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• Step 2 – Total income
  • Report foreign income and other foreign amounts
  • Line 101 – Employment income
    • Emergency services volunteers
    • Security options benefits
    • Wage-loss replacement plan income
    • Member of the clergy
  • Line 104 – Other employment income
  • Retirement income – Summary table
  • Line 113 – Old age security (OAS) pension
  • Line 114 – CPP or QPP benefits
    • Lump-sum benefits
    • CPP or QPP disability benefit (box 16)
    • CPP or QPP child benefit (box 17)
    • CPP or QPP death benefit (box 18)
  • Line 115 – Other pensions and superannuation
    • Pension income splitting
    • Pensions from a foreign country
      • United States individual retirement arrangement (IRA)
      • United States Social Security
  • Line 116 – Elected split-pension amount
  • Line 117 – Universal child care benefit (UCCB)
    • If you were a single parent
    • Special calculation
  • Line 119 – Employment insurance and other benefits
  • Line 120 – Taxable amount of dividends (eligible and other than eligible) from taxable Canadian corporations
    • If you did not receive an information slip
  • Line 121 – Interest and other investment income
    • Information slips
    • Foreign income
    • Bank accounts
    • Term deposits, guaranteed investment certificates (GICs), and other similar investments
    • Treasury bills
    • Earnings on life insurance policies
  • Line 122 – Net partnership income: limited or non-active partners only
  • Line 126 – Net rental income
  • Line 127 – Taxable capital gains
  • Line 128 – Support payments received
  • Line 129 – RRSP income
    • RRSPs for spouse or common-law partner
    • Repayments under the Home Buyers’ Plan (HBP) and the Lifelong Learning Plan (LLP)
  • Line 130 – Other income
    • Scholarships, fellowships, bursaries, and artists’ project grants
    • Lump-sum payments
    • Death benefits (other than CPP or QPP death benefits)
    • CPP or QPP death benefit
    • Other kinds of income
  • Lines 135 to 143 – Self-employment income
  • Line 145 – Social assistance payments
  • Other amounts you need to report throughout the return
    • Retroactive lump-sum payments
    • Loans and transfers of property
    • Tax shelters

Step 2 –Total income

Report your income on lines 101 to 146 using your information slips along with the instructions provided on your return and on any applicable worksheet, schedule, and form. You may receive income that is not reported on an information slip, but that income still has to be reported. In this section of the guide, you will find information you may need to supplement the instructions provided on the return.

This section does not provide supplementary information for lines 125, 144, and 146, as the instructions on the return provide the information you need.

Report foreign income and other foreign amounts

Report foreign income and other foreign amounts (such as expenses and foreign taxes paid) in Canadian dollars. Use the Bank of Canada exchange rate in effect on the day you received the income or paid the expense. If the amount was paid at various times in the year, visit Bank of Canada or contact the CRA for an average annual rate.

If you paid foreign taxes on foreign income you received, you may be able to claim a foreign tax credit when you calculate your federal and provincial or territorial taxes. For more information, see Form T2209, Federal Foreign Tax Credits, and Form T2036, Provincial or Territorial Foreign Tax Credit.

Line 101 – Employment income

Emergency services volunteers
You may have received a payment from an eligible employer, such as a government, a municipality, or another public authority for your work as a volunteer ambulance technician, a volunteer firefighter, a search and rescue volunteer, or other type of emergency worker. The T4 slips issued by this authority will generally show only the taxable part of the payment in box 14 of your T4 slip, which is the part that is more than $1,000.

The exempt part of a payment is shown in box 87 of your T4 slips. If you provided volunteer emergency services for more than one employer, you can claim the $1,000 exemption for each of your eligible employers.

Security options benefits

Report taxable benefits you received in (or carried forward to) 2018 on certain security options you exercised. For more information, see Guide T4037, Capital Gains.

