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TORONTO 鈥?In the mad dash to file taxes before the April 30 deadline, Canadians often miss out on easy tax br stanley thermobecher eaks, say experts. Knowing these lesser-known tax deductions and credits could save you hundreds or possibly thousands of dollars.Health plan premiumsOf all the eligible medical expenses that can be claimed on tax returns, employee paid premiums for health and dental plans are typically neglected, says income tax professional Jason Heath of Objective Financial Partners in Toronto. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW A lot of people figure stanley thermoskannen , Ah well, I have a health plan and don ;t pay a lot out-of-pocket, ; he says.But the thing that I see people forget quite often or don ;t know quite often is that if you pay the premiums for a health plan 鈥?premiums that are coming off every paycheque 鈥?those premiums count as medical expenses. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Heath says that a tax credit can be claimed for 2016 if total medical expenses exceeded either $2,237, or three per cent of your income or that of your spouse , whichever is lowest.A lot of times if someone has a family and they ;re paying the premiums on their health plan, they could be easily spending $2,000 on their premiums let alone all their out-of-pocket medical costs, he says. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW termo stanley Allan M Jvda Eiteljorg museum leads celebration of the novel True Grit
OSWEGO, NY 鈥?Like a jigsaw puzzle with its outer edges in place, the Oswego City School Districts 2011-12 budgets center is slowly taking shape.Wednesday nights meeting of the Finance Committee was used as a budget workshop for the entire school board. Only Fran Hoefer didnt attend. This years budget that we are operating in is $74,848,000. What we are proposing stanley spain for next school year is a budget of $74,534,000, depending on some of the put backs and other things. I just want to note that the proposed budget is $300,000 less than what we are spending today, Superintendent Bill Crist pointed out. Thats despite health insurance costs that were p stanley cups rojecting to be $1.1 million more than where we are. We have employee retirement and teacher retirement costs of over $1.2 million more. Any proposal that brings reduction of staff or programs is something that weighs heavy on everybody that has to make that decision. Everyone that has offered input for the next budget has done so with an interest to provide programs that the community will be proud of and wants to continue to have and also do it at a cost that the community is able to support, he continued.The tax levy would increase by 2 percent under the current option being considered.School Board Vice President John Dunsmoor, chair of the finance committee, told Crist and the other administrators invo vaso stanley lved in the budget process to have a tentative spending plan in place ready for discussion at the boards Feb. 22 meeting. placemen
TORONTO 鈥?In the mad dash to file taxes before the April 30 deadline, Canadians often miss out on easy tax br stanley thermobecher eaks, say experts. Knowing these lesser-known tax deductions and credits could save you hundreds or possibly thousands of dollars.Health plan premiumsOf all the eligible medical expenses that can be claimed on tax returns, employee paid premiums for health and dental plans are typically neglected, says income tax professional Jason Heath of Objective Financial Partners in Toronto. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW A lot of people figure stanley thermoskannen , Ah well, I have a health plan and don ;t pay a lot out-of-pocket, ; he says.But the thing that I see people forget quite often or don ;t know quite often is that if you pay the premiums for a health plan 鈥?premiums that are coming off every paycheque 鈥?those premiums count as medical expenses. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Heath says that a tax credit can be claimed for 2016 if total medical expenses exceeded either $2,237, or three per cent of your income or that of your spouse , whichever is lowest.A lot of times if someone has a family and they ;re paying the premiums on their health plan, they could be easily spending $2,000 on their premiums let alone all their out-of-pocket medical costs, he says. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW termo stanley Allan M Jvda Eiteljorg museum leads celebration of the novel True Grit
OSWEGO, NY 鈥?Like a jigsaw puzzle with its outer edges in place, the Oswego City School Districts 2011-12 budgets center is slowly taking shape.Wednesday nights meeting of the Finance Committee was used as a budget workshop for the entire school board. Only Fran Hoefer didnt attend. This years budget that we are operating in is $74,848,000. What we are proposing stanley spain for next school year is a budget of $74,534,000, depending on some of the put backs and other things. I just want to note that the proposed budget is $300,000 less than what we are spending today, Superintendent Bill Crist pointed out. Thats despite health insurance costs that were p stanley cups rojecting to be $1.1 million more than where we are. We have employee retirement and teacher retirement costs of over $1.2 million more. Any proposal that brings reduction of staff or programs is something that weighs heavy on everybody that has to make that decision. Everyone that has offered input for the next budget has done so with an interest to provide programs that the community will be proud of and wants to continue to have and also do it at a cost that the community is able to support, he continued.The tax levy would increase by 2 percent under the current option being considered.School Board Vice President John Dunsmoor, chair of the finance committee, told Crist and the other administrators invo vaso stanley lved in the budget process to have a tentative spending plan in place ready for discussion at the boards Feb. 22 meeting. placemen