Option C still says I'm single even though I am married. Big problem or...?

[fandv]

I got my most recent Option C printout sometime in June 2012, and at that time I wasn't married yet. I got married in October 2012. I've realised that my Option C says "Single" for my marital status. Hope it won't be a big issue when I send it to CPC-M along with our sponsorship application?

 

[computergeek]

I got my most recent Option C printout sometime in June 2012, and at that time I wasn't married yet. I got married in October 2012. I've realised that my Option C says "Single" for my marital status. Hope it won't be a big issue when I send it to CPC-M along with our sponsorship application?

Hopefully you filed the relevant form with CRA. Otherwise you may end up with a big tax bill.

As for CIC, no, even if you have told CRA you are married, you wouldn't have been married for the tax year 2011, so that's what the Option C would show.

 

[fandv]

Hopefully you filed the relevant form with CRA. Otherwise you may end up with a big tax bill.

Could you please elaborate more? What relevant form are you referring to...? When I filed my 2011 T1, I wasn't married yet...

 

[computergeek]

Could you please elaborate more? What relevant form are you referring to...? When I filed my 2011 T1, I wasn't married yet...

When you get married, you should inform CRA: http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/E/pbg/tf/rc65/

This will affect things like the HST refund amount and various credits that can affect your tax liability.

 

[lunas]

When you get married, you should inform CRA: http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/E/pbg/tf/rc65/

This will affect things like the HST refund amount and various credits that can affect your tax liability.

This is news to me and my husband is going to flip.
We got married last year in March. I don't mean to be redundant but does he need to notify the CRA about his marital status? Do Canadians need to do this as soon as they get married?

 

[lunas]

Sheesh! I just looked at the form and it says "as soon as the marital status changes" :-\

 

[DaveSav]

When you get married, you should inform CRA

This will affect things like the HST refund amount and various credits that can affect your tax liability.

I had no idea about this, thanks for the information.

As i was just married a week ago is there anything else that we need to fill out or inform the government about? I've been doing some searching but haven't found anything.

 

[steaky]

This is news to me and my husband is going to flip.
We got married last year in March. I don't mean to be redundant but does he need to notify the CRA about his marital status? Do Canadians need to do this as soon as they get married?

I think it depends on the individual's tax residency. If the person were a non resident for tax purposes when he/she get married, the person would not need to inform CRA about this.

 

[Rob_TO]

When you get married, you should inform CRA: http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/E/pbg/tf/rc65/

This will affect things like the HST refund amount and various credits that can affect your tax liability.

Yes exactly. We became common-law in Feb 2012. However my fiancee at the time was receiving the HST and tax credits from when she was single and working in 2011, which are paid monthly. We changed our status to common-law with CRA a bit later... and then we ended up owing some of that money back since with our new combined family income she should not have been eligible for those rebates in the first place.

 

[kyc221]

We didn't know about this. My husband is going to call his accountant to confirm this, especially considering he has to file his taxes within the next few months.

Thanks for the info!

 

[parker24]

This is news to me and my husband is going to flip.
We got married last year in March. I don't mean to be redundant but does he need to notify the CRA about his marital status? Do Canadians need to do this as soon as they get married?

Yep (I know you already know this now haha) but I told them the day I got my marriage certificate and they gave me hell and a half trying to tell me my husband MUST have a SIN number.. that's another story.

 

[lunas]

Yep (I know you already know this now haha) but I told them the day I got my marriage certificate and they gave me hell and a half trying to tell me my husband MUST have a SIN number.. that's another story.

Oh you're right. They will probably ask my husband about my SIN number lol. I'll have him check on this. I just talked to him and he was like whaaaaaaaaaaat? so he'll get on it.

 

[blueboom]

I have a CRA online account. After I got married, I logged in and changed my marital status. I'm hoping this has the same result as filling out the RC65.

 

[fandv]

Looks like I'm not the only one clueless about the RC65 form....so I feel less guilty now...lol......they should teach these things at school!! We weren't born instantly knowing that after marriage we should fill out the RC65 form....my accountant never even told this to me...!


To Rob_TO (and others who reported their marriages to the CRA), is it enough to do it by filling out RC65 (or alternatively by updating our marital status in CRA McAccount), or will the CRA request the marriage certificate too to verify the wedding date...??

 

[Rob_TO]

To Rob_TO (and others who reported their marriages to the CRA), is it enough to do it by filling out RC65 (or alternatively by updating our marital status in CRA McAccount), or will the CRA request the marriage certificate too to verify the wedding date...??

Well ours was common-law, not marriage. We just did it online via the "My Account" at CRA website.

Technically there is a "Stat Declaration of Common-Law" document which i guess would be similar to a marriage certificate... but in the letter we got from CRA it didn't mention anything about it. Just took our word the date we started being common-law was what we entered online. Not sure if same for marriage...