Wage-loss replacement plan income

If you received payments from a wage-loss replacement plan shown in box 14 of your T4 slips, you may not have to report the full amount on your return. Report the amount you received minus the contributions you made to the plan if you did not use them on a previous year’s return. Report on line 103 of your return your total contributions to your wage-loss replacement plan shown in the supporting documents from your employer or insurance company. For more information, see Interpretation Bulletin IT-428, Wage Loss Replacement Plans.

Member of the clergy

If you received a housing allowance or an amount for eligible utilities as a member of the clergy and they are shown in box 14 of your T4 slips, report the amount shown in box 30 of your T4 slips on line 104 of your return. Subtract the amount shown in box 30 of your T4 slips from the amount shown in box 14, and report the difference on line 101 of your return.

Line 104 – Other employment income

Report on this line the total of the following amounts:

• Report the amounts from your T4, T4A, and T4PS slips as instructed on the back of these slips.
  
• Employment income not reported on a T4 slip – Report amounts such as tips and occasional earnings. Fees for services shown in box 048 of your T4A slips must be reported on the applicable self-employment line of your return (lines 135 to 143 of your return). 
  
• Net research grants – Subtract your expenses from the grant you received and report the net amount on line 104 of your return. Your expenses cannot be more than the amount of your grant. For more information, see Guide P105, Students and Income Tax.
  
• Clergy’s housing allowance or an amount for eligible utilities – Report the amount shown in box 30 of your T4 slips. You may be able to claim a deduction on line 231 of your return. If a housing allowance or an amount for eligible utilities is shown in box 14 of your T4 slips, subtract the amount shown in box 30 of your T4 slips from the amount shown in box 14 and report the difference on line 101 of your return. 
  
• Foreign employment income – Report your earnings in Canadian dollars. See Report foreign income and other foreign amounts. If the amount on your United States W-2 slip has been reduced by contributions to a “401(k), 457 or 403(b) plan, US Medicare and Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA),” you must add these contributions to your foreign employment income on line 104 of your Canadian return. These contributions may be deductible. See Line 207.
  
• Income-maintenance insurance plans (wage-loss replacement plans) – This income is shown in box 107 of your T4A slips. You may not have to report the full amount on your return. Report the amount you received, minus contributions you made to the plan after 1967, if you did not use them on a previous year’s return. For more information, see Interpretation Bulletin IT-428, Wage Loss Replacement Plans.
  
• Certain GST/HST and Quebec sales tax (QST) rebates – If you are an employee who paid and deducted employment expenses in 2017 or earlier and you received a GST/HST or QST rebate in 2018 for those expenses, report the rebate you received on line 104 of your return. However, a rebate on which you can claim capital cost allowance is treated differently. For more information, see Chapter 10 in Guide T4044, Employment Expenses.
  
• Royalties – Report these amounts on line 104 of your return if you received them for a work or invention of yours. Report other royalties (other than those included on line 135 of your return) on line 121 of your return.

Line 113 – Old age security (OAS) pension

If you have not received your T4A(OAS) slip, go to Employment and Social Development, or call 1-800-277-9914. 

You may have to repay OAS benefits. For more information, see line 235 of the return.

Line 114 – CPP or QPP benefits

If you have not received your T4A(P) slip, go to Employment and Social Development  or call 1-800-277-9914. 

Lump-sum benefits – If you received a lump-sum CPP or QPP payment in 2018, parts of which were for previous years, you have to report the whole payment on line 114 of your return for 2018. However, if the total of the parts that relate to previous years is $300 or more, the CRA will calculate the tax payable on those parts as if you received them in those years only if the result is better for you. The CRA will tell you the results on your notice of assessment or reassessment.

CPP or QPP disability benefit (box 16)

Report on line 152 of your return, your CPP or QPP disability benefits shown in box 16. This amount is already included in your income on line 114 of your return, so do not add it again when you calculate your total income on line 150 of your return.

CPP or QPP child benefit (box 17)

Report a child benefit only if you received it because you were the child of a deceased or disabled contributor. Any benefits paid for your children are their income, even if you received the payment.

