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A
- Acting services rendered in Canada
- Amounts paid in foreign funds
- Amounts that are not taxed
- Annuity payments
B
C
- Canada child tax benefit (CCTB)
- Canada savings bonds
- Changing your return
- Child support
- Children's fitness tax credit
- Clergy residence deduction
- Commission income
- Common-law partner – defined
- Contacting us
D
- Death benefits (other than Canada Pension Plan or Quebec
Pension Plan death benefits) - Deceased persons, filing for
- Deemed non-resident
- Deemed resident of Canada
- Dependants, non-resident – non-refundable tax credits
- Depletion allowances
- Direct deposit
- Disability amount
- Donations
- Due date for returns
E
- Education amount
- Electing under section 217
- Electing under section 216.1
- Elections Canada
- Emergency services volunteers
- Employees profit-sharing plan
- Employment insurance premiums on self-employment and other eligible earnings
- Employment insurance – repaying benefits
F
- Family caregiver amount (FCA)
- Family tax cut
- Federal logging tax credit
- Federal non-refundable tax credits
- Fellowships
- Filing a return
- Foreign income and property
G
- Getting help
- Goods and services tax/harmonized sales tax (GST/HST)
- Guaranteed investment certificates (GICs)
H
- Home buyers' amount
- Home Buyers' Plan
I
- Identification
- Income amounts repaid
- Income-maintenance insurance plans
- Instalments
- Insurance policies
- Interest on balances owing
- Interest on refunds
- Internet access
L
- Labour-sponsored venture capital corporation (LSVCC)
- Legal fees
- Lifelong learning plan
- Loans and transfers of property
- Losses
- Lump-sum payment income
M
N
- Net world income – spouse or common-law partner
- Non-resident dependants
- Non-residents of Canada
- Non-resident trusts – beneficiaries, loans, transfers
- Notice of assessment (NOA)
O
P
- Payments
- Penalties
- Pension income splitting
- Pensions from a foreign country
- Personal tax information, requesting
- Pooled registered pension plans (PRPPs)
- Previous years, filing for
R
- Refunds
- Registered disability savings plan (RDSP)
- Registered education savings plan (RESP)
- Registered retirement income fund (RRIF) income
- Registered retirement savings plans (RRSPs)
- Registered retirement savings plans (RRSPs) for spouse or common-law partner
- Rental income
- Repaying amounts included in income
- Representatives
- Reprisal complaint
- Research grants
- Residential ties
- Resource expenses
- Retiring allowances
- Return due date
S
- Saskatchewan Pension Plan
- Schedule 7, instructions for completing
- Schedule A, Statement of World Income
- Schedule B, Allowable Amount of Non-Refundable Tax Credits
- Schedule C, Election under Section 217 of the Income Tax Act
- Scholarships
- Section 217 eligible income
- Security option benefits
- Service complaints
- Social insurance number
- Split income of a child under 18
- Spouse – defined
- Surtax for non-residents and deemed residents of Canada
T
- Tax package
- Tax shelters
- Term deposits
- Tips income
- Treasury bills
- Tuition amount
U
- United States Social Security benefits
- Universal child care benefit (UCCB)
- Universal child care benefit repayment
V
W
Tax Information Phone Service (TIPS)
For personal and general tax information by telephone, use our automated TIPS by calling 1-800-267-6999 (for calls within Canada and the United States).
| Services | Available dates | Which number to press? |
|---|---|---|
| Bulletin board – Get recent tax and benefit information. | All year | Press 4, then 3 |
| Business information – Get tax information about operating a business. | All year | Press 5 |
| Canada child tax benefit – Find out if you are eligible for this benefit and the date you can expect to receive the next payment. | One week before a payment is issued and one week after | Press 3, then 1 |
| Goods and services tax/harmonized sales tax (GST/HST) credit – Find out if you are eligible for this credit and the date you can expect to receive the next payment. | Three weeks before a payment is issued and two and a half weeks after | Press 2 |
| Info-Tax – Get tax information for deemed residents and non-residents of Canada. For a list of the most common message numbers and topics, see the chart. | Mid-January to the end of December | Press 4, then 2 |
| Remittance vouchers and print request – Ask for a personalized remittance voucher for the current or a previous or future year, or ask for an income and deduction printout for the 2015, 2014, or 2013 tax years. | All year | Press 4, then 4 |
| RRSP/PRPP deduction limit – Learn the maximum amount you can deduct on your return for 2015. | Mid-September to the end of April | Press 4, then 1 |
| Tax-free savings account (TFSA) contribution limit – Learn the maximum amount you can contribute for 2016. | Mid-February to the end of December | Press 6, then 2 |
| Telerefund – Get the status of your refund for 2015. | All year | Press 1 |
| Universal child care benefit – Find out if you are eligible for this benefit and the date you can expect to receive the next payment. | One week before a payment is issued and two weeks after | Press 3, then 2 |
To get information from Telerefund, GST/HST credit, CCTB, UCCB, TFSA, or RRSP/PRPP deduction limit, you will have to give us your social insurance number, your month and year of birth, and the total income you entered on line 150 of your return.
