Inflation In Canada Today, let’s talk about a topic is quickly becoming the hot subject of debate amongst the financial community and how Canada is being affected. This issue at hand is inflation – a topic that has nearly been…
Mess Up On Your Taxes? Here’s How to Fix Them
Mess Up On Your Taxes? Here’s How to Fix Them It’s so easy to happen – You spent hours doing your income taxes – filing, preparing, double checking, and then finally sending it in to the CRA. You feel relieved.…
Exploring The New Federal Budget!
Exploring The New Federal Budget! Today we’re going to dive into one of my favourite annual traditions – the federal budget! This 700 page plus present covers a lot of content – some of which you’ve already likely heard about…
Don’t Fear Your Taxes (& How To Make Sense of it!)
Don’t Fear Your Income Taxes (& How To Make Sense of it!) One of the biggest wins that we gain along our financial education journey is empowerment. The amount of confidence that is gained from new knowledge and skills can…
Updates on COVID-19 Benefits Taxation
Updates on COVID-19 Benefits Taxation Today we are going to talk all about COVID-19 benefits taxation and how some recently released updates will be change how these tax bills will be treated. We’ll also talk about what is going to…
The GameStop Saga
The GameStop Saga – Show Notes Hello and welcome back to SimpleMoney podcast I’m your host Matthew Siwiec – also known as the Friendly Financial Coach. On today’s episode we cover the GameStop saga and pick it apart to see…
Work From Home Expenses: A Detailed Look!
Today were going to talk more about the new ways that Canadians working from home due to COVID-19 can now claim some of their expenses to cut their tax bills. We actually covered this back in the depths of July…
Affordable Childcare, Taxes, & More!
Affordable Childcare, Taxes, & More! This week myself and our fellow money nerds received an early gift from our federal government – A Fall Economic Statement with some proposed policy bombshells. In it we see the proposal of new national…
Supporting Small Businesses – Holiday Special
Supporting Small Businesses – Holiday Special So this is the last episode of 2020 and before I jump into the show, I just want to graciously thank every single listener out there. I know it sounds cliched, but it’s really…
Marriage & Common-Law: Pt. 2
Marriage & Common-Law: Pt. 2 Join us as we continue our in-depth look at major milestones in life and how to navigate them. Today we’ll finish off our look at marriage and common-law by looking at ways to protect your…