Filing a Quebec return

If you lived in Quebec on 31 December 2026, you have two income tax returns to file, not one. Hypertax prepares both of them.

Two returns, two administrations#

• The federal T1 General, which goes to the Canada Revenue Agency, the same as anywhere else in Canada.
• The Quebec TP-1, which goes to Revenu Québec. Quebec is the only province that collects its own personal income tax, so its provincial tax is a separate return rather than a form attached to the federal one.

Two returns means two envelopes. Print and sign each one and post it to its own administration; a TP-1 sent to the CRA has not been filed.

What is different about your federal return#

• The refundable Quebec abatement. Because Quebec collects its own tax, a Quebec resident reduces federal tax by an abatement on line 44000 of the T1. No other province has this line.
• QPP instead of CPP. Quebec runs its own pension plan. Your T4 shows contributions in box 17 and box 17A rather than box 16 and box 16A, and the return treats them as Quebec Pension Plan contributions. See T4 box 16A.
• QPIP premiums. Quebec runs its own parental insurance plan, so your slip carries premiums in box 55 and insurable earnings in box 56, and your EI premiums are lower than they would be elsewhere. Read EI premiums on your return.

You need your RL-1 as well as your T4#

A Quebec employer issues two slips for the same pay: the federal T4 and the RL-1, the Quebec slip. The TP-1 is built from the RL-1, so Hypertax asks for both and will not finish a Quebec return without the RL-1. Have both in front of you before you start.

The drug-plan question#

Quebec residents must be covered by prescription drug insurance, and anyone not covered by a private plan pays a premium to Revenu Québec through the TP-1. Hypertax therefore asks whether you were covered for the whole year, for part of it, or not at all. Answer from your own records — if your coverage changed partway through the year, Hypertax will tell you it cannot compute the premium rather than guess at it.

Still out of scope#

Living in Quebec does not widen the rest of the scope. Hypertax prepares a return from T4 and RL-1 pay for the 2024, 2025 and 2026 tax years, one return per year. Self-employment, rental and investment income, foreign income, part-year or non-residency, a year before 2024, and a change to a return you have already filed are all outside it. Read situations Hypertax cannot handle.

If you moved during 2026#

What counts is where you lived on 31 December 2026. If you left Quebec during the year and lived elsewhere in Canada on that date, you file only the federal T1 and the provincial form for where you then lived. If you moved into Quebec during the year and lived there on that date, you file the T1 and the TP-1.