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CRA reviews are won on documentation: every figure filed should trace to a source document, and deadlines — 90 days for an objection — are unforgiving. Remitter frequency follows average monthly withholding — new employers generally remit monthly by the 15th of the following month. We quote employee versus independent contractor review as one pocket-friendly fixed price — the budget-friendly alternative to hourly billing.
Clients often arrive treating employee versus independent contractor review as a form-filling exercise. In practice, a tax preparation specialist spends more time on judgment calls than on data entry — and those calls are what these notes cover.
Ask any tax preparation specialist where employee versus independent contractor review files go sideways, and the answer usually traces back to this: Source deductions are held in trust for the Crown. Directors can be assessed personally for unremitted amounts, and that liability survives the corporation.
The next point is the one a tax preparation specialist checks before quoting any timeline: Remitter frequency follows average monthly withholding. A business that grows into the accelerated threshold keeps remitting monthly at its peril — the deadline moves before the CRA writes to say so. On the record-keeping side, one rule governs what must be kept and what must be shown: Late payroll remittances draw a penalty of 3% to 10% depending on how late, doubling to 20% for a repeat failure with gross negligence in the same calendar year.
Think of these rules as the fixed terrain; your circumstances decide the route through it. Mapping that route is the work a tax preparation specialist takes off your plate for employee versus independent contractor review. Every employee versus independent contractor review file rests on documentation, so start by collecting.
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A desk review assessed an employer whose remittance frequency moved up a threshold in Kelowna, British Columbia $15,000 over T4s that did not agree to the payroll register or the general ledger. Producing the records vacated it.
Closing the books at a construction firm with union and non-union crews in Brampton, Ontario took 7 weeks because of an employee over-deducted for CPP and EI after being moved between two related payroll accounts mid-year. It now takes 9 days.
A logistics operator with drivers in three provinces in Ottawa, Ontario was 10 weeks from a deadline while carrying long-term contractors who met every test for employment. Filing complete and on time avoided roughly $118,000 in penalties.
A restaurant with heavy seasonal turnover in Guelph, Ontario was overpaying instalments because of a director facing a personal assessment for unremitted source deductions. Rebasing them returned $104,000 to the business.
Growth at a landscaping company with seasonal staff in Regina, Saskatchewan had outrun the back office, and T4 slips filed weeks after the deadline with no relief request made on the per-slip penalty broke first. Headcount reached 23 with $107,000 of cash freed.
A charity with part-time program staff in Winnipeg, Manitoba was filing correctly and still overpaying because of company vehicles used personally with no logbook and no taxable benefit reported. Restructuring the position cut $10,500 from the annual bill.
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At minimum: prior-year returns and notices of assessment, your bank and credit-card statements for the fiscal period, payroll records if you have employees, and GST/HST filings. We send a checklist tailored to your situation after the free 15-minute call.
Most engagements are completed within 3 to 5 business days once your documents are complete. Catch-up work covering multiple years takes longer, and we tell you the realistic timeline before you commit rather than after.
We respond on your behalf at no extra charge for any return we prepared. Every figure we file is supported by documentation retained in your file, which is what turns a CRA review from a crisis into correspondence. See how our CRA audit representation works.
Yes. Late filing penalties compound at 5% of the balance owing plus 1% per month, so the cost of waiting is real. We prioritise catch-up work and, where eligible, file under the CRA's Voluntary Disclosures Program to reduce penalties.
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It depends less on opinion than owners assume. Late payroll remittances draw a penalty of 3% to 10% depending on how late, doubling to 20% for a repeat failure with gross negligence in the same calendar year. Once you know that, the practical question becomes timing and documentation — both of which we handle inside the engagement.
The honest starting point is this: Remitter frequency follows average monthly withholding. A business that grows into the accelerated threshold keeps remitting monthly at its peril — the deadline moves before the CRA writes to say so. Everything else we would tell you is tailoring, and tailoring requires seeing your file.
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There is no single percentage. Your employer applies the federal withholding table plus the table for your province or territory, using pay frequency, your annual rate of pay and the amounts claimed on your federal and provincial TD1 forms, then adds CPP contributions and EI premiums until the annual maximums are met. Pension contributions, union dues and benefit premiums come off separately. The CRA's Payroll Deductions Online Calculator reproduces the exact figures shown on your stub.
The GST rate is 5%, unchanged since 1 January 2008 and current for 2025 and 2026. It reaches every province and territory, but in five provinces it is folded into the HST: you charge 13% in Ontario, 15% in New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador and Prince Edward Island, and 14% in Nova Scotia, down from 15% on 1 April 2025. In Alberta, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon, 5% applies alone.
