Taxes..where are you going? [Archive] - Beyond.ca - Car Forums

Grip172

03-19-2006, 08:25 PM

so, where is everyone getting there taxes done? i think i'll just take em to H&R Block, unless there are some other suggestions?!

TimG

03-19-2006, 08:30 PM

H&R Block is garbage.

If you're taxes are straight forward and you don't have to deal with moving expenses and shit like that buy quicktax and do it yourself.

Si_FlyGuy

03-19-2006, 08:38 PM

:werd: H&R block 'accountants' are useless. You'll probably end up paying close to the same with a real accountant. Quicktax is so easy to use, even with moving expenses and extra income.

I still have 4 netfiles on my QuickTax left to go if you wanna split the cost. :D

Kirbs17

03-19-2006, 08:43 PM

H & R blocks accountants require a 3 month course. They dont know anything.

My moms a CA, has been for 25 years now, so I gettum done free. My taxes were sent off 2 weeks ago. Gettin $1400 back. Yay for being a student

Grip172

03-19-2006, 09:14 PM

sob i wish i was eligible for student

one year i was and got just about $3500 back

this year i'll be LUCKY to get near $1000 i think

is quicktax really that easy? i don't think it should be too difficult.i moved from bc to alberta, i hope that doesn't affect it too much ??

Xtrema

03-19-2006, 11:49 PM

Originally posted by Grip172
sob i wish i was eligible for student

one year i was and got just about $3500 back

this year i'll be LUCKY to get near $1000 i think

is quicktax really that easy? i don't think it should be too difficult.i moved from bc to alberta, i hope that doesn't affect it too much ??

Do you have more than 1 of any T4, T5, T1?

Are you self-employee or own a small business?

Do you have any dependents?

If no to all of the above, quicktax would take care of it for you.

If yes, you should talk to an accountant to at least try to learn from him/her before filing yourself next year.

TimG

03-20-2006, 11:50 AM

did you move from BC to AB for work?

If so, I hope you kept all of the receipts related to your move. There are quite a lot of expenses that you can claim: charges for cancelling/setting up utilities and services, meals, taxi/transpo, i think the cost of changing your driver's liscence and other car-related things, etc.

An accountant will know exactly what can and can't be claimed as well as know all of the little tricks to claim as much as possible.

89coupe

03-20-2006, 11:52 AM

I get my taxes done at Alberta E-File.

I got a $9800.00 tax return this year.:thumbsup:

rith

03-20-2006, 11:56 AM

H&R block is lame, I went there once and I said never again, $70 for 5 minutes of work? No thanks, I just use Netfile and Quicktax now, taxes take 30 minutes of my time. and it cost me $15 to use Web based quicktax....

Lanks

03-20-2006, 12:44 PM

Ufile.ca is also good... takes like 30 mins online and is free if you are a student or make under 25 G's

jumperman8

03-20-2006, 12:51 PM

I went to H&R Block, and he did my taxes and gave me my money right there. Only cost $25 to do it and i recieved 1600 back being that im a student

Xtrema

03-20-2006, 12:53 PM

Originally posted by 89coupe
I get my taxes done at Alberta E-File.

I got a $9800.00 tax return this year.:thumbsup:

:eek: How did the tax man got so much of your money to begin with?

James

03-20-2006, 01:54 PM

Originally posted by Xtrema

:eek: How did the tax man got so much of your money to begin with?

Thats what happens when you make alot of money
;) ...I used quicktax, peice of cake... Its also nice to have direct deposit for Gov't cheques, gotta love seeing that deposit go in there!....time to spoil myself with a vacation! :D

RSeXy

03-20-2006, 02:01 PM

Originally posted by James

Thats what happens when you make alot of money
;) ...I used quicktax, peice of cake... Its also nice to have direct deposit for Gov't cheques, gotta love seeing that deposit go in there!....time to spoil myself with a vacation! :D

As long as you go from July 9-23 haha! j/k!

My dad is an accountant so he just does the taxes. I wouldn't have a clue in the world what to do haha!

Pee_Sack

03-20-2006, 02:07 PM

I got mine done at a private palce up here. Cost $100 I am getting just over $1000 back, so now should I either buy something for the car, or pay off bills?

GQBalla

03-20-2006, 02:10 PM

i did my own.

well my mom did it for me.

:rolleyes:

thetrousertrout

03-20-2006, 03:16 PM

I bought quicktax this year and it gives me 5 reports that I can file over $25k, and unlimited amount under that, so If you want to save some cash, and your return is straight forward, PM me, bring a couple beers and you can do it here.

topher91

03-20-2006, 03:23 PM

My parents use quicktax to do my taxes too.

Hey what's this "moving expenses" stuff? I can claim $$ I spent when I moved? Even though its moving w/in calgary?

Thanks,

Chris

Grip172

03-20-2006, 04:10 PM

no i didnt' move from BC to AB to work...i moved here to go to school

and i have 3 T4's and a T1 i believe (for RRSP contributions)

so maybe i should just go to H&R..plus i'm pretty hard up for cash right now!!!

89coupe

03-20-2006, 04:20 PM

Originally posted by Grip172
no i didnt' move from BC to AB to work...i moved here to go to school

and i have 3 T4's and a T1 i believe (for RRSP contributions)

so maybe i should just go to H&R..plus i'm pretty hard up for cash right now!!!

The company I use only charges $70 for personal tax filing.

$140 for Private Businesses.

Alberta E-File

TimG

03-20-2006, 04:56 PM

Originally posted by topher91
My parents use quicktax to do my taxes too.

Hey what's this "moving expenses" stuff? I can claim $$ I spent when I moved? Even though its moving w/in calgary?

Thanks,

Chris

You can only claim moving expenses if your new home is at least 40 km closer to the new place of work or school.

Don't think you'll get that if you're moving within the city.

http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/E/pbg/tf/t1-m/t1-m-05e.pdf

TimG

03-20-2006, 04:58 PM

Originally posted by Grip172
no i didnt' move from BC to AB to work...i moved here to go to school

and i have 3 T4's and a T1 i believe (for RRSP contributions)

so maybe i should just go to H&R..plus i'm pretty hard up for cash right now!!!

I think you can claim your moving expenses if you're moving here for school. see the link above.

Altezza

03-20-2006, 05:43 PM

As a suggestion to some of the younger folks here, doing your own taxes is a great learning process. You pay a big chunk of your earnings to the government. Don't you want to know exactly how or why you are paying that sum to them? Doing your own taxes is a terrific way to learn about tax laws and pays dividends (no pun intended) for doing tax planing for the years ahead.