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Working for yourself 2 min
Zero-rated and exempt are different categories
Both can show no tax charged, but the input tax credit and registration consequences are different.
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Family & everyday life 2 min
Maya helps her mother every week. Does the caregiver credit apply?
Check dependence due to infirmity, the supported person's income and other claims before entering a caregiver amount.
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Jobs & employment 3 min
One job. Two slips. Two income totals.
Patrice checks the health-plan benefit behind a difference between his T4 and RL-1, without adding the same salary twice or forcing the slips to match.
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Saving & retirement 2 min
The word "pension" does not settle the credit
Match each payment to the CRA eligibility chart before claiming the federal non-refundable pension income amount.
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Family & everyday life 3 min
The work premium starts with the household numbers
Check the income and family information behind Quebec's work premium, then reconcile any advances without counting the credit twice.
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Working for yourself 3 min
Laurence checks both instalment accounts
Apply the $1,800 tests separately, choose a calculation method and send each income-tax instalment to the correct account.
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