Newsgroups: can.general
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: A question about computers and tax
Message-ID: <1989Apr21.154650.18345@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <2364@maccs.McMaster.CA> <1152@apss.apss.ab.ca>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 89 15:46:50 GMT

In article <1152@apss.apss.ab.ca> jhp@apss.ab.ca (Herb Presley, Planning Officer   ) writes:
>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.

The same, of course, applies if you get bad advice from Revenue Canada.
Which isn't at all unlikely, especially with all the changes made this year.

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

Unfortunately, the people giving the telephone advice are not the ones who
will make the eventual decision, and advice given over the telephone is
not legally binding on R.C.
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