https://taxnotes.ca/changes/ Every reader-facing update to TaxNotes.ca, newest first: new figures, rates tables, guides and features. 2026-10-11T00:00:00Z TaxNotes.cahttps://taxnotes.ca/ https://taxnotes.ca/changes/2026-10-11-sixteen-new-guides/ 2026-10-11T00:00:00Z 2026-10-11T00:00:00Z

New guides on filing, refunds, owing the CRA, scams, audits, records, what's taxable, medical and home credits, spousal RRSPs, OAS, benefits, vehicles, payroll and donations.

<p>New guides on filing, refunds, owing the CRA, scams, audits, records, what&#39;s taxable, medical and home credits, spousal RRSPs, OAS, benefits, vehicles, payroll and donations.</p><ul><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/guides/how-to-file-your-return/">How to file your tax return</a></li><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/guides/your-tax-refund/">Your tax refund: when it comes and why it might be smaller</a></li><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/guides/changing-your-return/">Changing your return, and disputing an assessment</a></li><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/guides/owing-the-cra/">Owing the CRA: paying a balance, interest and payment plans</a></li><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/guides/cra-scams/">CRA scams: how the CRA really contacts you</a></li><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/guides/cra-review-or-audit/">The CRA is reviewing my return: reviews, matching and audits</a></li><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/guides/keeping-records/">Keeping tax records: what to keep and for how long</a></li><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/guides/is-it-taxable/">Is it taxable? Gifts, winnings, insurance payouts and more</a></li><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/guides/medical-expenses/">Medical expenses: what you can claim</a></li><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/guides/home-buyers-and-renovation-credits/">Home buyers&#39; amount and home renovation credits</a></li><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/guides/spousal-rrsp/">Spousal RRSPs: how they work</a></li><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/guides/oas-clawback/">The OAS clawback: how the recovery tax works</a></li><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/guides/taxable-benefits/">Taxable benefits from your employer</a></li><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/guides/vehicle-expenses/">Vehicle expenses when you&#39;re self-employed</a></li><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/guides/hiring-your-first-employee/">Hiring your first employee: payroll basics</a></li><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/guides/charitable-donations/">Charitable donations and the tax credit</a></li></ul> https://taxnotes.ca/changes/2026-10-11-report-an-issue/ 2026-10-11T00:00:00Z 2026-10-11T00:00:00Z

Spotted a figure that looks wrong or something that isn’t working? The new Report an issue form, linked at the bottom of every page, sends it straight to us.

<p>Spotted a figure that looks wrong or something that isn’t working? The new Report an issue form, linked at the bottom of every page, sends it straight to us.</p><ul><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/report-an-issue/">Report an issue: a short form that fills in the page you were on</a></li><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/privacy/#bot-check">Forms that send email now use a quick Cloudflare bot check, which loads only once you start filling one in</a></li></ul> https://taxnotes.ca/changes/2026-10-11-privacy-update/ 2026-10-11T00:00:00Z 2026-10-11T00:00:00Z

Our server's error log is deleted after 14 days, and database backups, now stored with Amazon Web Services, are kept for 4 weeks.

<p>Our server&#39;s error log is deleted after 14 days, and database backups, now stored with Amazon Web Services, are kept for 4 weeks.</p><ul><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/privacy/#logs">Server logs: we don&#39;t log the pages you visit, and the error log, which records only serious server faults, is deleted after 14 days</a></li><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/privacy/#retention">Backups: made once a week, stored with Amazon Web Services (Amazon S3) and kept for 4 weeks, so a deleted account is gone from them within 4 weeks</a></li></ul> https://taxnotes.ca/changes/2026-10-11-licence/ 2026-10-11T00:00:00Z 2026-10-11T00:00:00Z

You can share and adapt our guides, rates tables, open data and API results, including commercially, as long as you credit TaxNotes.ca and link to what you used.

<p>You can share and adapt our guides, rates tables, open data and API results, including commercially, as long as you credit TaxNotes.ca and link to what you used.</p><ul><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/reproducing-our-content/">The terms in plain language, with an example credit line</a></li><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/for-ai/#license">For AI agents and developers: the licence is also in the open data, the API, the MCP server and llms.txt</a></li></ul> https://taxnotes.ca/changes/2026-10-11-budgets-and-statistics/ 2026-10-11T00:00:00Z 2026-10-11T00:00:00Z

See the latest federal, provincial and territorial budgets in one place, and key tax figures by year with the CRA’s indexation increase and prescribed interest rates.

<p>See the latest federal, provincial and territorial budgets in one place, and key tax figures by year with the CRA’s indexation increase and prescribed interest rates.</p><ul><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/budgets/">Federal and provincial budgets: each government’s latest budget with a link to its official page, and why budget tax changes reach our figures only once the CRA publishes them</a></li><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/statistics/">Tax statistics: key federal figures side by side for each tax year, with the change from one year to the next</a></li><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/statistics/#interest">The CRA’s yearly indexation increase and its prescribed interest rates for each quarter of 2025 and 2026, now also in our open data, API and MCP server</a></li></ul> https://taxnotes.ca/changes/2026-10-11-analytics/ 2026-10-11T00:00:00Z 2026-10-11T00:00:00Z

We now use Google Analytics to see which pages are read, but only after you accept in the banner. It never sees calculator amounts, searches or sign-in pages.

