aim for medical expenses is one of the most common provisions on the return, and affects the majority of tax filers, yet it is often the most misunderstood.

Medical expenses can be claimed for:

• you, your spouse or common-law partner
• a child or grandchild of you or your spouse who depended on you for support, and
• adult children or grandchildren, a parent, grandparent, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, niece or nephew of you or your spouse who lived in Canada at any time in the year and depended on you for support.

Be Organized and Know Your Deductions

THIS YEAR, BE ORGANIZED AT TAX TIME
The most difficult part of preparing tax returns has very little to do with math ability or intelligence. It's all about organization. It usually takes longer to sort documentation than it does to enter the data onto the tax return itself. This is the major challenge for all taxpayers and a major impediment to tax efficiency. You need to get past this barrier to achieve a powerful relationship with the taxman.

It's true: the better you are at bringing order to your documentation, the wealthier you will be. You'll pay less to have a tax professional do your taxes, year over year, they'll do a more thorough and therefore better job at saving you money, and you'll benefit from being "ready”—with all the information to build wealth, after-tax.

You'll also help your executors out a lot when they are filing your final tax return. And that's just being kind.

So do yourself a favor and beat the taxman with an organized approach to your tax preparation.