more than a billion dollars every year that is how much an automatic tax filing system could net Canadians who aren’t claiming all the credits and benefits they’re due when they file their tax returns according to the federal fiscal Watchdog from the Canada child benefit Canada workers benefit and the Canada carbon rebate to GST or HST tax credits it all totals billions over the years in unclaimed benefits now the bulk of it is owed to people who don’t file their taxes at all an estimated 7 to 12% of Canadians many are from lower income and vulnerable households automatic tax filing was first proposed in the Liberals 2023 federal budget the CRA said last month it would start rolling out invitations to the service this summer the pilot program targets financially strapped households as well as those with gaps in their filing history but the Parliamentary budget office notes there isn’t a clear timeline detailing when the agency would start processing autom tax returns for now we know the federal Revenue Agency is also expanding its simple file by phone system which involves CRA agents asking simple questions over the phone to come up with a refund estimate by the time the Call’s over expanding that program is expected to cost $2 million over two years by contrast the PBO figures automatic tax filing would cost 57 million in administrative costs to run the system over 5 years but it’s hard to estim estimate because there are a lot of unknowns Ann gaviola Global News Toronto
Rolling out an automatic tax filing system would mean Canadians receive more than a billion dollars each year in currently unclaimed benefits from not filing their tax returns, according to the federal fiscal watchdog.
The Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) published a report Thursday looking into the impact of automated tax filing from the Canada Revenue Agency.
First proposed in the Liberals’ 2023 federal budget, the CRA said last month it would start rolling out invitations to the service this summer. But the PBO notes that there has been no further indication about a timeline regarding when the agency would begin processing automatic tax returns.
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8 out of 10 Canadian families are much better off because of the Liberal/NDP carbon tax. No need for us to get greedy.
The bots are on this one early.
Trust the government ???
Medical tax benifits too! Got my mom a $1400 yearly rebate plus back pay.
no
Canada tax it's citizen and have one of the richest oil reserves and other resources to make money, yet citizens are homeless and jobless and low education levels it's very obvious that canada is the most corrupt nation on the planet right now
Those that don't know they owe more then what they would get back so they don't care. Fun fact most accountants are cheaper and better than HnR block. Mine got me 5 grand back doing 5 years that I never filed, now knowing what I know, plus charity donations I got back 2200 this year, I'll never not file again and I get to save some me puppies at the same time!
Let's stop finding ways to make people lazier and more dependent … frankly if you can't be bothered to file a piece of paper to get tens of thousands in handouts you don't deserve it… goes with making voting too easy… i prefer people have to take the time to learn where the voting place is and go … Canadians are too dependent on government for every day activities… grow up and do some adulting!
What are you smoking? Canada doesn’t have that kind of money to give away. Where would you cash the check?
i can see this sending out random cheques to people that dont exist.
the perfect liberal money laundering system
WILL NEVER TRUST THE TRUDEAU LIBERALS WITH MONEY OR ANYTHING ELSE
People don't file taxes at all because they don't see any of it so why would they.
We should have had automatic tax filing decades ago like other civilized countries.
I volunteer my part to every other goddamn country
Even if this was true, they’ll get that money back at the grocery store, the gas pump, etc. this country is become a f*cking laughing stock. They can’t even protect $20 million in gold at an airport. but on the good side, some Canadians contractor vehicle stolen well agencies can’t do a darn thing about it. Good job everybody. The only thing the agency can do is tell you where the vehicles end up in certain countries.
They better locks at the spending where billions of dollars goes on stupid stuff no need for it
Lmao the stock footage or whatever at 1:08, what year is that from??? Look at that girls timbits box lol ??
We have the disaster that is the Phoenix payroll system for federal employees and an app that was supposed to cost $80,000 ending up at $60,000,000 but sure, the federal civil service can definitely implement this system.
Some guy in jail will get a refund for $1,000,000 and a grandmother on struggling on CPP will get a tax bill for the same and no one will be able to explain or correct either error.
I dont trust the government to do anything. Leave me the fu** alone
You need a bachelors degree and 4 years experience for a job that pays $17 and hour where I live. The system is so broken.
But I don’t wanna file
Must be an election coming up ?,where else do we hear about promises that never come to fruition.
such a stupid system, can't wait for AI to fix all this and make tax accountant irrelevant and destroy all these tax turbos and stuff like that.
I came from Jamaica and now I am here running an escort service. Most of my income can't be taxed. I win again!
Worker's benefits? Never heard of it before, what is it?
Other countries have automatic filing and we should too.
With computers and online filing, why hasn’t this been done already, whether digitally or on print, Canada is slow in this sense. Couldn’t our employer just sent CRA our tax slips/investment and make them do all the work since social services are on the rise now! If we qualify for their never ending changes in added or new benefits, since they can make adjustment to their whim, they can do all the work!
I never understood why I have to file it, or pay pubic tax services and then end up paying if I have an owning balance. This should have been automatic and seem-less along time ago.
Only if you're a refugee or FOB
Lol yeah sure nice try CRA
FCRA
The government doesn’t do you any favors. Just a way to expand government and buy more liberal votes. Anyone with half a brain can file taxes it’s not hard.
Yeah this is probably why the government doesn't want to do it because they hope you screw your taxes up so they can steal it
Sounds good to me.
No thank you.. I want the feds out of my life as much as possible
it's all debt to the country