Single on 2019 Tax Filling. Only Common Law Recently

[yellowhoney]

Me and my partner became common law in April 2020.

I filled my T Slips with my accountant in May 2020, the form say I am single, is that okay since it’s for taxes of 2019, and single would’ve been the correct answer since I was single during that tax period.

I’m changing my status to common law on CRA Online so for the next fillings I’ll correctly be common law.

But it’s kind of confusing because I was filling for taxes for a previous period when we weren’t common law. But at the time of filling we were.

Is that okay or do I need to get my taxes reassessed?

Thanks

 

[yellowhoney]

Bump

 

[bian07]

It goes by the Marital status of december 31st of the tax year as far as I know. You were not common law on that day so you file as single.

 

[yellowhoney]

Sounds good, so in our Statutory of Declaration of Common Union, in section 1D where it asks:

”Have declared our common-law union under the Canadian Income Tax Act. (T-1 "General - Individual Income Tax Return")”

We would put no? Even though we changed our marital status on CRA Online when we became common law in April 2020.