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How to do a Trust Tax Return 2026

Navigate complex compliance, filing requirements, and tax strategies for Canadian personal trusts with confidence.

Created byJason Fleming
4.9
(14 reviews)
BeginnerUpdated Apr 16, 2026
How to do a Trust Tax Return 2026

What You'll Learn

check_circleIdentify the roles and responsibilities of settlors, trustees, and beneficiaries in a trust structure.
check_circleApply correct filing procedures for graduated rate estates and qualified disability trusts.
check_circleExecute accurate reporting for various income types, including capital gains, dividends, and business income.
check_circleAnalyze the requirements for Schedule 15 and foreign reporting forms like the T1135.
check_circleCalculate and allocate trust income to beneficiaries using appropriate T3 slips and summaries.

About This Course

This webinar explains how to complete a trust tax return (T3), including all accompanying schedules and T3 slips. It also covers tax compliance rules and filing deadlines. Numerous practical examples are used to clearly explain everything required to file a trust or estate tax return.

Features

This webinar covers how to complete a trust tax return (T3), including:

  • What a trust is and the roles of a beneficiary, settlor, trustee, graduated rate estate (GRE), qualified disability trust, and bare trust
  • How to wind up a trust and complete the T1135 foreign reporting form
  • Due dates, late-filing penalties, trust account numbers, and different types of trusts
  • How to complete the T3 jacket and schedules, including entering various types of income and credits
  • Allocating income and capital (assets) to trust beneficiaries
  • How to complete Schedule 15, T3 slips, and the T3 Summary
  • What happens after filing a return, including instalments and correcting errors using a T3-Adj

Your Instructor

Jason Fleming
Jason Fleming

CPA, CA, M.Acc

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Jason Fleming is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA), Chartered Accountant (CA) with a master’s degree in accounting. Jason is an associate professor, teaching stream, at York University, previously he was a tax manager at a Big-4 accounting firm in Toronto. Jason completed the CICA’s In-Depth tax course, ranked 8th in Ontario on the UFE (the CA professional exam) and taught tax week at the ICAO's Summer School. Jason is the author of CFE Tax, 9th edition, CFE Case Writing, 3rd edition and various tax articles.

Credit Information

Is this course eligible for my CPD requirements as a Canadian CPA?

Provincial regulators of CPAs in Canada do not require that independent providers of CPD be approved to offer courses. Instead, individual CPAs are responsible for assessing whether a CPD activity meets their requirements, and may take activities from any source provided those requirements are met.

Every course offered on LearnFormula is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, and advances learning objectives that are relevant to the responsibilities or professional competencies of Canadian CPAs. All activities on LearnFormula are quantifiable in terms of hours, and are also verifiable, in that users receive documented evidence of their attendance via a certificate of completion after finishing a course (and this certificate is stored by LearnFormula indefinitely). Nearly 100,000 Canadian CPAs successfully satisfy their CPD requirements via LearnFormula on an annual basis.

What Students Are Saying

4.9
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