The Saskatchewan Fertility Treatment Tax Credit is a refundable provincial tax credit introduced for the 2025 tax year to help offset the cost of fertility treatments. Eligible individuals can claim 50% of qualifying fertility-related expenses, up to a maximum of $20,000 in expenses, resulting in a potential refund of up to $10,000.

This credit is available for one lifetime claim per individual and applies to eligible treatments and related prescription drug costs incurred within Saskatchewan. Expenses must generally be paid to a Saskatchewan-licensed medical practitioner or fertility clinic, and are calculated net of any reimbursements (such as private insurance).

Eligible expenses can be claimed over any 12-month period ending in the taxation year, and the credit is claimed through your annual personal income tax return. Importantly, claiming this credit does not reduce your ability to also claim the Medical Expense Tax Credit. For more information visit Government of Saskatchewan Fertility Tax Credit. 

The Saskatchewan First-Time Home Buyers’ Tax Credit is a non-refundable provincial tax credit designed to help offset the cost of purchasing your first home. For the 2025 tax year, eligible individuals can claim up to $15,000 of a home purchase, resulting in a maximum provincial tax credit of $1,575.

To qualify, you must be a first-time home buyer, meaning you (and your spouse or common-law partner) have not owned and lived in another home in the year of purchase or in the previous four years. The home must be located in Saskatchewan and intended as your principal residence within one year of purchase.

Eligible properties include new or existing homes such as single-family houses, townhomes, condominiums, and mobile homes. The credit can be shared between spouses or partners and is claimed on your Saskatchewan personal income tax return for the year the home is purchased. Learn more Government of Saskatchewan First-Time Homebuyers’ Tax Credit. 

When claiming travel expenses, you have two options. First, you can use actual meal and gas expenses, which requires keeping receipts. Alternatively, you may opt for the flat rate, which doesn’t necessitate receipts but does require documentation to support the trip. For trips originating in Saskatchewan, the flat rate is $0.55/km, with meals up to $23 per meal and a maximum of $69 per person per day. However, to claim travel expenses, the trip must be at least 40 km one way, and for meals, at least 80 km one way.

Yes. In provinces, the tax-exempt allowance for employees using personal vehicles for business purposes has increased by two cents. Specifically, it’s now 70 cents per kilometer for the first 5,000 kilometers driven, and 64 cents for each additional kilometer. To claim this allowance, you must maintain a logbook recording personal and business kilometers driven.

Possibly. Generally, commission salespeople can claim employment expenses if they were required to pay for them. For other employees, if your contract specifies that you must provide your own vehicle or cover certain work-related expenses, you may be eligible. In all cases, your employer must complete a T2200 Declaration of Conditions of Employment. Additionally, you might be able to recover some GST paid on employment expenses. If you’re an employee of a GST registrant and deduct expenses from your employment income, completing form GST370 with your return may result in a GST rebate.

Six years.

Generally, the deadline to file is April 30 for most individuals. However, if you or your spouse/common-law partner are self-employed, you have until June 15 to file. Despite this, any taxes owed are still due by April 30.

Starting with the 2016 tax year, the sale of a principal residence must be reported on Schedule 3, Capital Gains, of the T1 Income Tax and Benefit Return. Consequently, this reporting requirement applies to all sales that occur on or after January 1, 2016.