Competitively priced Form NR4 Summary — the return filed with the slips

Form NR4 Summary — who files it, when it is due, what late filing costs, and what we charge to prepare it. Canada (CRA). Competitively priced NR4 Summary with a fixed fee agreed in writing before any work starts. Call the 24-hour helpline on +1 (416) 619-0068, or request a written quote today.

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In 60 words

Form NR4 Summary is a withholding return or recipient slip: The summary that reconciles all non-resident slips issued for a year to the tax actually remitted. Canadian withholding agents filing non-resident slips.

Who has to deal with this

Canadian withholding agents filing non-resident slips.

Here is the part that decides your answer. The reconciliation is where under-remittance surfaces. The payer is liable for tax it should have withheld, so the summary is a control document rather than a formality.

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Transparent, fixed pricing for NR4 summary return

The NR4 Summary is a reconciliation, so its fee is set by how far the slips and the remittances sit apart. Where the two agree it is a short close-out of the year; where they do not, the work is finding the difference, a missed remittance, a wrong rate, a recipient counted twice, before the return goes in.

T106 information return — fixed-fee price

From $999

fixed, quoted before work starts

The related-party transaction return, reconciled to the corporate return and to the non-resident slips so the three tell one consistent story.
See the full fee page

Reg 105 or 102 waiver application — fixed-fee price

From $999

fixed, quoted before work starts

The waiver application prepared and filed before the payment or the assignment, with the treaty basis or the income-and-expense computation that supports it.
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Foreign asset & information reporting

From $349

fixed, quoted before work starts

The reporting obligations that attach to owning something abroad, worked out from your holdings rather than from the tax return alone.
See the fee schedule

Payroll & mobility setup

From $999

fixed, quoted before work starts

Employer registration and withholding for staff on assignment, arranged before the first pay run rather than corrected after it.
See the fee schedule

Corporate cross-border filing

From $999

fixed, quoted before work starts

The corporate return and its cross-border schedules as one engagement, so the group files a consistent position everywhere.
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Individual tax filing

From $349

fixed, quoted before work starts

Individual returns where salary, investments or property sit outside the country of residence, prepared so relief is claimed once and in the right place.
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Non-resident & departure filings

From $349

fixed, quoted before work starts

Returns for the year you leave, the year you arrive, and the years you earn rental or pension income from a country you no longer live in.
See the fee schedule

Transfer pricing documentation

From $2,500

fixed, quoted before work starts

The transfer pricing file a group needs when goods, services or finance move between its own companies across a border.
See the fee schedule

All published fees on one page — the whole fee schedule in one place, with no from-to bands to decode.

What the reporting test actually looks at

What decides whether Form NR4 Summary applies
Payment typeWhat determines the rate
The obligationThe summary that reconciles all non-resident slips issued for a year to the tax actually remitted.
Who it bindsCanadian withholding agents filing non-resident slips.
Jurisdiction and authorityCanada — CRA
Category of filingWithholding return or recipient slip

When it is due

Withholding is remitted on a schedule tied to the payment, and the annual return and slips are due after the year end on their own date. The remittance timetable, not the return date, is what generates most of the exposure. The date is confirmed for your year at the start of the engagement, not assumed from last year's.

What late or missed filing costs

The payer is liable for tax it failed to withhold, not merely for a penalty on it. Late remittance and late or incorrect slips carry their own charges, and the recipient's ability to claim the credit depends on the slip being right. None of that is unusual, and none of it is unfixable. It is, however, cheaper to address before an authority raises it.

A worked example

Here is the rule doing its work on an actual set of amounts.

Gross withholding against a net-basis return

A non-resident receives C$44,000 in the year. Assume withholding at 25% on the gross amount, and assume deductible costs of C$31,240 against it.

Gross withholding against a net-basis return
ItemAmount
Gross amount receivedC$44,000
Withheld at source (assumed 25% of gross)C$11,000
Deductible costsC$31,240
Net amount actually earnedC$12,760
Tax on the net amount (assumed graduated result)C$2,935
Difference recoverable by filingC$8,065

Filing on a net basis recovers C$8,065 of the C$11,000 withheld. That difference is the entire reason the elective return exists, and it is lost by not filing. That is an illustration of the mechanism, not a prediction about your file — the same computation on your figures is the first thing we do.

