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When employers give you a Christmas present but tax you for it so they can claim it as a gift in THEIR taxes. You’re a multi BILLION dollar company, I think you can handle giving a REAL gift instead of taxing your employees for their “presents”.
I have no choice but to accept the gift. This kinda sucks. —Ho Hum
This article appears in Dec 8-14, 2011.
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OB, Revenue Canada makes those rules, not your employer.
At least you got something OP, not everybody does. Quit your freaking complaining!
we just received a card from canada post???
My employer has given us all $50 as a gift the past two years I’ve been here, but he actually gives us something like $50.81 because of the taxes that get deducted, so it will still be $50 :).
you get gifts @ christmas?
wow….
how DARE that generous employer!!!!
bastards!
and to think there are people out there, myself included, that REGULARLY WORK IT with the generous ‘gift’ of only one day off some another time….
thank fuck it’s on a weekend for a change….
Seb’s right on this one.. Revenue Canada dictates that they have to tax this stuff. You could decline the gift if you really wanted to, or sell it.
I’ll take this time to use one of my favorite expressions
“even a broken clock is right twice a day”
The only Christmas bonus we get is free food & (alcoholic) drinks at the office Christmas party, which is still a pretty sweet deal.
I mostly enjoy what the coworkers get one another:) We do a ginormous potluck of baked goods, and also have supper thats paid for by employer 🙂
you still have a CHRISTMAS party?
wow, that’s surprising. I would think it would be a year-end party or holiday party…
not a very diverse staff?
or do they take specific enjoyment in excluding people?
soo, agent 195, are you allowed to bring *guests* ?
And that gift is taxable… be sure to claim it!
@z3: I guess we just aren’t very diverse. *shrug*
@PG: Yes, guests are allowed, but it’s already happened this year. 😛
Bah, humbug, nothing!
Look what the holiday spirit has done to Sebastian!
(hushed child’s voice “it’s a cwissmass miwicle!”)
excellent big o, i hope she’s nice and nerdy^^hay xeno, does your house smell good?
Right now, the house smells like sawdust. I have decided that CLUTTER is the ENEMY and I’m drilling holes in the back of my great auntie Betty’s…whatever you call it…although I know now it was made by Andrew Malcom Furn. Mkrs. in Listover Ontario…so that components can go inside and I can make room for a tree. If you’re asking about the ginger, it was a huge success. Brought some in a pretty bottle to yesterday’s drunch where it was tried with many things (little nips hang from ribbons in the kitchen at this annual party).
sawdust eh? well, i’m relieved it wasn’t the ginger that smelled like that. our house is teeny tiny so we put our tree on top of a old giant trunk, it’s on wheels. the tree tends to be charlie brownish. what’s a giant auntie betty?
LOL-you are so sweet. It’s a giant thing-maybe it’s a chifferobe? that has a TV and DVD player, etc. on top. It once belonged to my Great Auntie Betty, who, like my nana, was a remarried widow whose 2nd husband was a Canadian WW2 soldier. Both were part of the war bride shuttle from England to Halifax. Anyway, my Auntie Betty was very special to me, and I am happy to have inherited her well-made Canadian furniture!
cool, furniture with stories, love it. it sounds like a chifferobe, very similar to an armoire, french for cupboard http://lh4.ggpht.com/_6gZO9WW7l6k/SfnxVXhV…
Frustrating OB, but no one wants CRA breathing down their neck … whether it’s a billion dollar corporation or a small business, CRA rules are CRA rules, and I’m sure they’d rather follow them than have their lawyers spend time researching ways around them. So, guess you just have to suck it up and move on … and be thankful you get a little something extra this time of year … there are a lot that don’t.
Painey,
Je sais ce qu’est un armoire! I think upon further reflection (e.g. googling) that it is a sideboard. more like this: http://www.countryliving.com/cm/countryliv…
Oh, and this is a little extra just for you!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc0liHubCf8…
haha, you skulk around the same sites that i do^^my nana’s armoire is very narniaish, when we were little, she had fur coats inside and it smelled like her
Getting back to the topic at hand, the thing that I hate (gift that’s not really a gift) is the cheesy after work party- you know starts at 4 :30 (your usual quittin’ time) and you HAVE to go. Oh, thanks for making my work day longer….um, great wine in a box and store bought cookies. If you can’t have a fancy dress thing at night, then do a deli spread lunch, then let em leave …like a boss.
We also get free breakfast this Thursday. ^^
cash, cookies and hooch, that’s what we give out
I love cash, cookies & booze !
Where is this place, does it also give out these great goodies on halloween ?
Where’s my pirating outfit ?!?
yep, lots of tootsie pops and skittles^^
I’m not a pirate…
I’m a Somalian entrepreneur….
i don’t think i could afford to make cookies in this country http://www.timeslive.co.za/world/2011/12/1…
Hey, pg. I made choclates for Christmas, the kind you can’t get at Ye Olde Chocolate Shoppe;)
They’re the trifecta of sweets for women, chocolate, Pusser Rum, and canna =)
Thanks to, Bing Crosby & Bob Rivers
I’ll be stoned for Christmas
You can plan on me
I must insist, on the lemon twist
Martinis by the tree
Christmas Eve you’ll find me
Sparkin’ up some green
Rollin’ bones for Christmas dinner
And sipping Irish Cream
Santa Claus will be flying
With his reindeer team
But I’ll be crawlin’ around on the floor this Christmas
‘Cause someone hid my keys
*special* ingredients are what christmas is all about^^