Mig

Ok I live in canada I found several posts about Canada policies on poker income. But I live in the quebec's province, they have their own taxes and I was wondering if online poker income was taxable on the province scale. I found on their site that "Lottery income" are not taxable but what about the other gambling area ? I googled it but didn't found any thread about it...

Thanks for the answers.

Mig

ScottyZ

There are several threads on this. You are correct to point out that lottery winnings are not necessarily treated the same as other gambling winnings (or losses).

Try either:

1. The forum's local Search function for either "tax" or "taxes"

or

2. Google with the "site" modifier. That is, Google for (without the quotes) something like "site:www.pokerforum.ca tax"

ScottyZ

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Mig

I searched for it. The problem is you have 2 taxes here in quebec the federal taxe, and provincial taxe. I didn't find information on the provincial taxes for instance Quebec. I found a lot of posts/threads on the federal taxes, but none for a specific province. Do they handle it the same way ?

ScottyZ

I'm not sure if it differs among the provinces.

My guess is that it does not. I would think that the Income Tax Act, a federal law, would be most relevant for determining what is taxable income and what is not.

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