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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
The tax system needs to be overhauled and simplified. There is no good reason why a tax return can't be 2 pages max. The CTF has been lobbying for a simplified tax return for years - and they are bang on.
Each year millions of hours are wasted by Canadians who have to fill out an needlessly complex tax return.
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Do you want it easy, or do you want it fair?
If you look at most of the stuff that makes it complicated, there is usually pretty good reasoning behind it. But the rules need to be explicit or people will take advantage of credits.
For everything that you exclude to make it easier to do the thing most people spend a few hours on once a year, you are making someone else pay more tax. Unless you hate children, married people, the poor, the elderly, the infirm, and so on, in that case then a flat tax is what you want.