So if you work in Nova Scotia but your home is in Ontario – you file taxes there. They have a much better tax rate – think of the savings. Just find a friend there to “live with” while you commute to Nova Scotia. Time to fuck the NS gov’t just like they fuck us. Just don’ get caught. —What Will I Do With My Extra $3400 This Year?
This article appears in Feb 28 – Mar 6, 2013.
Mike Duffy?
lol Stephen!
good luck with that!
it is your residence on the last day of the year that determines where you file. If you do what you are suggesting, you will be commitng tax fraud.
Most likely, you will be caught and reassessed right on the spot, perhaps with a penalty.
However, there is a good chance, it will be approved, then there will be a request for supporting documentation several months later, not only will you be reassessed, but it will be damn difficult for you to not look like you were intentionally scamming the system.
Go to directly to a good defense lawyer, maybe he can keep you out of jail, but you will be convicted with some sort of harsh penalty. The lawyers bill is often a harsh enough penalty.
Obv this was mod 6(?)’s first rookie mistake. This ‘bitch’ probably shouldn’t’ve been posted… What with instructions on how to commit tax fraud and all. 🙁
Eeek!
well if you’re going to save that much, surely you can invest in a plane ticket for new years and keep it semi-quasi-legal/ also a nice vacation.
The form states you are required to file taxes for your residence as of DECEMBER 31. No good to claim another province when your tax slips show Nova Scotia …. lol, good luck with that one!
Not necessarily. If you are in another province on a course or a temp job for your company, you do not pay taxes for that province but to the province where you normally reside.
Koda your tax slips (T-4s) have nothing to do with it. If you move from one province to another to live, then the province you are permanently living in is the one to whom you file.
So where would Butts file his taxes? He works here but I hear flies to Toronto on weekends where his family lives? Would he file here or Ontario?
http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tx/ndvdls/tpcs/nc…
I think it depends on where your primary residence and partner/family resides. If you’re only leasing or paying mortgage on a temporary/secondary residence in Nova Scotia, while you travel each weekend to Ontario to see your spouse/children/family, then you could make the case that your residential ties are in Ontario. Further evidence of this include having a driver’s license and health card from Ontario rather than Nova Scotia. Surprisingly, CRA opens itself up quite readily to unethical, but not illegal, tax filing practices. For unmarried people, in particular, it is very easy to hold on to your home province’s health card and driver’s license to maintain “proof” of residential ties with a low-tax province even if you’ve been earning income and participating politically (voting; CRA can’t ask you where you vote) and civically in a high-tax province.
Interesting response, and by interesting I mean sad.
“Further evidence of this include having a driver’s license and health card from Ontario rather than Nova Scotia.”
Not hard to do in his case, you can keep your out-of-province cards up to 3 months before you legally have to change them over unless you go back home for a visit. All this being said, I’m disclosing that where he files is merely speculation/discussion on this board. Ethically he should file where he works/spends the bulk of his time, but this loophole seems to open an unethical door.
There should be some sort of CRA clause where your main income’s location comes in play. In this very specific case, 2000 hours or more are made in NS, clearly a lot of time is spent here and one should be paying tax in NS to pay for the services used while working in the province.
Simply using “where you live on Dec 31” is a bit ridiculous. If you worked along the Alberta border, it would financially make sense to live in Alberta and cross the border to the province where one is employed. I find it surprising the CRA doesn’t consider such loopholes.
I’ve heard of people from Ontario who have parents still living there – and that’s their “home”. They simply commute to work here for all intents and purposes – even maintain a rented residence here… and save a shit load of money. I am jealous as hell and also bitter as fuck that we continue to get raped out here…. the vicious cycle – shitty pay, shitty taxes, cant afford to spend money you dont have, the economy goes to hell becuase no one can spend, thus people dont get hired, thus less and less people have money, the tax base shrinks, fucknuts the premier cranks the taxes up to compensate and mean time I can’t afford a fucking cup of coffee. Fuck what a terrible place I moved to. If I wasn’t stuck here by the crippling debt I go into deeper and deeper every day I’m alive because the $basic necessities > $take home pay after taxes, I’d save up a bit of money to get the fuck out of here.
ustwess…. word.
‘Savings’ is what you haven’t spent yet off your last paycheck and just hope i stretches to the next one. I’m lucky though, I like to eat tuna out of the can.