Jacklad
Mar 31st, 2006, 11:59 PM
Just checked the "My Account" site for this year's tax assessments for both my husband and myself.. The good news is that both returns have been received, assessed, and the refunds should show up by April 6th.
The better news is that my return is accurate to the penny (as customary). However, my husband's is not. Looking at the online return, they have somehow come up with an extra $2921.02 in income on line 101.
Now, we didn't Netfile this year, as my husband had a very strange T4 situation - he had six of them. Five of them were from the Department of National Defence, and included tax free income earned on deployment. The other was from his civilian employer. Long story short, it was ugly enough that I suspected it would generate a query, so we mailed instead.
So, my first thought was that somehow I had included a T4 in the envelope that I had neglected to enter into Quicktax (although that would be very odd for me). A look through our copies showed that was not the case. So then I began checking - I added the amounts manually, using a calculator and using Excel. All agreed with the amount in QuickTax and on the forms we submitted.
Then I checked other amounts - all were the same as we had submitted (tax deducted, CF amount, pension adjustment, rental income, EI, CPP, etc.) - so the only amount that differed was the earned income. All the differences between the return they are showing and the one we submitted are based solely on that difference, with no indication of where the difference originated. Now, it seems unlikely that a T4 would exist that only showed earned income with no deductions at all - let alone one that we had never received but Revenue Canada did.
Any ideas? I've never seen this sort of situation before (credit where credit is due - you may not like them, but Revenue Canada is generally accurate). Where could this amount have come from? Is there anything included on line 101 that doesn't come from a T4?
Jackie
The better news is that my return is accurate to the penny (as customary). However, my husband's is not. Looking at the online return, they have somehow come up with an extra $2921.02 in income on line 101.
Now, we didn't Netfile this year, as my husband had a very strange T4 situation - he had six of them. Five of them were from the Department of National Defence, and included tax free income earned on deployment. The other was from his civilian employer. Long story short, it was ugly enough that I suspected it would generate a query, so we mailed instead.
So, my first thought was that somehow I had included a T4 in the envelope that I had neglected to enter into Quicktax (although that would be very odd for me). A look through our copies showed that was not the case. So then I began checking - I added the amounts manually, using a calculator and using Excel. All agreed with the amount in QuickTax and on the forms we submitted.
Then I checked other amounts - all were the same as we had submitted (tax deducted, CF amount, pension adjustment, rental income, EI, CPP, etc.) - so the only amount that differed was the earned income. All the differences between the return they are showing and the one we submitted are based solely on that difference, with no indication of where the difference originated. Now, it seems unlikely that a T4 would exist that only showed earned income with no deductions at all - let alone one that we had never received but Revenue Canada did.
Any ideas? I've never seen this sort of situation before (credit where credit is due - you may not like them, but Revenue Canada is generally accurate). Where could this amount have come from? Is there anything included on line 101 that doesn't come from a T4?
Jackie