Year-End Slips & Reporting
T4, T4 Summary, T4A, amended slips, and related year-end payroll reporting records.
Year-End Slips & Reporting
This section explains the forms, summaries, and reporting language that matter after the payroll year closes. It focuses on the slips employees or recipients receive and the summaries employers prepare behind them.
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- T4 explains the main Canadian employment-income slip.
- T4 Summary explains the employer-side summary that supports T4 filing.
- T4A explains a different reporting slip that should not be collapsed into the T4.
- Amended T4 explains the correction path when a filed T4 needs updated information.
- Cancelled T4 explains the correction path when a filed T4 should not stand as issued.
- Pension Adjustment explains a year-end reporting amount tied to retirement-plan participation.
- Taxable Benefits Reporting explains how taxable benefit values flow into year-end slips and summaries.
| If you are looking at… | Start with |
|---|
| the main employee employment-income slip | T4 |
| the employer-side total for one payroll account | T4 Summary |
| a different year-end slip that is not ordinary T4 employment reporting | T4A |
| a Quebec-specific year-end employment slip | RL-1 |
| a correction after the original T4 filing | Amended T4 or Cancelled T4 |
Questions This Section Answers
- How is a year-end slip different from a pay stub?
- Which employer summary supports T4 filing?
- When is a reporting record something other than a T4?
- What is the difference between amending a T4 and cancelling one?
- How do pension adjustments and taxable benefits show up in year-end reporting?
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In this section
- Amended T4
What an amended T4 means in Canadian payroll and how a corrected slip differs from an original or cancelled T4.
- Cancelled T4
What a cancelled T4 means in Canadian payroll and how it differs from correcting a slip with an amended T4.
- Pension Adjustment
What a pension adjustment means in Canadian payroll reporting and why it appears on year-end slips rather than ordinary pay-period records.
- T4
Year-end employment slip that reports remuneration paid and key payroll deductions from the calendar year.
- T4 Summary
Employer-side year-end summary that totals T4 slips for one payroll account and compares reported deductions with remittances.
- T4A
Information slip for certain non-salary amounts that should not be treated as ordinary T4 employment income.
- Taxable Benefits Reporting
Year-end step that carries taxable benefit values from payroll records into T4 and RL-1 reporting.
Revised on Friday, April 24, 2026