Changes to Paper Filing Disempowering

Last tax season, only 7% of all Canadian tax filers filed on paper. The CRA is pushing for zero. It continues to steer the holdouts to digitized filing by adding lots of obstacles. Most recently, it is removing almost all the schedules from the tax return package it mails. This seems unfair to people who paper file because they can’t afford a computer and internet, distrust the security of online filing and those who are neither tax or computer literate. Here’s what they are up against:

The article "Must Audit Support Documents be Electronically Filed?", published in the April 17, 2013 issue of Knowledge Bureau Report has been amended.

A “synthetic disposition” refers to financial arrangements which allow taxpayers to defer tax by “economically” disposing of a property while continuing to own it for tax purposes. These transactions were shut down as of Budget Day, March 21, 2013.

On May 2, 2013, the Bank of Canada announced that a new Governor of the Bank had been appointed under Section 9 of the Bank of Canada Act.

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