Glossary of terms
- Correspondence type
- Identifies the type of correspondence; information, letter, notice, notification, or statement.
- Date
- The date the item was issued by Canada Revenue Agency (CRA).
- HTML
- HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language.
- Information
- A type of correspondence that provides information other than a letter, notice, notification, or statement.
- Letter
- A type of correspondence that is a communication from CRA. The CRA responses sent as a result of an enquiry through My Business Account Enquiries service are considered letters.
- Notice
- A type of correspondence that is issued to explain the result of an assessment or a reassessment (for example: notice of assessment, notice of reassessment or notice of determination).
- Notification
- A type of correspondence that provides notification (example: notification of instalment interest, notification of returned payment).
- Period end
- The period end date identified for the correspondence item (for example, the end of a fiscal year, the end of a tax year).
- Print format
- Allows a user to view correspondence items in Portable Document Format (PDF) and, if available, other alternate formats.
- PDF
- PDF stands for Portable Document Format. Adobe Reader allows a user to review correspondence items in Mail using PDF files.
- Reference number
- A number used by CRA to reference certain correspondence items.
- Results pages
- These show the number of pages of correspondence items available as a result of the filtering options chosen.
- Statement
- A type of correspondence that provides a statement (for example: statement of arrears, statement of interest calculated).
- Status
- Identifies if the correspondence item has been read or unread.
