Line 25500 – Lowest Return Airfare Table

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The Simplified northern residents travel deduction was designed to make it easier for northern residents to claim the northern residents travel deduction and determine a lowest return airfare (LRA). We’d like to invite you to share your comments and experience to help us improve our information and services. It should only take a few minutes to complete the short survey.

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Claiming a northern residents travel deduction

To claim a northern residents travel deduction, you must use the applicable lowest return airfare (LRA). The LRA is the cost of the cheapest round-trip airfare available when your travel began, between the airport closest to your residence and the nearest designated city.

For more details about the LRA, see notes 3 and 4 on Form T2222, Northern Residents Deductions. Learn how to identify an LRA here.

To determine the LRA, you can use one of the following methods:

Lowest return airfare tables

The lowest return airfare (LRA) tables show you the lowest level of return economy airfares for eligible airports, almost all of which are operating in the prescribed zones. Each table identifies more than 135 airports that offer regularly scheduled flights to a designated city, with the airfares ordinarily available in a period of time indicated on the table.

The numbers published in the tables represent the lowest economy fares that are ordinarily available during that period of time. The CRA works with a business travel service provider to identify these airfare amounts for airlines operating in the prescribed zones, using prices for flights between eligible airports and designated cities. To reflect fare adjustments that the airlines make, the CRA will add a new table every April and every October when a new period begins.

Note

The first table released covers the months of January to March 2022. Following tables released cover 6 month periods, April to September and October to March.

If you want to use an airfare amount that is different than one given in one of the LRA tables, keep receipts and documents to support the amount, in case the CRA wants proof.

Note

The cost for charter flights is not part of the amounts in the tables.

Using one of the tables

To determine your LRA using a table, follow these steps:

  1. Find and open the table that matches the period of time when travel started. For example, if you travelled in November of 2022, find the table for the period of October 2022 to March 2023.
  2. In the table, choose the airport closest to your residence. 
  3. Use the amount associated with the closest airport as your LRA and complete column 5 in Chart B of your form T2222, Northern Residents Deductions.

Airfare tables

We welcome your feedback

We work to make the process of claiming the travel deduction easier for northern residents.

Please email us at NRDcomments-DHREcommentaires@cra-arc.gc.ca if you have any feedback regarding the simplified northern residents travel deduction or the airfare tables pilot project.

If you have specific enquiries related to your account, please contact the Canada Revenue Agency.

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