Student Tax Forms

T2202's are tuition tax receipts issued to all students who have paid more than $100 in eligible tuition fees and applicable mandatory fees for qualifying courses in the previous calendar year (January-December). They show the amount of tuition and applicable fees paid during a tax year that are eligible to claim on the income tax return.

For more information related to the T2202 form, visit this Canada Revenue Agency page: Line 32300 – Your tuition, education, and textbook amounts

If you received a bursary, scholarship, award, or tuition waiver, you will be issued a T4A if the the categories combined totals $500 or more. The amount on the T4A shows the total funding received in the tax year, which may not equal the total received for the academic year.

For more information related to the T4A form, visit this Canada Revenue Agency page: Line 13000 – Other Income

International students studying in Canada my have to file a Canadian income tax return. If you have earned income in Canada, you will need to file a tax return and submit your Social Insurance Number (SIN) or Individual Tax Number (ITN) to ECU. Please see Social Insurance Number (SIN) Requirement for information on how to submit your SIN on Self-Service.

Please refer to this Government of Canada page for more information on income tax: Taxes for International Students Studying in Canada

Form 1098-T

ECU does not issue Form 1098-T. As a Canadian institution, ECU only provides Canadian federal tax receipts - T2202 Tuition and Enrolment Certificate. For US tax filing, please use the T2202 form.

Continuing Studies students who only registered in a course/courses where the duration was less than 3 consecutive weeks will not be eligible for a T2202.

Source: CRA website

A student is also considered a full-time student if they were enrolled in a qualifying educational program and one of the following situations apply:

• you attended part-time and are eligible for the disability tax credit for the year
• you attended part-time and had, in the year, a mental or physical impairment certified in a letter by a medical doctor, nurse practitioner, optometrist, audiologist, occupational therapist, psychologist, physiotherapist, or speech language pathologist, but not eligible for the disability tax credit.
  

The educational institution is certifying that the student, although enrolled on a part-time basis, is taking courses from a qualifying educational program.

Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) requires Social Insurance Numbers (SIN) to be included on T2202 and T4A forms and filed with the CRA.

In order to meet this federal requirement and to prepare your T2202 and T4A forms, Emily Carr University requires your SIN. Subsection 237(1) of the Income Tax Act requires that you provide your SIN, upon request, to the preparer of the tax information slip. More information on this requirement can be found on the CRA website or look up ‘Subsection 237(1) CRA’ on your web browser.

The SIN will be stored securely and used for federally approved purposes.

If you have not provided your SIN as part of your student record previously, you can enter it online via Self-Service. You only need to provide your SIN once. As the CRA does not require T2202s to be amended for SIN updates after filing, ECU will not be amending and resubmitting tax forms after they have been issued and submitted to the CRA. However, please continue to submit your SIN on Self-Service as this information will be needed for subsequent years' tax forms. For security reasons, please do not email your SIN to the University.

Submit your SIN by following the steps below:

1. Log into your Self-Service account.
   1. Forgot your Self-Service password or need login assistance? Contact IT Help.
2. Within the main menu, select Social Insurance Number (SIN) Information.
3. If there is an existing SIN on file, only the last 3 digits will be shown. If these are not the last 3 digits of your SIN, or if it needs to be updated, contact the respective emails below to have the SIN field reset and proceed to the next step. For security reasons, please do not submit your SIN over email.
   1. Undergraduate + Graduate students, contact reghelp@ecuad.ca
   2. Continuing Studies students, contact csreghelp@ecuad.ca
4. If you have not provided a SIN previously:
   1. Select edit (pencil icon).
   2. In the SIN box, enter your nine-digit SIN. Note: confirm that you entered the information correctly. Once submitted, changes to your SIN will need to be made by contacting reghelp@ecuad.ca or csreghelp@ecuad.ca (see Step 3).
   3. Click the "Submit SIN" button. When submitted, a confirmation will appear indicating that your SIN has been updated.

Information about the Social Insurance Number can be found on the Government of Canada site CRA Social Insurance Number

Continuing Studies Students
Continuing Studies students who only registered in a course/courses where the duration was less than 3 consecutive weeks will not be eligible for a T2202. In this case, your SIN will not be needed.

I am an International student. Am I required to provide a SIN?

You may still be required to submit a SIN or an ITN (Individual Tax Number). Please refer to this Government of Canada page for more information: Are You an International Student Studying in Canada?

If you live in Canada or the United States, please ensure that your address on our records is a Canadian or US address.

The active address that we have on record for you at the time of preparation of the tax forms will be used on your T2202 and T4A tax forms. These forms will be available on Self-Service by February 28^th each year for the previous calendar year, and will not be mailed out. As the CRA does not require address changes to be amended on tax forms after submission, ECU will not be amending and refiling T2202 and T4As for address updates. If the current address on file is not a Canadian or US address, or, if it is incorrect, please update your information immediately in Self-Service for future correspondence.