Immigrants (newcomers to Canada)
If you are a taxpayer who has immigrated to Canada during the
current tax year, and to determine whether you are entitled to
claim the full value of deductions and credits on your tax return,
you need to report the income you earned from both Canadian and
foreign sources. To do so, please follow these steps:
1. On the left side menu of the "Interview tab",
select "Interview setup"
2. On the right-hand side of the screen, check the box for
"Immigrant, emigrant or non-resident taxpayer, you are a
Canadian resident and your spouse immigrated to Canada in the
year" and click "Next" at the bottom of the page.
3. Return to the left side menu of the "Interview tab"
and click on "Immigrant, emigrant, non-resident".
4. Then on the right, select the option "You immigrated to
Canada in 2019".
5. On the new page that is displayed, ''Immigration to
Canada'', enter the mandatory information on the lines
with a red asterisk '' * ''. If you have no earned
income, enter $ 0,00.
Other lines are not considered mandatory, however, if you earned
any income, enter the amounts. If no income was earned then just
leave the fields blank.
If you have immigrated to Quebec, return to the left side menu of
the ?Interview tab?. Select the "Quebec prescription drug
insurance plan" page and then "5 - Exceptions, Quebec
prescription drug insurance plan, part of the year" from the
drop-down menu.
5. In the new field that appears, select the option
"Other - Immigrant/Emigrant" in the drop-down menu and
select the month(s) during which you were NOT in Canada
(Quebec).
You can file your Federal return using NETFILE. However,
for Quebec, you need to print your return and send it to Revenu
Québec.
For more information regarding newcomers, visit the
following links:
For the CRA :
https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/international-non-residents/individuals-leaving-entering-canada-non-residents/newcomers-canada-immigrants.html
For Revenu Québec :
https://www.revenuquebec.ca/en/citizens/your-situation/new-residents/
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