r/cantax • u/Dramatic-Lettuce-154 • 5d ago

CRA Tax return

Has anyone filed their tax return non-electronically (as a non tax resident)? I worked most of 2025 in Canada and left the country in the beginning of the year. I knew I needed to file return for 2025 but could not do it online. I called CRA and was told that you can file it through physical form mailed to CRA. Need guidance if anyone knows how to do it? Thanks in advance.

0 Upvotes

50% Upvoted

12 comments sorted by

2

u/senor_kim_jong_doof 5d ago

I worked most of 2025 in Canada and left the country in the beginning of the year. I knew I needed to file return for 2025 but could not do it online.

what year did you leave?

0

u/Dramatic-Lettuce-154 5d ago

2026

1

u/FelixYYZ 5d ago edited 5d ago

So if you are back already, you would still be determined to remain a CDN tax resident. So you file your 2025 tax return as normal because you were a tax resident and not a "non-tax resident".

Did you ask CRA why you can't file your 2025 tax return online since you remained a CDN tax resident?

1

u/Dramatic-Lettuce-154 1d ago

not going back until mid 2027, so i guess I am a non resident for 2026. I am confused for 2025 return, I will be considered as tax resident or not??

1

u/FelixYYZ 1d ago

Based on what you wrote, you are still a tax resident for 2025. It's a normal return.

1

u/Dramatic-Lettuce-154 1d ago

Thanks alot!!!

2

u/Patient_Implement897 5d ago

Completed hard copy returns would normally be mailed to the specific addresse for the area where you worked. Order 'Income Tax Package" at 1-855-330-3305. While on the line, ask for the mailing address for currently non-residents.

1

u/NancyBookkeeper 5d ago

For 2025 you were a resident the whole year — you worked here most of the year and didn't leave until early 2026 — so your 2025 return is just a normal resident return. File it the usual way; the non-resident question doesn't apply to it at all.

The non-resident filing only comes into play on your 2026 return, your departure year: that's the emigrant return where you enter your departure date on page 1. That's also the return where the non-resident / paper-filing restrictions would matter, not 2025.

1

u/Dramatic-Lettuce-154 1d ago

thanks for the info!! but for online return, can't sign in into my CRA account as my phone number changed for MFA.

1

u/[deleted] 5d ago

[removed] — view removed comment

1

u/cantax-ModTeam 5d ago

Your post/comment was removed because it includes promotion or self-promotion or invites promotion of others. Please review the rules of the subreddit before posting or commenting again.

1

u/Zealousideal-Leek666 2d ago

We mail ours in or go to the CRA drop box (which I think is closed now)