Refund or Balance owing

Lines 409 and 410 - Federal political contribution tax credit

Enter on line 409 the total you contributed during 1998 to a registered federal political party or a candidate for election to the House of Commons. Use the chart on page 44 to calculate your credit. However, if your total political contributions are $1,150 or more, enter $500 on line 410.

Federal political contribution tax credit

If your total federal contribution is $100 or less:

Your total contribution	$		× 75% =	$		1
Enter the amount on line 1 on line 410 of your return.
If your total federal contribution is more than $100 but not more than $550:
Your total contribution	$
On the first	-	100.00	the credit is	$	75.00	2
On the rest	$		× 50% =	+		3
Line 2 plus line 3				$		4
Enter the amount on line 4 on line 410 of your return.
If your total federal contribution is more than $550:
Your total contribution	$
On the first	-	550.00	the credit is	$	300.00	5
On the rest	$		× 33.33% =	+		6
Line 5 plus line 6				$		7
Enter on line 410 of your return $500 or the amount from line7, whichever is less.

Receipts - Attach to your paper return your official receipts. You do not have to attach receipts for amounts shown in box 36 of your T5013 slips, or on financial statements showing an amount a partnership allocated to you. If you are using EFILE (see "Filing your return" on page 11) show your receipts to your EFILE service provider, and keep them in case we ask to see them.

Line 412 - Investment tax credit

You may be eligible for this credit if any of the following applies. You:

• bought certain new buildings, machinery, or equipment and they were used in certain areas of Canada in qualifying activities such as farming, fishing, logging, or manufacturing;
• have unclaimed credits from the purchase of qualified small business property from December 3, 1992, to December 31, 1993;
• have an amount shown in box 13 of your T101 or T102 slip;
• have an amount shown in box 41 of your T3 slip;
• have an amount shown in box 38 of your T5013 slip; or
• have an amount shown on the financial statement given to you by a partnership.

How to claim

Attach to your paper return a completed copy of Form T2038(IND), Investment Tax Credit. For more information on the investment tax credit, get one of the following guides: Farming Income, Farming Income and NISA, or Fishing Income. All three guides also contain Form T2038(IND).

There is a time limit to submit a completed Form T2038(IND) for a qualifying expenditure. To be able to claim a credit for such an expenditure, you have to send the completed form to us no later than 12 months after the due date of your return for the year the expenditure arises.

Tax Tip
You may be able to reduce your federal individual surtax by any unclaimed investment tax credit, or claim a refund of your unused investment tax credit. For details, see lines 419 and 454.

Lines 413 and 414 - Labour-sponsored funds tax credit

You may be able to claim a credit if you became the first registered holder to acquire, or irrevocably subscribe to and pay for, an approved share of the capital stock of a prescribed labour-sponsored venture capital corporation (LSVCC) from January 1, 1998, to March 1, 1999.

If you became the first registered holder of an approved share from January 1, 1998, to March 2, 1998, and claimed the credit for it on your 1997 return, you cannot claim a credit for that share on your 1998 return. If you became the first registered holder of an approved share from January 1, 1999, to March 1, 1999, you can claim a credit for that share either on your 1998 return or on your 1999 return, but not both.

1998 ice storm

If you lived or helped out in certain areas of eastern Canada during the ice storm in January of 1998, you were allowed to claim, on your 1997 return, investments made in an LSVCC from March 3, 1998, to March 31, 1998. If you did, do not claim these contributions again for 1998.

Enter your net cost on line 413. Net cost is the amount you paid for your shares, minus any government assistance, other than federal or provincial tax credits on the shares. Enter the amount of the credit on line 414. The allowable credit cannot be more than 15% of the net cost, to a maximum, under proposed changes, of $750.

Receipts - Attach to your paper return either a T5006 slip, Statement of Registered Labour-Sponsored Venture Capital Corporation Class A Shares, or an official provincial or territorial slip. If you are using EFILE (see "Filing your return" on page 11) show your slip to your EFILE service provider, and keep it in case we ask to see it.

Tax Tip
Your province or territory may offer a similar tax credit. If so, you may be able to get a further credit against your provincial or territorial tax. For details, see the forms for your province or territory in the forms booklet unless you were a resident of Quebec. In that case, see the guide for your provincial return.

Line 418 - Additional tax on RESP accumulated income payments

You may have received an accumulated income payment from a registered education savings plan (RESP) in 1998. If so, you may have to pay an additional tax on all or part of the amount in box 40 of your T4A slip. Enter the amount from line 8 or 11 (whichever applies) on Form T1172, Tax on Accumulated Income Payments From RESPs for 1998. Get the Registered Education Savings Plans (RESPs) information sheet for more details about tax changes affecting RESPs.

Line 421 - Canada Pension Plan contributions payable on self-employment and other earnings

Enter the Canada Pension Plan contributions you have to pay, from line 310 of your return.

