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            Assignment Problem Three - 14
(Employment Income)
For the past five years, Mr. Brooks
has been...
                
            
Assignment Problem Three - 14
(Employment Income)
For the past five years, Mr. Brooks
has been employed as a financial analyst by a large Canadian
public firm located
in Winnipeg. During 2020, his basic gross salary amounts to
$63,000. In addition, he was awarded an $11,000 bonus based on the
performance of his division. Of the total bonus, $6,500 was paid in
2020 and the remainder is to be paid on January 15, 2020.
During 2020, Mr. Brooks’ employer
withheld the following amounts from his gross wages:
| 
 Federal Income Tax 
 | 
 $3,000 
 | 
| 
 Employment Insurance Premiums 
 | 
 856 
 | 
| 
 Canada Pension Plan Contributions 
 | 
 2,898 
 | 
| 
 Registered Pension Plan
Contributions 
 | 
 2,800 
 | 
| 
 Donations To The United Way 
 | 
 480 
 | 
| 
 Union Dues 
 | 
 240 
 | 
| 
 Payments For Personal Use Of Company
Car 
 | 
 1,000 
 | 
Other Information:
- Due to an airplane accident while flying back from Thunder Bay
on business, Mr. Brooks was seriously injured and confined to a
hospital for two full months during 2020. As his employer provides
complete group disability insurance coverage, he received a total
of $4,200 in payments during this period. All of the premiums for
this insurance plan are paid by the employer. The plan provides
periodic benefits that compensate for lost employment income.
 
- Mr. Brooks is provided with a car that the company leases at a
rate of $678 per month, including both GST and PST. The company
pays for all of the operating costs of the car, and these amounted
to $3,500 during 2020. Mr. Brooks drove the car a total of 35,000
kilome- tres during 2020, 30,000 kilometres of which were carefully
documented as employment- related travel. While he was in the
hospital (see Item 1), his employer required that the car be
returned to company premises.
 
- In order to assist Mr. Brooks in acquiring a new personal
residence in Winnipeg, his employer granted him a five year,
interest free loan of $125,000. The loan qualifies as a home
reloca- tion loan. The loan was granted on October 1, 2020, and, at
this point in time, the interest rate on open five year mortgages
was 5 percent. Assume the relevant ITR 4301 rate was 2 percent on
this date. Mr. Brooks purchases a house for $235,000 on October 2,
2020. He has not owned a home during any of the preceding four
years.
 
- Other disbursements made by Mr. Brooks include the
following:
 
| 
 Advanced financial accounting course
tuition fees 
 | 
 $1,200 
 | 
| 
 Music history course tuition fees 
 | 
 | 
| 
 (University of Manitoba one week
intensive course) 
 | 
 600 
 | 
| 
 Fees paid to financial planner 
 | 
 300 
 | 
| 
 Payment of premiums on life
insurance 
 | 
 642 
 | 
Mr. Brooks’
employer reimbursed him for the tuition fees for the accounting
course, but not the music course.
Required: Calculate Mr. Brooks’ net employment
income for the taxation year ending December 31, 2020.