Example

Sam is a commissioned salesperson who negotiates contracts for his employer in Ontario which has an HST rate of 13%. Under his contract of employment, he has to pay his own expenses and is normally required to work away from his employer's place of business. His employer is a GST/HST registrant. Sam received a taxable allowance for the use of his motor vehicle (purchased in December of 2021) that is included on his T4 slip for 2022. Since the allowance is taxable, he can claim a rebate on certain expenses related to that allowance. His travel for work is restricted to Ontario and all of his expenses are incurred within the province.

To calculate his employment expenses, he completed Form T777, Statement of Employment Expenses, as shown in this sample T777.

Sam is now ready to calculate his GST/HST rebate. To claim the rebate, he has to complete Form GST370, Employee and Partner GST/HST Rebate Application. Sam completes Part A. Before he can complete Part B, he has to complete Chart 1 of Form GST370 to calculate his HST eligible expenses. He also must complete Chart 2 because he is claiming CCA on his motor vehicle. Using the information in Guide T4044 Employment Expenses 2022, he calculates and reports the expenses not eligible for the rebate in column 2B of Chart 1. To calculate the personal-use portion of his motor vehicle expenses, Sam uses the fraction 7,500/30,000. This is the personal kilometres driven (30,000 – 22,500) over the total kilometres driven. He enters this non-eligible portion of CCA in column 2B of Chart 2. He completes Chart 1 and Chart 2 on his Form GST370.

Sam did not enter any amounts in the black areas, since these expenses are not eligible for the rebate.

Sam copies the amounts from the "Total eligible expenses" lines of column 3B of Chart 1 to column 3B of line 5 in Part B of Form GST370, and column 3B of Chart 2 to column 3B of line 6 in Part B, and completes it as shown on page 2 of his Form GST370.

Since Sam is claiming a rebate for his motor vehicle expenses for which he received a taxable allowance, an authorized officer of Sam's employer has to complete and sign Part C.

Sam enters $1,254.17 on line 45700 of his 2022 income tax and benefit return. He also attaches Form GST370 to his tax return.

On his 2023 income tax and benefit return, Sam will include $508.29 ($4,418.25 x [13/113]) on line 10400. This amount is the part of the rebate he will receive in 2023 that relates to eligible expenses other than CCA. He will then reduce his UCC at the beginning of 2023 by $745.87 ($6,483.37 x [13/113]).