Relevé 24: Frais de garde d'enfants (Childcare Expenses) (RL-24)

You’ll receive a Relevé 24 (RL-24) slip from your childcare service provider showing the total amount paid for childcare expenses during the year. As long as they offer childcare services, eligible providers can include:

  • Daycare centres
  • Boarding schools
  • Overnight camps
  • Day camps or
  • Nursery schools

Notes:

  • Don't forget to enter information about your dependant(s) for whom you received the RL-24 slip(s)!

  • If the childcare expenses you’re claiming were paid to an individual who isn’t required to issue an RL-24 slip, make sure you get their name, address, and SIN when getting a receipt. Keep this information with your receipt in case Revenu Québec asks to see it.

  • While you have to report all the information found on your RL-24 slip(s), it’s important to remember that some expenses, like those shown in box D, don’t qualify for the tax credit.

  • H&R Block’s tax software will transfer the amounts you enter from your paper RL-24 slip onto the Schedule C: Tax Credit for Childcare Expenses to automatically calculate your provincial credits.
  • To claim the federal childcare expenses deduction, you’ll need to enter amounts from your RL-24 slip into the T778: Child Care Expenses page. For certain childcare expenses, your RL-24 slip might include a note specifying the amount that can be used to claim the federal deduction. If that’s the case, enter this amount on your T778 page; otherwise, enter the amount shown in box C of your slip. You can find the T778 page by clicking your child’s name in the left-hand navigation panel.

Am I eligible?

In addition to receiving an RL-24 slip from your childcare provider, you must also meet the eligibility requirements outlined by Revenu Québec in order to claim the tax credit for childcare expenses.

 

Where do I claim this?

Before you begin, make sure that you’ve told us:

  • that you lived in QUÉBEC on December 31st, 2016
  • about your dependant(s) for whom you’ll be claiming childcare expenses
  1. On the QUICK ENTRY tab, click the QUICK SLIP icon. You will find yourself here:



  2. Type RL-24 or relevé 24 in the search field and either click the highlighted selection or press Enter to continue.

  3. When you arrive at the page for your RL-24 slip, enter your information into the tax software. 

 

 

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