CRA’s Callback Service for Tax Pros Pilot

Are you a tax professional with years of experience? Have you ever felt frustrated after calling the CRA, having spent hours on hold, wasting your client’s or employer’s time, only to speak to CRA agents who aren’t qualified to answer your questions? The Auditor General of Canada was equally displeased in a scathing report last fall on wait times and accuracy levels at the CRA. Now a new CRA callback service may come to the rescue this tax season. Here is my experience with the pilot project so far:

Tax preparation season is about to begin and getting it right means a lot more than filing an accurate tax return. 

David Russell, MBA,CFP, CIM, FCSI posted the following to the LinkedIn page of Evelyn Jacks, founder and president of Knowledge Bureau.

Barb Reimer from Calgary, Alberta recently completed Elements of Real Wealth Management and she believes the course will improve her preservation practices.

As the calendar year changed on January 1, so did the Tax Free Savings Account (TFSA) contribution room available to all adult residents of Canada. 

CRA recently published the prescribed allowable mileage rates for simplified travel deductions and determined that it was cheaper to drive in Alberta in 2014 than the previous year. 

2015 TD1, Personal Tax Credit Return and T1213, Request to Reduce Tax Deductions at Source for Year(s) ___