CPP or QPP death benefit (box 18)

Do not report this amount if you are filing for a deceased person. If you received this amount and you are a beneficiary of the deceased person's estate, report it on line 130 of your return unless a T3 Trust Income Tax and Information Return is being filed for the estate. For more information, see Guide T4011, Preparing Returns for Deceased Persons.

Line 115 – Other pensions and superannuation

See the back of your slips and the summary table for retirement income located after line 104 to find out where to report the amount.

Pension income splitting

You may be able to make a joint election with your spouse or common-law partner to split your pension, annuity, pooled registered pension plan, registered retirement income fund (including life income fund), and specified pension plan payments you reported on line 115 of your return if both of the following apply:

• you were both residents of Canada on December 31, 2018 (or were residents of Canada on the date of death)
  
• neither of you were, because of a breakdown in your marriage or common-law relationship, living separate and apart from each other at the end of the year and for a period of 90 days or more beginning in the year

To make this election, you and your spouse or common-law partner must complete Form T1032, Joint Election to Split Pension Income. The transferring spouse or common-law partner must still report the full amount of income on line 115 of their return, but can claim a deduction for the elected split pension amount on line 210 of their return.

Pensions from a foreign country

Report in Canadian dollars your gross foreign pension income received in the year. See Report foreign income and other foreign amounts. In some cases, amounts you receive may not be considered pension income and you may have to report them elsewhere on your return.

United States individual retirement arrangement (IRA) – If during the year you received amounts from an IRA or converted an IRA to a “Roth” IRA, call the CRA.

United States Social Security – Report on line 115 of your return the full amount, in Canadian dollars, of your U.S. Social Security benefits and any U.S. Medicare premiums paid on your behalf. You can claim a deduction for part of this income. See Line 256.

Line 116 – Elected split-pension amount

Report on this line the amount of pension income transferred to you by your spouse or common-law partner if you both made a joint election to split pension income by completing Form T1032, Joint Election to Split Pension Income. For more information, see Line 115.

Line 117 – Universal child care benefit (UCCB)

Report the UCCB lump-sum payment you received in 2018 for prior tax years.

If you were a single parent on December 31, 2018, you can choose one of the following options:

• include all the UCCB lump-sum payment you received in 2018 in the income of the dependant for whom you are claiming the amount for an eligible dependant (line 305 of your Schedule 1). If there is no claim on line 305, you can choose to include all the UCCB amount in the income of a child for whom you received the UCCB. If you choose this option, enter on line 185 of your return the amount shown in box 10 of the RC62 slip. Do not report the amount on line 117 of your return
  
• include all the UCCB lump-sum payment you received in 2018 in your own income. If you choose this option, report on line 117 of your return the amount shown in box 10 of the RC62 slip. Do not report the amount on line 185 of your return

Special calculation – If the UCCB lump-sum payment is $300 or more, the CRA will calculate the tax payable as if you received the amount in each of the previous years, if the result is better for you. The CRA will tell you the results on your notice of assessment or reassessment. This special calculation will not apply if you designated the lump-sum payment benefit to a dependant and entered the amount on line 185 of your return.

Line 119 – Employment insurance and other benefits

See the back of your T4E slip to find out how and where to report these amounts. If you have already repaid excess benefits you received, directly to the payer of your benefits, you may be able to claim a deduction. See Line 232.

Line 120 – Taxable amount of dividends (eligible and other than eligible) from taxable Canadian corporations

Complete the chart for lines 120, 121, 180, and 221 on the Worksheet for the return and report your dividends as follows:

If you did not receive an information slip
Calculate the taxable amount of dividends as follows:

Line 121 – Interest and other investment income

Complete the chart for lines 120, 121, 180, and 221 on the Worksheet for the return and report on line 121 of your return the amounts you received, minus any part of those amounts you reported in previous years. Also, report amounts credited to you but that you did not receive (such as amounts that were reinvested). Generally, you report your share of interest from a joint investment based on how much you contributed to it.

