msb@dciem.UUCP (Mark Brader) (11/27/86)
Chris Lewis (clewis@spectrix.UUCP): > > Certainly, the banks are required to report interest, but this doesn't > > necessarily mean that you have to supply them with a SIN. All they do > > is give *you* the T5's and *you* send them off to Taxation. ... John M. Sellens (jmsellens@watdragon.UUCP): > The impression that this gives me is that Chris is not aware that the > T5 [etc.] ... are multi-part forms ... [including] 1 that the issuer > sends directly to the government. John is right about the T5, but Chris is right about not needing a SIN. Goodness, I had a bank account by the time I was 8 years old, but I didn't get a SIN until I was 16 or 17. And the rules haven't changed since then to say that you do need a SIN to open an account. I just called my bank and asked them. Mark Brader