<p>We now use Google Analytics to see which pages are read, but only after you accept in the banner. It never sees calculator amounts, searches or sign-in pages.</p><ul><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/privacy/#analytics">What&#39;s collected, what isn&#39;t, and how long it&#39;s kept</a></li></ul> https://taxnotes.ca/changes/2026-10-10-new-guides/ 2026-10-10T00:00:00Z 2026-10-10T00:00:00Z

New plain-language guides on moving, newcomers, students, separation, job loss, side gigs, employment and moving expenses, capital losses, crypto, foreign income and the Canada workers benefit.

<p>New plain-language guides on moving, newcomers, students, separation, job loss, side gigs, employment and moving expenses, capital losses, crypto, foreign income and the Canada workers benefit.</p><ul><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/guides/newcomers-to-canada/">New to Canada: your first tax return</a></li><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/guides/moving-to-another-province/">Moving to another province: which one taxes you?</a></li><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/guides/students-and-taxes/">Students: what to file and what you can claim</a></li><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/guides/marriage-and-separation/">Marriage, common-law and separation: what changes at tax time</a></li><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/guides/employment-expenses/">Employment expenses you can deduct, and deducting moving expenses</a></li><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/guides/losing-your-job/">Losing your job: severance, retiring allowances and EI</a></li><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/guides/side-gigs-and-platform-income/">Side gigs and platform income</a></li><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/guides/capital-losses/">Capital losses, cryptocurrency, and foreign income with the T1135</a></li><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/guides/canada-workers-benefit/">The Canada workers benefit</a></li><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/">The home page&#39;s upcoming tax dates can now be added to your calendar.</a></li></ul><p>Every new guide was written from official CRA and Revenu Québec pages and checked against them before it was published.</p> https://taxnotes.ca/changes/2026-10-10-new-calculators/ 2026-10-10T00:00:00Z 2026-10-10T00:00:00Z

Compare provinces, RRSP and RRIF withdrawals, investment income and loan and mortgage calculators, plus combined federal and provincial rates and non-eligible dividends in the income tax calculator.

<p>Compare provinces, RRSP and RRIF withdrawals, investment income and loan and mortgage calculators, plus combined federal and provincial rates and non-eligible dividends in the income tax calculator.</p><ul><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/calculators/compare-provinces/">Compare provinces shows the same income taxed in every province and territory, side by side, with your province&#39;s rank.</a></li><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/calculators/rrsp-rrif-withdrawals/">The RRSP and RRIF withdrawals calculator shows your RRIF minimum for the year, the tax withheld on a withdrawal, and what you may owe or get back when you file.</a></li><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/calculators/investment-income/">The investment income calculator compares the tax on interest, eligible and non-eligible dividends and capital gains.</a></li><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/calculators/loan-mortgage/">The loan and mortgage calculator works out payments for every payment frequency, the amortization, and how much paying faster saves.</a></li><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/rates/income-tax-brackets/">The income tax brackets page now has combined federal and provincial marginal rates for each province, including capital gains and dividends.</a></li><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/calculators/income-tax/">The income tax calculator now handles non-eligible dividends, with a short guide to telling the two kinds apart.</a></li></ul><p>All the calculators are listed on one page now, and every one of them runs in your browser, so the numbers you type are never sent to us.</p> https://taxnotes.ca/changes/2026-10-10-launch/ 2026-10-10T00:00:00Z 2026-10-10T00:00:00Z

The first version of the site, with an income tax calculator, 2025 and 2026 rates tables from the CRA and Revenu Québec, about 50 plain-language guides, optional accounts and search.

<p>The first version of the site, with an income tax calculator, 2025 and 2026 rates tables from the CRA and Revenu Québec, about 50 plain-language guides, optional accounts and search.</p><ul><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/calculators/income-tax/">Income tax and RRSP savings calculator, running on our own tax engine, which works through the federal, provincial and Quebec tax forms step by step</a></li><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/rates/">Rates and tables for 2025 and 2026, with every figure from an official government source (almost all from the CRA or, for Quebec, Revenu Québec). Figures that haven’t been published yet are marked as not yet available.</a></li><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/guides/">About 50 plain-language guides for individuals and families, the self-employed and corporations, each fact-checked against the official pages it cites</a></li><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/account/sign-in/">Optional accounts. Sign in with an emailed link or code, with no password, to keep your saved pages and your province and tax year on every device.</a></li><li><a href="https://taxnotes.ca/search/">Site search that runs entirely in your browser</a></li></ul><p>TaxNotes.ca is a free, independent and ad-free guide to Canadian tax. Everything on the site works without an account, and the calculators run in your browser, so what you type is never sent to us.</p> <p>From now on, this page lists every change readers would notice: newly published figures, new and updated guides, and new features.</p>