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Taxes

Because filing taxes shouldn't be a stressful, confusing nightmare

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    RRSP vs TFSA: What’s the Better Choice?

  • A book that says shit no one knows, tax edition

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    Five Tax Enigmas That Confuse Basically Everyone

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A Freelancer’s Guide to Saving Like a Corporate Lifer

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The Perfect Guide to Every Little Tax Question You Have

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Five Tax Traps — And How, If You Start Now, You Can Avoid Them

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The Deadline for RESPs is Coming! It's About More Than Free Money

It might seem like this is a crazy year to start doing your own taxes. But, for most people, it’s actually the perfect time. To illustrate how easy-breezy it is, we made this quick guide to using Wealthsimple Tax.

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Is This the Year to Try Wealthsimple Tax? (Um, Probably. Yes)

And six other things you need to know to do this tax season right.

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You May (Still) Have to Pay Taxes on COVID-19 Benefits

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What is Wealthsimple and How Does it Actually Work?

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Here Are the Eight Tax Tips You Need

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Tax Tips: How to Do Tax Season Right

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Don’t Forget: You Only Have One Month to Lower Your 2018 Tax Bill

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I Get Free Tax-Loss Harvesting! Awesome! Wait. What is That?

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What's the Smartest Thing You Can Do With Your Tax Refund?

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How to Be Smart with Your Tax Refund (and Still Buy Stupidly Expensive Things)

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How to 10x Your Tax Refund (Without Breaking the Law)

Getting a giant refund? Don’t want to be smart and invest it but short on ideas for what to do with it? We’re here to help.

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Five Gloriously Silly Things To Do With Your Tax Refund

We had a hunch that a lot of new crypto traders in Canada didn’t know how to file capital gains tax, so we added a tool to do it for them — and it works for nearly every major crypto app or exchange.

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Confused About Crypto and Taxes? Wealthsimple Tax Does It for You

Are you new to trading? Well, surprise! You have to pay taxes on all the stocks you sold last year. How nervous should you be about that? Not very — if you do a few simple things.

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Oh Wait, Do I Need to Pay Taxes on My Stock Trades? A Guide

Social media is great for doom scrolling and feeling FOMO. But it’s absolutely lousy if you want to know crypto tax laws in Canada.

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You Don’t Have to Pay Taxes on Crypto! And Other NOT TRUE Tax Myths

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