Trudeau POWER GRAB - CRA plans to automatically file your taxes!

[canada-man]

The CRA is quietly operating a pilot project to role out automatic tax filings on behalf of Canadians. They say this is because Canadians are "missing out on benefits" but everyone and their mother knows that's not true. This is a cash grab and a power grab rolled into one.

The CRA has proven time and time again that they are incapable of doing their job despite having over 60,000 bureaucrats. If they can't do their existing jobs, they can't be tasked with filing taxes on behalf of Canadians.

On the latest episode of The Faulkner Show, Harrison is joined by Franco Terrazano, the Federal Director of the Canadian Taxpayer's Federation

 

[canada-man]

i dunno

 

[wigglee]

Is that legal? Oh, I forgot, it's Trudeau, he makes his own laws

How could he do that with a minority government? He has to have bi-partisan support or nothing gets p[assed.

 

[Butler1000]

How could he do that with a minority government? He has to have bi-partisan support or nothing gets p[assed.

As it's a bureaucratic thing a law may not be necessary.

 

[JohnHenry]

I don't see a problem with this. For the tax payers that have filed a T1Short for the past 5 years with a T4 slip, if the CRA gets municipal tax receipts then they can simply send the tax payer a Notice of Assessment.
And if you don't like the NOA, you can always file an amended return.

 

[shakenbake]

Is that legal? Oh, I forgot, it's Trudeau, he makes his own laws

The CRA is an autonomous agency that operates largely independent of the federal government. In addition, the CRA has already received T4 and other information from entities that issue them. Ufile has been autofilling these data for years from the CRA servers.

 

[richaceg]

What in the fuck are you guys complaining about? This isn't even the worst...

 

[boobtoucher]

Is that legal? Oh, I forgot, it's Trudeau, he makes his own laws

Imagine being mad at the government for doing the literal definition of what the government does.

 

[Valcazar]

This is a great idea and long overdue.

 

[shakenbake]

If they're autonomous then what government body regulates and oversees them?

Why don’t you just do some research on agency versus department in government? The decision to offer auto-filling returns is up to the CRA that administers the income tax act. The commissioner and executive members of the CRA oversee and regulate the agency. On the citizen side, disagreements are handled by the tax court of Canada.

 

[wigglee]

The level of right wing arguments on this board has taken a drastic turn for the worse....bunch of dumb rednecks now.

 

[basketcase]

What a surprise that people get suckered by the far right bullshit narrative, turning a minor procedural move as some kind of world conspiracy.