CRA’s Callback Service for Tax Pros Pilot

Are you a tax professional with years of experience? Have you ever felt frustrated after calling the CRA, having spent hours on hold, wasting your client’s or employer’s time, only to speak to CRA agents who aren’t qualified to answer your questions? The Auditor General of Canada was equally displeased in a scathing report last fall on wait times and accuracy levels at the CRA. Now a new CRA callback service may come to the rescue this tax season. Here is my experience with the pilot project so far:

It’s back to school time and families are spending money getting ready for the big day; registration for sports activities seems to be more expensive that ever; and now this: you find you owe money to CRA!

A big high-five to all the outstanding Canadians who made us proud in Rio! Their Olympic renown can now take many of them on the journey from amateur to professional status.

A new tax form has been released this summer, giving clients the ability to authorize CRA to reach into their bank account to pay a balance due. The new Form T1-83 for tax year 2016 was released online in the heart of the summer, on July 22, 2016, and it became available for print on August 3.

SOCHI, Russia. “Canada captured a historic fourth Olympic gold medal in women’s hockey Thursday with a 3-2 overtime win over the United States in a thrilling championship final.”

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