Margin or Options Trading. Should your personal information need to be updated, please also complete the Update/Change of Client Information form. You can now set up CRA Direct Deposit directly through RBC Online Banking or the RBC Mobile app.Please note that registering for Direct Deposit through RBC Online Banking or the RBC Mobile app.
The manage direct deposit service is currently unavailable in our CRA login services. You can still enrol directly through your financial institution.
Don't miss a payment!
Direct deposit is fast, convenient and secure. Register for direct deposit today to ensure you get your payments on time in the event of an emergency or unforeseen circumstances!
For more information and to find out how to update your account, please visit our Frequently asked questions about direct deposit.
If you receive one of the following payments from the CRA and have a Canadian bank account, you can sign up for direct deposit:
- income tax refund
- goods and services tax/harmonized sales tax credit and any similar provincial and territorial payments
- Canada child benefit and any similar provincial and territorial payments
- Canada workers benefit
- deemed overpayment of tax
Note
If you have already signed up for direct deposit with the CRA, we will use the existing bank account information for any payments you are entitled to receive.
How to sign up
Online
You can sign up yourself if you are registered for My Account. If you are not yet registered, why wait? My Account can help you quickly and easily manage your tax affairs online, including signing up for direct deposit or changing your account information.
You can also see if you have any uncashed cheques that are older than six months.
Online - mobile application
To start or update direct deposit information, use MyCRA.
New Sign up through more financial institutions
You can now sign up for direct deposit or change your account information through many financial institutions.
Banks (individuals)
- Alterna Bank Alterna Savings and Credit Union Limited Alterna Savings
- ATB Financial Alberta Treasury Branches
- BMO Bank of Montreal
- Canadian Western Bank CWB Financial Group
- CIBC Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
- HSBCHSBC Bank Canada
- Laurentian Bank Laurentian Bank of Canada LBC
- LBC Digital Laurentian Bank of Canada
- National Bank National Bank of Canada
- RBC Royal Bank of Canada
- Scotiabank Bank of Nova Scotia
- TD Canada Trust Toronto-Dominion Bank TD Bank
Credit unions and trust companies (individuals)
- ABCU Alberta's Credit Union
- Alterna Savings Alterna Savings and Credit Union Limited Alterna Bank
Once you provide consent through one of these financial institutions, your CRA direct deposit information will be updated the following day. We encourage you to visit your financial institution’s website for information on how to sign up.
By phone
To sign up for direct deposit or to change your account information, call CRA at 1-800-959-8281. You will need your:
- social insurance number
- full name and current address, including postal code
- date of birth
- most recent income tax and benefit return and information about the most recent payments you received from the Canada Revenue Agency
- banking information: three-digit financial institution number, five-digit transit number, and your account number
Do not close your old bank account until your first payment has been deposited to your new bank account as it may already be in process.
If you expect to receive at least one of the following payments for your business from the Canada Revenue Agency, you can sign up for direct deposit:
- corporation income tax refund
- goods and services tax/harmonized sales tax refund
- refund of excise tax or other levies
- refund of payroll deductions
- Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS)
How to sign up
Online
As a business owner or delegated authority, you can start or update a direct deposit online.
To complete your direct deposit application or to manage your direct deposit information, log in or register for:
New Sign up through financial institutions
The CRA may contact you by phone to confirm information. If you have questions about a call you receive, you may read more about how to recognize scams.
You can now sign up for direct deposit for certain business accounts or change your account information through your financial institution. To be eligible to enroll for CRA direct deposit for businesses, your business must have a valid 15 digit business number and one of the following CRA program accounts:
- RT – Goods and Services Tax/Harmonized Sales Tax
- RP – Payroll
- RC – Corporate Income Tax
- ZA - Canada Emergency Rent Subsidy (CERS)
* Note: You will need to sign up your Canada Emergency Rent Subsidy account (ZA) to receive the CERS by direct deposit.
Banks (businesses)
- BMO Online Banking Bank of Montreal or BMO Online Banking for Business Bank of Montreal
- Canadian Western Bank CWB Financial Group
- CIBC online banking Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce or CIBC Cash Management Online Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
- HSBC HSBC Bank Canada
- Laurentian Bank (coming soon)
- RBC Royal Bank of Canada
- Scotiabank Bank of Nova Scotia
- TD Canada Trust Toronto-Dominion Bank TD Bank
Credit unions and trust companies (businesses)
If you are the trustee, custodian, executor, or other type of legal representative for a trust, you can start or change direct deposit information. The name on the bank account must match the name of the trust.
How to sign up
By mail
- Fill out Form T3-DD, Direct Deposit Request for T3.
- Mail the completed form to the address on the form.
For more information about direct deposit for trusts, call 1-800-959-8281.
You can start direct deposit or change your banking information related to direct deposit if the following conditions apply:
- you are a Canadian payer or agent
- your non-resident tax account has three alpha characters starting with NR followed by six digits
- your Canadian bank account is registered in Canada
- the name on your Canadian bank account matches the name on your non-resident tax account
If you are a non-resident of Canada filing a Form NR7-R, Application for Refund of Part XIII Tax Withheld, you can ask the Canada Revenue Agency to deposit your refund directly into your bank account at a Canadian financial institution. The name on the bank account must match the name of the applicant or the authorized person who signs the certification section on Form NR7-R.
How to sign up
By mail
Non-resident account holder
- Fill out Form NR304, Direct Deposit Request for Non-Resident Account Holders and NR7-R Refund Applicants.
- Mail the completed form to the address on the form.
NR7R refund applicant
- Fill out Form NR304, Direct Deposit Request for Non-Resident Account Holders and NR7-R Refund Applicants.
- Attach the completed NR304 to the Form NR7-R, Application for Refund of Part XIII Tax Withheld refund application.
- Mail the completed forms to the address on the forms.
Rbc Online Banking Direct
For more information about direct deposit for non-resident account holders and NR7-R refund applicants, call 1-855-284-5946.
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This page shows your options for direct deposit with My Account.
Please choose one of the following three options:
- Continue to manage direct deposit
If you do not want the CRA and ESDC to share your information, or if you are not receiving CPP payments, choose this option. - For payments from the CRA, use the deposit information on file with ESDC
To choose this option, you must be receiving CPP (Canada Pension Plan) payments. This option will let the CRA ask Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) to send your deposit information to the CRA. The CRA will use that information for your CRA account. - View or update your direct deposit information for income tax refunds, WITB payments, and GST/HST credit payments, and share the information with ESDC
To choose this option, you must be receiving CPP payments. This option lets you send deposit information to ESDC for your CPP payments, and you can update information and send it to ESDC for your CPP account.
After choosing your option, select “Next.”
Consent to share direct deposit information
If you choose to have your deposit information shared between the CRA and ESDC, select “I agree,” followed by “Next.” To return to the previous page, select 'Previous.'
If you decide to not allow your information to be shared between the CRA and ESDC, select “I do not agree” followed by “Next.” Then you will see the “Manage direct deposit” page.
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Direct deposit confirmation
This is confirmation that your banking information has been accepted by the CRA and that the information will be sent to ESDC to use for your CPP payments. To exit the direct deposit application, select “Return to home page.”
Request to share information is not accepted
If ESDC does not accept your request to share information, you will receive the following message:
“ESDC was unable to process your request to share your Direct Deposit information. Please contact ESDC at 1-800-277-9914 for more information.”
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Non-acceptance could be for several reasons: for example, you do not receive CPP payments; or your family name or date of birth on file with ESDC does not match CRA records.
This message will stay on your account for three months.