Home office

If your employer will give you a T twenty two hundred form , you can deduct a percentage of heat/ hydro/wifi/ home insurance/ but also be careful, if you have “regular clients “ visit your home this will affect you home insurance costs . It has to be a dedicated workspace set up as an office and there is some caviet about how close to the company main office you are . It saves me a few hundred bucks a year. Bonus is my office cleaning lady seems to do the whole house while she is here , wink wink .


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Same. Think we get to account for a proportion of our home utilities. Electric, gas, water etc. 1000 sq ft house and one room is our office is 10”x10” = 100 sqft or 10% of the house.

Office expenses such as printer ink, paper, staples, stamps and shipping, we keep the receipts for the accountant. Not sure what we get back and but, all in it’s to the benefit of a couple hundred. Not sure if it’s worth all the effort but, do try to avoid as much tax as I can.
 
Same. Think we get to account for a proportion of our home utilities. Electric, gas, water etc. 1000 sq ft house and one room is our office is 10”x10” = 100 sqft or 10% of the house.

Office expenses such as printer ink, paper, staples, stamps and shipping, we keep the receipts for the accountant. Not sure what we get back and but, all in it’s to the benefit of a couple hundred. Not sure if it’s worth all the effort but, do try to avoid as much tax as I can.
Agreed, going to monitor expenses this year and see what it totals. I always figured it was not worth it but my employer was asking.
 
Agreed, going to monitor expenses this year and see what it totals. I always figured it was not worth it but my employer was asking.
Here's the list of allowable (and not allowable) expenses. Some are dumb and unintuitive (eg you can claim home internet access fee but not the connection fee nor the modem rental) but if you follow the list, it isn't hard to figure out a supportable amount.

Most people can move thousands of dollars of expenses to pre-tax without any funny business or fear of cra if they look. If you earn commission, that lets you move another thousand or more to pre-tax.

 
At the end of the day , if I save a couple hundred bucks , that’s dinner out twice . I’m happy about that .


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I agreed and evaluating the situation. Who know could be out of a job before it even gets started....
 
Yup. No good way around that. On the plus side, it also means those jobs have no threat from outsourcing. If I can work remote from ontario, someone else can work remote from India for less.
My friend just got laid off for this very reason. She was in accounts paybable. Had been working from home since the pandemic, and now lost her job because they moved it all to India. It's a IT company working for the banks, just to give people a better idea whats going on out there.
 
My friend just got laid off for this very reason. She was in accounts paybable. Had been working from home since the pandemic, and now lost her job because they moved it all to India. It's a IT company working for the banks, just to give people a better idea whats going on out there.
I friend works in IT for one of the big banks.
He said that South America (Colombia and Brazil) is where a lot of their phone workers are based out of.
 
I friend works in IT for one of the big banks.
He said that South America (Colombia and Brazil) is where a lot of their phone workers are based out of.
India, used to be the go-to for offshoring.
That country now has rivals in the Phillipines, Brazil, Colombia, Egypt.
IMO, offshore support is largely "reading from a supplied script", nothing to match the "can do" attitude of onshore support and no way do the offshore match the cultural ethos of the home country.
"Cheap" is what gets you cheap!
 
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