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help please!!! Ms. Sara Turgeon is 37 years old and divorced from her former spouse. She has two children from the marriage, Lotte, aged 5
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Ms. Sara Turgeon is 37 years old and divorced from her former spouse. She has two children from the marriage, Lotte, aged 5 and Bram, aged 9. Neither of these children have any 2019 income.
The divorce decree, which was issued in 2017, requires her former spouse to pay $3,000 per month in child support and an additional $1,000 per month in spousal support. While all of the payments for previous years have been made, during 2019, her former spouse has experienced financial difficulties and has paid only $40,000 of the required amounts.
Ms. Turgeon also provides care for her 85 year old grandfather who lives with her and her children. While her grandfather is not mentally or physically infirm, his 2019 income was only $7,950, leaving him as a dependant of Ms. Turgeon.
Ms. Turgeon is employed by Dutch Foods Ltd., a large public company. For 2019, she has a base salary of $75,000 per year. During 2018, she was awarded a bonus of $19,500, all of which was paid in January, 2019.
For her employment related travel, the company provides her with an automobile which the company leases for $560 per month. Ms. Turgeon is required to pay all of her own operating and maintenance costs on the automobile. During 2019, these costs totaled $6,300. The automobile was available for use for 11 months during 2019 and was driven a total of 43,360 kilometers. Of these kilometers, all but 8,240 were for employment related use. During the month that she did not use the car, company policy required that it be returned to the company garage.
Her employer withheld the following amounts from her 2019 earnings:
RPP Contributions $3,400
EI Premiums 860
CPP Contributions 2,749
Life Insurance Premiums 250
Her employer pays her Alberta provincial health care premium of $44 per month.
During 2019, Ms. Turgeon is transferred by Dutch Foods Ltd. from their Edmonton office to their Calgary office. On January 3, 2019, Ms. Turgeon flies to Calgary at a cost of $325 to locate a new residence for her and her family. During the three days that she is there, her food and lodging costs total $575. Both the air fare and the food and lodging costs are reimbursed by Dutch Foods Ltd. After considering the properties that she has seen, she makes an offer on a property on January 10. The offer is accepted that same day.
Later that month she sells her Edmonton home which she purchased for $265,000 in 2017. The house is sold for $257,800. While Ms. Turgeon managed to sell the house without using a real estate agent, legal fees associated with the sale total $950.
Ms. Turgeon and her family leave Edmonton on March 15 and arrive in Calgary that same day. She uses her Companys car to transport herself and her family. This milage is included in the 43,360 kilometer total and is viewed as being employment related. As the family brought a picnic lunch for the trip, she ignores food costs for the day.
Unfortunately, her new Calgary home is not available until April 3 and, as a consequence, she, her children and her grandfather stay in a Calgary suite hotel from March 15 through April 3 (19 days). The rate for a two room suite is $325 per day, but Ms. Turgeon has a discount voucher that gives her a rate of $200 per day for a week (7 nights).
Assume that the 2019 rate for meals is $51 per day per person.
The cost for moving her household effects and leaving them in storage until her Calgary home was ready totaled $3,640. Her legal fees associated with acquiring the Calgary home are $600.
Before moving to Calgary, child care costs in Edmonton were $200 per week for 11 weeks. In Calgary, the weekly cost increased to $250 per week and was paid for a total of 36 weeks. In the summer, both children spent four weeks at an exclusive summer camp. The fees at this camp were $500 per child per week.
The 2019 medical expenses for Ms. Turgeon and her dependants, which were all paid for by Ms. Turgeon, are as follows:
Ms. Turgeon $ 465
Lotte 493
Bram 245
Grandfather 12,473
Total Medical Expenses $13,676
Required: Calculate the following for Ms. Turgeon:
her minimum 2019 Net Income For Tax Purposes,
her minimum 2019 Taxable Income,
her minimum 2019 federal Tax Payable.
Ignore GST and HST considerations, as well as any amounts of income tax that would have been withheld by Ms. Turgeons employer.
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