Podcast: Automatic Tax Filing - Will It Work?

Last week Taxpayers' Ombudsperson François Boileau  tabled his annual report:  In Pursuit of Better Service: Taxpayers Deserve More.  once again, it was nothing short of scathing, as CRA received its highest number of complaints in the last three years.  Calling our “completely nuts” Income Tax Act a potential barrier, he is nonetheless pushing for automatic tax filing as a potential solution.  A new episode of Real Tax News with Evelyn Jacks & Friends available next week, will feature guest Gillian Petit, Ph.D. - author of a great report, Welcome News for Lower-Income Canadians, but There’s More to Do - which takes a deeper dive.  Consider the following:

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) ___