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Write off accrued interest from interest income
My mother purchased a US government bond maturing 2019/04/15. The purchase date was 2018/04/13, so there were 2 interest payments attributed to 2018 (2018/04/15 and 2018/10/15), but the interest ...
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Reduce income tax payable in Canada for an individual taxpayer
For the 2023 tax year, in Canada, how can I reduce my personal taxable income/taxes payable on my T1 tax return? I know I can use my RRSP and a spousal RRSP as a deduction against taxable income up to ...
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Donating to US versus Canadian charities to maximizing tax benefits
I am a US citizen and I have the option to make my charitable donations in either the US or Canada for the next few years. How do I maximize my tax benefit for a fixed donation size?
My ...
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Can I deduct expenses from rental income on my principal residence without making it not a principal residence?
TLDR: can I still claim 40% of all of these expenses (screenshot from simpletax) on my taxes when renting a portion of my Principal Residence and it still be considered principal residence? and ...
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Is there a way to transfer a cultural donation tax receipt? (Canada)
Canada specific question.
My father is planning on making a cultural donation to a museum. He will receive a 100K tax receipt for the donation. My marginal tax rate is significantly higher than his, ...
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Can construction Soft Costs be carried forward on Canadian rental income?
I built a home and am renting it out for profit. While building, I incurred soft costs (mainly interest costs on money borrowed during construction, and insurance costs). In the years that I had these ...
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Can you withdraw capital gains from a stock sale and still deduct interest on the original cost basis?
Say you borrow 50k and buy 100k of shares.
Then the stock rises to 100k
You sell half and cancel out the loan, but also have 50k of capital gains.
If you withdraw the 50k gain to maintain the original ...
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I get a pension from having been a Federal Employee; I also work part-time for my family's business. Do I need to pay into EI?
So, I worked for the Federal government most of my life, I retired 2 years ago and I get my pension. In addition, I work about 30 hrs/week in the office of my family's business, do I have to pay EI? ...
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Can you claim past unclaimed expenses from previous years on a rental property?
My question is the following:
Let's say I have some repair renovations that were performed in 2016 that I never claimed in the 2017 tax year (because I had enough expenses to fully balance out the ...
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Opening an RESP for myself
I am located in Canada. I was wondering if instead of contributing directly into an RRSP, why people don't instead open up an RESP for themselves, contribute as much as they can afford (up to 50k) and ...
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Can GST tax input credits be claimed for Meals and Entertainment which are 100% deductible for income purposes?
Typical meals-and-entertainment operating expenses for business are limited to a 50% deductible towards income calculation. There are exceptions. The rules listed by the CRA allow higher percentage to ...
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Is the principal on student loans tax deductible in Canada?
A friend was suggesting to me that it would be wiser for me not to spend money that I am currently earning, since as a student, I am in a very low tax bracket / below the lowest tax bracket. Their ...
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Tax deduction for work-space-in-the-home expenses
For reference, I am in Ontario, Canada, I am an hourly non-exempt employee (T4 is issued every year, entitled to overtime pay if working more than 8h a day, 1.5X pay + statutory holiday pay [such as ...
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Avoid wasting Canadian tuition credit with double taxation on Canadian Income in US
I live in US with income in Canada and have a large amount of unused tuition tax credits in Canada.
My understanding is that when doing US Tax I should report my full Canadian income and the amount ...
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Where can I find charitable donation tax credit rates for each provinces and territories in Canada?
The only official source I found was this one and it's from 2017...
https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/charities-giving/giving-charity-information-donors/claiming-charitable-tax-credits/...
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