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T1 returns are due April 30, and June 15 for the self-employed — though any balance owing still accrues interest from April 30. Our non-resident personal tax return engagement is priced as a budget-friendly flat fee, so the cost is known before the work starts.
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There is no way around the opening fact, so it may as well come first. Form NR73 asks the CRA for an opinion on residency when leaving Canada, and form NR74 asks the same question on entering. Neither form is required to change status. The opinion the CRA gives back is administrative rather than binding. It can be revisited if the facts turn out differently, which is why the supporting facts matter more than the opinion letter.
Then comes the detail that separates a clean file from an expensive one: Residency for Canadian tax is a question of fact settled by residential ties, not by a form or a date on a boarding pass. Significant ties are a dwelling available for occupation, a spouse or common-law partner and dependants. Secondary ties run to personal property, bank accounts, licences, health coverage and social memberships. The ties on the ground decide the answer, and the file has to show them. A file is only as strong as what backs it up, which brings us to the next rule: The late-filing penalty is 5% of the balance owing plus 1% for each full month late, to a maximum of twelve months. A second late filing within three years doubles both figures. The penalty is calculated on the balance owing, so a late return with nothing owing costs nothing — which is why filing on time matters even when you cannot pay.
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A $114,000 reassessment landed at an inbound corporate assignee in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It rested on more than half the year spent in Canada on visits while the returns continued to be filed as a non-resident. The objection was allowed in full.
An inbound corporate assignee in Winnipeg, Manitoba had been reassessed for $114,000. 7 days were left on the objection deadline. The reassessment rested on more than half the year spent in Canada on visits while the returns continued to be filed as a non-resident. We filed the objection inside the deadline with a complete submission rather than a placeholder. Alongside it, we mapped the residential ties on each side of the departure date and fixed the date residency actually ceased. We filed the emigrant return with the deemed disposition and the property list built on that date. The appeals officer allowed the objection in full. $114,000 was reversed and the account returned to a nil balance.
A returning former resident in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan was under review. The issue was an arrival year reported from January rather than from the date residency actually began. The file closed in 6 weeks with $58,000 of proposed tax cleared.
A returning former resident in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan was selected for review. An arrival year reported from January rather than from the date residency actually began had shown up in the CRA's automated matching. The proposed adjustment on non-resident personal tax return came to $58,000. We filed the section 217 election after running the calculation both ways. The Canadian pension and benefit income was then taxed under the ordinary rate structure rather than at the flat withholding rate. Every figure in the response traced to a source record the auditor could verify without asking a second question. The review closed with no change. $58,000 of proposed tax came off the table, and the documentation now in place makes the next review a short one.
A 5-week rebuild at a non-resident performer working in Canada in Regina, Saskatchewan got the filing in with 12 days to spare. That avoided $122,000 in penalties.
A non-resident performer working in Canada in Regina, Saskatchewan was weeks away from the deadline for non-resident personal tax return. Behind that sat a newcomer year with nothing in the file to show what the foreign property was worth on the date of arrival. The exposure if the date slipped was around $122,000. We reported the deemed disposition on the return for the year residency ended. We elected to defer the tax against acceptable security, so nothing was payable until the property was actually sold. The filing went in complete rather than provisional, so there was no amended return to follow. Filed with 12 days to spare. $122,000 in late-filing penalties avoided, and the working papers are ready for the following year.
An incentive review at a non-resident property vendor in Windsor, Ontario recovered $88,000 across 4 open years. It found a T1135 filed for the year of arrival, when none was required, and none filed for the years that followed.
An incentive review at a non-resident property vendor in Windsor, Ontario started from a simple question: what has never been claimed? The answer ran to 4 years. It was driven by a T1135 filed for the year of arrival, when none was required, and none filed for the years that followed. We filed the section 216 returns for the open years, so the rent was taxed on a net basis after allowable expenses. We recovered the excess withholding as a refund. We documented eligibility to the standard a reviewer would apply rather than the standard a claim form requires. The credits produced $88,000 across the open years. The tracking now in place means the following year's claim is documented as the work happens rather than reconstructed afterwards.
Closing the books at a non-resident residential landlord in Guelph, Ontario took 7 weeks. The cause was a T1135 filed for the year of arrival, when none was required, and none filed for the years that followed. It now takes 8 days.
The accounting file at a non-resident residential landlord in Guelph, Ontario had a weak foundation. It was built on a T1135 filed for the year of arrival, when none was required, and none filed for the years that followed. The year-end had taken 7 weeks each of the last three years. We corrected the foreign property reporting from the first year it was actually required, using the voluntary route before the CRA raised it. We also moved the reconciliations into the monthly cycle, so the year-end stopped being a rebuild. The file reconciles. Month-end closes in 8 days instead of 7 weeks, and the year-end is a review rather than a reconstruction.
Foreign holdings at a non-resident shareholder drawing dividends in Vancouver, British Columbia had crossed the reporting threshold unnoticed. Disclosure was brought current and $36,500 recovered.
Foreign holdings at a non-resident shareholder drawing dividends in Vancouver, British Columbia had passed the reporting threshold without anyone noticing. Behind the disclosure problem sat a departure year filed as an ordinary resident return, with no deemed disposition reported and no list of the properties owned on the departure date. We split the year at the residency date and prorated the personal credits to the days of residency. We refiled the years that had claimed the full amounts. We claimed the treaty relief and foreign tax credits on the Canadian return and corrected the disclosure position for the open years. The treaty position was accepted and $36,500 was recovered. Reporting is now current and the annual process takes hours rather than weeks.
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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.
