Tips and Traps of Claiming Tax-Deductible Expenses by Employees Earning a Salary
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Tips and Traps of Claiming Tax-Deductible Expenses by Employees Earning a Salary

  Employees earning a salary may be able to claim some employment-related expenses if their employment conditions require them to pay for such expenses and in most of the situations is certified as such by the employer in CRA Form T2200 Declaration of Conditions of Employment. Following employment expenses are deductible by employees earning a…

Tips of Deductions from Rental Property Income You Can Take at Tax Time
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Tips of Deductions from Rental Property Income You Can Take at Tax Time

Income or loss derived from the rental of property inside and outside of Canada must be reported on your income tax return on a calendar-year basis. There are two types of expenses, namely, current expenses and capital expenses. You can deduct current expenses from your gross rental income. To earn the rental income you may…

Tax write-offs available for self-employed individuals in Canada
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Tax write-offs available for self-employed individuals in Canada

Self-employed individuals here are taxpayers who operate unincorporated businesses, this may be sole proprietorship or partnership. Self-employment income usually derives from a commercial business or a professional service or a commission on sales. In all cases, they spend money to earn their business income, and such reasonable and allowable spending/expenses to earn that business income…

How to Deal with RRSP Excess Contribution
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How to Deal with RRSP Excess Contribution

RRSP excess contribution generally occurs when the amount of a taxpayer’s undeducted contributions exceeded his/her deduction limit by more than $2,000. Such excess contribution is taxed @ 1% per month on the unused contribution. To be specific, the excess contribution amount is calculated as the excess of RRSP deduction limit (shown in the lasted notice…

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