If you or any of your employees are between the ages of 60 and 70 and are collecting CPP benefits while continuing to work, you may have to start contributing to CPP again. On January 1
st, 2012, new rules came into effect for those collecting their benefits while continuing to work.
The federal government has announced a pilot project, the Digital Technology Adoption Pilot Program, aimed at helping SMEs achieve increased productivity. Are you interested in being one of the companies chosen?
One of the most important provisions of the Code of Conduct for the Credit and Debit Card Industry was a provision to allow firms to exit their electronic payment processing contracts with ACQUIRERS or RESELLERS without penalty within 90 days of an unscheduled rate change or the introduction of a new fee. Though the Code contains many more measures to protect your business you must still remain vigilant.
Doing business online can expand your reach to new customers around the world and provide greater convenience to your local customers, but it also comes with risk. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has made available a series of articles featuring simple steps you can take to improve your business system’s “cybersecurity”.
Small businesses have called CFIB to complain of being deceived when receiving forms to update their paid advertising. Typically a form arrives supposedly from Yellow Pages Group (YPG) with a logo similar to the famous ‘walking fingers’. The look and feel of the stylized form is misleading: Once signed the business finds it has committed to paying large amounts to a directory but not Yellow Pages.
