Farming Income and the AgriStability and AgriInvest Programs Harmonized Guide – Before you start

Before you start

This guide will help you complete your forms to participate in the AgriStability and AgriInvest programs.

• AgriStability – a margin-based program that provides support when you experience larger income losses
• AgriInvest – a self-managed producer-government savings account designed to help producers:
  • manage small income declines
  • make investments to manage risk and improve market income

Review this guide to make sure you fill out your forms correctly. Providing correct information on your forms helps us calculate your benefits accurately and prevents delays.

Don't forget to include your participant identification number (PIN) on your form. A missing PIN is one of the top reasons for processing delays.

This guide gives you general information. For complete program rules, see the AgriStability: Canadian Agricultural Partnership – Progam Guidelines and Canadian Agricultural Partnership – AgriInvest Program Guidelines.

Find out if this guide is for you

Use this guide and forms if all of the following applies to you. You:

• want to participate in the AgriStability or AgriInvest programs, or both for 2023
• farm in British Columbia, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, or the Yukon
• earned farming income as a self-employed farmer or partner of a farm partnership, or by renting land under a crop share arrangement
• are not a trust, a non-resident, a corporation, or an individual registered under the Indian Act farming on a reserve. Contact your Administration for a separate form and guide for these operations

Do not use this guide and forms if you:

• do not want to participate in the AgriStability or AgriInvest programs:
  • use Guide T4002, Self-employed Business, Professional, Commission, Farming, and Fishing Income
  • file Form T2042, Statement of Farming Activities
• farm in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, or Prince Edward Island:
  • use Guide RC4060, Farming Income and the AgriStability and AgriInvest Programs
  • file Form T1163, Statement A – AgriStability and AgriInvest Programs Information and Statement of Farming Activities for Individuals
• farm in Quebec:
  • use Guide T4002, Self-employed Business, Professional, Commission, Farming, and Fishing Income
  • file Form T2042, Statement of Farming Activities

AgriStability and AgriInvest contact information

Federal Administration contact information

• AgriStability participants in Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, and the Yukon.
• AgriInvest participants in Northwest Territories, Yukon and all provinces except Quebec.

Program Administration
PO Box 3200
Winnipeg MB  R3C 5R7
Toll-free telephone: 1-866-367-8506
Calling from outside Canada: 204-926-9650
TTY: 613-773-2600

You can access the program websites at AgriStability and AgriInvest.

Provincial Administration contact information

• For Alberta, contact:

Agriculture Financial Services Corporation
5718-56th Avenue
Lacombe AB  T4L 1B1
Toll-free telephone: 1-877-899-2372
Fax: 403-782-6753
Toll-free fax: 1-855-700-2372
Email: info@afsc.ca
Website: Agriculture Financial Services Corporation

• For British Columbia, contact:

AgriStability Administration
Ministry of Agriculture and Food
200-1500 Hardy Street
Kelowna BC  V1Y 8H2
Toll-free telephone: 1-877-343-2767
Toll-free fax: 1-877-605-8467
Email: AgriStability@gov.bc.ca
Website: AgriStability – Province of British Columbia

• For Ontario, contact:

Agricorp
1 Stone Road West
Box 3660, Stn. Central
Guelph ON  N1H 8M4
Toll-free telephone: 1-888-247-4999
Fax: 519-826-4334
Email: contact@agricorp.com
Website: Agricorp

• For Prince Edward Island, contact:

AgriStability Administration
Agricultural Insurance Corporation
PO Box 400
7 Gerald McCarville Drive
Kensington PE  C0B 1M0
Telephone: 902-836-0435
Fax: 902-836-8912
Email: AICStability@gov.pe.ca
Website: Government of Prince Edward Island

• For Quebec, contact:

La Financière agricole du Québec
Toll-free telephone: 1-800-749-3646
Website: La Financière agricole du Québec

• For Saskatchewan, contact:

Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation (SCIC)
PO Box 3000
484 Prince William Drive
Melville SK  S0A 2P0
Toll-free telephone: 1-866-270-8450
Toll-free fax: 1-888-728-0440
Email: agristability@scic.ca
Website: Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation (SCIC)

Forms and publications

Use the following forms with this guide:

• T1273, Statement A – Harmonized AgriStability and AgriInvest Programs Information and Statement of Farming Activities for Individuals
• T1274, Statement B – Harmonized AgriStability and AgriInvest Programs Information and Statement of Farming Activities for Additional Farming Operations
• T1175, Farming – Calculation of Capital Cost Allowance (CCA) and Business-use-of-home Expenses
• T1275, AgriStability and AgriInvest Programs Additional Information and Adjustment Request

Throughout the guide, we refer to other forms and publications. If you need any of these, go to Forms and publications.

Where to mail your forms and return

Send the following to the Winnipeg Tax Centre:

• your income tax return
• Form T1273
• Form T1274
• Form T1175

Mailing address:

Canada Revenue Agency
Winnipeg Tax Centre
PO Box 14001, Station Main
Winnipeg MB  R3C 3M3

The Winnipeg Tax Centre is the only tax centre that processes these forms.

Do not attach correspondence or anything else intended for the AgriStability or AgriInvest programs to your forms.

See How to send additional information for AgriStability and AgriInvest below.

How to send additional information for AgriStability and AgriInvest

Use Form T1275, AgriStability and AgriInvest Programs Additional Information and Adjustment Request, to send additional information for your AgriStability and AgriInvest form.

Send Form T1275 and any attachments to your Administration at the same time that you send your Form T1273 to the CRA.

To get this form, go to AgriStability and AgriInvest or call 1-866-367-8506.

For more information, see Adjustments.

If you need more information

If you have questions about your participation in AgriStability, contact either:

• the federal Administration at the address provided above if you farm in Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, or the Yukon
• your provincial Administration at the address provided above if you farm in British Columbia

If you have questions about your participation in AgriInvest, contact:

• the federal Administration at the address provided above. The federal Administration delivers AgriInvest in the Northwest Territories, Yukon and all provinces except Quebec

If you have questions about reporting your farm income for tax purposes, contact:

• the CRA at 1-800-959-5525

This guide explains the most common tax situations.

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