Am I a tax resident

[hishamhilal9208]

Hello all, 

I have a complicated situation and I need the experts help on it.

I have landed as a PR in Canada in November 2019, stayed for 15 days and then left for some family matters. I was employed outside Canada when I was there but I was on leave for those 15 days and I landed just to finish my landing formalities. 

Anyways, while in Canada, I opened a chequing and a savings account and issued a credit card BUT the accounts are all empty until now and the credit card was never ever used. 

According to the CRA website, I have secondary ties and these arent enough to make me a tax resident. 

However, when I emailed my bank they informed me that its stated on my file that I am a tax resident, when I knew that I honestly panicked and didnt know what to do and whether this makes me a tax resident or not.

So do I need to file taxes for 2019? and declare my global income?. I dont want to be in violation of any Canadian laws.

@SusanY1  @xmasbaby0 @DoninGA  your insights are highly appreciated and considered 

Note: I will be moving permanently to Canada in a month so I will be filing the 2020 tax return.

[xmasbaby0 · Accepted solution]

You are using the wrong site. This is the site for United States income tax questions.  You need the site for Canada.

Vous êtes sur le site américain. Vous avez besoin du site ImpôtRapide pour le Canada.

CANADA  This is the U.S. TurboTax public user forum. For help with Canadian taxes, please post your question in the Canada TurboTax user forum., at the following link.

https://turbotax.community.intuit.ca/tax-help

https://turbotax.intuit.ca/tax-software/index.jsp

[hishamhilal9208]

Thank you for pointing this out to me, my apologies