This form can only be electronically transmitted to the CRA. Although the form must be transmitted separately from the T2 return, the program allows preparers to transmit both documents at the same time; the transmitted documents will be forwarded to the appropriate CRA electronic services.
For the form to be eligible for electronic transmission and the value of the EFILE status to indicate Eligible, the answers to the four questions in the Electronic filing section, must all be Yes:
- Do you want to transmit a cancellation request for this business?
- Were all diagnostics related to Form CANCELLATION corrected in the T2 EFILE diagnostic tab?
- Were all diagnostics with the Cancellation mention corrected in the General diagnostic tab?
- Is the form applicable?
The answers to the questions Were all diagnostics related to Form CANCELLATION corrected in the T2 EFILE diagnostic tab? and Were all diagnostics with the Cancellation mention corrected in the General diagnostic tab? are defined by the program based on data entered in the form. Overriding a negative answer to one of these questions to a positive answer can cause the electronic transmission of the form to be rejected by the CRA.
In addition, one of options A to D in the Cancellation information section must be selected.
IMPORTANT: CRA requests that the signature page of the cancellation request be signed by an authorized signing officer of the business before it is transmitted. A signed paper copy of the signature page should not be mailed, unless requested to do so by the CRA as a result of an audit.
Note that a cancellation request cannot be transmitted with the program using a WAC; an EFILE number must be used.
Electronically transmit a cancellation request and an authorization request at the same time
The program allows you to file a cancellation request and an authorization request at the same time. However, to prevent the cancellation of an authorization request transmitted during the operation, the program will first file the cancellation request before electronically filing the authorization request, as the regular process is to first cancel any previously given authorization and then, make a new authorization request.
IMPORTANT: Where transmission of an authorization request is accepted while transmission of a cancellation request is rejected, pay attention to any future filing of a cancellation request, because it could cancel all previously transmitted authorization requests. A diagnostic will be issued by the program if this potentially problematic situation is detected.
See Also
Cancel authorization for a representative (Canada.ca Web page)