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:

Canadians with foreign holdings at any time in 2013 (not just at the end of the year), will need to provide more information to the CRA, starting with the 2013 tax year.

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Today's federal budget proposed to change the law both in respect of 10-8 plans and information required from third parties for the purposes of tax administration or enforcement. Here's the case...

Household debt in relation to disposable income rose to another record last quarter, and many are now wondering whether Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada, was correct to assert that families are listening to his warnings about the risks of borrowing too much.

The CRA recently announced that the prescribed interest rates for the period April 1 to June 30, 2013 will remain unchanged from the previous quarter.