Tag Archives: taxes

An Open Letter to the Ontario Liberal Party

…or more specifically to my Member of Provincial Parlament, Laurel Broten.  I wrote this a few weeks back when the 2009 Ontario budget was tabled.  Interestingly I CC’ed my City Councilor, Peter Milczyn and his is the only office to respond as yet.   I’d like to think that Ms. Broten’s office is simply indundated with [...]

Ontario – Write your MPP’s!

All you apathetic Ontarians should get off your ass and write your MPP about the McGuinty budget if you don’t want your salary increases to be eaten by the government, and then some.  Wrong tax at the wrong time. In a nutshell: “Home renovations, gasoline, home-heating oil, haircuts and fast food, for which the PST [...]

CRA Home Renovation Tax Credit

Don’t go spending it all in one place! I’ve heard a lot of people talking about doing some home renovations (The Scot loves home renos!) and the subject of the HRTC comes up quite a bit in conversation with the Bastard’s friends.  Here’s what I understand about it, in short form: You can claim up [...]