A Mid-February Resolution 

Celebrate Family Day with Some New Education at BITTS

Happy Family Day 

It’s February, winter is still upon us, and the end-of-2023 holidays are long over. But now Family Day is here—that mid-February day-off in Ontario that’s only been in place as a statutory holiday for less than two decades. Everyone now has that extra day to relax, spend quality time at home, and be with their loved ones until the Easter holidays come. But what happens afterward…? Back to the grind? No real change in your livelihood or profession? Possibly. But there are options to avert these scenarios.

An Educated Resolution

So many of us make the classic New Year’s resolutions. Once the first of January in the New Year hits, we tell ourselves we’ll eat better. Or go to the gym more. Or take up a musical instrument. Or read more. As good as the intentions are, these resolutions are often broken shortly after they’re made. People are human and that happens. But Family Day can be a good reminder to rejuvenate or re-energize the intentions for those resolutions again, especially if you’re thinking of education. If you’re tired of the same old work grind or want a way to get a newer, better position, you still can. It’s easier than you think too.

The Shorter Option

It’s true that you might not be able to get into the local college or university course you’ve always dreamed of since those marks go in by the end of January. But those courses are competitive, expensive, and time consuming. If you’ve got a family and working life, those factors will affect you. Short courses are a great alternative option. Accounting, information technology, taxation, web development…you can get onto those professions with short, inexpensive courses that you can complete in no time in order to work in those fields.

Even better: BITTS offers all of these short course offerings and more. Visit bitts.ca to find out how you can make your February education resolution a reality.

BITTS Tax Preparation Courses 

Get Skilled in BITTS Tax Preparation Courses

The Fifth Season

The old joke in Canada that the extra season, a fifth that lies between spring and summer, is “tax season”. Rightly or wrongly, people need to know about taxation and how it affects their revenue, their work, and inevitably their income. Obviously, most people want to save on tax money and, while satisfying the government tax requirements, maximize their own profits. But it’s tough since there is so much legalese, jargon, and intricacies to understand. But that does not mean it’s impossible. It just requires a bit of education and BITTS can help with that.

Just for Yourself

Since everyone must pay their own income taxes, it’s becoming popular year-after-year that individuals learn how to file their own records. You don’t have to be an accountant—you just have to understand doing deductions, what to declare, understanding computerized filing systems, and the benefits of having Registered Retirement Savings Plans [RRSPs], charitable donations, etc. BITTS’s Personal Income and Tax Preparation course covers all these facets and more in a tight, twenty-five-hour course that anyone can take to file their own taxes efficiently.

Going Bigger

You get good at filing your own taxes. Then others ask you to help and pay you a bit. You realize you have a talent for tax filing but are thinking if there is any bigger, broader professional future in filing taxes. There is: corporate taxation. Companies of all shapes and sizes need professionals to help them strategize their tax filing, how to keep multi-faceted digital records, how to understand corporate tax law and its intricacies, and how to deal with tax audits conducted by government agencies. Again, BITTS has its own twenty-five-hour corporate taxation course to help you understand and apply these techniques for your own professional growth.

Want to master tax techniques? Become your own personal tax expert? Great! Contact bitts.ca to see how you can.