Ottawa is taking steps to implement automatic tax filing for more Canadians with an increased focus on the “middle class.”
The automatic tax filing services pilot program was made available early this year to some lower-income Canadians, allowing taxpayers to file returns in as little as 10 minutes. Now, the federal government plans to expand the program in 2025 to include an extended income bracket, Ottawa said in its Fall Economic Statement released on Dec. 16.
“It is time for Canada to accelerate modernization of how Canadians file their taxes and make needlessly complicated and costly tax filing services a thing of the past,” the government said in the statement….