How to claim the Ontario Senior Homeowners' Property Tax Grant — and autofill your details with my-id.ca
Claim the senior property tax grant without retyping your personal details
The Ontario Senior Homeowners' Property Tax Grant is claimed through the annual income tax return — and the personal identity fields on the schedule are the same name, address, and date of birth you enter on other Ontario government applications. This guide is an example of storing those repeating fields in my-id.ca.
Official form and source
Start from the official Ontario source and always use the current version — eligibility criteria can change:
- Service page: Senior Homeowners' Property Tax Grant — ontario.ca
What this grant is about
The Senior Homeowners' Property Tax Grant helps low-to-moderate income seniors offset property tax costs. It is claimed on Schedule ON(S12) as part of the Ontario personal income tax return filed annually with the Canada Revenue Agency.
Before you start: what to gather
- Your name, date of birth, and address.
- Your property address (which may differ from your mailing address).
- Your annual income information for the applicable tax year.
Confirm current eligibility and income thresholds on ontario.ca.
How my-id.ca makes it faster
- Store your personal details once. Save your name, date of birth, and address in my-id.ca.
- Autofill the identity fields on the tax schedule or in your tax software using my-id.ca.
- Enter income details yourself — these are year-specific financial figures.
- File your return including the grant claim.
Why do it in my-id.ca
Personal identity fields — name, address, date of birth — repeat identically across every Ontario tax credit, government benefit, and ServiceOntario application. Stored once in my-id.ca — in Canada, with no third-party AI — each form starts mostly filled.
Frequently asked questions
- How do I claim the Ontario Senior Homeowners' Property Tax Grant?
- The grant is claimed on Schedule ON(S12) as part of your Ontario personal income tax return filed with CRA. Confirm current eligibility requirements on ontario.ca.
- What information is required?
- Your name, address, date of birth, social insurance number, and property address. These are the same repeating identity fields my-id.ca stores for autofill.
- Does my-id.ca file my tax return for me?
- No. my-id.ca autofills your personal identity details on forms; you complete and file your tax return yourself.
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.