We’ve talked about the benefits of filing your taxes early. Now let’s talk about filing taxes late and what happens in that situation… It’s not good! Filing taxes late results in major interest in penalties. The interest for filing late changes with the going interest rate. At the time of Read more…
Happy tax season! As you’re preparing your things to file your taxes (or maybe you haven’t started yet), we wanted to go over some awesome benefits of filing early! RRSP Benefits If you’re not sure how your RRSP can help with tax savings, check out our RRSP blog here. The Read more…
As we near the cut-off for depositing to your RRSP for the 2020 tax season, let’s talk about what an RRSP actually is and how you can use it to maximize your savings. What is an RRSP? An RRSP something many people overcomplicate, but really it’s just a bank account Read more…
The third instalment of our series on the benefits of incorporating covers the ability to pay yourself in dividends. If you are shareholder and work for the corporation, you can pay yourself a combination of dividends and wages. The first two videos covered incorporating when you’re taking on large debt Read more…
The Canada Pension Plan is obviously important to take into consideration when planning for retirement. However, as a business owner, it is even more important because, depending on how you pay yourself from your business, you may or may not pay into it. As an employee, you pay half of Read more…
In a year with more people working from home than ever, many might be questioning if or how they can deduct home office expenses. Yes, if you’ve been working predominantly from home, you can deduct some home office expenses against your income. However, there are some things to consider and Read more…
This time of year, many businesses make donations to charities. This is a great way to support causes you believe in, while simultaneously getting a tax deduction. But, there are a couple of ways you can do this… One of them allows you to make free money (not pay tax Read more…
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Time to start thinking about how you’re going to reward your employees for all the hard work they’ve done this year. And this year more than ever, spreading the holiday cheer is so important! So, we thought we’d do a video all Read more…
Tracking expenses and keeping receipts organized is one of the number one things people struggle with when it comes to business. It can be time consuming and tedious, and people just seem to not like doing it! (We don’t blame them, but it needs to be done). It comes time Read more…
Today’s video is an app spotlight for you! Do you use your personal vehicle for business? A lot of business owners do, so figuring out the amount of expenses you can write off is important. However, this process can seem overwhelming because you need to stay on top of tracking Read more…
Kids learn lots of subjects at school… science, english, math, music, art… But, personal finance, accounting, and how taxes work is unfortunately currently not one of them.However, kids might not miss out on this lesson entirely because every year on Halloween, Dads seem to take it upon themselves to teach Read more…
A few weeks ago we did a video all about debt and which debt to focus on paying first. If you missed it, be sure to check it out and then come back here for this one! In that video, we talked about how sometimes the loans/debt you should focus Read more…