  My Business Account |
My Business Account is a secure online portal that provides an opportunity to interact electronically with Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) on various business accounts. Business accounts include GST/HST (except for GST/HST accounts administered by Revenu Québec), payroll, corporation income taxes, excise taxes, excise duties, and more.
Business owners (including partners, directors, and officers) can use My Business Account.
My Business Account offers a variety of online services for businesses. To view a list of the services available for businesses, go to: What can I do on My Business Account?
The following options are applicable for the keyword MyBusinessAcct.
Corporations may register for "Email notifications" by submitting an email address and agreeing to the terms of use for email notifications with the filing of their return.
The ability to register for "Email notifications" is only applicable to initial assessments (IAS).
The email address and the authorization obtained via the T2 Return will allow the program account to be registered to receive email notifications. Once this information is accepted from the return, the user will be able to manage online mail in the same manner as if the registration occurred through My Business Account.
Corporations that provide CRA with their email address must register fully and sign into the My Business Account portal to view their output and to manage their email notification preferences.
If the corporation registers to receive email notifications for their T2 account, the CRA will send an email when changes to the account have been made, or when eligible notices, letters, or statements are available for viewing in My Business Account (separate registration is required). The CRA will not send these eligible notices, letters, or statements to the corporation through Canada Post. Terms of use for email notifications.
The terms of use for email notifications:
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) will send email notifications to the email address you have provided in order to notify you of any CRA mail available in My Business Account, and to notify you of certain changes to the account information, and other important information about the account. The notifications that are eligible for this service may change. As new types of notifications are added or removed from this service, you may not be notified of each change. To view CRA mail online, you must be registered for My Business Account, or if you are a representative then you must be registered for Represent a Client and be authorized on this account. All CRA mail available in My Business Account will be presumed to have been received on the date that the email notification is sent. Any mail that is eligible for electronic delivery will no longer be printed and mailed.
It is your responsibility to ensure that the email address provided to the CRA is accurate, and to update it when there is any change to that email address. CRA email notifications are subject to the terms of any agreement with your mobile carrier or Internet Service Provider. You are responsible for any fees imposed by them.
These email notifications are sent unencrypted and unsecured. The email notifications could be lost or intercepted, or could be viewed or altered by others who have access to your email account. You accept this risk and acknowledge that the CRA will not be liable if you are unable to access or receive the email notifications, nor for any delay or inability to deliver notifications.
These terms of use may be changed from time to time. The CRA will provide notice in advance of the effective date of the new terms. You agree that the CRA may notify you of these changes by emailing the new terms or notice of where the new terms can be found, to the email address that you provided. You agree that your use of the service after the effective date of any change to these terms constitutes your agreement to the new terms.
Email notifications - Privacy notice:
Personal information is collected under the authority of subsection 220(1) of the Income Tax Act and subsection 275(1) of the Excise Tax Act and is used for the purpose of sending notices electronically. Information is described in personal information banks CRA PPU 047 Business Returns and Payment Processing and CRA PPU 005 Individual Returns and Payment Processing in the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) chapter of Info Source. Personal information is protected under the Privacy Act and individuals have a right to access, correct, or notate their personal information and to have their personal information protected. More details about requests for personal information at the CRA and the CRA's Info Source chapter can be found at Access to information and privacy at the Canada Revenue Agency.
The following options are applicable for the keyword OnlineMail.
Agree to use email notifications - use EMAIL kw if entered
Agree to use email notifications - different email address
No - do not agree to use email notifications
Enter the corporation's E-mail address here.
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OnlineMail