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Last updated: August 07 2014
21 Million Tax Returns Filed Online
More than half of Canadians are now using professional EFILE services to do their taxes and despite the Heartbleed bug, close to 7 million Canadians used NETFILE to transmit their returns.
In all, over 21 million of the 27 million total tax returns filed to July 2 were transmitted online according to CRA. That represents 80% of all returns expected and an increase of 6% in online filing over last year. That makes just over 5 million taxfilers who are still using the paper method.
In addition, 54% of taxpayers had their tax refunds deposited directly into their bank accounts. The tax filing stats appear below:
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T1 Returns received from February 10 to July 2, 2014 |
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|---|---|---|
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|
|
|
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NETFILE |
6,974,909 |
26% |
|
EFILE |
14,300,350 |
54% |
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Total - electronic (NETFILE + EFILE) |
21,275,259 |
80% |
|
Paper |
5,429,976 |
20% |
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Total - all methods |
26,705,235 |
100.00 |
