How to claim the Ontario book publishing tax credit — and autofill 013-0940 with my-id.ca
Complete an OBPTC claim without retyping corporation and publisher details
Corporations claiming the Ontario Book Publishing Tax Credit on their Ontario corporate tax return repeat legal name, business number, mailing address, and qualifying publication particulars on every OBPTC claim package. This guide is an example of storing them once in my-id.ca.
Official form and source
Start from the official source and always use the current version — form numbers and links can change:
- Service page: Corporations tax forms and publications — ontario.ca
- Form (Central Forms Repository): Ontario Book Publishig Tax Credit (OBPTC) Claim — 013-0940
What this form is about
Form 013-0940 is the Ontario Book Publishing Tax Credit (OBPTC) Claim filed with Ontario corporation income tax — confirm eligibility and current credit rules on ontario.ca.
Before you start: what to gather
- Corporation legal name and Ontario business number.
- Mailing address and authorized signatory contact details.
- Qualifying publications — titles, authors, and publication dates.
- Eligible expenditures supporting the claim — confirm current fields on ontario.ca.
Confirm the current process on ontario.ca.
How my-id.ca makes it faster
- Save it once. Store your corporation name, business number, and signatory contact details in your my-id.ca profile.
- Keep documents ready. Upload supporting documents to my-id.ca Files so you are not searching at form time.
- Autofill the form. Use the my-id.ca Chrome extension on a web form, or fill a PDF from your saved profile inside my-id.ca.
- Review and submit yourself through the official channel.
Why do it in my-id.ca
Related Ontario forms repeat the same personal details. Captured once in my-id.ca — stored in Canada, with AI on its own servers — every form starts mostly complete.
Frequently asked questions
- Who may claim the OBPTC?
- Qualifying Ontario corporations in book publishing — confirm eligibility on ontario.ca.
- How does my-id.ca help?
- It autofills corporation name, business number, and signatory contact details.
- How does 013-0940 relate to other CT schedules?
- OBPTC is a separate credit schedule attached to the Ontario corporate tax return.
Fill it once. Reuse it everywhere.
Save your information in my-id.ca once, then autofill this form and the next one — web forms with the Chrome extension, PDFs right in the app. Your data is stored in Canada and AI runs on my-id.ca's own servers, never sent to third-party AI providers.