November 20, 2024
Landlords Are Facing Massive Pressure To Deliver More Tenant Incentives
Things are getting considerably more difficult for landlords. They are dealing with very significant increases in their cost structure due to the impact of inflation and at the same time they are ...
Read moreNovember 19, 2024
Housing Inflation (Renters & Owners) Are Crushing Canadians
The Cost of Living Crisis facing Canadians is going from bad to worse. It's absolutely brutal out there for the average Canadian that rents or owns. The screen shot below is from Mark Mitchel...
Read moreMay 27, 2024
British Columbia Passes New Gig Worker Rules For Personal Expense Reimbursement
The province of British Columbia is the 1st province in Canada to create new Gig Worker laws around personal expenses.We anticipate that every province is going to follow the lead of British Co...
Read moreMarch 28, 2024
Government Of Canada Attempts To Make Rent More Affordable
The key take away is that the level of documentation & substantiation is now growing for renters (see Trudeau's quote below.)It's why we exist as our underlying thesis is that the tax authoriti...
Read moreMarch 27, 2024
Average USA Rents $1,959 & Mortgage Payments $2,658
Things are getting interesting in the US as it pertains to shelter costs.All around the world the direction of the chart is the same as in the USA.For the last 18 months shelter costs (rent and mor...
Read moreMarch 24, 2024
19.6% Of All Canadian Renters Were In Arrears In 2023
We knew things were bad....We built our entire company around this assumption backed by imperical 3rd party market research from irrefutable organizations.We didn't expect it to be this bad, and we...
Read moreMarch 21, 2024
47% Of Canadians Living Paycheck To Paycheck In September Of 2023
According to one of the most respected polling companies in the country, 47% of Canadians were living paycheck to paycheck in September of 2023.We think that things have got substantially worse not...
Read moreMarch 20, 2024
Secret RCMP report warns Canadians may revolt once they realize how broke they are
This isn't hyperbole, nor is it conspiracy theory.The author is not just accredited, but also writes for the number one National newspaper in the country.Direct Quotes from the article :A secret RC...
Read moreMarch 17, 2024
70% Of Canadians Will Quit Their Jobs In The Next 12 Months
Employee engagement is getting worse and not better.We believe that there is a direct correlation between the very rapid increase in the cost of living, higher taxes (local, state, federal and sale...
Read moreMarch 15, 2024
One Of Canada's Most Respected Real Estate Industry Experts Rants About Tax Authority Auditing
Ron Butler is one of Canada's most respected Real Estate Industry players.He has a very large following in Canada with 90% of his audience being Real Estate Agents and other industry players.He has...
Read moreMarch 14, 2024
IRS Launches Free Tax Filing Software
The IRS has just launched it's free tax filing software for Americans.They have been talking about doing this for the last 5 years and it is finally here.We think this is going to be significantly ...
Read moreMarch 11, 2024
Average Canadian That Owes Taxes Owes $5,729
The CRA has published some interim statistics for this tax filing season for the period until March 11th.You'll see in the graph and table below the following :The average refund for those that are...
Read moreMarch 11, 2024
Average Rent In Canada In February 2024 Is $2,193 A 10% Year Over Year Increase
Canada's housing market is the most unaffordable in the world when measured against average incomes.63% of the average Canadian Gross Income goes to pay taxes and rent, and the economic situation i...
Read moreMarch 11, 2024
28% Drop In The USA For Mandatory Monday To Friday In Office Requirements In 1 Year
A drop from 49% of Employers to 35% of Employers Is A 28% ReductionAbsolutely what we predicted and the number of Employers forcing employees back Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm is only going to decre...
Read moreMarch 5, 2024
Chicago Vacancy Rates Are More Than Double Pre-Pandemic Levels & Office Conversions Occuring
The key take away from this article is the deepest subject matter experts in the world (property developers) and those that have real skin in the game (property developers) are making the bet that ...
