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Printing, signing and assembling your return

How to print a Hypertax return so the agency can process it: paper, ink, signatures, which slips to attach, and what to keep for your own records.

Updated 24 July 2026 · 1 min read

A posted return is read by a machine first and a person second. Printing it properly is part of filing it properly.

Printing

  • Plain white paper, standard size, one side of each sheet.
  • Black ink, at full size. Do not scale the pages to fit, because the position of the boxes matters to the scanner.
  • Print every page of the PDF, including the schedules. Do not print a page twice.
  • Check that the barcodes and the box grid came out sharp. A faint print gets rejected.

Signing

Sign in ink. An unsigned return is not a filed return, and it comes back to you. Sign and date the certification area at the end of the T1.

Attaching

Attach your T4 slips and the receipts the return asks for, in the order the T1 lists them.

Do not staple a payment to the return. Use a paper clip, or better, pay separately online.

Keep a copy

Keep the full return, the slips and the proof of posting. The CRA asks you to keep them for six years from the end of the tax year they relate to.

Then address the envelope

The address is not printed on the return. Read where to mail your Canadian return.

Sources

Every figure and every procedure on this page was checked against the pages below on the date shown. The agencies revise these pages, so confirm anything you are about to act on.

  1. File your taxes on paper (opens in a new tab)canada.ca · checked 24 July 2026
  2. How long should you keep your income tax records? (opens in a new tab)canada.ca · checked 24 July 2026

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This article explains a form and a process. It is general information, not tax advice about your own situation, and Hypertax does not send your return to the CRA — you print it and mail it. See the not-tax-advice notice and the rest of the help centre.