Tips – Tax Declaration

Documents Checklist

This document provides a list of the most common tax slips and receipts. You may refer to it to identify the slips and receipts that apply to your situation.

Common Deductions

Child Care Expenses

Any amounts paid to have someone look after an eligible child while you or your spouse were earning income or attending an educational institution. Common expenses include daycare center, a camp or a boarding school, etc. For more details, please visit: CRA / QR

Children Activity

For the Federal declaration, please note that the children’s fitness tax credit and arts amount, including the supplement for children with disabilities, have been eliminated as of January 1, 2017. For the Quebec declaration, you can claim a maximum of $500 per child as Child Credit For children’s activities. For more details, please visit: QR

Medical Expenses

You can claim a credit for yourself, your spouse or common law partner or dependent children if you paid an amount of medical expenses that exceeds 3% of your net family income. To qualify for the tax credit, the medical expenses must have been paid in a period of 12 consecutive months that you can choose given it ends in the year for which the return is being filed. For more details, please visit: CRA / QR

Moving Expenses

You can claim eligible moving expenses if you moved for a new job or to attend a full-time post-secondary program at an educational institution. To qualify, your new residence must be closer to the new place of work or school. For more details regarding eligible moving expenses and other conditions, please visit: CRA / QR

Interest Paid on Student Loans

You can claim a credit for the interest you paid on a student loan that you received from the Canada Student Loans Act; the Canada Student Financial Assistance Act; the Apprentice Loans Act; or a similar provincial or territorial government laws. If you have no tax to pay for the year, you can carry forward the interest amount to future years. For more details, please visit: CRA / QR

Donations & Gifts

You may be able to claim a federal and provincial tax credit for eligible donations and gifts made to a qualified organization. The unused portion of your donations that qualify for the tax credit can be carried forward five years following the year of the donation. For more details, please visit: CRA / QR

First-Time Home Buyers’ Amount

If you or your spouse or common-law partner purchased a qualifying home for the first time, you may be eligible for a tax credit of up to $1,500. For more details, please visit: CRA /QR

For the complete list of the credits and deductions, please visit: CRA / QR