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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On October 18, Finance Canada released proposed amendments to the Income Tax Act, the Excise Tax Act and the Income Tax Regulations for the remaining provisions from the March 21, 2013 Federal Budget. 

Bountiful is literally not on the map. It is the name that the Mormon fundamentalists call the community based at Lister, just a kilometer north of the U.S. border and seven kilometers from Creston.

Got a toothache? Need more prescriptions? When you move up your medical appointments to before year-end, you may also increase your tax refund. That makes a visit to your dentist, eye doctor, or medical doctor a tax wise strategy at year-end.

I am excited about our upcoming national workshop tours with Cameron Peters, President of Trilogy Software, Larry Frostiak, FCA, and Alan Rowell, MFA, DFA-Tax Services Specialist.