back in october 2014, my husband (after 1 year of getting his pr) went to another country thinking that he would start his new business. he was travelling back and forth as he was just mostly doing market research at the time.
in 2015, our daughter was born and because i figured i would go and stay with him during my maternity leave, we sent in nr73 to figure out how i would file my taxes as i was receiving EI payments during my maternity leave.
for me, CRA responded that i would file as resident. for my husband, because we couldn't give a date whether he would come back or not, CRA responded that they can't give a response based on hypothetical dates.
my husband was travelling back and forth, and fast forward to 2016, we both filed tax for year 2015 as residents.
april 8 2016 was when he came back to canada and hasn't left the country since as he decided not to open a business outside of canada.
now we are doing our 2016 taxes this year and our accountant says there is an error in the system because CRA says my husband was non-resident in 2015. but our taxes were filed last year as residents already and there is no reassessment.
it's just for tax year 2016 the accountant has to write that he returned to canada april 8th 2016, still file as resident.
we filed 2015 tax as residents, it went through just fine. but CRA thinks my husband was non-resident for that year, because they think he left oct 2014 and returned april 2016. i don't know why they would think he is non-resident, we already filed as resident and date of departure we wrote on nr73 is legally not binding anyway. should we have this corrected with CRA (show them that i was here with our child, and he was travelling back and forth and didn't end up opening business outside of canada) so he was actually a resident..?
my question is.. would this impact my husband's pr renewal or citizenship application later?
if taxes filed are showing that he filed as resident in 2015, and dates in and out of canada recorded shows he was travelling back and forth between oct 2014 and april 2016, i dont think it would matter for the pr renewal or citizenship application? not sure if we should take the time and fill out another nr73 which would take 4 months to hear back from..
if the bill c6 passes through then he should be ready to apply for citizenship by end of this year under 3/5 rule.
please help! thank you all in advance.
in 2015, our daughter was born and because i figured i would go and stay with him during my maternity leave, we sent in nr73 to figure out how i would file my taxes as i was receiving EI payments during my maternity leave.
for me, CRA responded that i would file as resident. for my husband, because we couldn't give a date whether he would come back or not, CRA responded that they can't give a response based on hypothetical dates.
my husband was travelling back and forth, and fast forward to 2016, we both filed tax for year 2015 as residents.
april 8 2016 was when he came back to canada and hasn't left the country since as he decided not to open a business outside of canada.
now we are doing our 2016 taxes this year and our accountant says there is an error in the system because CRA says my husband was non-resident in 2015. but our taxes were filed last year as residents already and there is no reassessment.
it's just for tax year 2016 the accountant has to write that he returned to canada april 8th 2016, still file as resident.
we filed 2015 tax as residents, it went through just fine. but CRA thinks my husband was non-resident for that year, because they think he left oct 2014 and returned april 2016. i don't know why they would think he is non-resident, we already filed as resident and date of departure we wrote on nr73 is legally not binding anyway. should we have this corrected with CRA (show them that i was here with our child, and he was travelling back and forth and didn't end up opening business outside of canada) so he was actually a resident..?
my question is.. would this impact my husband's pr renewal or citizenship application later?
if taxes filed are showing that he filed as resident in 2015, and dates in and out of canada recorded shows he was travelling back and forth between oct 2014 and april 2016, i dont think it would matter for the pr renewal or citizenship application? not sure if we should take the time and fill out another nr73 which would take 4 months to hear back from..
if the bill c6 passes through then he should be ready to apply for citizenship by end of this year under 3/5 rule.
please help! thank you all in advance.