Ottawa wants to automatically file taxes for low-income Canadians — and perhaps eventually for everyone | Recent federal budget announced plans to automatically file taxes for millions of low-income earners

It makes it easy, but it also makes it hard to wiggle and get yourself a better return if you have possible tax benefits to leverage. How can they know what you've spent on your ISP, computing products, software, power, desks, etc. for the portion of your employment that's done from home? That's never going to be filed with the Feds unless you do the filing.

If you have to claim all that stuff after the fact and ask for an adjustment, you might as well just file your taxes yourself. Besides, it's kind a step to separate the wheat from the chaff. If you're not bright enough to either do your taxes yourself, or pay someone to do it properly, then ... oh well.

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