Jobs & employment
Pay slips, home-office expenses and job changes, including working in Ontario while living in Quebec.
Jobs & employment
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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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A signed T2200 is the beginning of the calculation
Check your work arrangement, eligible expenses and actual workspace use before claiming an employee home office deduction.
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Lucas keeps the tips that never reach his T4 in a notebook
Track direct tips, compare employer-reported amounts and avoid both missing income and counting the same tips twice.
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Guy empties his locker, then separates the amounts in his final payment
Distinguish salary and vacation pay from a retiring allowance, check pre-1996 service and separate special transfers from ordinary RRSP room.
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The office is in Ottawa. Home is in Gatineau.
Understand why an Ontario paycheque and a Quebec tax return can disagree, and how the transfer of tax withheld fits into the two returns.
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The move was 40 kilometres. Was it close enough?
The distance test compares each home with the new work location, not simply the distance between your old and new homes.
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