The CRA TSlip Saga: An Update

This tax season has been particularly challenging for both taxpayers and tax professionals. The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) provides tax information slips—such as T3, T4, T5, and their variations—through secure online portals: My Account and Represent a Client (RAC). This year, there were lots of problems with these portals, and now, it appears, CRA is not being quite transparent about when the slips were actually visible to clients and that doesn’t seem fair. Here’s an update on where we stand now.

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CRA reveals that Social Insurance Number data for 900 taxpayers was accessed through its systems due to the Heartbleed bug.

The 2014 Nova Scotia provincial budget was tabled on April 3, 2014. The budget contained no new taxes or credits, but it did contain several adjustments.

The Newfoundland and Labrador provincial budget was presented on March 27. The budget contained a number of tax changes.

The Quebec provincial budget was delivered on February 20. The budget introduced provincial changes that match the recently-announced federal changes.