A quick question about taxes. This year I am also a resident for tax purposes, and my common law husband (we became common law in sep 2015) is Canadian, so we want to do our taxes here in Canada together, for immigration reasons and of course because why not. So, my question is, has anyone done this in this configuration (temporary resident, worker, and Canadian common law spouse)? How does that work? We are planning to go to an accountant but I'd like to get an idea what to expect, and whether I need to bring anything? I was told that I will have to declare my world income, but do I do that on the same form as my husband? Or does he put me as his common law spouse and my income on his form, but I submit my own too ? earlier than his or can we submit these together at the same time? Or is there a whole different way to do it, so that we can say on the Statutory Declaration form (for common law) that we submitted a tax return form together? Also, we would like to let CIC know, and with our PR application (to be submitted later this year) we want to submit evidence that we've submitted our tax return together - how do we do that? do we have a copy of the tax return form to submit with the PR app, or is there a different way to do this?
(we do want to go to an accountant anyway, so if all else fails they'll probably give us a tip on that?).