You must pay taxes, but there’s no law that you have to leave a tip
We take care of everything else
We minimize the stress and burden of your finances by:
Understanding the issues related to your personal and corporate finances including common medical billing arrangements, real estate, investments and insurance.
Corresponding directly with your financial advisors, bank, lawyer and CRA on your behalf.
Minimizing your taxes using well-conceived strategies defendable in the very unlikely event of an audit.
Who We Work With
Residents & Fellows
Bokhaut prepares basic personal tax returns for resident physicians and their spouses free of charge.
Our expertise is in areas including:
✓ Tax treatment of fellowship and scholarship income earned in Canada and abroad
✓ Coordinating US and Canadian tax filings
✓ Resident retention grants and loans
✓ Moving expenses and relocation incentives
✓ Expenses common to medical residents
Physicians
Our services are designed to allow physicians to fully understand their finances while eliminating the task of administering their finances. Our services include:
✓ Providing an independent second opinion on all financial decisions
✓ Sourcing other professionals with experience servicing physicians
✓ Corresponding with CRA on all matters
✓ Decision to incorporate or to dissolve a corporation
✓ Tax planning for investment and real estate income
✓ Corporate reorganizations and estate planning
Clinics
Our experience representing clinics are of particular help to small medical clinics without the need for a full time financial professional to manage their affairs. Services include:
✓ Arranging financing to purchase, establish or expand clinics
✓ Design and review of cost sharing and associate agreements
✓ Tax planning associated with clinics
✓ Goods and Services Tax issues
✓ Structuring compensation for associate physicians
Partners
Brad Bokhaut, CPA
Brad Bokhaut, CPA
Brad Bokhaut has been assisting physicians with their financial management needs since 1998.
Brad understands that busy physicians have complex financial and tax affairs and appreciate the services of a Chief Financial Officer – someone with the expertise to coordinate all their financial needs.
He has well established relationships with other professionals – lawyers, bankers, financial advisors, insurance representatives and others who also have significant experience servicing physicians, and accounting staff at various hospitals and medical clinics, and communicates with them directly.
Brad has been quoted in CMAJ and has delivered presentations on taxation issues for Doctors Manitoba, MD Management, Law Society of Manitoba, PARIM, Manitoba Clinic Management Group and various investment advisory firms.
Lainey Bokhaut, CPA
Lainey works with residents, attendings, medical corporations, and clinics.
She often works with new to practice physicians, guiding them through the path of debt repayment, incorporation, and financial literacy.
Lainey is a recurring lecturer for the Canadian Medical Association, providing bi-annual seminars to resident physicians of the University of Manitoba.
Lainey Bokhaut, CPA
Lainey Bokhaut, CPA
Lainey advises medical residents on financial management and helps them to build a foundation of financial literacy. She also works with practicing physicians, their medical corporations, and medical clinics.
Lainey teaches financial and taxation literacy to resident physicians of the University of Manitoba as part of the CMA Practice Management Curriculum.
Lainey sits on the Board and Audit Committee of the Jewish Foundation. She also coaches the Entrepreneurship team at Asper School of Business.
Management Team
Our goal is to help you spend your leisure time with friends and family. Leave your financial affairs to us.
What Our Clients Think
Blogs
The Season of Giving – is it taxable?
As the holiday season approaches, it is not unusual for doctors to provide gifts to their employees, hospital administrative staff, colleagues, and nurses. While these gifts are generous gestures, they may result in unexpected tax implications. Gifts to Employees When...
Financial Considerations of Buying a Home
There is a lot to think about when you buy your first home. What colour should you paint the living room? What should the extra bedroom be used for? A home office? A gym? Or maybe a nursery? Outside of aspirational objectives, there are many practical matters...
Fall Economic Update 2022 – A 5 Minute Summary of the Relevant Provisions for Physicians
Overall Analysis: New details were scarce in the 2022 Fall Economic Statement; for the most part, the Honorable Chrystia Freeland provided more detail on the 2022 Budget Proposals. In summary, the provisions most relevant for physicians were as follows: PROPOSAL:...
Connect With Us
Phone: (204) 947-1962
Fax: (204) 942-6061
Email: reception@bokhaut.ca
Free Parking
We offer free parking for our clients on the 2nd floor of the parkade located on 35 Albert Street. Please park in one of the available spots below the third floor and provide the receptionist your license number to validate your parking.