Old Age Security Return of Income (OASRI)

Non-resident seniors who receive Canadian old age security (OAS) payments may have to pay recovery tax on those payments.

As a non-resident senior who receives OAS payments, you must submit an Old Age Security Return of Income (OASRI) so that the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) can determine if you have to pay recovery tax and also to ensure that your OAS payments are not suspended.

If you are a resident of a region or country that has a tax treaty with Canada, you may not have to file this return. For more information on this exception, see Tax treaties.

Note

The CRA does not issue OAS payments. Contact Service Canada with any questions about the amount of your cheque, or to report a lost or stolen cheque, etc.

What is the purpose of the Old Age Security Return of Income?

The information on your annual OASRI lets the CRA determine if your net world income is more than the threshold. If your net world income for the year is higher than the threshold for the tax year, recovery tax will be deducted from your monthly OAS payments.

Note

Information on the OASRI return is only used to calculate your recovery tax. The CRA does not calculate any other Canadian income tax from this return.

Recovery tax

Recovery tax:

Thresholds (in Canadian funds) are:

How is recovery tax calculated?

The recovery tax rate is 15% and applies only to the income that is above the threshold for the applicable year ($81,761 for 2022). The threshold for each year is provided above.

Notes

The recovery tax cannot be more than the amount of old age pension income, including supplements, received in the year.

Under no circumstances will the non-resident tax and the recovery tax add up to more than the total OAS pension income, including supplements, received in the year.

To calculate your recovery tax, complete the chart below; however, if any of the following situations applies to you, do not complete this chart and, instead, contact the CRA for the special rules and calculation to apply in these situations:

Note

The CRA offers a printer-friendly version of this chart.

Calculating OAS recovery tax
Line description Amount Line number
Net world income from line 24200 of your return $ Line 1
OAS repayment threshold for 2022 -81,761.00 Line 2
Line 1 minus line 2 (if negative, enter "0") $ Line 3
  × 15% Line 4
Line 3 multiplied by line 4 $ Line 5
OAS pension and net federal supplements received from line 11300 of your return $ Line 6
OAS benefits overpayment recovered in 2022 (see line 23200) - Line 7
Line 6 minus line 7 (if negative, enter "0") $ Line 8
OAS recovery tax
Enter whichever is less: amount from line 5 or line 8.
$ Line 9
  × 75% Line 10

Line 9 multiplied by line 10

$                

Line 11

Enter the amount from line 11 on line 23500 of your return.

Here is an example of how recovery tax is calculated:

Example

You, a non-resident senior, received Canadian old age security pension income of $5,000 during the 2022
tax year. Your net world income for that year was $83,086.

You would calculate your recovery tax as follows:

Calculating OAS recovery tax example
Line description Amount Line number
Net world income from line 24200 of his return $83,086 Line 1
OAS repayment threshold for 2021 $81,761 Line 2
Line 1 minus line 2 (if negative, enter "0") $1,325 Line 3
  ×   15% Line 4
Line 3 multiplied by line 4 $198.75 Line 5
OAS pension and net federal supplements received from line 11300 of your return $5,000 Line 6
OAS benefits overpayment recovered in 2021 (see line 23200) -  0 Line 7
Line 6 minus line 7 (if negative, enter "0") $5,000 Line 8
OAS recovery tax
Enter whichever is less: amount from line 5 or line 8.
$198.75 Line 9
  ×  75% Line 10
Line 9 multiplied by line 10 $149.06 Line 11

The amount from line 11 is your Old Age Security recovery tax for 2022.

If you are subject to the OAS recovery tax for 2022, your future monthly OAS pension payments, starting with the one for July 2023, might have recovery tax deducted from them.

Tax treaties

Because of the terms of the tax treaty between Canada and another country or region listed below, non-resident seniors living in these countries and region do not have to file an OASRI or pay recovery tax unless they plan to move before July 1, 2024, to a country or region that is not listed below:

Notes

If you were a resident of Brazil in 2022 and are a Brazilian national, you do not have to file this return.

If you were a resident of the Philippines in 2022 and the total of your 2022 Canadian pensions was $5,000 or less, you do not need to file this return.

If you were a resident of a region or country not listed above at any time in 2022 and you received OAS pension during that period, you have to file this return.

If the tax treaty your region or country of residence has with Canada is amended, you may not have to file this return. For more information, contact the CRA.

Net world income

Net world income is the total of all income paid or credited to you in a year from Canadian and foreign sources minus any allowable deductions. It includes income from:

When calculating your net world income, do not reduce the income by any tax that has already been withheld.

Return due date

Your Old Age Security Return of Income for 2022 must be filed no later than April 30, 2023.

Note

Filing your annual OASRI on time also helps ensure that your old age security pension is not suspended by Service Canada.

Other Canadian tax returns

You may have to file a separate 2021 Canadian income tax return if any of the following apply to you:

For more information about filing a Canadian income tax return, see Filing your income tax return.

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