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:

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Minister of Finance Jim Flaherty will launch the 2014 pre-budget consultations on Thursday, November 7, 2013 in Toronto. Knowledge Bureau Report readers are invited to forward their top three issues of concerns to Evelyn Jacks, President of Knowledge Bureau.

We asked in our October poll, “With the opportunity to use pension income splitting in the future to reduce taxes, is investing in a spousal RRSP still a good idea?”, and the clear answer was “yes”.

The third annual Financial Literacy month was launched last week by The Honourable Minister of State (Finance) Kevin Sorenson and Lucie Tedesco, the new Commissioner of the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC).