Jacoby & Games CPA Client Information for 2024

Personal Tax Deadlines March 14, 2025 for personal tax documents to our office (including sole proprietors) April 10, 2025 for those with investments. For information about what to send us please see the personal tax checklist. How to Get Your Documents to Us Electronically via the Client Portal Drop off your documents at our office. Please note that you MUST pick them up. Please send ONE package and include a note telling us how you…

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2023 Remuneration

Higher personal income levels are taxed at higher personal rates, while lower levels are taxed at lower rates. Therefore, individuals may want to, where possible, adjust income out of high-income years and into low-income years. This is particularly useful if the taxpayer is expecting a large fluctuation in income due to, for example, an impending:  maternity/paternity leave; large bonus/dividend; or sale of a company or investment assets. In addition to increases in marginal tax rates,…

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Shared Custody Arrangements: Impact of School Closures

In an April 21, 2022 Tax Court of Canada case, the Court reviewed whether the taxpayer and her former spouse were shared-custody parents of their three children for the period from January 2019 to June 2021 for the purpose of the Canada child benefit (CCB). In shared-custody arrangements, each individual will get half of the payment they would have received had the child lived with them full time. While the Minister initially fully paid the…

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