New: Personal Support Workers Tax Credit Coming Soon

Personal support workers will receive billions in increased wages from federal/provincial governments in B.C., Newfoundland and Labrador and the Northwest Territories.  Those workers in other provinces will now get a raise too, but they will have to wait until filing their 2026 returns in the spring of 2027 to cash in, according to an October 27 pre-budget announcement.  Here are the details:

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We intended to give credit to Roy A. Berg JD, LLM of the law firm of Moodys Gartner as the source of the article posted on border crossing rules in our last issue, but we neglected to do so. We wish to sincerely apologize for this oversight.

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