So, The CRA Wants To Do Your Taxes For You
Recently the CRA has made a push to implement a tax system where they would take your information and file your taxes for you every year. They claim this will make it cheaper for you and it will be easier overall. I feel it's time for me to put my thoughts out on this matter. After many years of working with the CRA I have learned one thing more than any other and that is it is in my experience that they do very little that benefits the taxpayer. Every reassessment that I have seen done by the CRA has been for the benefit of the CRA. They have done little to earn anyone's trust.
On many occasions when new clients provide me with authorization I access their account and often find errors and omissions from previous returns that when fixed work in the clients favor. In most of these cases the CRA website is where I find this information, this means their data base already had the information and they could of fixed it themselves. In all of the time that I have worked in this business I have seen very few instances where the government will correct things in your favor.
In regards to making things simpler they could do that by simplifying the tax system I don't deny that ours is one the most complicated, probably, in the world. However, I can guarantee that if the government made it simpler to file your taxes and simplified the tax system there is no way you would be paying less. They try to say that their system of filing your return for you will save money because you won't have to pay to have your taxes done, a fee that is exacted once a year and in many cases is very minimal will most likely result in an increase in taxes many times that amount.
To sum it all up the system they are suggesting will reduce transparency and leave the organization who calculates and collects the taxes in situation where the individual has no idea what they are paying. The government wants to be able to tell you that they are being fair and that they will be better than the people who are currently preparing your taxes but in the end it will leave us in a situation where you can't question what you owe or what you are paying. Our system at present is far from perfect but putting them in charge of both preparing your taxes and collecting your taxes seems like a BIG mistake.
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