Who does your taxes? Feel free to post questions/stuff about taxes too

[epic1]

i own my own tax business, have been in business now for 13 years
i can keep informed on changes, its great

i worked at h&r for 5 years before that,,, right now they charge 95.00 for social service only and child tax
that is an absolute crime since they only get about 75.00 refund, if their lucky
i have a low income and senior rate, so i do not to bad at it

any questions feel free to let me know

[Meg1112]

Question answered

[Grey]

Done! I used StudioTax to do DH's and mine.
Of course, I did the reliable paper and pen thing first then double-, triple-checked before I filed it online.

[pamdaa]

Hi, I go to the free clinics offered by the chartered accountants of ontario. pretty painless but you need a low income to qualify and have a simple tax return. cheers, Pamdaa

[julie.leeds]

Does anyone know if one person in the family can claim all of the medical expenses or can each person only claim their own?? (I am asking for my parents. My mom has a lot of out of pocket medical expenses so she claims that but my dad only has a few $$ here and there because his prescriptions are subsidized., but he doesn't have enough to make it worthwhile to claim on his own. Mom just wondered if she can just add his amount to hers?)

[Natalka]

The spouse with the lower net income usually claims medical expenses - because it goes by percentage of net income to determine the amount to be used for the tax credit.
But if the lower income spouse doesn't have enough tax payable to offset the tax credit, then the higher income spouse should use the credit.

[julie.leeds]

Thanks, I put them together and put them on Moms...and I had to do the pension split...but it all worked out in the end!

[Black_Rose]

ok. just saw that my return was assessed and that they'll give MY refund on the 22nd so happy!

[StephanieC]

Does anyone have the code for $5 off for Ufile? I know I saw it on the home page, but can't seem to find it now....

Hi there - did you ever get a reply to this? We were looking and can't seem to find it, either. Tried a code that didn't work...

[bargainlover84]

I used to get mine done at H&R block but a coworker convinced me to use quicktax this year and I LOVED it. Only cost me $15 to use the online software and I filed online. I have my return deposited in my bank account 9 days after I filed online.

I did it for my mom and dad as well and my dad was impressed at how easy and straightforward the software is. I'll never go back to H&R Block again.

[Alyna]

I do ours online for free through quicktax. then upload to efile, got our refund in like... 4 days. awesome.

[jackiekai]

i own my own tax business, have been in business now for 13 years
i can keep informed on changes, its great

i worked at h&r for 5 years before that,,, right now they charge 95.00 for social service only and child tax
that is an absolute crime since they only get about 75.00 refund, if their lucky
i have a low income and senior rate, so i do not to bad at it

any questions feel free to let me know

H&R Block charge $39.95 +GST if you're only reporting income from Social Assistance and you're filing just to get the child tax benefit. And if you have at least $75 refund you'll be eligible for cashback, the fee will be 15% of the $75 which is $11.25, pretty good deal imo.

[Weeeooojr]

My mom's doing a whole bunch of tax things now...she's too busy to play Wii sports with me XD

[brunt]

I've been doing my own for 28 years now. My wife and her grandparents too for 26 years. I use UFile, which is a pretty good package.

Don't allow not knowing how to do taxes stop you from learning how to do them. After all, it's not about how much you earn, it's about how much you get to keep. And there is no way that you can improve how much you get to keep if you don't understand the taxes you pay.

[Deal_Princess]

Im doing taxes for my cousin and shes unemployed for the 2009 year. She wants to claim the GST credit. Does anyone know what someone with no employment should get in return? I got a number here but it seems rather low. I remember when I was in the same situation a few years ago it was more than double the amount I got for hers.