(Adina’s column has been moved to tomorrow because it’s Valentine’s Day themed.) One of the great things about blogging for more than a year — particularly in a genre as repetitive as personal finance — is that I have a liberal license to rehash old content. A new year means a new review of my favourite …
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What day is Monday, April 30th (less than four weeks from today)? It’s the tax deadline! Well, if you’re Canadian. In the US it’s April 17th. I hope there weren’t any American readers depending on me to announce the tax deadline. If you have yet to file your taxes, I’ll bet that reminder made you …
Continue Reading...Today is a statutory holiday here in Ontario. It’s called “Family Day”. It was an election pledge from the 2007 provincial election. The Government promised to the electorate: “If you re-elect us, we’ll make the 3rd Monday in February a holiday.” And it was. I will be spending the day with my partner and my …
Continue Reading...As you may recall, I reviewed TurboTax earlier in the week. The nice folks at Intuit are letting me give away three FREE one-use Canadian licenses, good for their Standard, Premier, or Home & Business version of TurboTax! That means that you could use the best tax prep suite to meet your Canadian online tax preparation needs for …
Continue Reading...I received my T4s the other day. What does that mean? Tax season is officially in full swing. For several years I’ve used TurboTax (nee QuickTax) to file my taxes. In my student days, I used another method: the “buy a 4-pack of Red Bull and sit down with a tax package for six hours …
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