Canadian Tax Courses for CPAs
Cadesky Tax Seminars delivers in-depth tax education built for real-world practice. Learn directly from practicing Canadian tax professionals with decades of expertise in the topics that matter most to your clients.
Cadesky Tax Seminars are produced by Cadesky Tax, an independent tax consulting firm of CPAs.
2026 Tax Seminar Series
Eight online seminars from September to December on the year's most important developments, with live Q&A at every one.
- 20 verifiable CPD hours, including 2 professional ethics hours
- Slides with detailed notes, Technical Corner, and AI applications
- 10+ years of recorded seminars included through the Tax Seminars Archive
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Tax Seminars Archive
10+ years of recorded seminars, indexed by topic so you can find the session that covered the issue in front of you. Tax practiceEthical Issues in Tax Practice
Professional ethics hours built around tax work: document dating, conflicts, trusts, standard of care, and how to measure risk.Canadian Tax Learning Paths
Built for practitioners at any stage. Select a focus area and you get the complete set of courses for it, from foundations through to the harder material.
- Personal Tax6 Programs
- Owner-Manager10 Programs
- Estate Planning4 Programs
- International Tax6 Programs
- Tax Practice3 Programs
- Special Topics6 Programs
Personal Tax courses
Personal returns, property, employment income and the reformed minimum tax. Where most client questions start.
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Alternative Minimum Tax
The reformed AMT rules, in force since 2024, pull in capital gains, donations and employee options at once. Work out who actually gets caught.$150 1.5h CPDView course
Principal Residence Exemption
The exemption everyone assumes they understand, until the change of use under s. 45(2), the extra half hectare, or the trust ownership comes up.$150 2.0h CPDView course
NewOffice In-Home Expenses
The flat rate method is gone. What qualifies now, what the T2200 has to say, and where the claims get denied.$150 1.0h CPDView course
Owner-Manager courses
Private corporations and their shareholders: remuneration, the small business limit, association, and getting the structure right long before a sale.
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NewOwner-Manager Tax Practice
10 structured modules built for practitioners. Covers integration, the small business deduction, refundable tax, remuneration, TOSI income splitting, and the traps that catch owner-managers most often.$650 10.0h CPDView course.png)
NewAssociation Rules
Five tests in subsection 256(1), and a discretionary trust that quietly associates three companies that never met.$150 2.0h CPDView course.png)
Income Splitting Strategies
TOSI compliant splitting that survives a review, including the excluded share and excluded business routes.$150 2.5h CPDView course
Estate Planning courses
Trusts, freezes, succession and taxation at death. Decisions with deadlines, and most of them cannot be reversed.
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Trusts: Common Problems and How to Fix Them
The 21 year rule, T3 trust reporting and four other trust problems, each one taken from a file that had to be repaired.$225 2.5h CPDView course%20(1).png)
Taxation at Death and Post-Mortem
Pipeline, s. 164(6) loss carryback, or both. The post-mortem decisions have a deadline and most of them are irreversible.$150 1.5h CPDView course.png)
Succession of the Family Business
Moving the business to the next generation under the intergenerational transfer rules in s. 84.1 without losing the exemption.$150 2.0h CPDView course
International Tax courses
Cross-border income, foreign affiliates, treaties and departures, written for the CPA without a specialist down the hall.
T1134: Behind the Form
Four hours inside the T1134 foreign affiliate information return, written for the CPA who inherited a foreign affiliate and has no specialist to ask.$225 4.0h CPDView course
Doing Business in the U.S.
Permanent establishment, state nexus and the US LLC question. The structure is far cheaper to get right before the first sale.$225 2.5h CPDView course
NewForeign Tax Credit
Foreign income, Canadian tax, and the country by country s. 126 calculation that decides how much of it you get back.$150 1.5h CPDView course
Tax Practice courses
CRA audits and objections, the mandatory disclosure regimes, and the professional ethics hours your reporting requires.
