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Discover our most popular topics for Canadian solopreneurs and small business owners. From income tax and GST/HST to QuickBooks tutorials and managing your business finances, these guides are designed to help you move from financial uncertainty to financial confidence.
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📑Canadian Income Tax
Guidance on filing and planning your Canadian taxes, from T1 and T2 returns to instalments
📊Managing Business Finances
From cash flow to pricing and metrics — learn to manage your business finances with confidence.
🏢 Canadian Business Structure
Should you incorporate? Stay informed on sole proprietorships, corporations, and registrations.
💰 GST/HST & QST
Understand how to register, file, and maximize input tax credits while avoiding common mistakes.
🧾 Guides and Tutorials
Practical accounting processes like reconciliations, journal entries, and reporting.
📝 Deductions & Expenses
Learn which expenses are deductible and how to track them for maximum tax savings.
Quebec Taxes & Business
QST, Revenu Québec filings, Quebec payroll, and provincial rules every entrepreneur should know.
👤 Paying Yourself
Salary vs dividends, management fees, and how to pay yourself from your corporation or small business.
💻 QuickBooks Online & Tools
Tutorials, guides and time-saving tips for using QuickBooks Online effectively.
🏦 Money & Personal Finance
Personal finance strategies for entrepreneurs, from RRSPs to saving for taxes.

How to Reflect Investment Income and Capital Gains/Losses on your Personal Tax Return
Residents of Canada are required to reflect all sources of worldwide income on their personal tax returns. For most individuals, who have investments with Canadian based banks and brokerages, this is fairly straightforward as you will receive the relevant tax slips, usually by March 31st of the year following the end of the calendar year i.e. for the 2023 tax year, you should receive all investment related tax forms and slips by March 31st, 2024. It is important, if you have investment income in non registered investments (i.e. not TFSA, RRSPs or FHSAs), to ensure that you have received all tax documents and report them. Failure to report income can result in penalties by Revenue Canada and Revenue Quebec, which is never great, particularly when it can be easily avoided. It should be noted that since most tax documentation is submitted by the issuer to Revenue Canada (CRA) and Revenue Quebec (RQ) electronically, they usually have a record of the various types of investment income for each taxpayer and can easily identify any missing information.