Information slips

The amounts to report include those shown in boxes 13, 14, 15, and 30 of T5 slips, box 25 of T3 slips, and boxes 128 and 135 of T5013 slips. Also, report the interest on any tax refund you received in 2018, which is shown on your notice of assessment or reassessment.

Foreign income

If you received foreign interest or dividend income, report it in Canadian dollars. See Report foreign income and other foreign amounts.

If, as a shareholder in a foreign corporation, you received certain shares in another foreign corporation, you may not have to report any amount as income for receiving those shares.

Bank accounts

Report interest paid or credited to you in 2018, even if you did not receive an information slip. You may not receive a T5 slip for amounts under $50.

Term deposits, guaranteed investment certificates (GICs), and other similar investments

The income you report is based on the interest you earned during each complete investment year. For example, if you made a long-term investment on July 1, 2017, report on your return for 2018 the interest that accumulated to the end of June 2018, even if you do not receive a T5 slip. Report the interest from July 2018 to June 2019 on your 2019 return.

Treasury bills

If you disposed of a treasury bill when it matured in 2018, you have to report as interest the difference between the price you paid and the proceeds of disposition shown on your T5008 slips or account statement.

If you disposed of a treasury bill before it matured in 2018, you may also have to report a capital gain (or loss). For more information, see Guide T4037, Capital Gains.

Earnings on life insurance policies

Report the earnings that have accumulated on certain life insurance policies in the same way as you do for other investments. Your insurance company will send you a T5 slip. For policies bought before 1990, you can choose to report accumulated earnings every year by telling your insurer in writing.

Line 122 – Net partnership income: limited or non-active partners only

Report on line 122 of your return your share of the net income (or loss) from a partnership if the partnership did not include a rental (see Line 126) or farming operation (see Lines 135 to 143) and you were either:

• a limited partner
  
• not actively involved in the partnership and not otherwise involved in a business or profession similar to that carried on by the partnership

If these two conditions do not apply to you, report your share of the partnership’s net income (or loss) on the applicable self-employment line of your return (lines 135 to 143 of your return).

If you have a tax shelter, see Tax shelters.

If all or part of the income was earned in a province or territory other than your province or territory of residence, or if it was earned outside Canada, get and complete Form T2203, Provincial and Territorial Taxes for 2018 - Multiple Jurisdictions.

Line 126 – Net rental income

Report your gross rental income on line 160 of your return and your net rental income (or loss) on line 126 of your return. If you have a loss, show the amount in brackets. If you were a member of a partnership, also report any amount shown in boxes 107 and 110 of your T5013 slips or any amount the partnership allocated to you in its financial statements.

For more information, see Guide T4036, Rental Income.

If you have a tax shelter, see Tax shelters.

Line 127 – Taxable capital gains

You may have a capital gain (or loss) when you dispose of property, such as when you sell real estate, which may include your principal residence, or shares (including mutual funds). You may also have a gain or a loss if you are considered to have disposed of property (see the definition of Deemed disposition on Schedule 3). For more information, see Guide T4037, Capital Gains.

If you sold a principal residence in the year, complete the "Principal residence" section on page 2 of Schedule 3.

Line 128 – Support payments received

Report on line 156 of your return the total of all taxable and non-taxable support payments you received for yourself or for a child (or, if you are the payer, the payments that were repaid to you under a court order) in 2018. Report on line 128 of your return only the taxable amount.

For more information, see Guide P102, Support Payments.

Line 129 – RRSP income

See the back of your T4RSP slip and the summary table for retirement income located after line 104 to find out where to report the amount.

Regardless of your age, if you received income shown on a T4RSP slip on the death of your spouse or common-law partner, report it on line 129 of your return. If the amount is transferred to your RRSP, you still have to report it on line 129 of your return but you may be able to claim a deduction. For more information, see Guide RC4177, Death of an RRSP Annuitant.

