No. If you are married and living together you are not considered to be paying rent or receiving rental income from your spouse. Canada Revenue Agency has strict rules regarding rental properties and renting to a family member (child, parent, sibling) and spouses (married or common-law) are not able to "rent" part of their home to one another.
No. If you are married and living together you are not considered to be paying rent or receiving rental income from your spouse. Canada Revenue Agency has strict rules regarding rental properties and renting to a family member (child, parent, sibling) and spouses (married or common-law) are not able to "rent" part of their home to one another.
Your claim for rent for a single room or a home in which your wife lives in with you would likely be disallowed by CRA as an eligible business expense. As well as your wife's claim for any expenses she would have to claim against the "rental income" she received. Here are some things to consider
“… the expenses of properties maintained by any person for the use or benefit of the taxpayer or any person connected with the taxpayer by blood relationship, marriage or common-law partnership or adoption, and not maintained in connection with a business carried on for profit or with a reasonable expectation of profit.”
And again if you were to rent an entire house from her, it would need to be a separate entity, used exclusively by your business and the same rules would apply.
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