Slips

Tax slips summarize income, deductions, or benefits that must be carried into a return or kept in your records.

What Belongs Here

Use this subsection when the question starts with a slip name or a box amount, rather than with the full return calculation.

Best Starting Pages

Use these pages when the question starts with a named slip or with amounts shown on a slip.

• Tax Slip
• T4 Slip
• Releve 1 Slip
• T4A Slip
• T5 Slip

Practical Reader Path

Once you identify the slip, the next useful step is usually to connect it to the workflow that produced it.

• Employment reporting: T4 Slip, Releve 1 Slip, and Payroll Deduction
• Other income reporting: T4A Slip and Self-Employment and Small Business
• Investment income reporting: T5 Slip and Investment and Capital Gains

In this section

• T4 Slip
  Understand the T4 slip as the main Canadian employment income slip and why it matters for payroll reporting.
• T4A Slip
  Learn what a T4A slip reports in Canada and why it is not simply a substitute for a T4.
• T5 Slip
  Understand the T5 slip as the Canadian slip used for investment income such as interest and dividends.
• Tax Slip
  Learn what a tax slip is in Canada and why slips feed information into a return without replacing the return itself.