RRSPs for spouse or common-law partner

Your spouse or common-law partner may have to report some or all of the RRSP income shown in boxes 20, 22, and 26 of your T4RSP slips if they contributed to any of your RRSPs in 2016, 2017, or 2018. In that case, your T4RSP slips should have “Yes” ticked in box 24 and your spouse’s or common-law partner’s social insurance number should appear in box 36. Get and complete Form T2205, Amounts from a Spousal or Common-Law Partner RRSP, RRIF, or SPP to Include in Income, to calculate the amount that both of you must report on line 129 of your returns.

For more information, see Guide T4040, RRSPs and Other Registered Plans for Retirement.

Repayments under the Home Buyers’ Plan (HBP) and the Lifelong Learning Plan (LLP)

If in previous years you withdrew funds from your RRSP under the HBP or the LLP, you may have to make a repayment for 2018. If you are making a repayment, complete Schedule 7. If you repay less than the minimum amount for the year, you may have to report the difference on line 129 of your return. Do not send your repayment to the CRA.

For more information, see Guide RC4112, Lifelong Learning Plan (LLP).

Line 130 – Other income

Use this line to report taxable income that has not been or should not be reported anywhere else on the return. In the space provided on line 130 of your return, specify the type of income you are reporting.

Scholarships, fellowships, bursaries, and artists’ project grants

Report prizes and awards you received as a benefit from your employment or in connection with a business. This type of income is not eligible for the $500 basic scholarship exemption. If you received a research grant, see Line 104.

Certain scholarships, bursaries, and artists’ project grants are not taxable. For more information, go to Students or see Guide P105, Students and Income Tax, and Income Tax Folio S1-F2-C3, Scholarships, Research Grants and Other Education Assistance.

Lump-sum payments

Report lump-sum payments from pensions and deferred profit-sharing plans you received when you left a plan.

If you received a lump-sum payment in 2018 that included amounts you earned in previous years, you have to report the whole payment on line 130 of your return for 2018.

Death benefits (other than CPP or QPP death benefits)

A death benefit is an amount you receive after a person’s death for their employment service. Death benefits (other than those from the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) or Quebec Pension Plan (QPP)) are shown in box 106 of your T4A slips or box 26 of your T3 slips.

You may not have to pay tax on up to $10,000 of the benefit you received. If you are the only one to receive a death benefit, report the amount you receive that is more than $10,000. Even if you do not receive the full death benefit in one year, the total tax-free amount for all years cannot be more than $10,000.

To find out what to report if anyone else also received a death benefit for the same person, see Interpretation Bulletin IT-508, Death Benefits.

CPP or QPP death benefit

If you received this amount and you are a beneficiary of the deceased person’s estate, report the amount on line 130 of your return unless a T3 Trust Income Tax and Information Return is being filed for the estate. The CPP or QPP death benefit is shown in box 18 of the T4A(P) slip.

Other kinds of income

Also report the following income on line 130 of your return:

• apprenticeship incentive grant and apprenticeship completion grant shown in box 130 of your T4A slips. For more information, go to Employment and Social Development Canada, see Guide P105, or call 1 866-742-3644
  
• amounts distributed from a retirement compensation arrangement shown on your T4A-RCA slips (for more information, see the back of your slips)
  
• training allowances or any other amount shown in box 028 of your T4A slips (other than amounts already noted for this line and lines 104, 115, and 125 of the return)
  
• payments from a trust shown in box 26 of your T3 slips
  
• payments from a registered education savings plan shown in box 040 (see Line 418) or box 042 of your T4A slips
  
• certain annuity payments (see Line 115)
  
• certain payments from a tax-free savings account (TFSA) shown in box 134 of your T4A slips
  
• designated benefits from a registered retirement income fund shown in box 22 of your T4RIF slips, or the registered pension plan amount shown in box 194 of your T4A slips or specified pension plan (SPP) amount shown in box 018 of your T4A slips. If you rolled over an amount to a registered disability savings plan (RDSP), see Line 232 for information about the corresponding deduction. For more information about RDSPs, go to Registered disability savings plan (RDSP) or see Guide T4040, RRSPs and Other Registered Plans for Retirement
  
