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https://www.advisor.ca/tax/tax-news/more-employees-will-be-asking-companies-for-home-office-expense-tax-forms-this-year/

" Employers will be extra busy this tax-filing season providing eligible employees with completed tax forms they’ll need to deduct home office expenses on their 2023 returns.  

The temporary “flat rate” method, which allowed Canadians working from home due to Covid to claim up to $400 in employment expenses in 2020 and up to $500 in 2021 and 2022, is not available for 2023. That method did not require the employee to get a form from their employer. 

Employees who worked from home in 2023 and who are eligible to claim home office expenses will have only one option — the “detailed” method, which will require a completed Form T2200: Declaration of Conditions of Employment from their employer. 

Form T2200: Declaration of Conditions of Employment

https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/individuals/topics/about-your-tax-return/tax-return/completing-a-tax-return/deductions-credits-expenses/line-22900-other-employment-expenses/work-space-home-expenses/frequently-asked-questions.html

https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/cra-arc/formspubs/pbg/t2200s/t2200s-fill-22e.pdf

Year 2023 form to be available near end of January 2024

Let's start with tax breaks 

https://financialpost.com/personal-finance/taxes/buying-first-home-top-3-tax-strategies-use

HBP

FHSA

First Home Buyers Credit 

Building, Major Renovation- HST rebate

Reno, for Disabled and Elderly 

Afordability

Mortgages

Check out the comments areas for additional sandbox articles and information. The housing market impacts many areas of our lives, our discusions. There was a realtor, older fellow that would introduce his tag line at the Greater Brockville Ad & Sales meetings, "get a lot when your young" 

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/entrepreneur/ive-been-working-from-home-for-almost-10-years-—-these-are-the-6-tricks-i-use-to-get-more-done-in-less-time/ss-BBPEQ1L?ocid=spartanntp#image=7

Working From home tips

Some great ideas I came across

I encourage people to work from home if they can.

There is some good tax deductions that you can take advantage of as well. 

Tim

6. I cut myself some slack.

5. I log out of my email during a particularly pressing project.

4. I eat well.

In addition to helping you maintain a healthy weight, eating well helps increase energy levels as well as your ability to focus. What "eating well" looks like will differ to everyone, but for me it includes a lot of fresh vegetables, a moderate amount of protein, and a diet that's high in healthy fats and low in carbohydrates and sugar, which can cause crashes in excess.

3. I listen to ASMR videos on YouTube. ( I like this, I actuay invested in Premium YouTube so I can listen and work on my phone without it cutting out, speakers to hear better as well)

2. I get up from my desk at least once an hour.

1. I set a schedule.

Personally I work from home a bit, mainly when I am doing research and planning for my  meeting schedules and business planning.  Tips 2-3-4-6 are what I practice :)

Be blessed 

Tim

Word of the day  - Recalcitrant 

https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/recalcitrant-2018-11-13

Code for "Stubborn like a Mule " !

1 : obstinately defiant of authority or restraint
2 a : difficult to manage or operate
b : not responsive to treatment
c : resistant

Did You Know?
Long before any human was dubbed "recalcitrant" in English (that first occurred in the 18th century), there were stubborn mules (and horses) kicking back their heels. The ancient Romans noted as much (Pliny the Elder among them), and they had a word for it: recalcitrare, which literally means "to kick back." (Its root calc-, meaning "heel," is also the root of calcaneus, the large bone of the heel in humans.) Certainly Roman citizens in Pliny's time were sometimes willful and hardheaded—as attested by various Latin words meaning "stubborn"—but it wasn't until later that writers of Late Latin applied recalcitrare and its derivative adjective to humans who were stubborn as mules.