Tax time can get confusing with all the various tax slips you get from your bank. It is sometimes hard to keep track of them all. You might be wondering what tax slips you should be expecting in the mail if you have an RRSP, before efiling online for the year.
1. Contribution Receipts – You will only get receipts if you made contributions.
If you made any contributions during 2010 or during the first 60 days of 2011, you will receive one or more contribution receipts from your financial institution. You would have already received the first 60 days of 2010 receipt in the spring of 2010 and you may have already claimed this on your 2009 taxes. However, you will want to watch out for the remainder of 2010 receipt (March 2nd to December 31st) as well as for the first 60 days of 2011 receipt (Jan 1st to March 1st).
2. T4RSP Slips – The slip you will get if you made any withdrawals in 2010.
Look out for a T4RSP in the mail for withdrawals made from your RRSP in 2010. You will be claiming the amount of withdrawal as income and will pay taxes accordingly.
3. You will not receive a T3 or a T5 slip for income earned from the investments inside of your RRSP.
Growth of your investments inside your RRSP is tax deferred. In other words, you don’t have to claim and pay tax on the amount of interest/growth earned on your investments every year. Instead, you only pay tax when you withdraw from the RRSP. So, you don’t need to wait for any T3s or T5s if you have an RRSP.
If you neither contributed nor withdrew money from your RRSP, then you don’t have any tax slips to submit for the 2010 tax year. You should have received most if not all of your tax slips in the mail by now, so if you are still expecting a slip or two, it would be a good idea to touch base with your financial institution to make sure they have your correct address.
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Hello,
I am deaf person…bought 2000 dollars of RRSP last year. And Still not get a RRSP recipts for filling the income tax form. I wonder when will I get it??
Who Should I contract to??
Thanks, Glen Brown
You likely should have received your contribution receipts by now. I would recommend that you contact the company or financial institution that holds your RRSP as they are the ones responsible for issuing the contribution receipts.
When I send in my 2011 tax forms, which rrsp contribution slips am I sending in with it? The provincial income tax or the federal tax or both? Thanks
You would want to submit your RRSP contribution slips that indicate “the remainder of 2011” as well as “the first 60 days of 2012”. If you do have unclaimed contribution receipts that state “the first 60 days of 2011” you can submit those as well. Hope that helps.
I contribute to a RRSP plan in 2016 with ym eployer and I never recevie a contribution slip… its been 2 years and I even forgot who the issuer was… what Can I do?
Hi Olivier,
If you made contributions through your employer, the amounts paid to an RRSP would most likely show on your T4 – so you wouldn’t receive a separate RRSP contribution receipt.