Hey guys!
Just to explain quickly, my common law Canadian husband is employed here in Canada and actually earns quite a lot (he's employed at a university). Now, I am employed at the same university, but only through a fellowship and a work permit; the fellowship does not pay at all, but I have funding from abroad to do research (we're both academic). Now, as proof of shared finances, apart from joint checking and credit card bills and accounts, and shared household expenses and purchases, I wanted to submit his and mine tax returns (but just the first pages), just to show that we also did taxes together and at the same address. I know that he needs to provide his full tax return and Option C in his package, and that's fine, but I have two questions:
1. Is it overkill/unnecessary to provide those tax returns if he's going to provide his and Option C (which I am assuming indicates that we've submitted our taxes together as a common law couple, right?)
2. Would the fact that my tax return does not actually show much income (it's foreign income and it's waaay below the minimum 11 000$ be a problem? He has a good salary, and I will let them know how I plan to get a job and where, but:
3. I was wondering if maybe I could keep the file as it is (with the taxes in) but just write them a letter of explanation that the way the grant I have works is that I only get a part of the money as my salary, and the rest, which is non-taxable, I get as travel expenses (and I am, within the grant, a visiting scholar "travelling to another country", even though I live here).
What do you think guys?
Just to explain quickly, my common law Canadian husband is employed here in Canada and actually earns quite a lot (he's employed at a university). Now, I am employed at the same university, but only through a fellowship and a work permit; the fellowship does not pay at all, but I have funding from abroad to do research (we're both academic). Now, as proof of shared finances, apart from joint checking and credit card bills and accounts, and shared household expenses and purchases, I wanted to submit his and mine tax returns (but just the first pages), just to show that we also did taxes together and at the same address. I know that he needs to provide his full tax return and Option C in his package, and that's fine, but I have two questions:
1. Is it overkill/unnecessary to provide those tax returns if he's going to provide his and Option C (which I am assuming indicates that we've submitted our taxes together as a common law couple, right?)
2. Would the fact that my tax return does not actually show much income (it's foreign income and it's waaay below the minimum 11 000$ be a problem? He has a good salary, and I will let them know how I plan to get a job and where, but:
3. I was wondering if maybe I could keep the file as it is (with the taxes in) but just write them a letter of explanation that the way the grant I have works is that I only get a part of the money as my salary, and the rest, which is non-taxable, I get as travel expenses (and I am, within the grant, a visiting scholar "travelling to another country", even though I live here).
What do you think guys?
so I'll just leave the 'shared finances' folder as it is, then 
for having a common law spouse, we have both our returns and they give the same address, but we have nothing that would state our names as common law... so now I have my doubts as to what to do - can we get the T1 from somewhere? and if not, what does Option C have on it exactly? does it give my name, or at least his marital status? Are these taxes going to be useless in proving our common-law relationship?
