Living outside of Canada more than 180 days

[Ash R]

Hello All,
We are Canadian Citizens and we traveled from Canada on 27th Jan, 2024 to visit India (our home country). We have to live in India for a longer time period due to personal reasons.
Do we need to tell CRA about this? Or have to wait for 180 days to complete? Our CCB is coming, We are not interested in it, if they stop or ask for a refund we are happy to do so.

Tax filing for 2023 is done as we were in Canada for the entire Tax year.

Pls Advise. Thank you.

 

[jmbell]

180 days is not a hard rule in most cases. The treaty would look at where is your centre of life to determine residency.