Personal Returns

This subsection focuses on the language around filing a personal Canadian income tax and benefit return.

What Belongs Here

Start here when the question is about the personal return itself, the names people use for it, or the documents that connect directly to filing a T1.

Best Starting Pages

Use these pages together when the question is about filing a normal personal return from start to finish.

• T1 Return
• T1 General
• Quebec Return
• Notice of Assessment
• Reassessment

Practical Reader Path

Readers often enter this subsection with a return package, a filing question, or a CRA follow-up notice.

1. Start with T1 Return if the question is “what am I filing?”
2. Move to T1 General if the question is about the name or form package wording.
3. Move to Quebec Return if the filing question depends on Quebec’s separate provincial workflow.
4. Move into Income Tax Basics if the real confusion is calculation language.

In this section

• T1 General
  Understand what people usually mean by T1 General in current Canadian personal tax filing discussions.
• T1 Return
  Learn what the T1 return is and why it anchors the Canadian personal income tax and benefit filing process.