Here's why rock stars get stuck on a highway to tax hell when they tour Canada

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Angus Young and his advisers have long figured the Canadian tax system out. But the mid-tier and emerging acts who don't have a battalion of tax experts can get shot down in flames by the compliance complexity.

Hells bells, I’ll be in Vancouver for my sixth AC/DC concert in a couple of weeks. My roots are classical: grade 10 piano, grade 6 theory and a stretch when I thought I’d become a music teacher rather than a tax accountant. But classical music is work for my brain; I can’t read or study with it playing because I end up dissecting the timing and key changes.

Classic rock and blues ask nothing of me: three chords, a simple beat and l...

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