Home › Guides › Rights & taxes at home › Calculating home office costs Rights & taxes If your employer requires you to work from home, you may be able to deduct part of your home costs – but only with the detailed method, a signed form T2200, and a calculation that holds up. This article walks through the calculation
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Home › Guides › Rights & taxes at home › Right to disconnect Rights & taxes Remote work makes it easy for work messages to follow you into the evening. Canada has no single nationwide “right to disconnect”: Ontario requires larger employers to have a written policy, the federal Canada Labour Code has been amended for federally regulated employers, and
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Home › Guides › Freelancing in Canada › Tax instalments Freelance As a freelancer or contractor, nobody withholds tax from your income. Once the amount you owe at tax time gets large enough, the CRA expects you to pay during the year in quarterly instalments. This article explains when instalments apply, the due dates, the three ways to calculate them,
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Home › Guides › Freelancing in Canada › Freelance invoices Freelance A clear invoice gets you paid faster and keeps your records ready for tax time. This article shows what a Canadian freelance invoice should contain, when and how to show GST/HST, which payment terms work, and how to handle foreign clients and late payers. Talyca editorial teamUpdated: September 20263
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Home › Guides › Spot remote job scams › Checking a recruiter Safety Fake recruiters copy real company names, logos and even employee profiles, so a convincing message proves little. Before you send your resume, ID or any personal details, a few independent checks take ten minutes and filter out most fraud. This article walks through them in order. Talyca
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Home › Guides › Spot remote job scams › Task scams explained Safety Task scams offer “flexible online work” – rating products, boosting apps, liking videos – and really pay out at first. That’s what makes them so effective: by the time the account “needs a deposit”, victims already trust the job. This article shows how the scheme escalates, how
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Home › Guides › Applying for remote jobs › Video interview tips Applications Most remote jobs are won or lost on video. The good news: the technical part is fully in your control, and a calm setup lets you focus on the answers. This article covers camera, light and sound, how to come across well on screen, and how recorded
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Home › Guides › Applying for remote jobs › Remote cover letter Applications A cover letter for a remote job has one extra purpose: it’s your first writing sample. Keep it short, specific and easy to scan. This article gives you a four-part structure, a complete example for a support role in Canada, and the mistakes that make recruiters stop
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Home › Guides › Remote tech careers › Developer portfolio Tech careers For remote developer roles, your portfolio does much of the talking before anyone meets you. Reviewers have limited time, so a few focused, well-explained projects beat a long list of tutorials. This article covers which projects to show, how to write a README people read, and how to
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Home › Guides › Remote tech careers › Remote IT help desk Tech careers IT help desk is the most accessible way into a tech career, and much of it can be done remotely: resetting access, troubleshooting laptops and software, and guiding colleagues through problems over chat, phone or remote session. This article explains the work, how support tiers fit
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