Overview
Did you miss Newbies to Ninjas: Personal Tax from early 2025?
Join us for a RE-RELEASE of our 17th annual Newbies to Ninjas: Personal Tax, a T1 general preparation course.
Turn theory into practice. File T1s with confidence.
Information gatherers are your first line of defence. This pre-recorded 3-hour online course equips your team to collect, organize, and report personal tax data. It also helps them identify red flags and spot planning opportunities. It's all about shifting from theory to real-world skill.
Ideal for those new to tax or feeling a bit rusty, this course builds confidence and efficiency in preparing personal returns and provides tools to identify planning opportunities. Transforming learners into personal tax ninjas.
NOTE: This is a re-release of our 2025 course for 2024 personal tax returns. If you're interested in our course for 2025 personal tax returns, registration for Newbies to Ninjas: Personal Tax 2026 (for 2025 returns) will open in October 2025 and courses will run from mid-February to early May 2026.
Overall experience was great, and I feel more confident in my ability to be a preparer in this tax season. Thank you.
-2025 Attendee
Who Should Attend
- Newer tax preparers and students with at least 1 year of practical experience
- Preparers looking to brush up on personal tax preparation basics
Course Topics
- Employment income
- Business and professional income
- Investment income
- Rental property
- Capital gains
- Tax credits and deductions
- CRA services/support
Excellent! All relevant information. Easy to listen to. Great pace.
-2024 Attendee
Course Includes:
- 4-week access to the Online Course Portal (select your session below)
- 3 hours of video content that you can stop and start anytime
- Downloadable textbook and appendices
- Handy reference guides, including a Personal Income Tax Checklist
- Online course quiz
- Professional development certificate (3 hours) upon successful quiz completion
You'll Learn:
- Major personal tax topics – the ins, outs and current trends
- CRA administrative policy
- What information to gather and the right questions to ask
- When to refer issues to a manager
- Planning considerations
- Operational best practices
As a newbie with limited knowledge, I found most of the material really easy to follow and understand. There is so much information and is a bit overwhelming, but having the text to fall back on is really helpful.
-2024 Attendee
Instructors
Leading the course are seasoned tax specialists and national presenters Hugh Neilson and Joseph Devaney. Together, they combine deep technical knowledge with a passion for teaching, making them ideal guides for newer preparers navigating personal tax returns.
Meet the instructors!
Hugh Neilson FCPA, FCA, TEP
Hugh is a member of the Video Tax News Editorial Board. He also practices as an independent contractor to Kingston Ross Pasnak LLP in Edmonton, AB. His practice focuses on income tax services for individuals and owner-managed private corporations.
Hugh was awarded the Alberta gold medal and National silver medal when he wrote the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants Uniform Final Examination in 1990, and has practiced in the area of taxation since. He provides tax consultation in many diverse areas, including business structuring and restructuring, negotiations with Canada Revenue Agency auditors and Appeals Officers, tax-effective compensation strategies, immigration and emigration planning and strategies for tax-effective personal, family and estate planning.
Hugh is the 2014 recipient of CPA Canada’s Award for Excellence in Income Tax, and a 2017 recipient of a CPA Canada Volunteer Recognition Award.
Hugh serves on a variety of committees and organizations. He is presently a member of CPA Alberta’s Members in Tax Working Group and the Joint Committee on Taxation of CPA Canada and the Canadian Bar Association. Hugh is the Chair of CPA Canada's Small and Medium Practitioners Tax Committee, and the CPA Canada Co-Chair of the CPA Canada - CRA Service Committee. He serves as a Director, and the Treasurer, of the Centre for Public Legal Education of Alberta. He is a former Governor of the Canadian Tax Foundation.
Hugh has instructed, authored and mentored courses for CPA Alberta, CPA Saskatchewan and CPA Manitoba, and has presented at CPA Canada’s National Conference on Income Tax and The One conference, the Banff Small Practitioners Forum and CA Forum North, both sponsored by CPA Alberta, and the Canadian Tax Foundation’s Prairie Provinces Tax Conference.
Connect with Hugh on LinkedIn
Joseph R. Devaney CPA, CA
Joe has provided technical support on both corporate and personal tax matters to local and international firms since 2007. Joe’s practical experience has primarily included compliance and planning strategies for Canadian owner-manager businesses and individuals.
As a member of the Video Tax News Editorial Board, Joe authors and contributes to three tax publications as well as prepares and presents courses across Canada relating to both personal and corporate tax. He has also presented tax research and published articles for a variety of other organizations such as Law Now, Canadian Tax Foundation and various CPA groups.
Joe currently sits on CPA Alberta's Members in Tax Working Group and received CPA Alberta’s distinguished service award in 2023. Joe is a past member the Steering Committee of the Edmonton Young Tax Practitioners Group and of the Board of Directors for Fringe Theatre Adventures.
Connect with Joseph on LinkedIn
Pricing and Viewing Options
Pre-Recorded Sessions
These sessions are fully pre-recorded and available for unlimited viewing during your selected access period. Watch at your own pace — pause, rewind, or skip ahead as needed.
Investment: First registrant: $270 / Additional registrants: $170
• Flexible remote learning from your home or office.
• 3 hours of online video, available anytime during your session dates
• Access to all course materials for your session
• Instant professional development certificate upon course and successful quiz completion
Discounts, Promotions and Fees
- Group registrations (2 or more) — Each additional registrant after the first registration will be $170 (a savings of $100 for each additional registrant). Additional registrants for the same session are accepted after the initial registration. The main contact from the initial registration must initiate and complete the order for additional registrants. Please contact the office via email if required (info@videotax.com).
- Complimentary moderator registration — To access the complimentary registration, register the 6+ individuals and then forward the email receipt to info@videotax.com with the name and email address of the moderator. Your moderator will receive confirmation of their complimentary registration within 3 business days of Video Tax News receiving the email.
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Very helpful information. I learned a lot. Thank you!
-2022 Attendee
Pricing
First registrant: $270
Additional registrants: $170
Registering six or more people? Receive one complimentary early-access registration for the group moderator.