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Originally Posted by Ironhorse
I was told that you can only claim things like daycare and babysitting if you actually take that time to go to work and earn money. Dinner & a movie probably don't count.
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I wouldn't take any more tax advice from the person who told you that. From the link I posted above
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You can claim payments for child care expenses made to:
caregivers providing child care services;
day nursery schools and daycare centres;
educational institutions, for the part of the fees that relate to
child care services;
day camps and day sports schools where the primary goal
of the camp is to care for children (an institution offering a
sports study program is not a sports school); or
boarding schools, overnight sports schools, or camps where
lodging is involved (read the note in Part A of Form T778).
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The babysitter would just need to issue you a receipt for the babysitting.