The tax benefits of working from home (February 2012)
A number of circumstances and developments have come together over
the past few years to make working from a home office—once
almost unheard of—a common fact of business life. First and
fo...
How to handle an Instalment Reminder from the CRA (February 2012)
As if dealing with bills from the recent holiday season and trying
to come up with the funds for an RRSP contribution weren’t
enough, February is also the month in which millions of Canadian
tax...
RRSPs and TFSAs—making the annual choice (February 2012)
It’s that time of year again, when advertisements about the
wisdom of contributing to your registered retirement savings plan
(RRSP) fills the airwaves and Web sites. And, since the
introduction...
Debt reduction offers: too good to be true? (February 2012)
It’s almost impossible not to have heard that the amount of
debt carried by Canadian households is at an all-time
high—reaching, on average, just over 150% of household
income. Carrying so...
Last minute tax-filing strategies (April 2011)
By the time most Canadians sit down to gather together information
slips and receipts to prepare their 2010 tax return, any
opportunities to minimize tax payable for the year are, for the
most part,...
Pension income splitting (April 2011)
Unlike contributing to an RRSP or a tax-free savings account
(TFSA), the idea of splitting pension income as a tax-planning
strategy doesn’t get a lot of attention in the media.
That’s unf...
Filing on time—and the costs of being late (April 2011)
It may seem like an obvious mistake to avoid, but every year some
taxpayers pay unnecessary (and non-deductible) penalties and
interest for no reason other than that they simply didn’t get
the...
Getting your return in–when and how? (March 2011)
If the constant flow of television commercials reminding taxpayers
of the upcoming RRSP contribution deadline wasn't enough, the
arrival of the 2010 tax return form and the issuance of tax
informat...
TFSAs and RRSPs—making the annual choice (February 2011)
It's that time of year again, when advertisements about the wisdom
of contributing to your RRSP (and usually about the benefits of
borrowing to do so) fills the airwaves and Web sites. And, since
the ...
Getting a head start on year-end tax planning (February 2011)
At this time of year, most taxpayers are focused on their tax
obligations for the taxation year just ended on December 31,
2010—on the need to file a return for that year, on whether
they will b...
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