Sideline farming and horse properties in Cumberland and Navan
On a Cumberland or Navan acreage, whether your farming is a business or a hobby decides if losses count. The CRA draws that line carefully. So should you.
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Tax Planning for Findlay Creek Families in the Daycare Years
Findlay Creek is full of young families. The childcare deduction, the Canada child benefit and a leave year each have rules that decide the refund.
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Accounting for Gloucester businesses that own trucks, equipment and a unit
A Gloucester trades business is mostly rolling stock and machines. How you claim trucks, equipment and the GST on them decides your real tax bill.
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Acreage Tax Questions in Greely, From Woodlots to the Septic Bed
Greely acreage brings tax questions a city lot never does: a woodlot, a well and septic, and how the exemption treats land beyond the house on sale.
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Hintonburg and Wellington West: trades, studios and one-person businesses
In Hintonburg and Wellington West the tradesperson, the studio artist and the one-person shop all file as themselves, and that is where the tax risk sits.
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Rental Suites and Home-Run Businesses in Hunt Club
Hunt Club homes often carry a basement suite or a business run from a spare room. Rental income and business-use-of-home each change what you owe.
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Kanata Tech Compensation: How RSUs, Options and ESPP Are Actually Taxed
In Kanata the base salary is often the smaller half. RSUs, stock options and an ESPP are each taxed differently, and the timing is fixed at vesting.
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Two-Income Tax Planning for Kanata Lakes and Bridlewood Households
Two salaries in Kanata Lakes and Bridlewood cannot be split, but spousal RRSPs, the childcare rule and CCB recovery still move the family tax bill.
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How an Estate Freeze Works for Manotick Business Owners
In Manotick's professional and business households, an estate freeze caps the tax on a growing company and hands future growth to the next generation.
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Tax for the Older Nepean Neighbourhoods: Basement Suites to Pension Income
In older Nepean areas like City View and Parkwood Hills, a basement suite and a shift to pension income both change how a home and a return are taxed.
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Old Ottawa South: a family home with a suite in the basement
Renting the basement of your Old Ottawa South home brings in income, but it also touches your principal residence exemption. Here is how to protect both.
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Tax work for Orléans, in the language you actually deal with the CRA in
In Orléans a return is often the easy part. Dealing with the CRA in French, and getting slips and notices in the right language, is where it goes wrong.
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