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Can the CRA peek into the amount of a Canadian bank account forthwith?
A few key points:
(1) Don't try to justify to yourself not reporting income to the CRA. If you have an obligation, file it, whether or not you expect to be caught for failure to file.
(2) If the ...
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Are you required to pay the full tax on income if your employer doesn't pay what they claim to?
You would be very well advised to consult with an actual lawyer on this matter.
For tax purposes, if your T4s are inaccurate and you cannot get accurate ones, Intuit recommends filing your tax return ...
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Can I avoid an audit by submitting documents early?
I personally don't think submitting early is going to make a difference. While the exact process of selecting who to audit will always remain secret, it's obvious that certain things will make your ...
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Will CRA suspect, if you never filed and now retroactively files taxes?
There is no penalty for filing a tax form late in Canada if you do not owe any taxes.
The penalties are all in terms of percentages of the taxes you owe. So if he genuinely never earned more than the ...
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Deducting home costs if I work from home on the side?
Your freelance income will not qualify you for the work-from-home deductions, for that you would need a T2200 form signed by your employer. But, you are allowed to be self employed as a sole-...
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In a Canadian TFSA, does interest earned within the account count toward the contribution limit?
Just the principal contribution counts towards the limit. In your example, if you contribute 30,000 and you earn 20,000, only the 30,000 counts. To find out exactly how much room you have, you can ...
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Canada - Is a business or website a depreciable property
No. A business may have depreciable assets but is not itself a depreciable asset. A business is an investment.
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How are dividends on US stocks treated by the CRA?
IMPORTANT NOTE: Total Ordinary Dividends (Box 1a) includes Qualified Dividends (Box 1b). So don't sum them. Your income for Canadian tax purposes is the Total Ordinary Dividends only.
Qualified ...
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Deducting your own rent you incurred while renting out your own place
Are you allowed to deduct the $1000 from $1400?
No, you can only deduct from the $1,400 of rental income those expenses that are related to the rental activity.
If paying a mortgage you could deduct ...
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Gift amount allowed for directors in a company in Canada
There is no special gift tax in Canada. Cash or near-cash gifts and awards are fully taxable as employment income. Presumably, the limit is the amount of cash you've got.
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What happens if I don't claim all installment payments on my Canadian income tax return?
Regardless of the hypothetical chance at penalty for false statement [which I find quite unlikely to even cross an agent's mind], you are setting yourself up for a headache.
Any difference between ...
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When filing taxes in Canada, in what cases does box 39 on the T4 get reported as half of box 38?
Here's the best explanation I found relating to why your T4 box 39 might not have an amount filled in, even when box 38 has one: Department of Finance – Explanatory Notes Relating to the Income ...
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At what point do recurring small business losses become a problem with Canada Revenue Agency?
There is no hard and fast rule. If there was, people could cleverly arrange to make money just often enough to stay on the "ok" side. It's a judgement call by the CRA and it probably starts with an ...
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Does the CRA charge any penalty if you file a wrong tax return?
If the correction results in you owing them money, you typically just need to pay them the appropriate amount. I believe they charge back-dated interest on the amount if it was supposed to have been ...
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For how many years after I file my tax do I need to retain my documents
CRA suggests keeping them for 6 years : http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tx/ndvdls/tpcs/ncm-tx/kpng/menu-eng.html
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Can I withdraw money from my rrsp if I made excess contribution by mistake?
Overcontributions made after the calendar year are not usually a problem. This is because while contributions made in Jan and Feb can be counted towards the previous year, they do not have to be. This ...
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Can I withdraw money from my rrsp if I made excess contribution by mistake?
Intuit has a pretty good write-up on this subject.
As you noted, you are allowed to exceed your limit by $2000 (though this overcontribution is not tax-deductible). Also, your contribution room ...
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To know if you have filed taxes before in Canada?
The folks at CRA are astonishingly helpful. As in you get off the phone and say to yourself "was that really a government employee I was talking to?" Get in touch with them and ask.
You can set up ...
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Withdrawing from RRSP to pay income tax owed to CRA?
You can withdraw from your RRSP to pay your taxes. While not necessarily advisable, it is permitted — yet the tax consequences are no different just because you happen to be using the money to ...
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Moved to Canada for Grad School, Getting Heavily Taxed in U.S
Per this answer, unless you can get a W2 for the scholarship, the IRS seems to regard the scholarship as unearned income. This would mean that Form 2555 is irrelevant for this scholarship, regardless ...
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How can portion of cellphone bill be estimated for work?
I'll give you the practical answer my tax advisor gave me.
First off, it's not about how much you use your phone, its about what fractionof the charges are work related.
Second, as long as your ...
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Is it just for the CRA to charge interest on a notice of collection dated one month ago, but that they never mailed?
If you write a very sympathetic letter to the CRA explaining your circumstances, with a specific request to waive the interest on non-payment, with proof that payment of the balance owing has already ...
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How do I find out what are the min and max withholdings from each paycheque?
There is a formula to see how much to withhold from each of your cheques. It's basically "how much tax you're likely to pay, divided by number of paycheques a year." When you fill out the TD1 you ...
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Are friends and family discounts or employee discounts taxable?
It is not taxable, because the transaction is not a barter transaction.
The discount is not offered in exchange for a specific thing like an amount of work. It is offered to someone with a specific ...
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Canada Tax work space in the home expenses with no income (T2200)
Your reading of the line is correct. The two lines after the one you quote reinforce the statement.
However you can get round this very simply by having your business pay you a salary. The salary is ...
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How much must one pay tax in Canada if received income from Switzerland?
Canada has a bilateral tax treaty with Switzerland. There are a lot of details, but the gist of it is in this quote from Article 22:
tax payable in Switzerland on profits, income or gains arising in ...
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Is a depreciation claim on a rental property basically always worth it in Canada, given stable income?
Yes, it is better to take depreciation most of the time, but not quite as much as you imply. Keep in mind the rules of depreciation in Canada:
Depreciation on rental properties reduces your rental ...
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Payments to CRA don't count toward your balance with CRA until you file your taxes?
Most likely you can rectify this situation.
First, call the CRA's public number - might have to wait a while on hold - oh well! See their number here: 1-800-959-8281 https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-...
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Self-employed: claim CPP for self on Line 9060 of T2125?
This must be ruled out by the fact that the personal tax return already provides, for self-employed, exactly the same thing: a tax credit for half of the CPP. For 2018 this is Line 222 ("Deduction for ...
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Deposit shares in TFSA before capital gain that exceeds contribution limit
No. If there is no over-contribution when the shares enter your account, there will be no over-contribution if the shares increase in value. You may keep your capital in your TFSA regardless of the ...
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