The disability tax credit (DTC) is a non-refundable tax credit in Canada that helps persons with disabilities or their supporting persons reduce the amount of income tax they may have to pay. An individual may claim the disability amount once they are eligible for the DTC. This amount includes a supplement for persons under 18 years of age at the end of the year. The purpose of the DTC is to provide for greater tax equity by allowing some relief for disability costs, since these are unavoidable additional expenses that other taxpayers don’t have to face.
Benefits? You bet your bottom dollar there is!
From child benefits amd retirement plans to savings on your income tax amount, there are so many good reasons to try to apply. It’s worth a shot, and more and more people are being accepted with neurodivergence. The form can seem pretty intimdating, but the folks over at DTC Solutions have a fantastic facebook group that has very helpful guides to the entire process.
If you do get approved, you can request RevCan to reass your old tax returns to see if you can get a retroactive payback of taxes, as they will apply the tax credit to those past years. There are some groups and companies that will take a percentage of your payback, but DTC only charges set fees. That is the difference between them and many others who say they can help out. It’s worth looking into the facebook group and seeing what actual people affected by it are saying.
See links below for the form and a link to the DTC Solutions website. Thanks to them for some of the information in this article.