Illustrative figures, not a client engagement: the amounts are chosen to make the mechanism legible, and the rates and thresholds are assumptions stated for the example only. We confirm every one of them against the issuing authority for your own tax year before anything is filed.

How we prepare and file it, and what it costs

You get the number for Form NR4 Summary up front, as part of one fee for the whole set rather than as a separate charge that appears at the end. See the treaty residency tie-breaker (article iv) for comparable engagements.

The four steps

  1. 1A call to our 24-hour helpline to establish the facts and the dates that matter
  2. 2A written scope and a fixed fee before any work starts
  3. 3Preparation, then a named reviewer's sign-off before anything is filed
  4. 4Filing, then payment — after you have seen and approved the result
  • 18,000+ clients served across 4 global offices: India, the USA, Canada and the UAE.
  • Your existing accountant keeps the domestic file; we take the cross-border piece, with the boundary in writing.
  • Nothing is filed until you have read it.

Ask before the move rather than after it, because most of the useful options expire on the date.

Reviewed for the 2025 and 2026 filing seasons by Udit Gupta, Cross-Border Tax Expert, Legal Quotient Consultants. Written as general guidance, not as a recommendation for your situation. Talk it through with us before acting on it.

CRA t2 corporation income tax return — what this page covers

This is the page to read on CRA t2 corporation income tax return. It takes NR4 Summary in order — the test that decides who is affected, the returns and forms that follow from it, and a fee quoted in writing before anything starts.

The reconciliation is where under-remittance surfaces.

The four phases of the work

  1. Share your documents

    A secure upload link arrives after the first call — send files in any state.

  2. A written fixed fee

    The quote is fixed from what you send; it does not move once accepted.

  3. Preparation, both sides at once

    The returns are drafted together, reconciled line against line.

  4. Approve, then file

    Nothing is filed until you have seen it and approved it.

How NR4 summary return is handled here

Factor Legal Quotient Hourly billing model
Pricing A fixed fee, agreed in writing before work starts Hourly, billed as incurred
Experience 15+ years of cross-border work, 18,000+ clients Varies by file
Both sides of the border Prepared together by one team, so relief is claimed exactly once One country at a time, reconciled later
Who reviews it A named practitioner, published on the page Whoever the queue reaches
Where the work happens Our offices in India, the USA, Canada and the UAE Whichever single office you can travel to

Key terms behind this page, defined

Superficial loss
A denied loss where the same or identical property is reacquired within a defined period around the sale by the taxpayer or an affiliated person.
Protective return
A return filed to preserve deductions and treaty positions where the filer's conclusion is that no tax is owed. Filed late, the deductions can be lost entirely.
Business visitor
A short-term traveller whose exemption depends entirely on a day count nobody recorded. The largest unmanaged tax exposure in most companies.
Clubbing of income
The Indian attribution of income back to a transferor where assets were transferred to a spouse or certain relatives without adequate consideration.
NR4 summary return: The practitioner's note

The reconciliation is where under-remittance surfaces.

Whichever way the facts cut, you keep the same footing: a fee agreed in writing beforehand, a named practitioner reviewing the file, and nothing filed until the work is delivered and approved.

NR4 summary return — what the published fees look like

A second driver is how many years are being put right at once. A withholding agent that has never filed a summary against its non-resident slips is a different engagement from one bringing a single late year up to date, because each year has to be reconciled on its own figures. Both are quoted in writing first.

T106 information return

$999fixed, before work starts

Covers: The related-party transaction return, reconciled to the corporate return and to the non-resident slips so the three tell one consistent story.

What makes it bigger: Inconsistency between the three filings. Where the return, the slips and the schedules disagree, resolving the difference is the engagement rather than the filing.

See this fee page

T1134 foreign affiliate reporting

$999fixed, before work starts

Covers: The foreign affiliate return with a full set of schedules per affiliate, restated onto the basis the return requires rather than the basis the local accounts use.

What makes it bigger: The number of affiliates and the tiers between them. Work scales with entity count, not with revenue, and lower-tier affiliates each need their own reporting.

