[Sliver]

Originally Posted by Rathji

This reminds me of a painful experience back when they started doing direct deposits.

I filed my tax return and filled in the deposit info. Weeks go by and my assessment arrives but no money in my account. So I call, and they say it has been deposited. So of course I tell them it isn't and they send me out the affidavit form to sign and return.

I finally get my money, then a couple weeks later they are contacting me and saying got paid twice. Huge runaround and back and forth, then I finally get them to tell me the account # of the account the money went into. Turns out it was an account for me, in my name, in my bank, that was automatically setup unknown to me in the process of getting a car loan a couple years previous (that had already been paid off).

Somehow, the bank or the government decided they were going to use this account. I certainly didn't tell them about it because I didn't know it existed.

It actually made me so mad that I didn't bother filing my taxes the next year since, I figured I owed anyway, but I wont get into that because it is another long story that results in me finding out that if you are 5 years late filing a return, the CRA files it for you (and not very favorably!)