Tax Clinic

We are using ZOOM.

ZOOM link information will be sent on a separate email to those who successfully booked an appointment online. Information will be provided at least 24 to 48 hours prior to your scheduled appointment.

Regrettably, we WILL NOT be able to prepare your income tax return if you driver for Uber/Lyft/Uber Eats, etc. because this is considered self-employment/business income and it’s extremely complicated to file these types of income tax returns.

We can file simple tax returns with modest income:

Interest income of less than $1,000

Regrettably, we will not be able to prepare your income tax return if it involves any of the following:

• • Rental income and expenses
  • Driving for Lyft/Uber/Uber Eats, etc.
  • Business income and expenses (e.g. including self-employment income)
  • Disposition of marketable securities (e.g. Capital Gains/Losses on sales of shares)
  • Employment expenses (e.g. form T2200 signed by your employer)
  • Bankruptcy
  • Deceased individuals
  • Interest Income over $1000
  • Foreign Property (T1135)

The individuals who will be helping you file your income tax returns are also GBC students. These individuals have kindly dedicated their time to volunteer (UNPAID) for the income tax clinic because they simply want to help their fellow GBC students file their income tax for FREE. Please remember to be kind, patient, and respectful towards them. All students of George Brown College are responsible for conducting themselves in a manner which maintains a safe and respectful learning and working environment and are responsible for avoiding behaviours which violate the College’s Code of Student Behaviour and Community Standards policy. George Brown College has zero tolerance for negative behaviours.

After we successfully submit your income tax return online, it may take about 2 weeks for Canada Revenue Agency to send your refund.

Your notice of assessment is an evaluation of your tax return that the Canada Revenue sends you every year after you file your tax return. Please visit the Canada Revenue Agency website to learn more about notice of assessment.

The CRA may keep some or all of your refund if you:

• • owe or are about to owe a balance
  • have a garnishment order under the Family Orders and Agreements Enforcement Assistance Act
  • have certain other outstanding federal, provincial, or territorial government debts, such as student loans, employment insurance and social assistance benefit overpayments, immigration loans, and training allowance overpayments
  • have any outstanding GST/HST returns from a sole proprietorship or partnership
  • have a refund of $2 or less

If you reside in Canada, wait 8 weeks before contacting the Canada Revenue Agency for an update on your tax return and refund status. If you reside outside of Canada, wait 16 weeks.

You can check online through your ‘My CRA Account’

Or, by phone 1-800-959-1956. Before you call, you’ll need the following to verify your identity:

• Social Insurance Number
• full name and date of birth
• your complete address
• line 150 from your most recent assessment

For information on payment dates for Canada Child Benefit (CCB), Goods and services tax/harmonized sales tax (GST/HST) credit, Ontario Trillium Benefit (OTB) and other benefits, please visit the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) website.

Income tax filing for individual returns is on April 30, 2024. Filing on time avoids delays and ensures that you receive the refunds, benefits, or credit payments that you may be entitled to, in a timely manner.

To avoid late-filing penalties and interest, you must ensure that your returns are filed by April 30, 2024, and that payments are made by April 30, 2024.

Once our volunteers successfully submit your income tax return online, you are solely responsible for contacting the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) to add any missing information or change any information on your tax return. Please visit the CRA’s website for more information.

We strongly suggest for you to wait until you receive all of your T4 slips and other tax receipts before you can file your income tax return. If you file your income tax return without all of your tax slips and receipts, your tax return will be considered incomplete by CRA. Below are some of the options you can do to obtain these tax slips:

• • Contact your employer or the company and ask them to send your tax slips/receipts via email.
  • If this is not your first time filing your income tax return and you already have a ‘My CRA Account’ setup, you can sign in to your My CRA Account and get a copy of all your tax slips. Please visit the CRA Website for more information.

CRA’s contact information is as follows:

• Income Tax enquiries: 1-800-959-8281
  • Call for information regarding
  • SIN number Issues
  • Past income tax return issues
  • Issues specific to a person’s income tax profile

• Income tax refund enquiries: 1-800-959-1956
• Questions about GST/HST Credit: 1-800-959-1953
• Benefit enquiries such as, Canada Child Benefit (CCB), and other related provincial and territorial programs: 1-800-387-1193
• Provincial Programs for Ontario (PPO) including: Ontario Trillium Benefit (OTB) including Ontario Sales Tax Credit (OSTC), the Ontario Energy and Property Tax Credit (OEPTC) and Northern Ontario Energy Credit (NOEC): 1-877-627-6645

We DO NOT save any income tax returns on our computers. In the past, after we successfully submit your income tax return electronically, we normally save your income tax forms on a USB you provided so you have a copy for your records. Unfortunately, if you lose your tax forms, there is no way for us to help you retrieve your prior income tax files.

At the time of your appointment, you will need the following information so we can help you setup your direct deposit information:

• Five-digit branch or transit number of the financial institution
• Three-digit number of the financial institution
• Your account number (without hyphens or spaces between numbers)
• Instructions on how to access your direct deposit information is available on here.

You need the following information:

• • Full address including postal code
  • Name of landlord (person’s name or company name if renting from a company or corporation)
  • Number of months you occupied this residence
  • Totally amount rent paid for 2023

You just need to provide the full address, name of landlord, the number of months and total amount rent paid for 2024 at each location.

Yes, you can. We just need the name of the student residence you lived in 2023.

Yes, you can if you stayed at an Airbnb for a minimum of 1 month. You will need to provide the full address, name of landlord, the number of months and total amount rent paid in 2024 while staying at an Airbnb.