Path: utzoo!mnetor!philmtl!ncc!apss!jhp
From: jhp@apss.ab.ca (Herb Presley, Planning Officer   )
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: A question about computers and tax
Summary: Computers and Income Tax
Keywords: business, personal, RevCan
Message-ID: <1152@apss.apss.ab.ca>
Date: 20 Apr 89 14:17:23 GMT
References: <2364@maccs.McMaster.CA>
Distribution: can
Organization: Alberta Public Safety Services
Lines: 26

In article <2364@maccs.McMaster.CA>, cs3b3aj@maccs.McMaster.CA (Stephen M. Dunn) writes:
> 
>    A friend of mine is considering buying a Mac to be used partly for school
> work and partly for his business (he is a semi-professional juggler).  The
> question he would like answered has to do with taxation.  He wants to know
> if he can write off part of the cost of the computer as a business expense
> (and the same for depreciation).
> 
Why doesn't your friend call Revenue Canada for a ruling on his question, or
at the very least, advice on whether or not it is permissable.  I've seen a lot
of questions about income tax rules that are posted to this and other Canadian
Nets that could be resolved with a simple phonecall to R.C.

If you become the recipient of bad advice on one of these networks you could be
at best wasting your time to CLAIM something as a deduction from Income Tax
and at worst could be open to accusations of cheating, etc.

Besides, Revenue Canada will make the eventual decision anyhow on allowable
deductions.  So you might as well ask their advice to begin with.


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