The seminar, online
You have read the pages. Would you rather hear the whole argument in one sitting?
Most of what is on this site started life in a room with a projector at the back of it. This is that presentation. It plays in this window and there is nothing to download.
What is actually in it?
The running order moves whenever the numbers move, and it moves every January, so take the following as the shape of the thing rather than as a contents page.
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The four ways money leaves a corporation, and what each one costs the same shareholder on the same balance. British Columbia figures unless a slide says otherwise.
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Why an RRSP deduction behaves like a loan, what the terms of that loan turn out to be, and roughly how many years of retirement income it takes to repay.
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What lands on a final return the day an incorporated professional dies, given that Canada has no estate tax and families still lose most of it.
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Where the coverage question and the corporate return meet, which is the part your accountant and your advisor have probably never discussed with each other.
Some of this you will already know. Some of it you will have half known for years without anybody putting a number beside it. Nothing in it is a product pitch, because there is nothing on this website to buy.
It is the full seminar, so it runs to a couple of hundred slides. Very few people watch it end to end in one go, and the viewer is built for that — it keeps your place, and you can pick it up where you stopped for the next thirty days.
Before you fill this in
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It opens in your browser
The slides render inside this page, one at a time. There is no file, no attachment, no link to save and nothing to email to somebody else. -
There is a two-minute wait
After you press the button you get a clock. It is a real two minutes and it is deliberate, and the page will tell you exactly why while it runs. -
Your details stay here
Name, email and phone, stored on this website. They are not sold, not passed to a carrier and not added to a list you did not ask to be on.
Three fields
The phone number is there because a fair number of people who watch this send a question afterwards, and a question about your own structure is a two-minute phone call rather than a three-email thread.
Articles on the same subjects, with their sources attached. Opening one does not cost you your place.
Two minutes.
Your details are stored. Nothing is downloading and nothing is being prepared, so we are not going to pretend a progress bar is doing work.
The wait is on purpose. This is a presentation that was built to be watched in a room, sitting down, with the phone face down, and two minutes is roughly what it takes to become the sort of person who is about to do that. Plenty of people close the tab here. That is a perfectly reasonable thing to do and it is why the wait exists.
It opens in this window when the clock runs out. You do not have to keep watching the clock for it to count, and if you wander off and come back to this page later it will still be here.
Arrow keys move a slide at a time and Home and End go to either end. The slider takes you anywhere in the deck — it waits until you let go before it loads anything, so dragging it costs nothing. This browser keeps your place for thirty days.
That is the end of it. If one slide raised a question about your own file, fifteen minutes on the phone is the shortest way to answer it.
The presentation is general information about Canadian tax, corporate structure and insurance planning. It is not tax, legal, accounting or investment advice, and it does not take account of your own file. Figures in it are illustrative and are British Columbia figures unless a slide says otherwise. Confirm current numbers before acting on any of them.
Life insurance licences are held in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario. Quebec is pending. Prabhjit Virk is not a Canadian CPA.