Your babysitter could be a tax writeoff   It's date night.
You've made dinner reservations, perhaps secured show tickets
and, most important, booked the babysitter.    To ease the
financial burden of your well-deserved night out, did you
realize that you could be writing off the cost of that
babysitter?  Depending on the ages of your brood, babysitting
can qualify as a tax-deductible child-care expense, provided the
sitter is not someone under 18 who is "related" to you.  Under
the Income Tax Act, related is defined as someone who is
connected to you by blood, marriage, common-law partnership or
adoption. This includes siblings, but not nieces, nephews, aunts
and uncles.  The Canada Revenue Agency says to make a valid
claim for child-care expenses, you must be given a receipt
showing the amount paid as well as the social insurance number
of the child-care provider or sitter.  But is the lack of a
receipt from the 14-year-old babysitting the kids fatal to a
successful child-care deduction claim? That was essen