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Tell us when you filed your income taxes in the last 5 years

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jain_akhil1988

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Feb 2, 2019
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Hi
Regarding the tax thing - ..Is this correct?
I landed in 2021.
I haven't filled out the taxes for 2023, but will be filling soon.

1. Tax year 2023 - NO - Were you required to file taxes for this year? - YES
2. Tax year 2022 - YES
3. Tax year 2021 - YES
4. Tax year 2020 - NO - Were you required to file taxes for this year? - NO
5. Tax year 2019 - NO - Were you required to file taxes for this year? - NO
 
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forw.jane

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Apr 29, 2019
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jain_akhil1988 said:
Hi
Regarding the tax thing - ..Is this correct?
I landed in 2021.
I haven't filled out the taxes for 2023, but will be filling soon.

1. Tax year 2023 - NO - Were you required to file taxes for this year? - YES
2. Tax year 2022 - YES
3. Tax year 2021 - YES
4. Tax year 2020 - NO - Were you required to file taxes for this year? - NO
5. Tax year 2019 - NO - Were you required to file taxes for this year? - NO
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Yes
 
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jain_akhil1988

Full Member
Feb 2, 2019
49
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thanks @forw.jane someone said.. I need 3 years of filling.. is it a mandate? but I am mentioning - 1. Tax year 2023 - NO - Were you required to file taxes for this year? - YES
that I will be soon filling...
 
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dpenabill

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Apr 2, 2010
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jain_akhil1988 said:
someone said.. I need 3 years of filling.. is it a mandate? but I am mentioning - 1. Tax year 2023 - NO - Were you required to file taxes for this year? - YES
that I will be soon filling...
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The requirement for grant citizenship is COMPLIANCE with CRA tax filing rules, NOT necessarily filing a return. So if the applicant was not required to file a tax return for a given tax year, and did not file a return for that year, that still counts as one of the years of compliance. That is, a No-No response for a year, in the chart for question 12.b) in the application, counts as a year in compliance.

In fact, the only years that will not count is a tax year for which the applicant checks [Yes] required to file, and [No] did not file.

For example, you indicate that for both 2019 and 2020 you were not required to file a Canadian return and did not file a return for those years. They each count toward meeting the citizenship requirement.

So based on two years Yes-Yes (required yes, filed yes), and two years No-No (not required, did not file), you have at least FOUR years of compliance. The requirement is three.


forw.jane said:
IRCC can always check with CRA about your 2023 tax filings.
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Not sure what you are suggesting. It is not likely that IRCC will follow-up (even if it can, given limited data sharing restrictions due to privacy rules) to check on an applicant's tax filing for a previous tax year, especially if the applicant has checked [No] did not file for that year.

Reminder: as I note about, the citizenship eligibility requirement does not necessarily require filing a tax return, only that for at least three of the previous five tax years the applicant has complied with tax filing requirements. Some may meet this requirement without having filed a single tax return (albeit that would almost certainly be foolish since even if not required to file a return, Canadian residents will generally benefit from filing a return).



jain_akhil1988 said:
Hi
Regarding the tax thing - ..Is this correct?
I landed in 2021.
I haven't filled out the taxes for 2023, but will be filling soon.

1. Tax year 2023 - NO - Were you required to file taxes for this year? - YES
2. Tax year 2022 - YES
3. Tax year 2021 - YES
4. Tax year 2020 - NO - Were you required to file taxes for this year? - NO
5. Tax year 2019 - NO - Were you required to file taxes for this year? - NO
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Yuki.03

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Nov 30, 2020
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dpenabill said:
Not sure what you are suggesting. It is not likely that IRCC will follow-up (even if it can, given limited data sharing restrictions due to privacy rules) to check on an applicant's tax filing for a previous tax year, especially if the applicant has checked [No] did not file for that year.
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when you apply online there is a part where you give consent to the sharing of your income tax filing history between IRCC and CRA

I authorize

  • Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) to disclose my SIN, ITN, or TTN, as the case may be, to the CRA for the purpose of requesting my income tax information and filing history from the CRA
  • CRA to disclose my income tax information and filing history from the CRA's Income Tax and Benefit Return file to IRCC for the taxation year(s) indicated above for the purpose of assessing my citizenship application against the
    • tax filing requirement of subparagraph 5(1)(c)(iii) of the Citizenship Act
    • physical presence requirement of subparagraph 5(1)(c)(i) of the Citizenship Act
  • IRCC to examine my tax information in activities to support quality assurance and integrity in the citizenship program
With this consent to the sharing of your income tax filing history between IRCC and CRA, we’ll use this information to determine if you meet

  • the income tax filing requirement and
  • physical presence requirement of the Citizenship Act.
 
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