George E. Dube, CPA, CA, MAcc
Saving the world from tax, one bow tie at a time®
Do wonderful things®
“Go and talk to the guy wearing the bow tie.”
My ears perked up. I had been attending a real estate workshop with several hundred people, and across the sea of voices, that is what I heard. It was one of the very first times I sported the fashion accessory, and I’ve never looked back.
It’s safe to say that I am not your average tax accountant or real estate investor. My “bow tie” sense of style is perfectly paired with a love of “jumping up on stage” to give presentations, which is just part of what’s made people continue to seek me out through all my years in the business. I have a unique set of skills and qualifications that I’ve learned and earned over a lifetime of experience as a Chartered Professional Accountant. Investors seek me out to co-found real estate projects; others look to participate in deals that I help put together. Medical professionals look to me to empower them to think beyond conventional wealth creation and tax savings. But what’s my specialty?
The answer lies in my mission statement: To help people build and protect their real estate portfolio and businesses so they can do wonderful things for their families and their causes.
Most accountants will have real estate clients, but a very small number will have substantial real estate portfolios, like I do, that allow them to meld the technical expertise with the practical. My planning services are for select clients investing in Canadian real estate or medical professionals, where I provide bleeding edge tax strategies and access to opportunities to grow wealth in ways normally reserved for the high net worth Canadian families. Whether it is working with my co-founders, co-investors, or with my tax planning clients in real estate, development, and the medical profession, to me, it’s helping families build, retain, and protect their real estate and investment portfolios, and related businesses. In turn, they can meet whatever their objectives are.
Helping people is just how I was brought up. “Go to church and do good for people,” is what he heard. For me, it’s my spiritual health that allows me such generous natural wealth, which I intend to largely give away to others.
I believe my time on earth is a test for what is to come. Thinking of St. Paul, when I’m done my time here, I should feel like a wet towel which has been wrung dry and has no more water to give. I’m currently unlimited from a cap perspective in what I can donate and share. There is nothing stopping me from buying one more property and being able to help somebody.
I really am saving the world from tax, one bow tie at a time®.
