Question: please answer the followign question right, Chris Pike is divorced and has full custody of his two children: 1 9 year old Hemmer and 1

please answer the followign question right, Chris Pike is divorced and has full custody of his two children: 19 year old Hemmer and 15 year old Uhura. His 79 year old mother Christine also lives with the family because she requires the full time use of a wheelchair. Christine received $9,000 in Old Age Security and $12,500 in social assistance in 2024. Hemmer is enrolled full time at MRU but also has a part time job. Hemmers tuition was $10,100 and his employment income was $12,700. Chris has a proprietorship, Tread Kinetics (TREK), that specializes in repairing manufacturing assembly lines. He operates the business from a spare bedroom that is normally vacant except for 4 weeks in the summer when his sister visits. TREKs financial information is shown in Exhibit 1. In 2021 Chris finalized his divorce from his ex-spouse Una. As part of the court ordered settlement, the Calgary house owned by Una was transferred to Chris. Una had purchased the house for $438,000 and it had a fair market value of $520,000 in 2021. No elections were made at this time. The court agreement also required Una to pay Chris monthly support payments of $4,500. Of this amount, $1,250 was indicated to be solely for Chriss benefit for him to use as he chooses. Chris has asked you to help him with his 2024 tax return and has provided the following information. In 2021, Chris purchased Laan Ltd 3 year bonds. They had a face value of $20,000 with 8% paid at maturity. However, Chriss purchase price was $21,900 as the market rate was 7.2% at that time. The bonds matured on October 1,2024. Chris sold 1,800 of his 2,000 shares of Enterprise Ltd., a public Canadian corporation, for proceeds of $19 per share. Prior to the sale, Chris received $1,300 in dividends from the shares. The shares were purchased at 2 separate times: 1,400 shares for a price of $6.00/share and 600 shares for a price of $5.00/share. In addition, commission costs were 1% on both purchase and sale transactions. He used the proceeds to retire the loan he used to buy the shares originally. Total interest on the loan for 2024 was $400. On January 16,2024, Chris gave Hemmer and Uhura each 100 shares of his sisters small business, Pike Staffing Ltd. An appraisal on this date estimated the shares to be worth $215 per share. Chris had purchased them for $50 per share. The shares paid $18 per share of dividends on March 30,2024. On November 5,2024, a competitor bought all the shares of the company for $260 per share. On January 6,2024, Chris contributed $5,000 to his RRSP. On January 10,2025, Chris contributed another $10,000 to his RRSP. He also contributed $6,000 to his TFSA and $2,500 to a RESP for Uhura in 2024. At the end of 2023, Chris had unused RRSP deduction room of $26,600. Chris purchased a car manufactured in the 1970s for $11,600 in 2020, with the intent of restoring it so he could display it at auto shows. He spent $7,900 for new parts and supplies to bring it to a working condition. However, he was unable to get it licensed in Canada due to it not meeting environmental standards. In September 2024 he sold it to a friend in the US for $22,800 Cdn. They agreed to payment terms of $1,000 per month starting in October 2024 with no interest. Chris incurred net capital losses of $29,000 in 2016 which he has not been able to deduct in previous years. On April 3 Chris sold a signed hockey stick that he found at a garage sale for $3,850. He bought it for $45. In 2024, Chris decided to sell the family home received in the divorce so the family could move into a house more easily accessed by his mother. The price he received for the house was $563,000 on March 5,2024. He paid $720,000 for a single level bungalow on February 12,2024. Lawyer and real estate agent fees were 5% on both the sale of the house and the purchase of the bungalow. Chris also sold a cottage, resulting in a capital gain of $109,000 capital gain. Chris purchased the cottage in 2015. Chris had the following costs related to his residences in 2024. Both his old house and new bungalow had 8 rooms, including the spare bedroom he uses for TREK. house bunglow Wheelchair ceiling lift $0 $18,700018700 Interior painting 03,90003900 Property taxes 1,0002,30010002300 Mortgage interest 2,20019,5002200019500 Home insurance 3001800 Utilities 9004200*** see scrreshooot****
please answer the followign question right, Chris

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