Married status, Income Tax and benefits/credits

[parker24]

wow, this is so not making any sense the way they work in this offices.And what do you mean by applied for Trillium benefit. How can you apply for that, i thought you will definately be eligible to get it if you fill your 2011 income tax. correct me if im wrong..i need to know

Yes, that's how you apply, by filing your 2011 income tax

 

[Mrslwsn]

Well.. I got another letter............ I'm REALLY confused. The first letter says I owe them 128 bucks.. Second letter says I owe them 66... So I figured they got my first letter but in the second letter it STILL asks for my husband SIN. GROWL! I call CRA and they told me they never got the first letter! Whaaat? So I have NO idea why it went down all of a sudden if they didn't get the first letter :-\. So they told me to send another one. This time I went WAY overboard. I added my husband DOB, birthplace, SSN, amount he made in 2011, and 2010, when we sent the PR application, when we got married and had both of us sign it. I'll be mailing it out tomorrow. I'm SO not happy. Obviously when this is all over, I'll be getting a large deposit since I applied for Trillium benefit and have been approved for it, just never got April or May's so that'll come eventually. UGH. VERY unimpressed with CRA!

Trillium benefit has not begun yet. The first pymt will be issued in July 2012. So technically there is not payment for Apr/May/June. Those months are still being covered by the current benefit system.

 

[avocadosandcheese]

I'm having issues as well.

They say I owe them money because I got married. In the letter they asked for either my husbands SIN or his landing date... Well he has neither! So I called, they told me to write a letter stating that he's American and that he has neither of these informations, so it's pointless to ask for it (Okay so they didn't say those exact words ) But anyway, just thought I'd share that in case anyone else has gotten a similar letter.

I've been getting issues with my disability payment too since I had to explain several times that he's not Canadian yet. *sigh* Government, one way track I tell ya!

the same exact thing happened to us. we sent the info in and are waiting to hear back!

 

[parker24]

Trillium benefit has not begun yet. The first pymt will be issued in July 2012. So technically there is not payment for Apr/May/June. Those months are still being covered by the current benefit system.

Yes. Sorry, they call it Trillium benefit now so I keep confusing it.

GST/HST credit
Last: April 5, 2012
Next: July 5, 2012

So I didn't get one in April and if this keeps up, I don't think I'll be getting one in July either until all this is sorted out.

 

[Belinasha]

I heard back from my MP's minion this morning. He said that he talked to his contact at CRA and that I should forward all of my documents to him so it will be processed quickly. I sent EVERYTHING that I sent the previous 3 times at around 10 a.m. I then received a response back from him at 2:50 p.m. this afternoon and he said:

"If you have the letter, with the exception of the SIN Card which just requires an explanation, I would review the letter and refer to each information request directly. I am sure if a requested document is not available an explanation will suffice."

Duhhhhhhh! I don't think he even read my letter or looked at my documents either!!! Why would he send me this when I just sent him everything. If he looked at ALL the stuff, he would have noticed that every explanation was there and I sent WAY MORE supporting documents than they asked for...for the 4th time!!! I am really angry with the state of the Public Service. Nothing but incompetence and nobody seems to read anything that comes across their desk. If this was happening in the public sector, there would be a lot of people out of work!!

 

[Mrslwsn]

Yes. Sorry, they call it Trillium benefit now so I keep confusing it.

GST/HST credit
Last: April 5, 2012
Next: July 5, 2012

So I didn't get one in April and if this keeps up, I don't think I'll be getting one in July either until all this is sorted out.

Well July is the first pymt in the 2012-2013 pymts, so let's hope it gets sorted for u and in July u get back pay plus the current upcoming July. I'm sure it will work out. They are still calculating the upcoming year anyway, even for straightforward cases.

 

[Belinasha]

Lord give me patience! I just got off the phone with the minion at my MP's office. He called to ask why I'm not submitting the required documents. I said that I did, it's all there in the package that I emailed to you yesterday. He goes on to say that he didn't receive anything and he's looking at the email. I told him there should be 7 documents attached. He then says he opened my letter but it doesn't have the information CRA needs. I told him to scroll down to where it's written in BOLD. He then said that I needed to submit a copy of visitor's record or birth certificate or passport page. I told him its all there in the attachments. He said he didn't get them, then said, "wait a second", then he found them and opened them up. He then said that I didn't include our marriage certificate or marital status change form. I said again, it's all there in the attachment! He then again said he didn't receive them, then said again, "wait there here". Bravo!!!!!! I could scream...but I am at loss for words at how incompetent the workers are in the government and am astounded that they get paid what they do, with huge fat bonuses and pensions!!!!!

 

[parker24]

Lord give me patience! I just got off the phone with the minion at my MP's office. He called to ask why I'm not submitting the required documents. I said that I did, it's all there in the package that I emailed to you yesterday. He goes on to say that he didn't receive anything and he's looking at the email. I told him there should be 7 documents attached. He then says he opened my letter but it doesn't have the information CRA needs. I told him to scroll down to where it's written in BOLD. He then said that I needed to submit a copy of visitor's record or birth certificate or passport page. I told him its all there in the attachments. He said he didn't get them, then said, "wait a second", then he found them and opened them up. He then said that I didn't include our marriage certificate or marital status change form. I said again, it's all there in the attachment! He then again said he didn't receive them, then said again, "wait there here". Bravo!!!!!! I could scream...but I am at loss for words at how incompetent the workers are in the government and am astounded that they get paid what they do, with huge fat bonuses and pensions!!!!!

Oh boy! Sounds like your MP minion doesn't know how to use a computer, let alone email! At least they found it now! Hopefully that means you can get it all straightened out!!

