Personal Returns

Personal-return terms centered on the T1 filing workflow, assessment results, and related filing language.

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.

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

Term	What it usually means
`T1 Return`	The main federal personal income tax and benefit return
`T1 General`	A common older or paper-package label for that same personal return workflow
`Quebec Return`	A separate Quebec provincial return, not a synonym for the federal T1
`Notice of Assessment`	The CRA result after the return is processed, not the return itself

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

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

T1 General
T1 General is the common legacy label people still use for the personal T1 income tax and benefit return.
T1 Return
The T1 Income Tax and Benefit Return is the main Canadian personal return for income, deductions, credits, and benefit eligibility.

Revised on Friday, April 24, 2026