December 2018

Welcome to the December edition of our monthly newsletter. As you are no doubt busy preparing for the holiday season, we are busy ensuring that all of the considerations surrounding the end of another tax year are handled on your behalf. We would like to take this opportunity to point out a couple of housekeeping matters:

Holiday office hours

December 27th is the last trading day in Canada and the US for equity market transactions to settle in 2018. Canadian and US markets will be closed Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. Canadian markets are also closed on December 26th.

The JSK Partners office will be closed from 11am on December 24th through December 28th, and again on January 1st. We will have staff available for contact by phone on the 27th and 28th at our regular numbers, should you have an urgent matter.

We wish you the very best for the holiday season, and hope that you have the opportunity to spend some quality time with family and friends!

All the best,

Tyler, Neil, Dwight, Eddie, Wendy, Brenda, Jessica & Heather
 

 
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