Uploading documents

Photographing and uploading a slip, and what happens to the file afterwards.

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• The three steps of a Hypertax return

  Answer the questions, upload your slip, then review and print. Each step saves as you go, so you can stop and come back on another device.

  Getting startedFiling your returnUploading documents

• What you need before you start

  A short list of the documents and numbers to have beside you before you open a Hypertax return, so the whole thing takes about twenty minutes.

  Getting startedUploading documentsYour SIN

• Your T4 slip, box by box

  What a T4 Statement of Remuneration Paid contains, when it must reach you, and a map of every box with a link to the article that explains it.

  T4 slipUploading documentsIncome

• When your slips should arrive

  A 2026 T4 must reach you by the last day of February 2027. Here is what to do when that date passes and nothing has come.

  DeadlinesUploading documentsFixing problems

• 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.

  Printing and mailingFiling your returnUploading documents

• Uploading a slip

  How to photograph or scan a T4 so Hypertax can read it, what happens to the file afterwards, and how to enter the boxes by hand instead.

  Uploading documentsHow Hypertax uses AIFixing problems

• What happens to your uploaded file

  Where a slip image is stored after you upload it, who can see it, how long it is kept, and how to delete it before you finish the return.

  Uploading documentsPrivacySecurity

• What the AI does

  Hypertax uses AI for three jobs: reading your slip, rewriting tax language into plain words, and flagging oddities on the Premium tier. It never works out your tax.

  How Hypertax uses AIUploading documentsPrivacy

• What Hypertax stores about you

  The categories of information a Hypertax account holds, where they live, who can reach them, and how long each one is kept.

  PrivacySecurityUploading documents

• The upload failed

  Why a slip upload is rejected or comes back with empty boxes, what to change about the photograph, and how to finish the return without uploading at all.

  Fixing problemsUploading documents

• Your T4 never arrived

  What to do when February passes and no T4 has come. You still have to file on time, and the CRA has a route for a missing slip.

  Fixing problemsUploading documentsDeadlines

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