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Quick Access for individuals

Quick Access is an online service that gives individuals fast, secure access to limited personal tax and benefit account information currently available on My Account, without having to register for a Government of Canada epass.

Quick Access is fast and easy to use. You can view information about your:

• Tax return status;
• Registered Retirement Savings Plan deduction limit;
• Canada Child Tax Benefit payment status;
• GST/HST credit payment status; and
• Universal Child Care Benefit payment status.

How do I use Quick Access?

You will need to provide the following personal information to identify yourself:

• your social insurance number;
• your date of birth;
• the amount you calculated and entered on line 150 (Total income) of your 2006 or 2007 filed and processed income tax return.

Make sure that others cannot access your account information. Keep each piece of your identification information confidential.

You can also choose to completely block online access to your account information; just contact us and request that no online access to your account be permitted. You can choose to enable online access again at any time.

Is Quick Access secure?

Protecting the privacy and confidentiality of taxpayer information is critical to the Canada Revenue Agency. We use sophisticated and proven security technology and procedures to protect both confidential taxpayer information and the Web site.

Confidential tax and benefit information is not stored in the Web-server environment, and sophisticated security technology is used to protect the information during transmission. Our standard for encryption is the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. TLS allows general communication authentication and encryption over TCP/IP networks that transmit data by Hypertext Transfer Protocol HTTP Secure (HTTPS) used by Web servers to transfer and display Web content securely. The data transferred is encrypted so that it cannot be read by anyone except the recipient. Your electronic authentication is verified before any personal tax information is provided to you. Security is maintained throughout the session.

For more information, visit www.cra.gc.ca/quickaccess.

Related document:

• News release: Canada Revenue Agency launches e-service for Canadians seeking basic tax information

This document is also available for download in PDF format.

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Date modified:

2014-12-17