Whether you are a WH goer, a Young Professional with a temporary work permit or a newcomer with a permanent resident visa, you are entitled to an income tax refund and even certain additional credits. It is therefore important to call on a specialist to obtain the best of available credits.
If this is your first Canadian tax return, you will need:
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- All the T4 and Relevé 1 forms provided by your employers. You must ABSOLUTELY have a T4 and a Relevé 1 for each place where you worked. This is not a T4 and is not useful for the income tax return. If you do not have all your T4s and Relevé 1s, contact your employer.
Your social insurance number is essential in preparing your income tax returns. It is normally found on your T4 and Relevé 1. Make sure you have it with you if you do not have a T4 or Relevé 1
Your revenues for the first portion of 2016 (before entering Canada) and for the year 2015 will be useful for potentially obtaining an additional reimbursement. They do not need to be extremely accurate and no justification is required.
To ensure the reception of your reimbursements and all communication from Canada Revenue Agency and Revenu Québec, you will need a valid address for the next few months. Make sure you know your postal code.
If this is your first Canadian tax return, it must absolutely be a Canadian address. If need be, use a friend’s address or one from a family member.
Your European medical insurance (or other) is tax deductible.As well as all the medical fees that this insurance did not reimburse or only partially reimbursed.
Public transit fees are tax deductible, but only the weekly and monthly passes.Bundles of 10 tickets or other passes are not deductible.If you did not keep your receipts, Interac transactions on your bank account or credit card transactions may be substituted.
You will need a void cheque, a void cheque or your banking coordinates (branch#, bank#, account#) to register for direct deposit so your refunds may be deposited.
Your entry date into Canada, if in 2016, is essential for your income tax return.
If you were a student in a post-secondary public institution, you will need the T2202 and the Relevé 8. These forms are sent to you by your educational institution or are downloadable on internet using your student account. Some private institutions (massage or osteopathic schools…) also provide this type of form. Check with administration.
The WH goers, the YPs and other temporary residents are not favoured compared to Canadians and permanent residents regarding taxation (see the blog article). Therefore, a temporary resident who has been self-employed must not expect a tax refund and will probably have to pay social security taxes, even if he has earned a low income. Indeed, an individual starts paying taxes on earned income over approximately $13,000, but he’ll pay 10% for Quebec’s Pension Plan on all earned income over $3,500 (ex.: $1,000 of QPP on revenue of $13,500) and 1% on all his income towards parental insurance. As the self-employed worker has not paid at source, he must pay at the end of the year.
Nonetheless, he may obtain a refund if he also worked as a wage earner and that the income tax withheld at source (box 14 on the T4 and box E on the Relevé 1) absorbs the payable income tax on the salary earned (if applicable), the payable income tax on the self-employed income (if applicable) AND the social security taxes.
Furthermore, you are under obligation to produce your income tax return as well as declare all your income. If you do not, we do not know what the consequences will be. We believe that omitting to produce a tax return could have harmful consequences on an eventual permanent
residence file.
If you go ahead with our services:
– We do not produce estimates.
– We do not fix the numbers so you will not have to pay income tax.
– We produce the tax return with the information you have provided.
Si vous avez quitté le Canada, vous aurez besoin de :
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- All the T4 and Relevé 1 forms provided by your employers. You must ABSOLUTELY have a T4 and a Relevé 1 for each place where you worked. This is not a T4 and is not useful for the income tax return. If you do not have all your T4s and Relevé 1s, contact your employer.
Your social insurance number is essential in preparing your income tax returns. It is normally found on your T4 and Relevé 1. Make sure you have it with you if you do not have a T4 or Relevé 1
To ensure the reception of your reimbursements and all communication from Canada Revenue Agency and Revenu Québec, you will need a valid address for the next few months. Make sure you know your postal code.
If this is your first Canadian tax return, it must absolutely be a Canadian address. If need be, use a friend’s address or one from a family member.
Your European medical insurance (or other) is tax deductible.As well as all the medical fees that this insurance did not reimburse or only partially reimbursed.
Public transit fees are tax deductible, but only the weekly and monthly passes.Bundles of 10 tickets or other passes are not deductible.If you did not keep your receipts, Interac transactions on your bank account or credit card transactions may be substituted.
You will need a void cheque, a void cheque or your banking coordinates (branch#, bank#, account#) to register for direct deposit so your refunds may be deposited.
Your entry date into Canada, if in 2016, is essential for your income tax return.
If you have definitely left Canada (more than 18 months), we will need your exit date, whether in 2016 or not.
If you were a student in a post-secondary public institution, you will need the T2202 and the Relevé 8. These forms are sent to you by your educational institution or are downloadable on internet using your student account. Some private institutions (massage or osteopathic schools…) also provide this type of form. Check with administration.
The WH goers, the YPs and other temporary residents are not favoured compared to Canadians and permanent residents regarding taxation (see the blog article). Therefore, a temporary resident who has been self-employed must not expect a tax refund and will probably have to pay social security taxes, even if he has earned a low income. Indeed, an individual starts paying taxes on earned income over approximately $13,000, but he’ll pay 10% for Quebec’s Pension Plan on all earned income over $3,500 (ex.: $1,000 of QPP on revenue of $13,500) and 1% on all his income towards parental insurance. As the self-employed worker has not paid at source, he must pay at the end of the year.
Nonetheless, he may obtain a refund if he also worked as a wage earner and that the income tax withheld at source (box 14 on the T4 and box E on the Relevé 1) absorbs the payable income tax on the salary earned (if applicable), the payable income tax on the self-employed income (if applicable) AND the social security taxes.
Furthermore, you are under obligation to produce your income tax return as well as declare all your income. If you do not, we do not know what the consequences will be. We believe that omitting to produce a tax return could have harmful consequences on an eventual permanent
residence file.
If you go ahead with our services:
– We do not produce estimates.
– We do not fix the numbers so you will not have to pay income tax.
– We produce the tax return with the information you have provided.
Once they have this information, Impôt Laplante will be able to produce and send your tax return in PDF format. You will be able to print it, sign it and mail it to the two levels of government (we will provide their addresses).