New Interest and Deductibility Rules

The Department of Finance (Canada) (Finance) released draft legislation on February 4, 2022 that would limit the deduction of “interest and financing expenses” to a fixed percentage of earnings before interest, taxes,...more

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Quarterly Cartel Catch-Up: Recent Developments in Criminal Antitrust for Busy Corporate Counsel - Q1 2022

Since the last edition of the QCC, there has been a series of dramatic developments in the criminal antitrust enforcement space in the U.S. from the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division (Division)....more

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Foreign Investment Review in Canada: Top Trends and Developments for 2022

The past year generated substantial interest in the operation of the Investment Canada Act (ICA), especially the national security review process, against the backdrop of changes in government policy that purport to...more

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Washington Urges Canada Not To Pursue a Digital Services Tax, Warns of Retaliatory Tariffs on Imports From Canada

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In December 2021, Canada announced plans to impose a digital services tax, or DST. A few days later, the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) expressed opposition indicating that if Ottawa were to pursue this plan,...more

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Supreme Court of Canada Upholds Treaty-Based Canadian Holding Structure

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On November 26, 2021, the Supreme Court of Canada (the SCC) released its highly anticipated decision in Canada v Alta Energy Luxembourg SARL, 2021 SCC 49 [Alta Energy Lux], that addressed treaty-based holding structures and...more

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Top Court Blesses Treaty-Shopping Arrangement: The Alta Energy Decision

The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) recently rendered its eagerly awaited decision in Canada v Alta Energy Luxembourg S.A.R.L., 2021 SCC 49 (Alta Energy). Six of the nine justices held that the Canadian statutory general...more

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The Anti-Corruption Chapter in United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement: A First for North American Trade Deals, But Unlikely to Have...

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The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (“USMCA”) went into effect on July 1 of 2020 Unlike its predecessor the North American Free Trade Agreement (“NAFTA”), the USMCA includes an article on anti-corruption, contained in...more

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Canada, PhRMA and Others Challenge U.S. Prescription Drug Rules

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As we previously reported, in July 2019 the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a Safe Importation Action Plan (Action Plan) created with the FDA to allow the importation of certain prescription drugs...more

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Tax Treaty Benefits Threatened as Canada Completes Ratification of OECD's Multilateral Instrument

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On August 29, 2019, Canada completed its domestic ratification of the OECD-sponsored Multilateral Convention to Implement Tax Treaty Related Measures to Prevent Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (the MLI). As noted in our...more

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Dawn Doesn't Break Without Women in Trade

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Business opportunities with Japan under the CPTPP for Canadian women entrepreneurs - The Japanese proverb "dawn doesn't break without a woman" refers to the Shinto sun goddess Amaterasu. Revered as “the great divinity...more

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Bennett Jones Speaks before Senate Committee on Tax Issues for Energy Investments

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On May 29, 2019, Darcy Moch, Greg Johnson and Jared Mackey of Bennett Jones participated on a witness panel before the Standing Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade to discuss the application of Bill...more

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Bennett Jones Fall 2018 Economic Outlook

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Section I: Global Growth to 2021 - Recent Developments - The world economy has expanded at a solid rate in the first three quarters of 2018, although growth has been somewhat slower and less synchronized than during...more

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Top Ten International Anti-Corruption Developments for March 2018

In order to provide an overview for busy in-house counsel and compliance professionals, we summarize below some of the most important international anti-corruption developments from the past month, with links to primary...more

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Top Ten International Anti-Corruption Developments for October 2017

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In order to provide an overview for busy in-house counsel and compliance professionals, we summarize below some of the most important international anti-corruption developments from the past month, with links to primary...more

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Canada Just Outlawed Facilitation Payments. Should You?

On October 31, 2017, an amendment to the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (“CFPOA”), Canada’s analog to the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”), made illegal defined ‘facilitation payments.’ The CFPOA now...more

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Is Your Customs Compliance BEPS Ready?

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2016 was the first year of the new transfer pricing reporting regime called Country-by-Country Reporting (CbCR). It will be a major new tool for revenue authorities and will undoubtedly lead to greater audit activity and more...more

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