Slavyanka insisted on declaring us common-law this year because she was afraid we’d get nailed for taxes. Supposedly married or common-law pay less tax than single, as I was claiming.
She made less than $7000 last year. I make 6 figures. I paid $1600 last year, she got $3300.
This year as “equivalent to married”, I get $1500 back, she gets $300 back, so it’s basically a wash. BUT, since we’re above the income threshold, she gets $350 less every month in Child Benefit, so by declaring us common-law, it ended up costing us $4000..
Doesn’t pay to be honest with the gov’t. Bastids.
They have a program where if your address is the same , you get "married". and then have to pay back.
For reasons I won’t go into, we didn’t have to do that until last year, because of Covid.
If government was as efficient in all departments as they are in Revenue Canada we would be paying 50% less tax
This year as “equivalent to married”, I get $1500 back, she gets $300 back, so it’s basically a wash. BUT, since we’re above the income threshold, she gets $350 less every month in Child Benefit, so by declaring us common-law, it ended up costing us $4000..
Doesn’t pay to be honest with the gov’t. Bastids.
So what you are saying is, that by declaring what you actually are, common law married, you AREN'T [bleep] over the rest of us by getting an extra $4k you aren't entitled to?
What I am saying is that being married used to give you a tax advantage. Apparently it no longer does.
We followed the letter of the law wrt to claiming common law, and didn't [bleep] anyone over.
She was getting Child Tax Benefit dollars as a single mother. She moved in with you, why should the rest of us tax payers have to help offset YOUR child care costs when the child is now living with you, who makes "6 figures"?
Not a pile of sympathy here when you are complaining about following the rules and not getting money out of tax payer coffers that you really aren't entitled to. Unless I'm missing something in your original post?
Yes, you are. She declared us common law the first day it was legally required. We knew and it immediately happened that her child benefits were cut.
My complaint is that it was a complete wash on the tax side. There was absolutely no tax benefit to declaring common law, they just rearranged the numbers.
Though I have to say, whatever happened to “The government has no business in the bedrooms of the nation”?