Tax questions help

[momofnerds]

I have a mom who was on mat leave and still kept bringing her kid. Can she claim daycare. And if a child collects money for disability can they claim child care. I read that they can't because they receive money for chill are.

And do you write a reciept for every child or one when you have siblings.

[mickyc]

Doesn't matter if she can claim it or not - you still need to give a receipt.

As for receipts with siblings. I usually just do one receipt for the full amount but then break it down for them so they know how much was paid for each child.

[momofnerds]

Ok, here's the problem with the siblings. So the family had 3 kids 2,6,12. The 6 and 12 yr old were coming after school. So the total for them was over 6000 dollars. The mom is going to take 5000 dollars and apply it to the younger child then divide the rest among the other two kids. But in my books it doesn't show that amount. So if I get audited I would have to show them that the kids only should have 300 dollars each,.does that make sense. And the older boy is disabled. I read that if you are collecting disability you can't claim daycare because you get money already. This mom every year tries to screw me over. Last year she said that my total was wrong, this year again,Shen then wants yo play the disability card. I have it all written down.

[Suzie_Homemaker]

Ok, here's the problem with the siblings. So the family had 3 kids 2,6,12. The 6 and 12 yr old were coming after school. So the total for them was over 6000 dollars. The mom is going to take 5000 dollars and apply it to the younger child then divide the rest among the other two kids. But in my books it doesn't show that amount. So if I get audited I would have to show them that the kids only should have 300 dollars each,.does that make sense. And the older boy is disabled. I read that if you are collecting disability you can't claim daycare because you get money already. This mom every year tries to screw me over. Last year she said that my total was wrong, this year again,Shen then wants yo play the disability card. I have it all written down.

They can claim for disabled child in fact they get higher amount than normal because sometimes specialist care costs more. From this year allowed up to $10k for disabled child (preschool or younger) or $8k for any other preschooler. Different amount for school age.

But, you don't need to worry about what they can claim or how they do it. You just need own house in order.

It is one receipt per child. Says clearly on website. Think this might be recent change due to income splitting.

This Mom has no way to screw you over if you just follow CRA guides. WRite out one receipt per child based on what she paid. Up to her how she messes around with her taxes but you have to take care of yours, not her requirement.

[momofnerds]

Mom wanted to know because her mother does the taxes

[mickyc]

Tell her to contact an accountant. I would not want to be responsible for providing the wrong information if I was you. She can also look it up on the CRA website

[babydom]

Always give receipt. And u claim the income. It's up to them to know if they should claim or not. I also just do one receipt for siblings.

[momofnerds]

Everyone gets a reciept not worried about that, it's that my parents don't know the info and then they complain lol.

[kindertime]

Don't make anything more complicated than it needs to be. If she paid $XX for child 1 then that is the receipt you give. It isn't any of your business what she does with the receipt. You need to protect yourself and be honest. Does she want you to lie to the CRA?

[momofnerds]

I think she does. Because she wants to use so much for the older 2 kids but my records dhow that they were only cared for a handful of times. And her oldest receives disability I think she wants to get more money for him. Dh says that from now on every child gets their own reciept, this way nothing can come back on me.