Loblaws Gift Card Giveaways in Canada
Loblaws cards cover the weekly grocery shop and are accepted across the group’s banners, so the same card works at more than one chain. Typically an eGift card code by email, scanned at a checkout.
What a Loblaws prize card will not cover
Loblaws gift cards cannot be used to buy other gift cards, lottery tickets or tobacco.
Tax on a prize in Canada
A prize won in a contest is generally not taxable income in Canada, so a gift card or cash prize is usually yours in full. The exception is a prize connected to your employment or your business, which is treated as income like any other benefit. What the prize earns afterwards is taxable in the ordinary way: interest on prize money in a savings account is interest. The CRA is the authority on your own situation.
Entering without paying
Canadian contest law has a requirement that exists almost nowhere else: a winner must correctly answer a skill-testing question before the prize can be awarded, usually a short arithmetic problem. It is not a formality invented by the promoter. Without an element of skill a prize contest would be an illegal lottery under the Criminal Code, so the question is what makes the promotion lawful. Expect it, and do not treat an email asking you to solve a sum as a fake: on a Canadian contest it is the normal final step. What is never normal is being asked for a fee alongside it.
Questions
- How does a Loblaws prize card arrive?
- Typically an eGift card code by email, scanned at a checkout.
- Is a Loblaws giveaway win taxed in Canada?
- A prize won in a contest is generally not taxable income in Canada, so a gift card or cash prize is usually yours in full. The exception is a prize connected to your employment or your business, which is treated as income like any other benefit. What the prize earns afterwards is taxable in the ordinary way: interest on prize money in a savings account is interest. The CRA is the authority on your own situation.
- Is entering free?
- Canadian contest law has a requirement that exists almost nowhere else: a winner must correctly answer a skill-testing question before the prize can be awarded, usually a short arithmetic problem. It is not a formality invented by the promoter. Without an element of skill a prize contest would be an illegal lottery under the Criminal Code, so the question is what makes the promotion lawful. Expect it, and do not treat an email asking you to solve a sum as a fake: on a Canadian contest it is the normal final step. What is never normal is being asked for a fee alongside it.
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