What You Get
After Registering
In our 30th year, your registration includes more than ever. 8 sessions, an expanded resource library, and new AI applications. All included.
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Learn with Your Peers.
The Colour Purple
2026 Schedule
Tax Update 2026
Important tax changes for 2026 that you need to know.
Bare Trusts Are Back
2026 is finally the year for bare trust filings. We explain the rules with multiple examples of common situations.
Advising Young Adults
Tax issues for young adults illustrated around key life events.
Leaving Canada
What happens when your client becomes a non-resident, key strategies to minimize and postpone tax, and how to avoid a double tax outcome.
Successful Fairness Applications
If you don't ask, you don't get - but how you ask can make a difference. Learn how to maximize the chances of a successful application.
Purchase and Sale of a Business
A practical guide to the key tax considerations on both sides of the transaction.
Owner-Manager Remuneration
Plan an optimum remuneration strategy, illustrated with case studies and AI applications demonstrated live.
Managing a CRA Audit
Audit activity has increased greatly. CRA has new powers and new approaches - including client interviews. A practical guide to managing the process from first contact to resolution.
Tax Avoidance Tools
A fast-paced look at the anti-avoidance tools CRA can deploy against a tax plan, illustrated through mini case studies.
Acquisition of Control
Missing an acquisition of control can have devastating results. Essential knowledge for every advisor on when it arises and what to do about it.
Year-End Tax Planning
The best year-end planning tips for 2026 as we approach December 31.
Meet Your
Presenters
Two of Canada's most respected tax educators. Combined, Michael and Hugh have been presenting at the Tax Seminar Series for over 30 years – bringing deep technical knowledge and a practical, practitioner-first perspective to every session.
Michael Cadesky is the managing partner at Cadesky Tax and a committed contributor to the tax and accounting professions since 1980, earning the title of Fellow from CPA Ontario. He is a past governor of the Canadian Tax Foundation, past chair of STEP Canada and STEP Worldwide, and past chair of the CPA Canada Tax Committee for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises. Michael is the co-author of 11 books on tax subjects and the author or co-author of numerous papers and articles on Canadian and international taxation.
Hugh Woolley is an independent tax consultant who has taught income tax for over 30 years for a number of different professional organizations. Hugh has written courses for CPA Canada and over 10 papers for the B.C. Tax Conference, as well as papers for the CTF's National Tax Conference and STEP Canada's National Conference. From 1990-1992 he worked at the CRA's Rulings Directorate in Ottawa writing "butterfly" tax rulings. Hugh is a past Governor of the Canadian Tax Foundation.
Every seminar in the Tax Seminar Series is built to the Gold Standard — a framework refined over 30 years to ensure that every registrant leaves with the tools, context, and confidence to apply what they have learned.
Hear From
Past Attendees
Greatly enjoy your tax courses — very informative, practical and relevant. Complex subject matter is presented in a logical and understandable manner. The illustrations have been very useful and used as a template to work through client scenarios. I find the live Q&A equally informative, as many of the questions I have are addressed.
Michael and Hugh created a positive learning environment and encouraged meaningful participation throughout the sessions.
I very much love the courses and only wished I knew about them 10 years ago.
I am very appreciative of your courses. They are always informative with an easy to follow presentation. The accompanying notes are a terrific reference backup for future consultations. I wish I had known about your webinars sooner.
The presentations are relevant. The material is easy to follow. Worked examples are excellent. It is a great value.
I really enjoy your seminar series. Your presentations are extremely thorough and you explain complex tax issues very clearly.
Thanks for providing all the great courses. They are very practical, useful and interesting.
