{"id":7224,"date":"2025-01-09T10:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T18:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thor.ca\/?post_type=tax_alert&#038;p=7224"},"modified":"2025-02-14T12:15:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T20:15:48","slug":"cra-to-transition-to-online-delivery-of-business-correspondence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thor.ca\/blog\/2025\/01\/cra-to-transition-to-online-delivery-of-business-correspondence\/","title":{"rendered":"CRA to transition to online delivery of business correspondence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/revenue-agency\/news\/newsroom\/tax-tips\/tax-tips-2024\/businesses-cra-mail-online.html\">announced<\/a> that, starting in the spring of 2025, it will transition to using the CRA\u2019s online portal for businesses (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/revenue-agency\/services\/e-services\/digital-services-businesses\/business-account.html\">My Business Account<\/a>) as the default method of sending correspondence to businesses, instead of sending it by mail.<\/p>\n<p>To prepare for this transition, it is crucial that business owners or representatives sign in to My Business Account and confirm that the email address the CRA has on file is accurate. This will ensure that no correspondence is missed and that the CRA can notify the business, via email, when correspondence has been transmitted through My Business Account.<\/p>\n<p>This transition applies to all:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>new business number and program account registrations;<\/li>\n<li>existing businesses registered for My Business Account; and<\/li>\n<li>businesses who have a representative that accesses the CRA\u2019s services on their behalf via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/revenue-agency\/services\/e-services\/represent-a-client.html\">Represent a Client<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Starting in May 2025, however, a business owner or representative of the business may request that the business continue to receive correspondence from the CRA by mail. This can be done in one of two ways:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>select paper mail as the delivery method for correspondence in My Business Account; or<\/li>\n<li>fill out and mail form RC681 \u2013\u00a0<em>Request to Activate Paper Mail for Business <\/em>to the CRA.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The CRA will continue to send correspondence by mail to existing businesses not registered for My Business Account (through a business owner or representative) and non-resident businesses without access to My Business Account (through a representative or a Canadian-resident owner). The same applies to registered charities unless they sign up to receive online mail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/revenue-agency\/news\/newsroom\/tax-tips\/tax-tips-2024\/businesses-cra-mail-online.html\">announced<\/a> that, starting in the spring of 2025, it will transition to using the CRA\u2019s online portal for businesses (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/revenue-agency\/services\/e-services\/digital-services-businesses\/business-account.html\">My Business Account<\/a>) as the default method of sending correspondence to businesses, instead of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax-alerts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thor.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thor.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thor.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thor.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thor.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thor.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7225,"href":"https:\/\/www.thor.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7224\/revisions\/7225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thor.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thor.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thor.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}