Cherry, Author at Real Estate Tax Tips

How Can You Use Your RRSP to Invest in Real Estate?

Many investors ask me how they can invest their money within their Registered Retirement Saving Plans (RRSPs) in real estate without collapsing the plans and incur a large amount of tax liability. (This article applies to Registered Education Saving Plans...

March 5, 2015

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TFSA or RRSP: Where Should You Put Your Money?

Being a busy mom with a one year old toddler and a small business owner, it isn’t exactly easy to find time to read. Audible has actually become my best friend over the last few years. (For those of you...

February 26, 2015

Other tax issues Real estate corporations

Save $1000s in Tax Liabilities with the Proper Share Structure in Your Real Estate Corporation

Hello fellow real estate investors, Happy Chinese New Year everyone! It is the year of Goat in 2015. Our family wishes everyone a happy and healthy and prosperous year of Goat. Believe it or not, according to this Astrologer from...

February 19, 2015

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How to Look at the ROI on Your Investment Property the Right Way

Recently, I had a few discussions with clients that complained about not getting sufficient cash flow from their investment. This is because they weren’t sure about the types of strategies that were available to them when it came to their...

February 12, 2015

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Earn Money by Preserving the Principal Residence Exemption Status of Your Home!

As real estate investors, I would assume the majority of us have read the book Rich Dad Poor Dad written by Robert Kiyosaki. It was the book that changed my life and my perspective on money. Being a Chartered Accountant,...

February 5, 2015

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Tax Tip from a Retired Accounting Firm Partner About Setting Up Corporations

Hello fellow real estate investors, Just before the holidays, I had the opportunity to meet up with my long-time mentor, a retired partner at the biggest accounting firm in Canada. His practice is built primarily around small business. A lot...

January 29, 2015

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A Little Know Secret About HST Tax and How it can Impact Your Real Estate Business

In my last blog post, we talked about what the Montreal woman should have incorporated and how she should have reported the income as active business income to avoid the expensive tax in flipping houses. Unfortunately, income tax is not...

January 26, 2015

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Montreal Woman Gets Slapped by CRA: What You can Learn and Need to know from Her Shortcomings

Happy New Year everyone 🙂 My family and I just came back from one week long vacation in Florida. Despite the flight delay which caused us to miss the cruise we were supposed to go on, the weather was fantastic...

January 15, 2015

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Happy Holidays: Your Last Tax Tip Before the End of the 2014 Year!

I can’t believe that it’s almost the end of the year. I would like to start off with a ‘thank you’ to everyone who has made our lives special this year. Our biggest blessing this year is the arrival of...

December 24, 2014

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Getting Hooked on Real Estate Investments: The Snow Ball Effect of Buying a Single Family Townhouse

It was fall of 2010. I was working crazy hours for a private label pet food manufacturing company managing their Thailand plants from Canada. I found the job stressful and tiring. It didn’t help that I had to commute from...

December 4, 2014

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