As per the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), these are amounts you contributed to your own RRSP, PRPP, or SPP or to an RRSP or SPP for your spouse or common-law partner after 1990 but did not deduct on line 208, (prior to 2019) or 20800 (after 2018), of any previous income tax and benefit return, or designate as an HBP or LLP repayment.
Fill out Schedule 7 for contributions made from March 3, 2022 to March 1, 2023. AttachSchedule 7to your 2022 income tax and benefit return.
If you have already filed your income tax and benefit return, fill out Schedule 7 and a FormT1-ADJ, T1 Adjustment requestand send it to yourtax centre. You should also include a copy of your contribution receipts showing your name and social insurance number.
If you did not deduct all of the contributions you made to your RRSP/PRPP/SPP or your spouse's or common-law partner's RRSP/SPP, you have two options:
you can leave the unused contributions in the plan
you can withdraw the unused contributions
In either case, if you contribute over your RRSP deduction limit, you may have to pay tax on the unused contributions that exceed your RRSP deduction limit.
If you withdraw the unused contributions, you have to include them as income on your income tax and benefit return. However, you may be able to deduct an amount equal to the withdrawn contributions. For more information, see withdrawing unused contributions.
Your unused RRSP, PRPP or SPP contributions from previous years are identified on the line called “Unused RRSP contributions previously reported and available to deduct for 2022” on:
the RRSP Deduction Limit Statement, on your latest notice of assessment or notice of reassessment (see image below)
The portion of RPP which you contributed to in the past would have been included on an RRSP information slip and entered as such in your past return. Deductions can only be done from prior RRSP contribution entries. You may be able to review your previous available contributions by going into your MyAccount at the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA).
In order to help you with this situation and to clarify what you are seeing in your carry-forward contributions, we believe your best option is to contact our telephone support team for further assistance, as they have the option to view your screen to help resolve the issue. To contact them, please follow this link: Contact Us. When asked if you wish to receive an email say NO then say "speak to a representative" then hold the line.