If you were a resident of Quebec, this line does not apply to you. Enter on your Quebec provincial return the Quebec Pension Plan contributions you have to pay.

Line 422 - Social benefits repayment

Enter the amount of social benefits you have to repay, from line 235 of your return.

Line 428 - Provincial or territorial tax

If you were not a resident of Quebec, use the forms included in the forms booklet to calculate your provincial or territorial tax. If you live in British Columbia, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, or Ontario, use Form T1C-TC. Otherwise, use Form T1C.

If you were a resident of Quebec, this line only applies to you if you had a business with a permanent establishment outside Quebec. You will have to file a Quebec provincial return to calculate your provincial tax.

Tax payable to more than one province

If you had a business with a permanent establishment outside your province or territory of residence, use Form T2203, Calculation of Tax for 1998 - Multiple Jurisdictions, to calculate the provincial or territorial taxes you have to pay. Attach a completed copy of the form to your paper return. If your business had a permanent establishment in Quebec, you can claim a refundable Quebec tax abatement. See "Line 440 - Refundable Quebec abatement" for details.

Line 437 - Total income tax deducted

Enter the total of the amounts shown in the "Income tax deducted" box from all of your information slips. If you were a resident of Quebec, do not include on this return any of your Quebec provincial income tax deducted.

If you were not a resident of Quebec, but you had Quebec provincial income tax withheld from your income, attach to your paper return your provincial information slips. Include on this line the total Quebec income tax withheld.

Notes
If you paid tax by instalments, claim these payments on line 476.

If you paid foreign taxes, you have to complete Method B of Schedule 1, Federal Tax Calculation, to claim your foreign tax credit.

Line 438 - Tax transfer for residents of Quebec

If you were a resident of Quebec, you may have earned income, such as employment income, outside Quebec during 1998. In that case, tax may have been deducted for a province or territory other than Quebec, even though you owe your provincial tax to Quebec.

For 1998, you can transfer, to the Province of Quebec, up to 40% of the income tax shown on information slips issued to you by payers outside Quebec.

Enter on line 438 of your federal return and on line 454 of your Quebec provincial return the amount you want to transfer (up to the maximum). If the taxable income on your provincial return is zero, no transfer is necessary.

Line 440 - Refundable Quebec abatement

The Quebec abatement is provided under the federal-provincial fiscal arrangement, in place of direct cost-sharing by the federal government. It reduces your federal income tax, and may even give you a refund.

If you were a resident of Quebec at the end of 1998, and you did not have a business with a permanent establishment outside Quebec, your refundable Quebec abatement is 16.5% of the amount on either line 15 or line 33 of Schedule 1, whichever applies.

If you had a business with a permanent establishment outside Quebec, or you were not a resident of Quebec and you had a business with a permanent establishment in Quebec, use Form T2203, Calculation of Tax for 1998 - Multiple Jurisdictions, to calculate your abatement.

Line 448 - Canada Pension Plan overpayment

If you were not a resident of Quebec and you contributed more than you had to, as explained at line 308, enter the difference on this line. We will refund the excess contributions to you, or use them to reduce your balance owing. If you were a resident of Quebec, this line does not apply to you. Claim the excess amount on your Quebec provincial return.

Line 450 - Employment Insurance overpayment

If you contributed more than you had to, as explained at line 312, enter the difference on line 450. We will refund the excess amount to you or use it to reduce your balance owing.

Note
If you repaid some of the Employment Insurance benefits you received, do not claim the repayment on this line. See line 232 for details on how to claim a deduction for the benefits you repaid.

Line 452 - Refundable medical expense supplement

You may be able to claim a credit of up to $500 if you have an amount at line 332, and all of the following apply. You:

• were resident in Canada throughout 1998; and
• were 18 or older at the end of 1998.

In addition, the total of the following two amounts has to be $2,500 or more:

• your employment income on lines 101 and 104 (other than amounts received from a wage-loss replacement plan) minus the amounts on lines 207, 212, and 229, and any deduction you claimed on line 232 for a cleric's residence (but if the result is negative, use "0"); and
• your net self-employment income (not including losses) from lines 135 to 143.

You cannot claim this credit if the total of your net income (line 236) and your spouse's net income (if your spouse lived with you at the end of 1998, line 236 of your spouse's return, or the amount that it would be if he or she filed a return) is $26,069 or more.

Complete Schedule 10, Refundable Medical Expense Supplement, and attach it to your paper return. You can claim both this credit and the amount for medical expenses on line 330 for the same expenses.

Line 454 - Refund of investment tax credit

If you are eligible for an investment tax credit (line 412), based on expenditures made in 1998, you may be able to claim a refund of your unused investment tax credit. This refund will reduce the amount of credit available to you for other years.

Calculate the refundable part of your investment tax credit on Form T2038(IND),Investment Tax Credit. Attach a completed copy of the form to your paper return.

Line 456 - Part XII.2 trust tax credit

Enter the amount shown in box 38 of your T3 slip.

