Compiled by an expert team of accountants, 78 Tax Tips For Canadians For Dummies offers practical tax planning strategies. These individual tips offer straightforward advice and insight that will save readers aggravation and money.
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Taxes connect us to one another, to the common good, and to the future. This is a book about taxes: who pays what and who gets what. More than that, it’s about the role of government, about citizenship and our collective well-being, about the Canada we want. The contributors, leading Canadian practitioners and scholars, explore how taxes have become a political “no-go zone” and how changes in taxation are changing Canada. They challenge the view that any tax is a bad tax and provide broad directions for fairer and smarter approaches. This is a book that will be of interest to anyone concerned with public policy and public affairs, economics, and political science and to anyone interested in challenging the conventional wisdom that lower taxes and smaller government are the cures to what ails us.
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The Wall Street Journal bestseller -- now updated for all tax law changes The fun and easy way to maximize your deductions -- and minimize the pain! Updated with information on the latest tax laws and strategies, this friendly guide will save you headaches, hassles -- and money. With line-by-line instructions, savvy tips on tax reduction,and a dash of humor, it's just what you need to give yourself a tax cut on April 15, 2000 -- and plan for an even lower tax bill next year!
Many questions swirl around the heads of worried Canadians at tax time every year. As they snap their pencils, slam down their calculators, and let out an anguished sigh, they wonder, How on earth did this convoluted system of taxation ever evolve? That question breaks the logjam of many others, and Alex Doulis is here to answer them: - Does the taxman ever lose?Yes. - Would the taxman lie? Yes. - Has the government ever used the tax system to bludgeon its opponents? Apparently. - Does the government use the tax system to help its friends? Only the wealthy ones. - Can ordinary
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