Year-End summary requirements for employers with Québec employees

Year-End summary requirements for employers with Québec employees

Rise files your employees' individual RL-1 slips with Revenu Québec as part of your tax form run. The year-end summaries are different. You file those yourself, and finalizing your tax form run in Rise doesn't do it for you.

What Rise files and what you file

  • RL-1 slips (Relevé 1). Rise files these with Revenu Québec on your behalf when you choose to file through Rise in your tax form run. See Process tax form runs.
  • RL-1 Summary (RLZ-1.S-V). You complete and file this yourself. Rise doesn't submit it for you. Rise gives you the payroll figures it needs, and you supply the rest from information that sits outside your payroll.
  • CNESST Statement of Wages. You submit this yourself, directly to CNESST.
Warning
Warning: If you have an active business number with Revenu Québec, you have to file the RLZ-1.S-V. If you don't, Revenu Québec treats it as a non-submission and charges interest and penalty fees. This applies even if you had no Québec employees during the year.

Complete the RL-1 Summary (RLZ-1.S-V)

Work from Revenu Québec's Summary of Source Deductions and Employer Contributions (RLZ-1.S-V) page, which includes the form and the filing guide. The RL-1 Summary fillable version lets you fill the form in on screen.

  1. Pull your payroll figures. Go to Reports > Payroll reports > RL-1 Summary. The report shows your RL-1 slip counts and totals for the tax year by RS number, including QPP and QPIP, Québec income tax, HSF, and the summary totals the form asks for.
  2. Gather what Rise doesn't have. The Summary of Source Deductions and Employer Contributions (RLZ-1.S-V) section asks for information specific to your organization that sits outside your payroll with Rise.
  3. Report your total payroll. Revenu Québec uses Total Payroll to set your Health Services Fund (HSF) contribution rate. Include all salaries and wages paid during the taxation year across your Canadian payroll and every associated organization worldwide.
  4. Complete the Workforce Skills Development and Recognition Fund (WSDRF) section if it applies. If your Québec payroll is over $2,000,000, fill in the Work Chart for Eligible Training Expenditures on the second page of the form. You'll also need your training expenditure amounts from the previous year if you're carrying any forward.

Submit your CNESST Statement of Wages

CNESST sends you a letter called Statement of Wages / Déclaration des Salaires, either by mail or online depending on your preference settings with CNESST. The letter contains a user ID and a temporary password you'll use to submit your summary.

Filing deadlines

Submit your summaries by the dates specified in the documents you receive from Revenu Québec and CNESST. Filing late results in interest and penalty charges.


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