To get information from Remittance vouchers and print request, you will have to give us your social insurance number, your day, month, and year of birth, and the total income you entered on line 150 of your return. In addition, if your identification has been validated, we will ask you to confirm the postal code we currently have on file.
If you call before May 1, you will need the total income amount you entered on line 150 of your 2014 return. If you call on or after May 1, you will need the total income amount you entered on line 150 of your 2015 return.
List of Info-Tax message numbers and topics
- 104 - Other employment income
- 117 - UCCB
- 121 - Interest and other investment income
- 126 - Rental income
- 127 - Taxable capital gains
- 128 - Support payments received
- 130 - Other income
- 147 - Non-taxable income
- 208 - RRSP/PRPP deduction
- 214 - Child care expenses
- 215 - Disability supports deduction
- 219 - Moving expenses
- 220 - Support payments made
- 221 - Carrying charges and interest expenses
- 229 - Other employment expenses
- 232 - Other deductions
- 254 - Capital gains deduction
- 255 - Northern residents deductions
- 301 - Age amount
- 303 - Spouse or common-law partner amount
- 305 - Amount for an eligible dependant
- 306 - Amount for infirm dependants age 18 or older
- 314 - Pension income amount
- 315 - Caregiver amount
- 316 - Disability amount (for self)
- 319 - Interest paid on your student loans
- 323 - Your tuition, education, and textbook amounts
- 324 - Tuition, education, and textbook amounts transferred from a child
- 326 - Amounts transferred from your spouse or common-law partner
- 330 - Medical expenses for self, spouse or common-law partner, and your dependent children who are under 18 years of age
- 349 - Donations and gifts
- 363 - Canada employment amount
- 364 - Public transit amount
- 367 - Family caregiver amount for children under 18 years of age
- 423 - Family Tax Cut
- 459 - Children's fitness tax credit
- 601 - EFILE and NETFILE
- 602 - Filing or making changes to a previous year's return
- 603 - Your appeal rights
- 604 - Voluntary disclosures
- 605 - Authorizing representatives
- 606 - Refunds
- 607 - Working income tax benefit
- 609 - Exchange rates
- 610 - Do you have to file a return?
- 611 - Missing information
- 630 - Enhanced income tax services
- 631 - Services for persons with disabilities
- 655 - Home Buyers' Plan
- 702 - Instalment information
- 703 - Payment arrangements
- 710 - Refund, interest, and penalties
- 882 - Direct deposit
- 883 - Service complaints
- 899 - Info-Tax survey
- 999 - Main menu
Addresses on our website
Visit our website. Below is a list of some useful addresses:
To contact us
By telephone
Calls from Canada and the United States 1-800-959-8281
Regular hours of service
Monday to Friday (holidays excluded)
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (local time)
Extended hours of service
From February 15, to May 2, 2016, except Easter weekend
From 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. (local time) on weekdays
From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (local time) on Saturdays
Calls from outside Canada and the United States 613-940-8495
We accept collect calls by automated response. You may hear a beep and experience a normal connection delay.
Regular hours of service
Monday to Friday (holidays excluded)
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Eastern time)
Extended hours of service
From February 15, to May 2, 2016, except Easter weekend
From 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Eastern time on weekdays
From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Eastern time on Saturdays
Fax number 1-613-941-2505
By mail
International and Ottawa Tax Services Office
Post Office Box 9769, Station T
Ottawa ON K1G 3Y4
CANADA
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