Report on Small Business newsletter: PayPal providing CRA with information about business accounts

PayPal ordered to provide CRA with information about business accounts

PayPal has been ordered to provide the Canada Revenue Agency with information about its business account holders.

The company says a Federal Court order requires it to supply information about business accounts that received or sent a payment between Jan. 1, 2014, and Nov. 10, 2017.

It is not required to provide information about customers who have personal PayPal accounts. Full story

Ottawa, Ontario move to make peace with small business. Will it be enough?

The Ontario and federal Liberals are discovering that, once lost, the love of small-business owners is tough to win back. But they sure are trying.

Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa announced Tuesday in his fall fiscal update that the government will cut the small-business tax rate by a percentage point, to 3.5 per cent, on Jan. 1. It will also roll out $500-million in new programs for smaller companies. Full story (Globe subscribers)

Nurse Next Door co-founder wants to avoid these mistakes with his new venture

John DeHart is co-founder of Nurse Next Door, a home care service provider for seniors with more than 140 locations across North America. Three years ago, he took a step back from running the business and, shortly after, launched Live Well Exercise Clinics, a franchise that offers physician-prescribed fitness care. I spoke with Mr. DeHart about how he's applying the lessons he learned at his first business to his new venture. Full story

Condo boom squeezes out small business retailers

When realtor Alexandra Cote bought an apartment in the Carnaby, Streetcar Development's mixed-use condo at Gladstone and Queen West, the company's sales pitch made a point of enticing buyers with a promise of a new Metro supermarket in the podium, on the ground floor. "It was a selling point," Ms. Cote says. Full story

Ontario to ease regulations on financial startups

Ontario is opening up some of its regulations to give financial startups more opportunities to test new products and services in a bid by the province to boost the fast-growing financial technology sector. Full story

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