Timeline for What to do when company insists they need personal information they don't, like SIN for a contractor?
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| Jul 5, 2023 at 6:03 | vote | accept | GlaceBuff1 | ||
| Apr 27, 2023 at 4:23 | comment | added | Loren Pechtel | Even if they don't have to treat you as an employee I would think they would need to identify the entity they paid. That's certainly how it works in the US--they need a number for the business, if you have no separate number for a business you use your personal number. | |
| Apr 25, 2023 at 20:28 | comment | added | DJClayworth | Then that's probably the explanation. If you don't have a company they probably have to treat you like an employee, which may mean they have to deduct tax which means they need your SIN. Possibly. I'm unclear as to the exact legal details. Creating a sole proprietorship is cheap and easy and would solve some of these problems. | |
| Apr 25, 2023 at 20:01 | comment | added | GlaceBuff1 | @DJClayworth I don't have a company | |
| Apr 25, 2023 at 15:03 | history | edited | DJClayworth | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 25, 2023 at 13:22 | comment | added | DJClayworth | @GlaceBuff1 Please edit that info into the question. Do you have a company for the consulting? A sole proprietorship? | |
| Apr 25, 2023 at 11:59 | comment | added | Kate Gregory | From canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/businesses/topics/… "If you do not have the SIN, enter nine zeros" -- they do not need it. My incorporated firm provides services to Canadian firms (we invoice) and NEVER have any of us received a T4A. So another answer is "don't do T4As then" but if they want to, they still don't need your SIN. | |
| Apr 25, 2023 at 8:10 | comment | added | GlaceBuff1 | They said it's because they issue a T4A. Does that make sense? Is issuing a T4A a valid reason to need the SIN? | |
| Apr 24, 2023 at 1:45 | comment | added | Nelson | @Hilmar we just don't have private companies lobbying against a simplified tax system. I didn't file my taxes for 10 years and then did it in one go. Got 10 years of tax refund. | |
| Apr 23, 2023 at 3:49 | history | answered | DJClayworth | CC BY-SA 4.0 |