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Family and childcare credit tax support in Quebec
A focused Quebec tax preparation path for families whose return involves childcare expenses, dependant details, tuition transfers, medical receipts, and other documented credits.
Best when your file includes childcare receipts or Relevé 24 slips, custody or dependant details, and your spouse’s income.
- Human review before submission
- Secure intake for tax documents
- English and French
Connect family expenses to the right records
Start with childcare receipts and the household facts that explain who paid and who is included.
Gather receipts and dates
Include RL-24 slips, childcare receipts, and changes in custody or household arrangements.
Identify linked returns
Mention a spouse or another parent when expenses require coordination.
Available remotely to families in Montreal and across Quebec, with English or French support for childcare receipts, custody facts, dependant information, and coordinated household returns.
Who this service is for
This path is for households where childcare, custody, dependants, tuition, medical expenses, or a family-status change must be coordinated rather than entered on one return in isolation.
- Parents with childcare receipts, a Relevé 24, provider information, or questions about who paid an expense.
- Separated or shared-custody households that need dates, agreements, addresses, and dependant facts organized consistently.
- Families coordinating tuition transfers, medical expenses, caregiver information, a new child, marital-status changes, or a dependant's own return.
Pricing guidance
The price depends on slips, schedules, tax years, and follow-up needed for the file.
- Standard personal files usually begin at the personal return tier.
- Extra schedules, notices, investments, prior years, or follow-up can change scope.
- The pricing page explains the current tiers before you start.
Pricing is based on the actual scope after the documents, tax years, schedules, and notice details are reviewed.
Why this service is scoped carefully
Family claims are scoped from receipts, custody and payment facts, household dates, and linked returns—not from a generic assumption about which parent can claim an amount.
Receipt and payer evidence
Childcare and medical records are organized by provider, beneficiary, payer, payment date, reimbursement, and available Quebec slips.
Household facts stay consistent
TaxCove works in English and French to align dependant, custody, address, spouse, and family-status details across the relevant returns.
No assumed credit entitlement
The service documents the facts and records available; eligibility, allocation, and amounts depend on current rules and the complete household situation.
What is included
The preparation sequence connects provider records, payment evidence, custody and dependant facts, and any related spouse or student return.
Childcare record matching
We match receipts, Relevé 24 information, provider details, dates, payer records, and reimbursements before amounts are prepared.
Custody and dependant timeline
Addresses, custody periods, support arrangements, births, separations, and marital-status changes are organized for the filing year.
Linked-return coordination
We identify when a spouse, dependant, or student's return and available amounts must be reviewed before the family file can be finalized.
Medical and caregiver preparation
Receipts and support facts are grouped by person, date, payer, reimbursement, and relationship so incomplete totals are not assumed.
Childcare evidence and advance payments
Match the provider’s documents to the household’s eligible activity and period.
Reference points for this file
- Quebec’s childcare credit is calculated on Schedule C, with requirements for the child, household, activity and expenses. An RL-24 generally supports the claim; limited receipt exceptions exist, including some care outside Quebec.
- If advance childcare-credit payments were received in 2025, line 455 guidance directs the RL-19 box C amount to line 441. Include that slip so advances are reconciled rather than claimed a second time.
References accessed September 27, 2026 (2026-09-27). Return guidance concerns 2025; confirm the deadlines and conditions for the actual file.
What is not included
These limits keep expectations clear around tax preparation, document review, and follow-up.
Review detailed exclusions
This service does not promise a specific balance, filing result, authority decision, penalty treatment, or tax amount.
It does not replace legal representation, investment advice, financial planning, or access to government accounts that only the taxpayer or an authorized representative can manage.
Bookkeeping cleanup, multi-year reconstruction, objections, appeals, or extended correspondence are scoped separately when they are needed.
Documents to prepare
Prepare records that show who incurred and paid each expense, who lived where, and which related returns affect the household calculation.
Childcare receipts, Relevé 24 slips, provider names and tax identifiers, payment dates, and reimbursement details.
Custody schedules or agreements, dependant addresses, support-payment context, and dates of family-status changes.
Spouse and dependant income information plus any student return, tuition slip, or transfer record that affects coordination.
Medical or caregiver receipts organized by patient, provider, date paid, reimbursement, and proof of payment.
Common mistakes we help prevent
Family-file errors usually arise when a receipt, payer, dependant, custody period, or linked return is considered alone.
Using childcare totals without matching provider information, Relevé 24 records, payment dates, and reimbursements.
Reporting a dependant or custody arrangement differently across parents or across federal and Quebec returns.
Claiming tuition, medical, or caregiver amounts before the related person's return and available information are reviewed.
Leaving a birth, separation, move, marriage, or support arrangement out of the filing-year timeline.
How it works
The process starts with the household timeline and links each expense to the person, payer, and related return.
Step 1
Map the household for the year
Record custody periods, addresses, spouse and dependant relationships, and family-status changes.
Step 2
Match receipts to people and payers
Upload childcare, medical, tuition, and caregiver records with provider, date, payer, and reimbursement details.
Step 3
Coordinate linked returns
We flag missing spouse, dependant, or student-return information and inconsistent federal or Quebec facts.
Step 4
Confirm supported treatment
The family file proceeds after the records and relationships supporting each item are clear.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need a Relevé 24 for childcare expenses?
Provide it whenever one was issued. If it was not issued, identify the provider, dates, amounts paid, payer, and receipts so the missing record can be assessed.
What should shared-custody parents prepare?
Prepare the custody schedule or agreement, dependant addresses, who paid each expense, and the dates of any family-status change.
Can tuition information affect a parent's return?
It can, but the student's own return and available transfer information must be reviewed before family treatment is finalized.
Do you guarantee a family or childcare credit?
No. Eligibility and allocation depend on the current rules, household facts, receipts, payer information, and related returns.
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Use Start when household records are coordinated
Start when childcare slips and receipts are available and custody, dependant, spouse, and student-return facts are known.
Start a family returnContact first for shared or changing custody
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