Line 457 - Employee and partner GST/HST rebate

If you deducted expenses from your income as an employee (line 212 or 229) or as a partner (lines 135 to 143), you may be eligible for a rebate of the GST/HST you paid on those expenses. Generally, you can claim this rebate if either of the following applies:

• your employer has a GST/HST registration number; or
• you are a member of a GST/HST-registered partnership, and you have reported on your return your share of the income from that partnership.

To claim this rebate, if you incurred the expenses as an employee, use the Employment Expenses guide. If you incurred the expenses as a member of a partnership, use the GST/HST Rebate Guide for Partners. These guides list the expenses that qualify. They also include Form GST 370, Employee and Partner GST/HST Rebate Application, which you need to make your claim. Attach a completed copy of this form to your paper return, and enter on line 457 the rebate you are claiming.

Note
Generally, you have to include in income any rebate you receive, on the return for the year in which you receive it. For example, you may claim a rebate on your 1998 return. If we allow your claim, and assess that return in 1999, you have to report the rebate on your 1999 return.

You may have received a GST/HST rebate in 1998. If you did and you are an employee, see line 104. If you are a partner, contact the Business Enquiries section of your tax services office. For the address and telephone number, see the listings under "Revenue Canada" in the Government of Canada section of your telephone book.

Line 476 - Tax paid by instalments

Enter the total instalment payments you made for your 1998 taxes. In February 1999, we will issue you either Form INNS1, Instalment Reminder, or Form INNS2, Instalment Payment Summary, that shows your total 1998 instalment payments that we have on record. If you made an instalment payment for your 1998 taxes that does not appear on this reminder or summary, also include that amount on line 476.

Note
If tax was withheld from your income, claim on line 437 the amounts shown on your information slips.

Line 479 - Provincial or territorial tax credits

If you were not a resident of Quebec or Saskatchewan, see Form T1C, which is included in the forms booklet, for details on these credits.

If you were a resident of Quebec or Saskatchewan, this line does not apply to you. Residents of Quebec claim their provincial tax credits on their provincial returns. Residents of Saskatchewan use their provincial tax credits to reduce their provincial taxes payable on line 428.

Lines 484 and 485 - Refund or Balance owing

If your total payable (line 435) is less than your total credits (line 482), enter the difference on line 484. This amount is your refund. If line 435 is more than line 482, enter the difference on line 485. This amount is your balance owing. If the difference is less than $2, you do not have to make a payment and you will not receive a refund.

Line 484 - Refund

Although you may be entitled to a refund for 1998, we may keep some or all of it to:

• apply against any amount you owe us or are about to owe us;
• apply against certain other outstanding federal, provincial, or territorial government debts, such as student loans, Employment Insurance and social assistance benefit overpayments, Immigration loans, and training allowance overpayments; and
• satisfy a garnishment order under the Family Orders and Agreements Enforcement Assistance Act.

Note
You cannot transfer your refund to pay another person's balance owing.

Direct deposit

You can have your income tax refund, as well as your GST/HST credit and Canada Child Tax Benefit payments (including any related provincial or territorial payments we administer) deposited directly into your account at a financial institution. If you want your Canada Child Tax Benefit payments deposited into a different account, you will have to send us, either with your paper return or separately, a completed Form T1-DD(1), Direct Deposit Request - Individuals.

To start direct deposit, or to change information you already gave us, complete the Direct Deposit Request on page 4 of your return. You do not have to complete this area if you already have direct deposit service and the information you already gave us has not changed. Your direct deposit request will stay in effect indefinitely, until you change the information or cancel the service.

If you are changing the account into which we deposit a payment, do not close the old account before we deposit the payment into the new account. If your financial institution advises us that you have a new account, we may deposit your payments into the new account. If we cannot deposit a payment into your account, we will mail a cheque to you at the address we have on file.

If you need help to complete the direct deposit information on page 4 of your return, or to cancel the service for one or more of these payments, contact us.

Line 485 - Balance owing

Attach to the front of your paper return a cheque or money order made out to the Receiver General and enter this amount on line 486. Do not mail cash. To help us credit your payment properly, please write your social insurance number on the back of your cheque or money order. If you attach a post-dated cheque, it may not show on your Notice of Assessment.

Notes
Another person's refund cannot be transferred to pay your balance owing.

If you make a payment with a cheque that your financial institution does not honour (including a cheque on which you put a "stop payment") we will charge you a fee. Generally, this fee will be $15 for each returned cheque.

Making a payment arrangement - If you cannot pay your balance owing on or before April 30, 1999, you can make a mutually acceptable payment arrangement by contacting your tax services office. We will still charge daily compound interest on any outstanding balance starting May 1, 1999, until you pay it in full.

Tax Tip
Even if you cannot pay all of your balance owing right away, you should still file your return on time. Then you will not have to pay a penalty for filing your return after the due date. See "What penalties and interest do we charge?" on page 12 for details.

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