Read moreMarch 1, 2024
The Most Pro Business State In The United States Is Experiencing A 34% Reduction In Average Commercial Real Estate Leases
Texas is one of the most pro-businesses in the United States.Dozens of companies are relocating from less business friendly jurisdictions due to a host of reasons.In theory when corporate campuses ...
Read moreMarch 1, 2024
Employers Are Now Hiring New Employees On Average 270% Further From The Office vs. Pre-Pandemic
What is more shocking is when you factor in the area of the circle of hiring... Area of a circle is pie*radius^2So if the radius is 2.7 and pie is 3.14 the recruitment area has grown to by a factor...
Read moreFebruary 29, 2024
1 In 7 Canadian Mortgage Balances Are Growing
What is a mortgage that has a “negative amortization"? In 2008 this would be called a mortgage default, and this new definition of “negative amortization” is an attempt not to panic the markets. ...
Read moreFebruary 29, 2024
23% Increase In CRA Audit Activity In February 2024
CRA is substantially increasing it's audit activities; which is no surprise given the explosion in the number of employees it has.One of Canada's largest Audit Insurance protection companies posted...
Read moreFebruary 26, 2024
30% Of US Commercial Real Estate Needs To Be Permanently Demolished
The deepest subject matter experts in the world in Commercial Real Estate are all saying the same thing... There is a very big problem with the global state of the commercial real estate market.In ...
Read moreFebruary 2, 2024
Local Property Taxes To Skyrocket Due To Work From Home Impact
The article below is specific to Boston, but when you read the article you'll see that it is true for every Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 city in the Western World.Long story short is that property ta...
Read moreFebruary 1, 2024
61% Of Canadians Could Not Afford An Unexpected $1,000 Expense
Angus Reid is the most respected polling organization in Canada.They have been around for decades and they prioritize data and analysis over political agenda.The results are not surprising for Cana...
Read moreJanuary 23, 2024
CRA's Headcount Has Grown 49.5% In 8 Years (June 2023)
The headcount has grown (since last measured) by 49.5% in 8 years.We believe that the headcount is even higher.Do you believe that the CRA is going to be targeting billionaires or the small fry tha...
Read moreJanuary 21, 2024
US Department Of Labour Could Override State Laws On "Employee vs. Independent Contractor" Status For Gig Workers
We have been predicting and warning people that these changes were on the way and were part of a broader set of challenges governments all over the world are looking to solve.The challenges these g...
Read moreJanuary 20, 2024
40% Of Americans In 2022 Had A Side Hustle
ARTICLE SOURCE : https://zapier.com/blog/side-hustle-report-2022/
Read moreJanuary 5, 2024
CRA Now Implementing New Reporting Requirements For RRSPs & RRIFs Documentation & Substantiation Growing
You will see from the CRA and all tax authorities globally, a massive spike in the documentation and substantiation requirements for personal taxes.The reasons are pretty simple :Governments around...
Read moreJanuary 4, 2024
Employee Engagement Globally & In The USA Drops In 2023
The trends are clear and employee engagement is dropping and employee dissatisfaction is growing.Our thesis is that there is a direct correlation between forced Return To The Office (RTO) and the i...
Read moreJanuary 1, 2024
CRA Lets You Go Back 10 Years To Change Your Tax Filing
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) lets an individual tax payer change their returns going back 10 years.This creates an opportunity for any Canadian that forgot or didn't know that they could claim d...
Read moreJanuary 1, 2024
34% Of Americans & 49% Of Parents With Kids Under The Age Of 18 Had Side Hustles In 2021
One in three Americans—34 percent—have a side hustle. 61.1 million Americans (24 percent) plan to start a side hustle in 2021.That's according to a recent Zapier survey of 2,001 Americans over 18...
Read moreJanuary 1, 2024
Want To Understand The Regulatory Challenges Facing US Gig Workers?
A 20 minute video that speaks to the US Gig Economy and the regulatory state of affairs facing all stakeholders. Complexity is increasing not decreasing.The associated requirement to address this ...
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