Employment expenses
Claiming work-related expenses on your tax return
Home office costs, the temporary flat rate method, and the motor vehicle question everybody asks — what employees can and cannot deduct.
5 min read
Chartered Professional Accountants · Woodbridge, ON
Experience you can rely on.
Accounting and taxation professionals with over 30 years of corporate and personal tax work.
Start-ups & small business
Accounting built for the business you are still building.
Structure, registration, HST thresholds and the deadlines nobody warns you about — handled before they become penalties.
Tax planning & preparation
We turn your numbers into value.
Planning that starts before year end, returns filed on time, and a plain-language explanation of every figure on them.
CRA reviews & audits
Someone who has done this before, standing between you and the file.
Audit correspondence, supporting records and follow-up handled on your behalf so the process stays off your desk.
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Years in practice
Since 1997
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Reports prepared
Corporate & personal
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Clients served
Across the GTA
Alongside our certified financial planner and tax CPA, CGA, Theva (Dave) Somasundaram, our staff cover bookkeeping, accounting services across the GTA, tax planning, taxation accounting and CRA audits.
We have built a long client list across a wide range of businesses and circumstances — contractors, self-employed trades, rental income, real estate tax planning, start-ups and small business accounting.
Accounting
Everything from financial tax accounting through to management accounting, handled by one team.
Learn moreFinancial Systems
A chart of accounts designed around your business and the industry vertical it operates in.
Learn moreTaxes
Individual and corporate tax preparation, filed online, with planning that starts before year end.
Learn moreGovernment Audit
Audit and CRA correspondence handled for you, so the stress of the process stays off your desk.
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About us
Accounting and taxation professionals.
With over 30 years of experience in tax planning, taxation, accounting, and audit support, our practice is built around providing clients with professional services that fit their specific circumstances.
- Financial Accounting
- 80%
- Tax Planning
- 80%
- Business Consulting
- 70%
Tax services
All servicesWhy clients choose Galaxy Tax
We provide specialised services for owner-managed and privately held organisations, and for not-for-profits, across a range of industry verticals.
- 01Financial AccountingStatements, books and HST filings kept accurate and on schedule, so the numbers you make decisions on are the right ones.
- 02Management AccountingBudgets, cost analysis and variance reporting that tell you where the money actually goes — and where it can stay.
- 03Financial SystemsA chart of accounts designed for your industry, a general ledger that balances, and a team trained to keep it that way.
- 04TaxationCorporate and personal returns prepared by people who read the Income Tax Act for a living — and plan ahead of it.
- 05Government Audit ProcessIf the CRA comes calling, you have someone who has done this before standing between you and the file.
CPA, CGA led
Every file is reviewed by a Chartered Professional Accountant before it is filed.
Promptness over price
We do not compete on being the cheapest. We compete on returning your call and meeting the deadline.
Audit-ready books
Records kept so that a CRA review is a formality rather than a fire drill.
Who we work with
Built for the people who actually get the CRA letter
From a first incorporation to a decade-old family business, the work changes but the standard does not.
Owner-managed businesses
Privately held companies that need a full finance function without hiring one.
Not-for-profit organisations
Compliance, reporting and charitable registration handled to the standard your board expects.
Self-employed & contractors
Contractor, freelance and self-employed returns, including expense and vehicle claims.
Property & rental investors
Real estate tax planning, rental income returns and principal residence questions.
Start-ups & incorporations
Structure, registration, HST thresholds and the deadlines nobody tells you about.
Salaried individuals & students
Personal returns reviewed line by line for credits that are routinely missed.
How we work
Four steps, no surprises
The same process whether you are filing one personal return or closing a corporate year end.
- 1
Free consultation
Fifteen minutes to understand the business, the deadlines you are working to and what has gone wrong before.
- 2
Scope and fixed quote
You get the number in writing before any work starts. No hourly creep.
- 3
Preparation and review
Books reconciled, statements prepared, returns drafted — then reviewed by a CPA before anything is filed.
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Filing and planning
We file, we explain the result in plain language, and we flag what to do differently before next year end.
From our desk
All articlesTax notes and filing reminders
Medical credits
Can you deduct cannabis as a medical expense?
Changes to the medical expense tax credit expanded eligibility for patients carrying the cost of prescribed cannabis. Here is who qualifies and how much can be claimed.
3 min read
Employment expenses
T2200: how it benefits those working from home
If your employer sent you home and you have been paying for the equipment, the T2200 route may still be the stronger claim. What to keep, what to file, and what does not count.
4 min read
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