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Archive for February 12th, 2007

Well Stats Canada thinks so:

The Commercial Software Price Index (CSPI) is a monthly series measuring the change in the purchase price of pre-packaged software typically bought by businesses and governments. The CSPI for December was 68.2 (2001=100), an increase of 0.3% from November.

Now this is only from the government or business point of view, so it isn’t the start of some great inflationary software spiral (I hope). What’s more interesting is that software has effectively dropped in price 32% over 6 years? Now that is a discount rate I’d love to see in things like house prices and such, but I guess that is really smoking the crack to think that.

Why am I writing about this? I work in the software world my friends and this always interests me, and I also use a lot of software in my day to day life and speaking as a Minuscule Business Person, I am not happy to read this either. –C8j

Taxes Coming

I keep having to remind myself of that one. I have my Quicktax installed and ready to go, but my current employer has a tradition of only sending out my T4 on February 33rd (or whenever the last day that they can is). I usually submit shortly thereafter, because my taxes are really not that complicated.I am proud to say that this year I do get to declare my income from blogging (it is a very small amount, but I am proud to say that I am a Minuscule Business now (the smallest of Businesses)). I figure for the amount of tax I have to pay, who really cares?

I plan on doing another essay on just how much my wife is worth (in the view of the CRA, not me, she is priceless to me (who would stay married to me for 20 years?)). My guess is not much more than last year, but if Mr. Flaherty does as he is thinking, and is not just teasing us, she’ll be worth a heck of a lot more!

This week in Carnivals

Blogging away Debt is hosting the 74th Carnival of Debt Reduction where she mentions my entry about whether to build up RRSP or pay down Debt.

The 87th Carnival of Personal Finance hosted by 2Million – My Journey to Financial Freedom included my discussions of Einstein’s Rule of 72  remembering, Einstein Finance.