T4 / T4A Updates

Completed

Compliance updates to T4 and T4A

What we’re doing:

We updated additional pages on the web portal to display an employee’s preferred name in lieu of their legal first name

Why we think you’ll like it:

• Changed file encoding: The encoding of T4 and T4A XML files has been changed from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1.

• Removed underscores: Underscores have been removed from the Submission Reference ID field.

Learn more:

• Elimination of manual file adjustments: Changing the file encoding to ISO-8859-1 eliminates the need for manual fixes when files contain French characters, such as in employee names.

• Error reduction: Removing underscores from the Submission Reference ID field prevents errors when submitting files to the Canada Revenue Agency.