Affordable Reportable Transaction Review for Canadian Businesses

A TD1 Personal Tax Credits Return tells your employer which personal credits to build into your income tax withholding, so the right amount comes off each pay. You normally complete a federal TD1 and a provincial or territorial TD1 when you start a job. File a fresh pair whenever your situation changes, for instance a new dependant, tuition, or a second employer, where you should not claim the basic personal amount twice.

The usual route is online banking: add the CRA as a payee, choose the account type and the tax year, and pay as you would any bill. You can also use the CRA's My Payment service with a debit card, set up pre-authorised debit inside My Account, pay at your financial institution, or pay by credit card through a third-party provider that charges its own fee. Keep the confirmation, since payments do not always post to your CRA account immediately.

Yes. A prior-year return can be filed at any time, and electronic filing stays open for several past years, so a 2024 return usually still goes through software rather than on paper. If a balance is owing, the late-filing penalty has already run to its twelve-month maximum and interest is still accumulating daily, so there is nothing to gain from waiting. If you cannot pay in full, file anyway and then arrange payment, because the penalty is tied to filing rather than paying.

The individual and business enquiry numbers, along with their hours, are listed on the CRA contact page. Have your social insurance number or business number and a figure from a recent return ready, because the agent must verify you before discussing anything. Many tasks never need a call: CRA My Account and My Business Account show balances, assessments, slips and instalments, and let you file a dispute, change a return or set up a payment arrangement.

Call the individual or business tax enquiries line listed on the CRA's Contact us page, then work through the automated menu to reach an agent. Have your social insurance number or business number, your date of birth and a line amount from your last assessed return ready, because the agent cannot discuss your file without them. Wait times are longest right after the filing deadline. My Account answers many questions without a call.

A zero-rated supply is a sale that is taxable at 0%, so you charge no GST/HST but you can still claim input tax credits on the costs of making it. Common examples include basic groceries, prescription drugs, most medical devices, agricultural and fishing products, and many exports and international freight services. That input tax credit recovery is the practical difference from an exempt supply, where no tax is charged and no credits are available.

Canadian-source income is income whose origin is in Canada: employment carried out here, a business carried on here, rent from Canadian real property, gains on taxable Canadian property, and Canadian pension, dividend and interest payments. It matters most for non-residents, who are taxed only on Canadian-source amounts, often by withholding at the payer rather than by filing. Residents are taxed on worldwide income instead. A tax treaty can reduce the withholding rate for your country.

There is no single CRA fax number. Fax lines belong to particular offices and programs, so the only reliable number is the one printed on the letter you are answering. Faxing without that reference risks your documents landing in the wrong queue. Submitting them through My Account, My Business Account or Represent a Client is faster and gives you a confirmation, which a fax does not.

HST in Newfoundland and Labrador is 15% in 2026: the 5% federal GST plus a 10% provincial component. It increased from 13% to 15% on 1 July 2016 and has stayed there. Sellers charge it on most goods and services supplied into the province, including businesses based outside it. Basic groceries are zero-rated and long-term residential rent is exempt, so neither carries the 15%.

No, in the ordinary case. Basic groceries are zero-rated, so plain meat, fish, produce, milk and bread carry no GST or HST. Tax applies once food is prepared or falls into an excluded category: restaurant and takeout meals, heated food, snack foods, candy, carbonated drinks and single servings sold ready to eat. A package of raw chicken is untaxed while a hot cooked chicken from the same store is taxed.

The rate is the same. The payment is added to your income for the year and taxed at your marginal rates like any other pay. What differs is the withholding. Pay in lieu of notice runs through normal payroll deductions, while a retiring allowance has tax withheld at flat lump-sum rates that can be higher or lower than what you ultimately owe. The difference is settled when you file your T1, so a large payout often produces a refund or a balance.

Some of them, yes. Where your income is too low to use them, specific non-refundable credits may be transferred to a spouse or common-law partner, including the age amount, the pension income amount, the disability amount and part of tuition. The transfer is limited to the portion you cannot use yourself, and your partner claims it on their own return. The basic personal amount is not transferable, and Canada has no general marriage allowance transfer.