Cancel authorization for a representative
Your representative's access to your tax information remains until you or they cancel the access or it expires (if an expiry date was included in the authorization request). Your representative's access will not expire when we are notified of your death, unless they were your legal representative. For more information about legal representatives, go to Legal representative or Represent someone who has died.
Cancel your representative's authorization for a:
- personal tax account
- business tax account
- non-resident tax account
- trust tax account
- registered plan administrator account
- Online:
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Fastest way. Removing a representative online immediately cancels their access to your CRA account. You may do this through My Account in your CRA account.
CRA sign inAlternative online method
Your representative can log in to Represent a Client and cancel their own authorization.
- By phone:
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Slower way. You or your representative can call to cancel an authorization for your personal account at 1-800-959-8281.
For more information on assistance by telephone including wait times and hours of operation, go to Contact the Canada Revenue Agency.
- By mail:
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Slowest way. You or your representative can mail a form to the CRA.
Fill in Form AUT-01X, Cancel Authorization for a Representative, and mail it to the appropriate CRA tax centre listed on the form within six months of the date it is signed.
- Online:
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Fastest way. Removing a representative online immediately cancels their access to your CRA account. You may do this through My Business Account in your CRA account.
CRA sign inAlternative online method
Your representative can log in to Represent a Client and cancel their own authorization.
- By phone:
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Slower way. You or your representative can call to cancel an authorization for your business account at 1-800-959-5525.
For more information on assistance by telephone including wait times and hours of operation, go to Contact the Canada Revenue Agency.
- By mail:
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Slowest way. You or your representative can mail a form to the CRA.
To cancel your representative's authorization to your:
- Business account information, fill in Form AUT-01X, Cancel Authorization for a Representative, and mail the form to the appropriate CRA tax centre listed on the form within six months of the date it is signed.
- Selected Listed Financial Institutions account information, fill in Form RC7259X, Cancel Business Consent or Delegated Authority for Certain Selected Listed Financial Institutions, and mail the form to the CRA tax centre listed on the form within six months of the date it is signed.
- Online:
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Fastest way. Removing a representative online immediately cancels their access to your CRA account. You may do this through your Non-Resident Withholding Tax in your CRA account.
CRA sign inAlternative online method
Your representative can log in to Represent a Client and cancel their own authorization.
- By phone:
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Slower way. You or your representative can call to cancel an authorization for your non-resident account.
From Canada and the United States: 1-855-284-5946
From other parts of the world: 613-940-8499
For more information on assistance by telephone including wait times and hours of operation, go to Contact the Canada Revenue Agency.
- By mail or fax:
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Slowest way. You or your representative can mail or fax a form to the CRA.
Fill in Form AUT-01X, Cancel Authorization for a Representative, and mail or fax it to the following tax centre:
Sudbury Tax Centre
Post Office Box 20000, Station A
Sudbury ON P3A 5C1
CanadaFax 1-705-671-4559
- Online:
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Fastest way. Removing a representative online immediately cancels their access to your CRA account. You may do this through your CRA account, by selecting your Representative account and accessing the trust account.
Alternative online method
Your representative can log in to Represent a Client and cancel their own authorization.
- By phone:
-
You or your representative can call to cancel an authorization for your trust account at 1-800-959-8281.
For more information on assistance by telephone including wait times and hours of operation, go to Contact the Canada Revenue Agency.
- By mail:
-
Slowest way. You or your representative can mail a form to the CRA.
Fill in Form AUT-01X, Cancel Authorization for a Representative, and mail it to the appropriate CRA tax centre listed on the form within six months of the date it is signed.
- Online
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Fastest way: Removing a representative online immediately cancels their access to your CRA account. You may do this through the Registered Plan Administrator Account in your CRA Account.
CRA sign inAlternative online method
Your representative can log in to Represent a Client and cancel their own authorization.