• amounts (grants) paid to you as a result of taking time away from work to cope with the death or disappearance of your child because of an offence or probable offence under the Criminal Code (shown in box 136 of your T4A slip)
  
• pooled registered pension plan income shown in box 194 of your T4A slips if you were under 65 years of age and you did not receive this income on the death of your spouse or common-law partner
  
• retiring allowances shown in boxes 66 and 67 of your T4 slips and any retiring allowance shown in box 26 of your T3 slips

Lines 135 to 143 – Self-employment income

Report on the appropriate lines your gross and net income (or loss) from self-employment. If you have a loss, show it in brackets.

You have to file Form T1139, Reconciliation of 2018 Business Income for Tax Purposes, with your return for 2018 to keep a year-end that does not finish on December 31, 2018.

Guide T4002, Self-employed Business, Professional, Commission, Farming, and Fishing Income, contains more information you may need to help you calculate your self-employment income.

If you were a limited or non-active partner, report your net income (or loss) from rental operations on line 126 of your return and your net farming income (or loss) on line 141 of your return. Report other net income or other losses on line 122 of your return.

If you were an active partner and you received a T5013 slip, report on your return the amount from boxes 118, 121, 123, 125, and 127. Report your share of the partnership’s net income (or loss) shown in boxes 101, 103, 116, 120, 122, 124, and 126 on the applicable line of your return. If you did not receive this slip, follow the instructions on the applicable self-employment form and report your share of the partnership’s net income (or loss) on the applicable self-employment line of your return.

For more information, call the CRA business enquiries line.

If you have a tax shelter, see Tax shelters.

Line 145 – Social assistance payments

Report the amount shown in box 11 of your T5007 slip or the federal part of your Quebec Relevé 5 slip, unless you lived with your spouse or common-law partner when the payments were made. The spouse or common-law partner with the higher net income on line 236 of their return (not including these payments or the deductions on line 214 or line 235 of their return) must report all the payments, even if that person’s name is not shown on the slip. If this amount is the same for both of you, the person named on the T5007 slip (or the prestataire on the federal part of the Relevé 5 slip) must report the payments.

You do not have to report certain social assistance payments you or your spouse or common-law partner received for being a foster parent or for caring for an adult with a disability who lived with you. However, if the payments are for caring for your spouse or common-law partner or any person related to either of you, whoever has the higher net income must report those payments.

If you repay an amount that was shown on a T5007 slip or a Relevé 5 slip in a previous year, the return for that year may be adjusted based on the amended slip provided.

If you are a registered Indian or a person entitled to be registered as an Indian under the Indian Act, and you live on a reserve, do not report social assistance payments received from your band council.

Other amounts you need to report throughout the return

Retroactive lump-sum payments

If you received a lump-sum payment of eligible income in 2018, parts of which were for previous years after 1977, you must report the whole payment on the appropriate line of your return for 2018. These amounts are shown on a completed Form T1198, Statement of Qualifying Retroactive Lump-Sum Payment, provided by the payer.

You can ask the CRA to tax the parts for previous years as if you received them in those years. The CRA can apply this calculation to the parts that relate to years throughout which you were resident in Canada if the total of those parts is $3,000 or more (not including interest) and the result is better for you. The CRA will tell you the results on your notice of assessment or reassessment.

Loans and transfers of property

You may have to report income, such as dividends (line 120 of your return) or interest (line 121 of your return), from property (including money and any replacement property) you loaned or transferred to your spouse or common-law partner, child, or other relative. You may also have to report capital gains (line 127 of your return) or losses from property you loaned or transferred to your spouse or common-law partner.

For more information, see interpretation bulletins IT-510, Transfers and Loans of Property Made After May 22, 1985 to a Related Minor, and IT-511, Interspousal and Certain Other Transfers and Loans of Property.

Tax shelters

To claim deductions, losses, or credits from tax shelter investments, see your T5003 or T5013 slips, and get and complete Form T5004, Claim for Tax Shelter Loss or Deduction.

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