
Matt Pearson
Founder and CEO of Excel Empire, a strategic tax planning firm specializing in proactive tax strategies and business structuring for owners and real estate investors.
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Sep 3, 2026
September 2, 2026 - Part 2: Smart Growth Action Plan Update
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Amy StasiewiczHOST
So why is this important to share this information openly and where can people see this dashboard?

Matt PearsonGUEST
There are, and I'm going to get technical, on pages 51 to 53 of the action plan, if you're all following along at home, you'll see a list of key performance indicators and key performance indicators, both leading and lagging, that kind of feed into those top three performance indicators.

Amy StasiewiczHOST
So we have a couple of questions left, but what's coming up next that people should keep an eye on in the community? Yeah.
August 26, 2026 - Part 1: Smart Growth Action Plan Update
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Matt PearsonGUEST
And we've been telling this story for a while now, but I continue to go out into the community and talk to people that are learning about this.

Matt PearsonGUEST
This is part of it is really sharing the message of why this exists and what what is it? Yeah.

Matt PearsonGUEST
And so the why it exists is it's kind of a reaction to – there's been a good growth story in Canada over the last few years.
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Could Europe's football union ditch FIFA?
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5:14Donald TrumpSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So, uh, yes, I asked for a review by FIFA.

Matt PearsonGUEST
The red card itself, you know, I, I don't think we probably need to get into the ins and outs of whether it is a red card, but what is atypical at a World Cup is for the player not to miss the, the next match.

Matt PearsonGUEST
It's only ever happened once before in, in 1962 with a Brazilian player called Garrincha, but then these things were sort of decided by, uh, a committee rather than being automatic as they are now.

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So the US player was sent off, and then we found out sort of two days before their knockout game against Belgium that he would be able to play because his red card ban would be suspended for a year.

Matt PearsonGUEST
And then Donald Trump admitted to the rooms that he had been in contact with FIFA about the incident and, and sort of lobbied for Balogun to play.
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7:21Kate LaycockHOST
But in sports journalist Matt Pearson's opinion, there is a possible world in which UEFA really does finally show FIFA the red card.

Matt PearsonGUEST
UEFA not only are sort of the most vocal, they're probably the most powerful of the sort of continental federations.
Stop Filing, Start Planning: Matthew Pearson on the Proactive Tax Strategy Most Owners Never Use
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Pat MancusoHOST
What's the most common mistake you see, whether it, you put it in the book or the most common mistake you see with businesses?

Matt PearsonGUEST
I, I would have to say the most common mi- mistake is that the business owner thinks that just by doing their books and just by getting their information to their accountant that everything is gonna be good, and here's what we find.

Matt PearsonGUEST
This actually was found by the, um, uh, the, uh, Government Accounting Office.

Matt PearsonGUEST
21%, 21% of the errors made in overpaying in taxes are because people categorize things wrong, put things wrong in their books, or just don't understand how to take money out of their company.
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