The Fraser Valley Tax Memo
Tax news is mostly noise about things that don’t apply to you. The Memo is the opposite: once a month, the two or three changes that actually touch an incorporated owner, the next deadline on your calendar, and one thing worth doing before next month — each traced to the same sourced pages as everything else on this site.
Quick answer: One email a month, written by a CPA: what changed (only if it affects small business), what’s due next, and one practical action. Unsubscribe is one click and the address is never shared. Sign up below.
What each tax memo contains
What changed — drawn from the same continuously re-verified research behind the tax updates page, filtered hard: if a change does not touch an owner-managed business or its household, it does not make the Memo. What’s due — the next dates from the deadline calendar that actually apply to small companies. One thing worth doing, a single concrete action with the reasoning attached: review instalments before the quarter turns, issue the resolution before the dividend, check the GST frequency election.
What it will never be
No daily anything. No “insights.” No forwarding your address, no partner offers, no unsubscribe archaeology — one click and you are out. The Memo exists because clients kept asking the same excellent question: “how would I even know when something changes?” This is how.
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One email a month. Unsubscribe any time. Your address is never shared.
Prefer it as it happens?
The deadline reminder service emails only when a date that applies to you approaches, and the RSS feed carries every new guide the day it publishes. The Memo is the once-a-month digest of both, with judgement added.
A memo records a conclusion; reaching one is the advisory work a memo is written for.
Prepared and reviewed by a Chartered Professional Accountant at EverStone CPA, an Abbotsford CPA firm working with small businesses and incorporated owners across the Fraser Valley and Canada. About the firm → · Book a free consult →
Who reads the memo, and why it is short
The readers are owners of incorporated businesses, mostly in the Fraser Valley, mostly running the business themselves. They are not reading a newsletter to learn tax; they are reading it so that a change which affects them does not arrive as a letter from the CRA six months later. That sets the length. If an issue takes longer than two minutes to read, it has failed.
Everything in it is chosen against one test: would an owner do something differently having read it? A rate that moved by a tenth of a percentage point does not pass that test. A filing threshold that has just caught businesses of a certain size does, and so does a deadline that falls on a weekend and therefore moves.
What the memo does not do
It does not give advice on your situation, because a monthly email cannot know your facts. It names what changed, who it reaches and what the deadline is, and where a change deserves a decision it says so and points at the page that works it through. It also never sells anything: there is no offer in it, and the only link to us is the one at the bottom of every issue.
Memo questions
How often does it arrive?+
Is it actually written by a CPA?+
Is this the same as the deadline reminders?+
The next issue is already being written
Get it when it lands, and nothing else, ever.
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