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Here is what the rules actually say, stripped of the folklore: The extra year in the principal residence exemption formula is only available for a year in which the individual was resident in Canada. Years of non-residence do not shelter accrued gain. A departure, a long posting abroad or a delayed sale after emigration therefore changes the exempt fraction on a home that was always the family's only residence. Our role as your tax practitioner is to apply that cleanly to your situation rather than to a hypothetical one.
We get this one a lot, and the answer is more concrete than people expect. A contribution made to a TFSA while non-resident attracts a tax of 1% per month on the contributed amount for each month it stays in the plan. No new contribution room accrues for a year of non-residence. The account itself can be kept, which is why the mistake usually shows up as a contribution rather than as a withdrawal. Bring your documents and we will show you where it lands in your numbers.
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For the 2025 tax year the filing and payment deadline is 30 April 2026. If you or your spouse were self-employed, the filing deadline moves to 15 June 2026, but any balance owing is still due 30 April 2026. Interest starts the day after the payment deadline, and a late-filing penalty applies on top when a return with a balance owing is filed late. File on time even with nothing owing, because income-tested benefits are recalculated from the filed return.
Taxable income is what is left after you total the income the tax rules include and subtract the deductions you are allowed. Employment and self-employment earnings, most pensions, EI and CPP benefits, interest, dividends, rental profit, the taxable portion of capital gains, RRSP and RRIF withdrawals and most taxable benefits from work all go into the total. Tax is then calculated on that figure and reduced by non-refundable credits such as the basic personal amount.
Non-taxable income is money you receive that never enters taxable income. Common examples are lottery and most gambling winnings, gifts and inheritances, growth and withdrawals inside a TFSA, the GST/HST credit and Canada child benefit, most life insurance death benefits, and child support under current-rule agreements. A few amounts are reported and then deducted, such as workers' compensation and social assistance, because they still affect benefit calculations, so report anything that arrives on a slip even when no tax results.
Every current and past federal form, plus the full income tax and benefit package for your province, sits on the CRA pages at canada.ca, free to download and print. Signed-in users can also see the slips filed under their SIN, such as T4 and T5 information, inside CRA My Account. The CRA will mail a printed package on request by phone. Certified tax software fills the forms for you, so most filers never open a blank one.
Canada has no joint return, so each spouse files their own T1. You still report each other's details, because the CRA combines family net income to work out the GST/HST credit, the Canada child benefit and several income-tested credits. Filing at the same time helps: transferred credits, the spouse or common-law partner amount and pooled medical or donation claims only work correctly when both returns line up. One partner not filing can stall the family's benefit payments.
A T4A reports amounts that are not employment income: pension and annuity payments, retiring allowances, self-employed commissions, research grants, scholarships, certain benefit payments, and fees paid for services to someone who is not your employee. The payer prepares it for the calendar year in which the amount was paid and must issue it by the last day of February in the following year. Payments to employees belong on a T4 instead.
Yes. The CRA does telephone individuals and businesses about balances owing, missing returns, audits and benefit reviews, and an agent may leave a voicemail asking you to call back. It will not threaten arrest or deportation, demand payment by gift card, e-transfer or crypto, or pressure you to stay on the line. Check My Account for the same message before acting, and call the CRA back on a number from canada.ca.
Total income is measured before tax. On a T1 it is the sum of your income sources for the year, such as employment income from your T4, self-employment, investment, and pension amounts, added up before deductions and before any tax withheld. Tax withheld at source is a payment toward your final bill, not a reduction in income. Deductions take total income down to net income, and further deductions give taxable income, which the rates apply to.
HST applies only in Ontario at 13%, Nova Scotia at 14% since 1 April 2025, and New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador and Prince Edward Island at 15%. Everywhere else the federal GST of 5% applies on its own or beside a separate provincial tax: British Columbia PST 7%, Saskatchewan 6%, Manitoba RST 7%, and Quebec QST 9.975% charged on the pre-GST price. Alberta and the three territories charge GST only.
Withholding tax is tax taken off a payment at source and remitted to the CRA on the recipient's behalf. For employees it is the income tax, CPP or QPP and EI deducted each payday and reported on the T4. For non-residents it applies to certain Canadian-source payments, including dividends, rent, royalties and pension income, at a statutory rate that a tax treaty may reduce. RRSP withdrawals have tax withheld at a rate that rises with the size of the withdrawal; for a RRIF, no tax is withheld on the annual minimum payment, and only the amount taken above that minimum is subject to withholding — which is why RRIF income often leaves a balance owing at filing time.
Immigration fees are personal costs, so application and processing fees, the right of permanent residence fee, language testing and consultant or lawyer charges cannot be claimed on your own return. A business may deduct fees it pays to bring in a worker it needs, such as work permit and labour market assessment costs, as an ordinary cost of hiring. The moving expense deduction is separate and normally requires both the old and the new home to be in Canada.
Yes, but only where you genuinely supported that spouse and can prove it. The spouse or common-law partner amount is available when the spouse lives outside Canada, provided you sent support and their own net income was low enough for a claim to survive. The CRA routinely asks for evidence, so keep transfer records and receipts. If the spouse supported themselves, or you were living separate and apart, no claim is available.
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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. He is Big 4 trained, at Ernst & Young and Deloitte, and qualified as a chartered accountant in India and again in Malaysia. In 2014 he founded his accounting practice 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
Editorial policy. Every page is researched against primary sources — the Income Tax Act, CRA publications and CPA Canada guidance — and every rate or threshold is stated with the tax year it applies to.
Sources. Canada.ca — Personal income tax · Income Tax Act (Justice Laws Website)
