When will Wealthsimple Tax be available for 2026 returns?

Wealthsimple Tax 2026: status for the new tax year

Wealthsimple Tax has not announced when its version for the 2026 tax year will be available. As of September 19, 2026, Wealthsimple's tax page talks about 2025 returns and says the product is NETFILE-certified by the CRA and Revenu Quebec for tax years 2023 to 2025 (Wealthsimple Tax). The CRA's own listing matches: certified for 2023 to 2025 (CRA, Wealthsimple Tax details).

Searches for Wealthsimple Tax 2026 mix up two things. The 2026 tax year means income you earn during 2026, filed in spring 2027. If you want to file a 2025 return today, Wealthsimple Tax already supports it; only the 2026 version is still to come.

When can I file with Wealthsimple Tax in 2027?

You can file a 2026 return through Wealthsimple Tax only after two things happen: Wealthsimple releases its 2026 version, and the CRA opens NETFILE for 2026 returns. The CRA has not announced the 2027 NETFILE opening and usually does so in January or February (CRA, NETFILE eligibility).

Last year shows how the two connect. The CRA closed NETFILE from February 1 to 22, 2026 for tax year updates and reopened it on February 23, 2026 at 6:00 a.m. Eastern (Canada.ca, NETFILE). A year earlier, Wealthsimple's February 2025 product news said an updated version of Wealthsimple Tax had arrived now that NETFILE was open (Wealthsimple product news, February 2025). That is a past pattern, not a promise for 2027.

Can I start my return before NETFILE opens?

You can prepare, but you cannot submit. Even once a new version appears, a return sent before NETFILE opens has nowhere to go, and Auto-fill my return will be thin early in the season. The CRA says it should receive most slips from employers and financial institutions by the end of February, processed and available by mid-March, and slips it does not have yet will not appear in Auto-fill (CRA, About Auto-fill my return).

Worked example: if you have a T4 from your employer and a T5 from a Wealthsimple non-registered account, the dates differ. For the 2025 tax year, Wealthsimple issued T5 and T5008 slips on March 2, 2026 (Wealthsimple Help Centre, Important dates). Filing on the day NETFILE opened would have meant entering those slips by hand or leaving income out. The 2026 slip dates are not yet announced.

What you can do early

1. Download a PDF of your 2025 return from Wealthsimple Tax: Profile menu, Tax, choose the profile, then Documents and Tax returns.
2. Make sure you can sign in to CRA My Account, which Auto-fill my return uses.
3. Collect paper slips as they arrive and note which accounts will send slips later.
4. If you file with a partner, confirm you are linked in one account; only one person needs to sign up.
5. Check your Wealthsimple login works on the web; the tax product is no longer supported in the mobile app.

Wealthsimple Tax 2026 login: where to sign in

Wealthsimple Tax is only available on the web. Wealthsimple's help centre says the mobile app is no longer supported for tax and that you start by signing in at my.wealthsimple.com, opening the Profile menu in the bottom left corner and choosing Tax (Wealthsimple Help Centre, Get started). A 2026 return will appear in that same account once the new version is released.

Each account can prepare up to 20 returns, matching the CRA's NETFILE limit of 20 returns per computer or CRA account for each tax year. If sign-in or the page itself fails, see Wealthsimple Tax not working; if slips do not import, see Wealthsimple Tax Auto-fill not working.

Pricing and older years: changes to check before you file

Pricing for the 2026 tax year is not yet announced. For 2025 returns, Wealthsimple listed three plans, all with Auto-fill from the CRA (Wealthsimple Tax):

Older years also drop off. Wealthsimple Tax does not support filing for years before 2023, and 2020 to 2022 returns were retired in October 2025 after clients were told to download PDFs (Wealthsimple Help Centre, Previous years). Download PDFs of every return you have in the account now, since the oldest supported year may change when the 2026 version arrives.

Wealthsimple also says it does not import information from other tax software, so a switch from another program means entering carry-forward amounts yourself. If you are weighing a switch before 2027, see Wealthsimple Tax vs TurboTax, the release status of other programs in Canadian tax software release dates, and Canadian tax software problems.