Self-Employed and Business Income
The following articles are available on our web site, under the topic “Self-Employed and Business Income”:
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Forecasting the Earning Capacity of
Self-Employed Individuals
- Summer 1996 Expert Witness (1.2)
- In this article Denise Froese introduces Statistics Canada's Small Business Profiles, a source of information concerning the earnings of self-employed business owners.
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Issues in Loss of Income
Calculations for Self-Employed Individuals
- Summer 1997 Expert Witness (2.2)
- In this article, Scott Beesley outlines various factors which complicate the assessment of the loss of income for self-employed individuals. After clearly laying out the potential pitfalls in these cases, he reviews a number of approaches which might be employed to maximise the accuracy of these estimates.
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D’Amato v. Badger –
Complications Arising when the Plaintiff is a Business
Partner
- Winter 1997 Expert Witness (2.4)
- In this article Christopher Bruce and Scott Beesley bring clarity to some of the complex issues that surround the loss of income which arises when the proprietor of a small business is injured. In particular, they deal with the situation encountered in the recent Supreme Court decision of D’Amato v. Badger, in which D’Amato was a partner in a small business. The issue of compensation became clouded because D’Amato, through his partner’s generosity, was in receipt of a wage post-accident that exceeded the value of his contribution, given his compromised condition.
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Mitigation vs. Rights in
Self-Employed Cases
- Winter 1998 Expert Witness (3.4)
- In this article, Scott Beesley discusses some interesting points concerning the issue of injured business owners and their future loss of income.
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Under-reporting of Income by the
Self-Employed
- Winter 2002/03 Expert Witness (7.3)
- In this article Scott Beesley discusses a technique that can be used to estimate the extent to which a self-employed worker has under-reported his net business income.