 

[Belinasha]

He said that he was going to print and fax everything to his CRA contact in Sudbury and hopefully this will get resolved. I have no idea why he is dealing with the Sudbury Tax office since where I live (Ottawa) it has to go through Shawinigan in Quebec. Who knows....fingers crossed I don't have to wail until July to get something back and have what I "owe" erased. What I find most humorous is that my MP was the Minister of National Revenue a few years back. You'd think they'd be on the up and up on how to handle this really quick!

 

[Mark5]

He said that he was going to print and fax everything to his CRA contact in Sudbury and hopefully this will get resolved. I have no idea why he is dealing with the Sudbury Tax office since where I live (Ottawa) it has to go through Shawinigan in Quebec. Who knows....fingers crossed I don't have to wail until July to get something back and have what I "owe" erased. What I find most humorous is that my MP was the Minister of National Revenue a few years back. You'd think they'd be on the up and up on how to handle this really quick!

Let's hope they all get busy after the holiday and get this issues resolved. We are still yet to recieve any response from any of the offices yet. Hope we all hear goodnews this week or soon, can't wait to be done this issue.

 

[parker24]

I just got on CRA account online and the two letters were two DIFFERENT letters. So they are saying I owe them almost 200 bucks ARE YOU SERIOUS? They are not getting that amount back, I just sent the second letter. I'm so annoyed!

 

[Belinasha]

I logged onto my account too and I don't want to ever again! I checked my CCTB tab and the statement of account thing. It's now showing that I owe over 1700.00. They updated it that I owe everything back since last October when I got married. I called the toll free number at CCTB and I told them that they need to recalculate..and fast. I told the guy on the phone about it saying that I owe over 1700 yet I submitted everything 4 times now to get the recalculation and he then tells me that as he can see it, the amount he has me owing is 2292.38. I guess that includes all the provincial crap as well. Why can't they just do their jobs? These new amounts were updated on May 18th. I'm hoping that this is just the start of the process to recalculate and all this will be wiped off there soon.

My MP's minion is MIA. I've sent him 2 emails since last week and no response back. I'd like to make a formal complaint to CRA about this issue, but I can't until the minion finishes up doing whatever he's doing...he's probably on holidays.

 

[Mez007]

I logged onto my account too and I don't want to ever again! I checked my CCTB tab and the statement of account thing. It's now showing that I owe over 1700.00. They updated it that I owe everything back since last October when I got married. I called the toll free number at CCTB and I told them that they need to recalculate..and fast. I told the guy on the phone about it saying that I owe over 1700 yet I submitted everything 4 times now to get the recalculation and he then tells me that as he can see it, the amount he has me owing is 2292.38. I guess that includes all the provincial crap as well. Why can't they just do their jobs? These new amounts were updated on May 18th. I'm hoping that this is just the start of the process to recalculate and all this will be wiped off there soon.

My MP's minion is MIA. I've sent him 2 emails since last week and no response back. I'd like to make a formal complaint to CRA about this issue, but I can't until the minion finishes up doing whatever he's doing...he's probably on holidays.

Wow, That's so Confusing, An other reason I haven't done my Taxes this year yet. I willing to pay the late fee, but I want to get it done as accurate as possible. Since we can't get a clear answer from the CRA.

 

[parker24]

I logged onto my account too and I don't want to ever again! I checked my CCTB tab and the statement of account thing. It's now showing that I owe over 1700.00. They updated it that I owe everything back since last October when I got married. I called the toll free number at CCTB and I told them that they need to recalculate..and fast. I told the guy on the phone about it saying that I owe over 1700 yet I submitted everything 4 times now to get the recalculation and he then tells me that as he can see it, the amount he has me owing is 2292.38. I guess that includes all the provincial crap as well. Why can't they just do their jobs? These new amounts were updated on May 18th. I'm hoping that this is just the start of the process to recalculate and all this will be wiped off there soon.

My MP's minion is MIA. I've sent him 2 emails since last week and no response back. I'd like to make a formal complaint to CRA about this issue, but I can't until the minion finishes up doing whatever he's doing...he's probably on holidays.

Oh my word! I've considered getting my MP involved now, but not sure if they'd do anything this early! I feel bad for complaining about a lousy 200 bucks, then again, I can't work, husband can't work, it's stressful . I hope your MP's office gets some fire under their butts soon!

 

[justtryingtohelp]

I'm going through this process as well, but I'm having a much different experience.

I recently got married (Feb. 2012) and moved provinces so I submitted both an address change and a marital status change form, along with a letter stating my husband's world income for 2010 and 2011 to the office in Winnipeg. The main difference from the others here is that my spouse is here on a working holiday visa, which is really just an open work permit, and so he had a temporary SIN number. We're still in the first stages of PR application.

In any case, I had forgotten to include his date of arrival in Canada in my letter, but I received a personal phone call from the person responsible for my file. She asked for the date, informed me that my spouse had to file taxes for 2011 for the portion of time he was in Canada (even though he was not working) and that would be that. She said if he didn't, when the next (July 2012) GST payment is scheduled, the system will attempt to cross-reference my file with his for the calculations and if his file is not there, the payments will be stalled.

In the mean time, I just received an additional payment for the GST and provincial credit that was owed to me for the time since I married since our joint income was still below the income threshold. So. So far so good. I expect a delay in future payments because his taxes were submitted late, but otherwise, I've been impressed with the way it's gone...

The main difference I see between those having troubles and mine is that my spouse had a SIN number and our combined income was below the appropriate threshold so I didn't have to pay anything back....also I went through the Winnipeg office...