See this fee page

Why clients bring NR4 summary return to us

We say early if it is not our work

If a file needs something this practice does not do, you hear that at the start rather than after a bill.

A named reviewer on every file

Every page on this site and every file we deliver says which practitioner reviewed it — a person, not a team inbox.

The fee is fixed before we start

Quoted from your documents and agreed in writing. The number you accept is the number you pay.

You deal with the person who did the work

The practitioner who prepared and reviewed your file is the one who answers the question about it.

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From first call to filed return

Step 1

Establishing the facts

A call to our 24-hour helpline to establish the facts and the dates that matter

Step 2

Agreeing the fee

A written scope and a fixed fee before any work starts

Step 3

Drafting and review

Preparation, then a named reviewer's sign-off before anything is filed

Step 4

Filing and follow-up

Filing, then payment — after you have seen and approved the result

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From first document to filed return

  • Step 1: Send the documents as they are – No tidying required — forward what you have and we tell you what is missing.
  • Step 2: Get a fixed quote in writing – Priced from your actual documents before any work begins, not estimated after.
  • Step 3: Both countries prepared together – One team builds the filings against each other so the relief lands exactly once.
  • Step 4: Review, then file – You approve the finished work before we file it.

Quoted up front, in writing.

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The people on your file

Five named practitioners, each with the part of a cross-border file they carry. Every page on this site says who reviewed it, and the reviewer is one of these people rather than an unnamed team.

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CA (ICAI), In-Depth Tax Trained

Reviews and signs off the practice's cross-border positions, and carries final responsibility for the treaty analysis on every file that leaves the office.

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Fifteen Per Cent Held Back From a Fee for Services in Canada

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Case study 2

Interest and Penalties Put to a Relief Application

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Case study 3

A Foreign Subsidiary That Nobody Had Been Reporting

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Case study 4

An Estate That Cannot Distribute Until the Clearance Comes

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Case study 5

A Home Kept in Canada After the Move Abroad

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Case study 6

A Trust Abroad With a Canadian Connection

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Case study 7

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A voluntary disclosure has to be genuinely voluntary — once a letter arrives, the route usually closes. The engagement establishes whether the programme is still available, prepares the years, and puts the relief request in with the filing rather than after it.

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Form NR4 Summary — questions we are asked

Do I file Form NR4 Summary even if no tax is owed?

Withholding return or recipient slip obligations of this kind are generally required on the facts rather than on the tax result, so a nil position does not remove one. Canadian withholding agents filing non-resident slips.

What happens if I have missed Form NR4 Summary for several years?

Missed years are dealt with as a package rather than one at a time, because the route chosen for the first year affects the relief available for the rest. We map the years and the obligations before anything is filed.

Is Form NR4 Summary the same as the other reports I already file?

No. The summary that reconciles all non-resident slips issued for a year to the tax actually remitted. Satisfying a different obligation, even one covering the same accounts or entity, does nothing for this one.

How do I reduce withholding tax on a cross-border payment?

Before the payment, not after. Where a treaty gives a lower rate, the payer needs your residency declaration in hand to apply it; where the statutory rate would over-withhold on a gross amount, an advance application can authorise a reduced deduction on a net or estimated basis. Once the money has moved at the full rate, your remaining route is an elective return or a refund claim, which recovers the same cash far more slowly. See withholding refund and recovery.

Which kind of investor income is most exposed to double taxation?

Dividends from a foreign corporation. They have already borne corporate tax, the source country withholds on payment, and your residence country taxes the receipt — three layers, only two of which a credit can reach. Interest and royalties carry the same source withholding without the corporate layer. This is why the withholding article and the paperwork that reduces it matter more for portfolio income than for salary. See dividends, interest and royalties articles.

How do I get back tax withheld in another country?

By the route that country provides, and it is rarely automatic. Where an elective return is available — on rent or pension income, for instance — filing it recomputes the tax on net income and refunds the difference. Where it is not, you file a refund claim with the withholding authority, supported by evidence of your residence and entitlement to the treaty rate. Both take time, which is why fixing the rate before payment is worth more. See withholding refund and recovery.

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One short call, one fixed quote in writing, and your approval before anything is filed.

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