Receipts, expenses and records
Practical guides to keeping receipts, tracking spending, and staying on the right side of record-keeping rules.
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The Best Way to Track Business Expenses on Your Phone
Spreadsheets, bank feeds or a receipt scanner app? How each way of tracking business expenses works, what it misses, and how to pick the right one for you.
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How Long Do You Need to Keep Receipts in Canada?
The CRA's six-year rule for business records, where you must keep them, whether scanned receipts count, and how to request early destruction.
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How Long Should You Keep Receipts for the IRS?
The IRS record retention periods — 3, 4, 6 and 7 years and indefinitely — when each applies, and the $75 receipt rule for travel expenses.
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How to Organize Receipts for Taxes (Without a Shoebox)
A simple system for organizing receipts for tax time — capture, separate, categorize and review — that takes minutes a week instead of a weekend in April.
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How to Separate Business and Personal Expenses
Why mixing business and personal spending causes problems at tax time, and five practical ways to keep them apart — even when you share one card.
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