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From: manderso@ugly.cs.ubc.ca (mark c anderson)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: Income Tax:  A Student's View
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Date: 3 Apr 89 08:04:32 GMT
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In article <1589@ubc-cs.UUCP> morrison@grads.cs.ubc.ca (Rick Morrison) writes:
>I second that emotion. Anyone know when the education expenses deduction
>was last increased? I know it's been $50/month since at least 1973.
>Seems to me expenses have gone up since then.

Actually, it has been increased to $60 per month this year.  Of course,
it's now a "non-refundable credit" rather than a deduction now, whatever
that means.

I do agree that it was rather unpleasant of RevCan to switch the tuition
deduction calculation on us... especially since I was on a work term for
the first term this year, and so the only tution fees I could claim were
the $133 co-op fee.  Had I known about this a year ago, I would have claimed
on the "calendar-year" basis.

-Mark
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