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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. Late payroll remittances draw penalties of 3% to 10%, doubling to 20% for a repeat failure with gross negligence in the same calendar year. Because the fee is fixed and economical, the economics stay predictable whether your file is simple or messy.
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If a client remembers only one point from this page, it should be this one: Each employer withholds CPP and EI up to the annual maximum on its own account. An employee who changes employers mid-year, including a move between two related payroll accounts, is over-deducted, and the excess comes back only through the personal return.
That rule rarely travels alone; alongside it sits another: Salary or a bonus accrued at year-end but not paid within 180 days of the corporation’s year-end is denied as a deduction until the year it is actually paid, under subsection 78(4). An accrual booked to reduce a tax bill and then left unpaid moves the deduction rather than creating one. The final point is less about opportunity and more about what happens when a file is challenged: Employers withhold CPP, EI and income tax and remit on a schedule set by their average monthly withholding. Late remittance carries a penalty of 3% to 10%, rising to 20% for a repeat failure with gross negligence in the same year. Payroll penalties compound quietly. An employer that drifts one cycle late each quarter can owe more in penalties than in the tax it was late paying.
For you, the takeaway is less about memorizing rules and more about timing the conversation. Bringing a tax advisor in early on worker classification review means the rules shape the file instead of correcting it. The engagement goes fastest when last year’s filings and the current ledger arrive together.
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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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There is a widespread assumption here, and the actual position is worth stating plainly. Each employer withholds CPP and EI up to the annual maximum on its own account. An employee who changes employers mid-year, including a move between two related payroll accounts, is over-deducted, and the excess comes back only through the personal return. If your current setup was built on the assumption instead of the rule, that is fixable — but sooner is better than later.
A tax services provider answers this differently than a search engine, because the rule has edges. Taxable benefits including employer-paid parking, personal use of a company vehicle and most gift cards must be reported on the T4 and carry CPP and, in some cases, EI. Where your business sits relative to those edges is what we establish in the first meeting.
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Sign in to CRA My Account, or use the CRA's mobile app, where the return shows as received, in process or assessed, and the refund amount and payment date appear once it has been assessed. The CRA also runs an automated telephone service giving the same information. A representative you have authorised through Represent a Client can check it for you. If the status has not moved past the published processing time, the return is probably under review.
EI benefits are taxable income. Service Canada withholds income tax before each payment reaches you, and the total benefits plus the tax withheld appear on your T4E for the year. That withholding follows a basic calculation rather than your full marginal rate, so people who also worked during the year often end up with a balance owing at filing. Asking Service Canada to withhold more, or setting money aside yourself, avoids a surprise. Higher-income claimants can also have to repay part of their regular benefits through the return.
Fill in your name, address, social insurance number and date of birth, then claim the amounts that apply to you: the basic personal amount, tuition if you are a student, the age amount, a spouse or dependant amount, disability and the others listed on the form. Total them, sign, date, and give the form to your employer or payer rather than to the CRA. Complete both the federal and the provincial version. With two jobs, claim the basic personal amount on only one.
Payroll treats each cheque as though you earned that amount every period, so a bonus, overtime, retroactive raise or an extra shift makes the cheque look like a higher annual income and more tax comes off it. A change in pay frequency, a new TD1, or a taxable benefit added mid-year does the same. CPP and EI stop for the year once their maximums are reached, so take-home often rises later on. Your return reconciles the total.
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.
Board and lodging an employer provides or subsidises is normally a taxable benefit: the fair value, less anything the employee pays, goes into employment income and shows on the T4. Relief exists for special work sites and remote locations where suitable housing is not otherwise available. Rent you collect from a boarder is a different matter, taxed as rental income against which you deduct the share of household expenses relating to that space.
Payroll deductions are calculated as if your current pay rate continued all year, using the credits you claimed on the personal tax credits form you gave your employer. Deductions look low if you started mid-year, work part-time or irregular hours, over-claimed credits, or hold two jobs where each employer applies the basic personal amount and neither sees the other's pay. Income without withholding, such as self-employment or investments, adds to what you owe at filing.
Tourism tax and hospitality tax are loose labels for the levies added to accommodation and travel spending in Canada: a municipal accommodation tax, a destination marketing fee set by a hotel association, or a provincial accommodation levy. None is a federal tax, so the rate and the name depend on where you stay. GST/HST applies to the accommodation as well. Charges labelled a marketing fee may be voluntary rather than a tax, so ask the property.
Both, in different ways. The employer must withhold income tax, CPP and EI from each pay, add the employer share, and remit on time; missed remittances bring penalties and interest against the employer. The employee carries the final income tax liability and settles it on the T1, where withholding only counts as instalments already paid. If too little was withheld during the year, the employee pays the shortfall at filing.
Property tax funds municipal services: roads, water and waste collection, transit, fire and police, parks, libraries and local administration. In most provinces the bill also carries a separate education portion collected for the province's school system. None of it goes to the CRA, and it is not income tax. Property tax on the home you live in is not deductible on your T1, while property tax on a rental or a business property is a deductible expense.
Salary is taxed at graduated federal and provincial rates, and your employer deducts tax at source on every pay along with CPP or QPP contributions and EI premiums. The withholding is only an estimate built from your pay and your TD1 forms, so a bonus, a second job or a mid-year raise can leave you over or under-withheld until you file. Your T4 reports the year's totals and the return trues up the difference.
Canada Student Grants arrive on a T4A and fall under the same scholarship exemption, so a full-time student in a qualifying programme who is eligible for the education amount generally pays no tax on them. Part-time students get a smaller exemption tied to tuition and required materials. Student loans are not income at all, so only the grant portion is ever reportable. Keep the slip even when the exemption reduces the taxable amount to nil.
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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.
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