Filing Requirements
File a Return
All condominium corporations are legally required to file condo returns with the Condominium Authority of Ontario. Condo returns can be broken down into four categories depending on the date the condo corporation was created.
Create an Account and Manage Your Condo Corporation Profile
You will require an account with full access privileges if you are the designated individual in your corporation who is filing. For more assistance, check out our guide to creating accounts.
Review our filing guides
The Condo Authority has developed multiple guides to help you file condo returns and notices of change. These guides include step-by-step instructions and helpful screenshots to assist you with the filing process:
Helpful guides
Gather Your Information
The process of filing a condo return or a notice of change will require you to provide specific information about your condo corporation. As such, you will need to gather the most up-to-date information about your condo corporation before you file. For more information on what you need to know before you file condo returns or notices of change, check out our Summary of the Information Required for Condo Returns and Notices of Change.
Invoices & late filings
The Condo Authority invoices corporations for the appropriate filing period after the corporation has filed and accepts payment by credit, debit, Google Pay, direct deposit or cheque. The CAO charges condo corporations a $200 late filing fee for each overdue return.
Condo corporations that do not file their condo returns may also have a Registrar’s Certificate issued against them. This document appears on the Condo Registry’s entry for the condo corporation.
Condo corporations with outstanding condo returns and assessment fees cannot launch a proceeding before the Condominium Authority Tribunal or a court in Ontario without the court’s permission.
Frequently Asked Questions
Your first step after receiving a notice from the CAO regarding a return that needs to be filed is for your condo corporation to file any outstanding returns. If you do not file, a Registrar’s Certificate will be posted to your corporation’s page on the CAO’s Condo Registry.
For more information, please refer to the notice that you received. For additional information on how to file a return, please see our guide on filing returns.
If you require further assistance, please contact our Information Services team.
No – condo corporations must file a notice of change within 30 days of a change to their condo board, management service provider, number of units, or other changes which can be found in our guide to notices of change.
Please file immediately to update any information and to avoid further action. The notice from the CAO specifies what needs to be filed. If you do not file, a Registrar’s Certificate will be posted to your corporation’s page on the CAO’s Condo Registry.
See our guide on filing notices of change for more information.
If you require further assistance, please contact our Information Services team.
Registrar’s Certificates are posted to your corporation’s page in the CAO’s Condo Registry if your condo corporation does not file a required return or notice of change.
The Condo Act empowers the Registrar of the CAO to issue Registrar’s Certificates. The registrar will post a certificate to the CAO’s public registry only if a condo corporation continues to be non-compliant after multiple notices.
Condo corporations must file their outstanding returns or notice of changes to have their Registrar’s Certificates removed from the condo registry.
Please see our content on filing returns and filing notices of change for more information.
If you require further assistance, please contact our Information Services team.
