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Know the difference between a “tax credit” and a “tax deduction?”
A deduction is an expense or exemption which reduces your total taxable income. The tax credit is what reduces whatever you’re on the hook for income tax wise.
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Hopefully you haven’t, but maybe you’ve had a loss on one of your allowable business investments. An allowable business investment is any investment in a private Canadian corporation that is a small business corporation that:
a) carries out 90% of its business on Canadian soil, and; b) existed 12 months before the disposition of the investment
While capital losses can only be used to reduce capital gains, you can use 50% of an “allowable business investment loss” to reduce all other types of income.
Do note that the disposition cannot be with a person you are in an arm’s length relationship with, i.e. a family member.