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Dealing with CRA
CRA audit through notice of objection through taxpayer relief. What works, what escalates, and what to put in writing.$225 3.0h CPDView course.png)
Ethics for CPAs
Conflicts, client pressure and aggressive positions. Where the professional line sits, with the required ethics hours.$150 3.0h CPDView course.png)
Special Reporting Forms
Three mandatory disclosure regimes arrived since 2023. Miss one and the penalty is not proportionate to the oversight.$150 2.0h CPDView course
Special Topics courses
The provisions that need a session of their own: rollovers, acquisition of control, debt forgiveness, SR&ED.
Rollovers Under the Income Tax Act
Every major rollover provision, from s. 85 to ss. 51 and 86, the mechanics of each election, and the drafting errors that undo them.$595 12.5h CPDView course
SR&ED: New Rules, New Opportunities
Higher expenditure limits and wider eligibility for SR&ED credits. What to claim now for clients you had written off as ineligible.$225 2.5h CPDView course
Acquisition of Control
A change of control resets the year, streams the losses and writes down the assets. Plan the sequence around it.$150 1.0h CPDView course
Looking for something specific?
The full catalog holds every program we teach. Search it by topic, filter by area, or answer three questions and we will point you to the right one.
Free verifiable CPD for CPAs
Get a glimpse of Cadesky Tax Seminars and receive a verifiable CPD certificate upon completion. No payment is required. See all free CPD.
Tariffs: 10 Tricky Questions
Michael Cadesky and Robert G. Kreklewetz answer the ten tariff questions Canadian businesses started asking overnight.
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Year-End Tax Planning Seminar (2024)
Two hours on the planning moves worth making before December 31, the ones that no longer work, and what changed in the rules behind them.
The Gold Standard of Tax Education
Every program comes with the seminar recording and the presentation material. The rest is added where the subject calls for it, so check the course page to see what a particular program includes.
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Every program
Seminar recording
The full session as it was presented, ready to watch whenever you have the time for it.
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Every program
Presentation material
The slides used in the session, and on many programs a detailed notes version that takes the discussion further.
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Where notes are included
Colour coded throughout
Green marks a worked example, yellow marks a planning idea, red marks a trap to watch for. You can read a page and see where the risk sits.
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Knowledge assessment
A short assessment to confirm the material landed. Retake it as often as you like.
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Walkthrough videos
The presenter on screen working through the assessment question by question, showing how they get to each answer.
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Technical Corner
The Income Tax Act provisions behind the seminar, explained section by section.
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Series sessions
Live Q&A
Questions put to the presenters during the session and answered on the spot, not routed to a moderator.
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Every program
CPD certificate
Verifiable hours issued the moment you finish, stored in your account and ready for your reporting.
Taught by tax experts
Our presenters are senior Canadian tax specialists with decades of experience between them, across personal, corporate, estate and cross-border tax.
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Michael Cadesky
FCPA, FCA, FTIHK, CTA, TEP (Emeritus)Managing partner at Cadesky Tax and a contributor to tax and accounting since 1980. A lecturer and advisor to government, he has authored numerous papers and books.
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Hugh Woolley
CPA, CA, TEPAn independent tax consultant who has taught income tax for over 30 years. He has written courses for CPA Canada and served as past Governor of the Canadian Tax Foundation.
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Grace Chow
FCPA, FCA, FCCA (UK), FTIHK, CTA, TEPOver 25 years of experience in Canadian and international tax, foreign investment, acquisitions, tax treaties, estate planning and tax disputes.
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Dean Smith
PhD, CFP, TEP, CPA, CA, RWMDean has provided U.S. and Canada cross-border planning and compliance for over 30 years, working with clients caught between two tax systems.
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Matthew Cho
CPA, CA, TEPFor years, Matthew has guided domestic and overseas clients through complex Canadian tax matters.
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Nancy Yan
CPA, CA, TEPPractising taxation since 2000, Nancy specializes in Canadian and international tax, estate planning, cross-border transactions and business structuring.
What CPAs say about the seminars
Your presentations are extremely thorough and you explain complex tax issues very clearly.
The material is easy to follow. Worked examples are excellent. It is a great value.
I enjoyed the practical and realistic solutions to various tax issues.
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