Payroll

The Payroll team processes the payment of salary to all MRU employees. Payroll functions include:

salary changes
salary/wage/benefit expenses to department budgets
the contract processing system
remittance and reporting for all statutory deductions, including the issuance of annual T4's and Records of Employment
employment verifications

Employees, visit the Payroll page on the HR Information Hub for timesheet submission instruction and forms, tax information and more.

For enquiries, contact the payroll team at payroll@mtroyal.ca.

Tax slips and forms (T4, T2200)

Please note the 2024 T4s are now available.

Current employees: Access your slips under Tax Information in the My HR Profile section of the Employee page on myMRU.ca.

Former employees: You will need your MRU Employee ID number to access your T4 and T4A tax slips. Follow these instructions. Contact payroll@mtroyal.ca for copies of your pay statements or T4s or with questions about your pay information.

2023 T4 note: Due to Mount Royal moving to a bi-weekly pay cycle in 2023, the 2023 T4 will reflect one less pay period than in previous years. As the last pay period of 2023 was paid in 2024, it was not included in 2023 T4s. The 2024 tax year has a full year reported (26 pay periods). Contact payroll@mtroyal.ca with any questions.

T2200 (work from home expenses) FAQ

Last updated: April 4, 2024

If you’re a Mount Royal employee who worked remotely, you may be eligible to deduct eligible home office expenses on your T1 income tax filing. Refer to CRA T2200 Form Eligibility for detailed guidance to confirm eligibility and what types of expenses can be claimed. We recommend that you seek professional tax advice before applying for home office expense deductions on your personal tax returns.

The Canada Revenue Agency discontinued the T2200 short form for the 2023 taxation year. The temporary flat-rate method for work-from-home expenses (and the T2200S) was only available for 2020, 2021 and 2022 tax years.

T2200 eligibility
To be eligible to submit a T2200 form for your taxes, you must be required to work from home. Participating in MRU’s Hybrid Work Program fulfills this requirement. In addition, you must answer yes to the following:

You mainly did your work as an employee — more than 50% of the time — in your home for a period of at least four consecutive weeks in the tax year. (Review these examples of work arrangements for guidance.)
- Note: Being on campus three (3) days a week or more does not meet the new 50% work time eligibility requirement to claim expenses. If you are not eligible, please do not request a T2200.
The expenses you claim were directly related to your work.

You will also be required to determine your home work space use and calculate your expenses.

I’m eligible. What should I do?

Complete the T2200 Request for Issuance and the T2200 Declaration of Conditions of Employment Form and give them to your manager. (Review an example of a completed T2200 form.) Your manager will review for accuracy, sign the Request for Issuance and email the documents to Payroll. Payroll will then complete the T2200 document employer declaration section and email you the signed copy of the T2200. Keep a copy of this completed T2200 Declaration for income tax purposes.