Students, young adults, ask us how you can save on taxes
Should young adults, the ones who earn little or no money, bother filing a tax return? What kinds of tax breaks are available to students and how do they go about getting them?
Chartered accountant Robin Taub, the author of A Parent’s Guide to Raising Money-Smart Kids, answered your tax-related questions.
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Students: These 5 tax breaks can put money in your pocket
Listen up students: Even if you are earning only a pittance from that summer or part-time year-round job, you are entitled to claim certain tax credits.
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Having the ‘money talk’ with your teen
The Globe and Mail features a book excerpt from A Parent’s Guide to Raising Money-Smart Kids.
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Teaching Kids About Money
Chartered accountant and author of A Parent’s Guide to Raising Money-Smart Kids, Robin Taub, tells parents how to help their kids become financially literate.
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Raising Money-Smart Kids
Financial Literacy is a big problem across Canada with many young people unable to understand even basic skills like, what does it mean to save, how do you open a bank account and how much do everyday items cost. Money knowledge starts at home. Research shows, if children are exposed to money matters early in life they will be better equipped to handle their finances as they get older.
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Financial Literacy for your Kids
As a parent, you are a role model for your kids – probably their most important role model. This is just as true in money matters as in other important aspects of life. The best way to raise money-smart kids is to be smart about money yourself…and to talk to them about how money works.
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Raising Fiscally Smart Kids
The Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants is out with the book “A Parent’s Guide to Raising Money-Smart Kids” which highlights the fact that raising financially responsible children begins when they are five or six.
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How much is too much to spend on a yearly vacation?
Going on a trip may be essential to your well-being, but going into debt to do it may not be a sound financial decision.
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Easy activities to teach your kids money smarts
Not sure how to teach your kids about money? Start at home with these easy activities from chartered accountant Robin Taub.
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Stretching your dollar further
Stretching your dollar further: ten money saving tips from Pizza Pizza, courtesy of Robin Taub, chartered accountant.
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Tax Tips for home owners
Read Robin’s tax tips for home owners and home buyers.
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Tax tips for seniors
Rob Carrick of the Globe & Mail interviews Robin in a series of videos on “Let’s Talk Investing”, a co-production with The Investor Education Fund.
Part 1: Seniors may want to stash dividend stocks in a TFSA.
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Pummelled by taxes?
Part 2: Pummelled by taxes? Conservative investors get hurt the worst.
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Paying more taxes than you should?
Part 3: Home ownership brings tax perks that will let some Canadians hang on to a few extra dollars.
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