CRA is running a public consultation on automatic tax filing. You can fill it out here.
Here’s the verbiage about the project
It’s unbelievable that Canada makes people with trivial tax needs jump through so many hoops. If someone is elderly and poor, they need to file taxes to receive their full benefits. That’s a huge barrier to many people.
Sure, it’s bad for the people who have a hard time understanding their taxes and can’t afford an accountant, but small businesses like Intuit and H&R Block need the millions of dollars people spend dealing with this bullshit.
Look at socialist hellscapes like Ireland. Pay As You Earn taxes?! Communism!!
The excuse that any system that creates jobs should be kept alive for that reason is ridiculous. What is your response the the AI and robotics industry that continues to eliminate jobs until there are none left? How will our “system” handle that?
I’m pretty sure that was sarcasm. I hope.
Yes.
I used to work for Intuit and had to quit. I couldn’t take working for a place that (imo) made the world worse for people so they could make line go up.
Sorry about that. I’m getting way too angry at how stupid people are.
I feel you. It’s hard to not.
But at the same time, we have to try understanding people and empathising with them if we want to bring people back together.
The world has been intentionally divided to make us easier to control. The only way to counter that is to reunite, you know?
I understand people all too well. My belief is everyone is justified in their approach to life by either genetics or experience and should be free to express and act on these within the confines of the law. But I also believe that to disguise our opposition to some beliefs and to not call out something as “stupid”, which is a very general term that can be ascribed to a variety of demographics, is wrong. I believe in peoples right to free speech, but question the freedom to lie (what is a lie?). I admire and support the efforts to empathize with all people but I also recognize that if those efforts leads to the loss of the battle for freedom and equality then it must be treated as a secondary consideration.
If you are going to insult peoples beliefs, how do you see people reacting to that?
Will they suddenly realise their error, or will the wall up, get defensive and dig in?
So what are you trying to achieve?
There is no way it wasn’t sarcasm, right? Like 99% sure
Oh won’t someone think of the job creators.
It’d be interesting to know how much money Intuit & co are spending on lobbying here in Canada. I have a sneaking suspicion they’re going to start trying to shut this down. Just like they did in California.
Intuit (and any other company allowed to offer NETFILE services) is required to offer a free tax filing option for individuals. The problem is they’re allowed to upsell as much as they want, so you have to be careful that they’ll absolutely try to sell you some service that you don’t need (i.e. audit insurance on a basic T-4 only filing).
For the most part, I have not had a problem using the free service, though you do need to know how to fill out any forms that aren’t part of their default wizard.
That being said, if your tax filing is 100% just confirming information the government already knows, then that should just be done for you. I would expect to get correspondence via MyCRA/lettermail (ideally both) that lists what forms from whom were submitted, their final calculations and a notice that it would be finalized on April 30th unless a supplementary return is filed (i.e. un-filed income, deductions etc).
Like, some of it is just silly; to claim disability on a dependent, I have to submit a form that the government sent me, which was submitted by the doctor who provided the diagnosis - to the government. It’s not even that department A isn’t talking to department B; it’s a form submitted to CRA!