Changes to Paper Filing Disempowering

Last tax season, only 7% of all Canadian tax filers filed on paper. The CRA is pushing for zero. It continues to steer the holdouts to digitized filing by adding lots of obstacles. Most recently, it is removing almost all the schedules from the tax return package it mails. This seems unfair to people who paper file because they can’t afford a computer and internet, distrust the security of online filing and those who are neither tax or computer literate. Here’s what they are up against:

Many people under estimate the power of body language and communication, especially when it comes to communicating with their clients. In this book except, Catherine Bell gives you some tips in communication management.

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Three important initiatives were announced by Finance Canada this week:  a US-dollar denominated global bond issue and second, more significantly the launch of North America’s first trading hub using Chinese currency, the renminbi or RMB, which is poised to take a leading position as a global trading currency, after the US Dollar and the Euro.

As of March 1, 2015 just over three million personal tax returns had been received by CRA and not surprisingly, only 13% of these returns were paper-filed – everything else was filed with CRA electronically.