Filing your income tax and benefit return on paper
2025 tax package
The 2025 income tax package will be available on January 20, 2026.
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Income tax package content and delivery
If you are filing a paper return, or need tax forms or schedules, you can get an income tax package online or by mail.
Online
The online tax packages are available to download and print.
Refer to: Get a T1 income tax package
By Mail
Starting with the 2025 tax year, the CRA will no longer automatically mail the income tax package to certain individuals. Some federal and provincial or territorial schedules have also been removed from the mailed tax package.
Schedules no longer included in mailed tax packages
- Schedule 2 - Federal Amounts Transferred from your Spouse or Common-Law Partner
- Schedule 2 (S2), Provincial or Territorial Amounts Transferred from your Spouse or Common-Law Partner (except QC)
- Schedule 3 - Capital Gains or Losses
- Schedule 5 - Amounts for Spouse or Common-Law Partner and Dependants
- Schedule 6 - Canada Workers Benefit
- Schedule 7 - RRSP, PRPP, and SPP Contributions and Transfers, and HBP and LLP Activities
- Schedule 9 - Donations and Gifts
- Schedule 11 - Federal Tuition, Education, and Textbook Amounts and Canada Training Credit
- Schedule (S11), Provincial or Territorial Tuition, Education, and Textbook Amounts (except QC)
- Schedule 12 - Multigenerational Home Renovation Tax Credit
- Schedule (S12), Provincial Home Renovation Tax Credit (for BC, NB, and SK)
- Schedule 13 - Employment Insurance Premiums on Self-Employment and Other Eligible Earnings
- Schedule 15 - FHSA Contributions, Transfers and Activities
If you need a tax package or any of these schedules, additional forms and publications not included in the package, you can request them.
Use the online form
You can use the appropriate online form to make your request.
Refer to: Order forms and publications
Use the CRA's automated service
You can call 1-855-330-3305 to make your request.
You will need to provide your social insurance number (SIN).
- Outside of Canada: 1-613-940-8495.
Benefits of filing online
Even if you filed on paper last year, consider filing your 2025 tax return online.
You can use NETFIL certified tax software, some of which are free. You can also file though the services of an electronic filer who is certified to use our EFILE service.
There are many advantages:
- You get your refund faster
- Electronic returns are generally processed within two weeks. However, for paper returns, our service standard is to process them within eight weeks of receipt. Paper returns are processed in the order they are received. If you file electronically and are signed up for direct deposit, you may get your refund within eight business days. You can file electronically starting on February 23, 2026.
- You get immediate confirmation
- Immediately after you submit your tax return electronically, you will receive confirmation that the CRA received it. The notice of assessment (NOA) or notice of reassessment is available in NETFILE certified tax preparation software and in your CRA Account, right after the return has been received and processed by the CRA. To view it, you must be registered for a CRA account.
- You can use the Auto-fill my return service
- If you’re registered for a CRA account, you can also use Auto-fill my return to automatically fill in parts of your return with information the CRA has on file at the time of the request. You can also use a CRA account to easily change your address, phone number, or other personal information that the CRA has on file.
- You don’t have to send receipts with your return
- If the CRA selects your return for review, you may have to provide receipts at that time. The CRA’s process for selecting returns for review is the same whether the return is filed on paper or online.
- It’s secure
- The CRA uses a high level of online protection, which includes the same technologies used by banks and other financial institutions. Plus, your tax return goes directly from your computer to our servers in an encrypted format.
- Easily make changes after you file
- You may be able to make online changes to your return by using the ReFILE service in your certified tax preparation software. You can also use our Change my return service available in your CRA account.
If you need help or have questions
Go to Get ready to do your taxes for a list of what you need to know before you file your taxes. The CRA will update these pages in late January 2026.