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Beginning of HST – How HST Affect Your Business

1 July, 2010 (15:39) | Canadian Tax Tips, Corporate Tax, Small Business Tax | By: Cecilia Leung

Canada Day, also the first day of HST officially apply to British Columbia and Ontario. 
Who To Call for HST Questions?
CRA has taken serious step to assist business on this transition.  Even Canada Day they are still working to serve us.  If you have any questions regarding HST you can call 1-800-959-5525 from 9:15am – 8:00pm.
HST [...]

Ontario Combines GST and PST into HST, Good or Bad?

10 November, 2009 (15:03) | Canadian Tax Tips, Corporate Tax, Personal Tax, Small Business Tax | By: Cecilia Leung

July 1, 2010 is an important day for all of Ontarians.  Ontario has proposed a tax reform to follow some other province’s’ footsteps to combine both GST and PST into one, called Harmonized Sales Tax (HST).
Right now we in Ontario are paying both GST and PST in some items, while other items we only [...]

Tax Rate 2008

28 February, 2009 (22:15) | Canadian Tax Tips, Corporate Tax, Personal Tax, Small Business Tax | By: Cecilia Leung

Tax season is approaching.  By now you should have received your income slips from your employer.  If you are a business owner, you probably also wants to find out how much tax you will need to pay for all the income you earn in the year 2008.  Without going into all the budgets nutty gritty [...]

2008 Payroll T4 Deadline

2 February, 2009 (13:57) | Corporate Tax, Small Business Tax | By: Cecilia Leung

Although I have posted this deadline last year, I would like to remind you on the day as the deadline for submitting T4 slips for your payroll is approaching very quickly.   This also applies to all other slips that you need to give to your employees and shareholders, such as T3, T5, T4A, etc.
Deadline for [...]

Budget 2009 – What are the Tax Benefits?

29 January, 2009 (00:03) | Small Business Tax | By: Cecilia Leung

Other than fiscal spending to stimulate the economy, spending on infrastructure and such, I am going to focus on the tax benefits introduced just yesterday in Jim Flaherty’s Budget 2009.  It is important to note that, this budget has not been accepted by all parties, so all of the benefits stated below are “proposed”.  We [...]

How to File Your Own Tax Return

20 March, 2008 (11:30) | Personal Tax, Small Business Tax | By: Cecilia Leung

To file your personal income tax return, you can:

Go to any postal office and pick up a Tax Package if you have not received one from your mail.
Go to http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/formspubs/t1general/menu-e.html, select your province and print out those forms that you need.
File online. There are software or even online filing available for a small cost. Example: [...]

T1 General – Personal Income Tax Filing Deadline 2007

20 March, 2008 (11:30) | Personal Tax, Small Business Tax | By: Cecilia Leung

This is pretty much the same as every year. But just in case you forgot, here it is!
DEADLINE FOR FILING TAX: APRIL 30, 2008
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File Tax Online – Netfile vs Efile
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File Tax Online – NetFile vs EFile?

20 March, 2008 (09:16) | Corporate Tax, Personal Tax, Small Business Tax | By: Cecilia Leung

There are two ways you can file online. If you are filing your own tax and have been browsing the CRA website, you should know that there are two options: Netfile, and Efile.
So what is the different? Which one should you use?
Netfile is intented to use for personal or family use only. Each Netfile software [...]

Paying Yourself Dividends – Pros and Cons

21 February, 2008 (12:21) | Corporate Tax, Personal Tax, Small Business Tax | By: Cecilia Leung

This method is used by a lot of business owners, directors and other board members, since they are investors of the business.
What is Dividend?
Dividend is the return on investment from the business you invested in. There are two types of dividend: eligible and other than eligible dividends.
What is Eligible Dividend and Other-than-Eligible Dividend?
Legislative Proposals on [...]

Filing T4 at the Last Minute!

8 February, 2008 (11:00) | Corporate Tax, Small Business Tax | By: Cecilia Leung

Deadline is closed to file your T4 to your employees and maybe yourself. CRA actually make it easy for you the employer to file T4 (as usual government invest lots of tax payers’ money to ensure the CRA their money!)
What do you need to file:
1. T4 slips for all your employees
2. T4 Summary form
You can [...]