Fitness Tax Overview:
The Children’s Fitness Tax Credit became effective January 1st of 2007.

You can claim to a maximum of $500 per child, the fees paid in 2008 that relate to the cost of registering your or your spouse’s or common-law partner’s child in a prescribed program of physical activity. The child must have been under 16 years of age or under 18 years of age if eligible for the disability amount, at the beginning of the year in which an eligible fitness expense was paid. You can claim this amount provided that another person has not already claimed the same fees and that the total claimed is not more than the maximum amount that would be allowed if only one of you were claiming the amount.

Prescribed program
To qualify for this amount, a program must:

• Be ongoing (either a minimum of eight weeks duration with a minimum of one session per week, or in the case of children’s camps, five consecutive days.
• Be supervised.
• Be suitable for children.
• Require significant physical activity.

Generally, most of the activities must include a significant amount of physical activity that contributes to cardio-respiratory endurance plus muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility and/or balance. This and further information can be found on the Canada Revenue Agency website at: www.cra-arc.gc.ca/fitness

The NHCA will send out an email with a link on how families can obtain their tax receipt for children’s soccer. Once the link is clicked on, you will be asked for your phone number and the system will then email the receipt to the email address we have on file from soccer registration.