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Last Updated: 2025-05-30
Steps: Set Up Payroll Taxes (CAN)

Steps: Set Up Payroll Taxes (CAN)

Workday provides tax data and deductions for processing federal and provincial payroll taxes according to Canadian tax authorities. Enter the company and worker-specific tax data.
  1. (Optional) Set up Workday to calculate taxes for nonresident workers and retirees who are earning income amounts for specified services performed in Canada.
  2. Set up a pay component group to either exclude or include pay components for a tax authority.
  3. Add worker tax elections or enable workers to add their own tax elections.
You can use these reports and the web service when you outsource tax filing to a third party:
  • Workers Compensation Summary
    report.
  • Workers Compensation Summary by Company
    report.
  • Provincial Employee Payroll Tax Summary
    report.
  • Tax Remittance Summary
    report.
  • Get Periodic Company CAN Tax Remittance Data
    web service. This web service doesn't support custom tax deductions.