Tax Deadline Calculator

Pick what you are filing to see the statutory filing and payment dates for the 2025 tax year — including the corporate T2 and GST/HST deadlines that count forward from your own fiscal year-end instead of falling on fixed calendar days.

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How it works. Personal deadlines are fixed calendar dates for the 2025 tax year, filed in spring 2026. Corporate and annual GST/HST deadlines count forward from your fiscal year-end instead: pick the month your 2025 fiscal year ends and the calculator walks the calendar forward — six months for the T2 return, two or three months for its balance, three months for an annual GST/HST return.

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How Canada's tax deadlines fit together

For most individuals everything lands on one day: the T1 return and any balance owing are both due April 30, 2026 for the 2025 tax year. Self-employment splits the two — you and your spouse get until June 15, 2026 to file, but the money is still due April 30, and interest runs from May 1 on anything unpaid, so the extra filing time is not extra paying time. Corporations flip the order entirely: the T2 return is due six months after the fiscal year-end, but the balance is due at two months — or three months for many CCPCs claiming the small business deduction — so a corporation routinely pays its tax months before the return that calculates it is filed. GST/HST runs on its own calendar based on the filing frequency CRA assigns: quarterly filers file and pay one month after each quarter ends, and annual filers three months after the fiscal year-end. Missing a filing date with a balance owing is the expensive mistake — the late-filing penalty calculator shows exactly what it costs.

If the calendar above is news rather than review, our personal tax filing service and corporate tax service track every one of these dates for you.

What this calculator does not cover

It shows statutory dates: when one falls on a weekend or public holiday, CRA treats the next business day as on time, and this tool does not roll the dates for you. The annual GST/HST result follows the corporate pattern — sole proprietors who file annually with a December 31 year-end instead follow their T1 dates, filing by June 15 with tax due April 30. It also leaves out the special calendars: trust and deceased-taxpayer returns, information slips, monthly GST/HST filers, and Quebec's separate provincial returns all run on their own dates. For a filing calendar built around your actual entities and year-ends, see our corporate tax service.

Standard deadlines (2025 tax year)
FilingDue
T1 employee April 30, 2026
T1 self-employed June 15, 2026 (pay by April 30)
T2 6 months after year-end
T2 balance 2 months (3 for many CCPCs)
GST/HST annual 3 months after year-end

Rates reviewed for the 2025 tax year by Udit Gupta, Founder and Tax Accountant. Federal and provincial rates change annually, and this tool is an estimate for planning rather than tax advice. Confirm current figures before relying on them for a filing.

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Tax Filing Deadline: Frequently Asked Questions

For most individuals, April 30, 2026 — both the T1 return and any balance owing. Self-employed filers and their spouses have until June 15, 2026 to file the return, but their payment deadline is still April 30. Filing on time matters even if you cannot pay, because the late-filing penalty is charged on the balance owing, not on being short of cash.
June 15 to file and April 30 to pay — two different dates on purpose. Interest starts accruing on any unpaid balance from May 1, so the June filing window only helps with paperwork, not with the bill. In 2026, June 15 falls on a Monday, so the statutory date stands without any weekend roll.
Six months after the fiscal year-end, whatever month that is: a December 31, 2025 year-end means June 30, 2026, while a March 31 year-end means September 30. The balance owing is due much earlier — two months after year-end, or three months for many CCPCs claiming the small business deduction — which is the part that catches new incorporations out.
Because the Income Tax Act sets the balance-due day at two months (three for many small CCPCs) after year-end but allows six months to file the return. In practice the corporation estimates its liability, pays by the balance-due day, and settles any difference when the T2 is assessed. Paying late costs arrears interest even when the return itself is filed on time.
CRA considers you on time if the return or payment reaches them on the next business day. This calculator deliberately shows the statutory dates rather than the rolled ones, since the roll depends on the year and on public holidays. When a date matters, confirm the current-year date on canada.ca or have your accountant track it.

What Canadians search about this

Answered plainly. Browse every question in the Canadian tax answers directory.

File a T1 return for the year, sending it electronically with CRA-certified software or mailing a paper return. Gather your slips and receipts first and check them against the ones listed in My Account. For the 2025 tax year the filing and payment deadline was 30 April 2026, or 15 June 2026 to file if you or your spouse were self-employed, with payment still due 30 April 2026. CRA online filing for 2025 returns closes 29 January 2027.
Most people pay through online or telephone banking, adding the CRA as a payee and choosing the exact account and year, such as a personal balance owing or an instalment. The alternatives are CRA My Payment with a debit card, pre-authorised debit scheduled in My Account, a credit card or e-transfer through a third-party provider that charges its own fee, or paying at your bank with a remittance voucher. For the 2025 tax year the balance was due 30 April 2026.
No. Property tax is a municipal levy based on your property’s assessed value, not a charge for a service you consume, so it is not a utility bill even where a city bills water on the same statement. The difference matters when you claim expenses: for a rental or a home office, property tax and utilities are separate lines, each apportioned to the business-use share. Keep the municipal tax bill itself as your record.
In Canada, tax revenue funds public services rather than a single account. Federal revenue pays for elderly benefits, the Canada child benefit, health and social transfers to the provinces, defence, debt interest and federal operations; employment insurance is funded separately by premiums. Provincial and municipal taxes fund health care delivery, schools, roads, policing and waste collection. Actual amounts appear each year in the federal budget and the Public Accounts of Canada, and in each province's budget.
Instalments are prepayments toward the current year's tax, not next year's. The CRA asks for them when too little tax is withheld at source and your net tax owing passes a set amount in the current year and in one of the two previous years, which is common for self-employed people, landlords, investors and pensioners. Reminders arrive with suggested amounts, or you can pay on your own estimate. Underpaying attracts instalment interest, so follow the reminder if unsure.
No. The temporary GST/HST relief on certain items was a time-limited measure and it has ended. Those sales are taxed under the normal rules again, so groceries follow the usual zero-rated and taxable distinctions and restaurant meals are fully taxable. If a further relief period is ever announced it applies only for the dates set out in the legislation, so check the CRA notice for that period rather than relying on the earlier one.
Udit Gupta, founder of Tax Filings Canada

Rates and method reviewed by Udit Gupta

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. CRA — Businesses · Income Tax Act (Justice Laws Website)

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