Important information about federal tax returns

In February 2012, Concordia University provided the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) with two tax files for its employees; an original and an amended file. While both files are currently active with the CRA, Concordia has been waiting, for quite some time, for the CRA to remove the original file from their system.

Concordia has been in frequent contact with the CRA and has been assured that Concordia employees should not encounter difficulties when filing their federal tax returns as a result of the duplicate file; however, isolated incidents have been identified by some employees. Provincial tax returns are not affected.

If Concordia employees encounter an issue when filing federal tax returns, support is available from an HR payroll specialist. To this end, employees should email payroll@concordia.ca with the name and phone number of the CRA specialist managing the employee file and a Concordia payroll professional will facilitate support, where possible.

The university regrets this situation and has taken steps to ensure it does not recur.