Yes. Severance is taxable in the year you receive it, and the employer withholds tax before paying it out. Amounts paid as salary continuance are taxed like regular employment income. A single lump sum has a flat withholding rate applied, which is only a prepayment against the tax finally calculated on your return, so a balance can still be owing. Part of a retiring allowance may qualify for a direct transfer to an RRSP, which defers the tax.
There is no fixed percentage. Your employer withholds federal income tax, where 2026 brackets start at 14%, plus provincial tax, CPP at 5.95% on earnings between the $3,500 exemption and the $74,600 ceiling, and EI at $1.63 per $100 of insurable earnings up to $68,900. Credits claimed on your TD1 reduce the income tax part. Higher earners also pay CPP2 at 4% on earnings between the ceiling and $85,000 for 2026.
Yes. Tips and gratuities are taxable income whether they come from customers directly, are pooled, or are paid out through the employer. Tips your employer controls and distributes run through payroll, so tax, CPP and EI are withheld and they show on your T4. Cash tips handed to you directly are not on any slip, but you still report them as other employment income and keep a running record. You can elect to have direct tips count as pensionable CPP earnings.
Three are standard: federal and provincial income tax withheld at source, CPP contributions (QPP in Quebec) and EI premiums. For 2026 an employee pays CPP of 5.95% on earnings above the $3,500 exemption up to $74,600, second additional CPP of 4% on earnings up to $85,000, and EI of $1.63 per $100 up to $68,900 of insurable earnings. Anything else — pension, union dues, benefit premiums, garnishments — comes from your employer’s own arrangements.
Yes. Tips are income whether they arrive as cash, on a card or through an app. Card tips normally pass through the employer, so they are usually controlled tips: run through payroll, subject to deductions and included on your T4. Tips customers hand you and you keep are direct tips, still taxable, but reported by you because no slip shows them. Keep a daily record either way, since the CRA can ask you to support the amount.
Withhold three things from each pay: income tax, CPP and EI. For 2026, CPP is 5.95% from the employee and 5.95% from the employer on pensionable earnings between the $3,500 basic exemption and the $74,600 ceiling, plus CPP2 at 4% up to $85,000. EI is $1.63 per $100 of insurable earnings for the employee, and the employer pays 1.4 times that. Use the CRA payroll deductions online calculator, then remit by your assigned due date.
Not automatically. Relief applies where goods are bought on a reserve, or bought off reserve and delivered to the reserve, by a status Indian, a band or a band-empowered entity, and to services performed on a reserve. Purchases used off reserve with no delivery to it normally carry GST/HST at the usual rate. The vendor has to record the buyer's status information to support the relief. The CRA's guidance for Indigenous peoples sets out the conditions and paperwork.
You remain responsible for what your return says, even when someone else prepared it, so the CRA assesses the tax, interest and penalties against you. A preparer who makes or participates in a false statement can face third-party penalties of their own, and may be liable to you for negligence, which is why engagement terms and professional insurance matter. Keep your source documents for six years from the end of the tax year they relate to.
You cannot appeal the tax rate, but you can challenge the assessed value the tax is calculated on. Each province has an assessment authority that issues a notice of assessed value, and a request for reconsideration or an appeal must be filed with it by the deadline printed on that notice. Support the claim with recent selling prices of comparable properties and evidence of anything that reduces value. A successful reduction adjusts the tax for the years in question.
Controlled tips, meaning amounts the employer collects and redistributes, count as wages: they are pensionable and insurable, run through payroll and appear on the T4. Direct tips handed to or left for a server are taxable income the employee must report, but they normally carry no CPP or EI at source. A voluntary gratuity is not consideration for a supply, so no GST or HST applies to it, while a mandatory service charge added to the bill is taxable.
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Ex Big 4 — Ernst & Young, Deloitte · International & cross-border tax specialist · CPA Canada (In-Depth Tax Program) · Chartered accountant, ICAI & MIA
Udit Gupta has over 15 years of experience helping corporations and business owners with corporate structuring, corporate tax filing, bookkeeping, payroll, GST/HST, cross-border tax and CRA representation. Big 4 trained at Ernst & Young and Deloitte, and qualified as a chartered accountant in India and again in Malaysia, he founded his accounting practice in 2014 to serve entrepreneurs, startups and non-resident business owners across Canada. View full member bio.
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India — member 521458 · Malaysian Institute of Accountants — member CA 44667 · Ex Big 4: Ernst & Young, Deloitte · CPA Canada (In-Depth Tax Program), completed 19 Dec 2023 · In-Depth GST/HST Part I, 12 Jul 2022 · Part II, 5 Jul 2023
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