Your tax details and CRA
Why whodo may ask for your details when your sales grow, what it does with them, and how to answer.
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) asks platforms like whodo to report sellers whose sales through them pass a threshold. whodo keeps a record of what's sold through it: marketplace sales, and orders and bookings whodo brought you. A business's own customers don't count.
When whodo asks
- Things you sell: at 30 sales or more, or over $2,800, in a year. whodo asks at 20 sales or $2,000, so there's time.
- Vehicles you rent out (a car, a bike, a canoe) and services you do: from the first one.
whodo asks in the app and by email, then reminds you twice before December 31.
How to answer
Go to Your account → Tax details. For each way you sell (yourself, or a business you own), give:
1. Your Legal name.
2. You are: a person, a sole proprietor, or a business.
3. Your Home address (a business: its Registered office).
4. Your Date of birth (people only).
5. Your Social Insurance Number, or a business's Business number.
Tap Save my details. To change them later, come back: leave the number or date empty to keep what you gave.
If you'd rather not
Tick I don't want to give my number. That's your choice, and it counts as your answer. The law asks sellers to give these details when asked, and CRA (not whodo) can charge a $500 penalty to a seller who doesn't. whodo reports with what it has.
What happens to them
- whodo uses them only for this report.
- Your number and date of birth are stored encrypted. Nobody at whodo sees them; only the last 3 digits show.
- By January 31, whodo sends CRA each reported seller's details and sales by quarter, and sends you a copy.
- They're kept six years after the year they're about, as the law requires, even if you delete your account.