Your marital status can have a big impact on your return as your eligibility for many credits are deductions consider your marital status and living situation.
It’s important that the marital status you enter on your tax return matches what the CRA is expecting for you as defined by the tax law, even if you may think of yourself as something different.
For example, if you divorced during the tax year, you may now think of yourself as single. But, for the purposes of your tax return, the CRA expects divorced people to enter their marital status as divorced on their annual return, up until the year they remarry or enter into a new common-law relationship.