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Federal and Provincial Budget Highlights

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Every year, federal and provincial budgets bring changes to tax rules that may impact Canadians and privately controlled corporations. MNP is committed to providing you with the latest budget-related updates to optimize your tax planning, corporate structures, and investment strategies.

Unleashing Canada’s potential – recommendations to the House of Commons

MNP’s Am Lidder, Senior Vice President of Tax Services, and Kim Drever, Regional Tax Leader, Edmonton, presented policy considerations to the House of Commons to help drive Canada’s economic recovery.

2023 Federal Budget Highlights

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance the Honourable Chrystia Freeland tabled the Federal Government’s 2023 Budget on March 28, 2023. Highlights include:

  • Changes to the rules on intergenerational business transfers (Bill C-208)
  • Expansion of the Alternative Minimum Tax for individuals
  • New rules to facilitate the use of Employee Ownership Trusts 

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Am Lidder FCPA, FCA

Senior Vice President, Tax Services

Amanjit (Am) Lidder, CPA, CA, is the Senior Vice President of Tax Services with MNP. As the leader of MNP’s Tax Group and a member of the firm’s management team, she oversees all facets of the firm’s tax practice, providing management and strategic guidance to tax specialists across Canada. Within her role as the Senior Vice President of Taxation Services Am is the Chair of MNP’s Tax Executive Committee.

Am has extensive expertise in Canadian taxation, providing a wide range of tax planning and compliance services to mid-market organizations and their shareholders. Working one-on-one with clients, she delivers effective advice and strategies for corporate and personal tax planning, estate and succession planning and corporate reorganizations, as well as merger and acquisition planning. Am strives to fully understand her clients and their businesses, allowing her to tailor solutions to their objectives.

Am has been involved in and presented at numerous tax conferences hosted by CPA Canada and the Canadian Tax Foundation. She is also active in the tax education community, previously serving on the CPA Canada Education Committee, the Advisory and Planning Committee for CPA Canada’s National Conference on Income Taxes and on the CTF British Columbia Tax Conference Program Committee. Currently Am is an active member of the CPA Canada Tax Advisory Committee.

Am is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA), qualifying as a Chartered Accountant (CA) in 2001. She received a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Northern British Columbia in 1998. Am is also the Chair of MNP’s Tax Executive Committee and has served as a Director on MNP’s Board.