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Originally Posted by bizaro86
Someone told my wife today they never buy a new set of tax software (TurboTax etc), and just file with the one they bought 6 or 7 years ago every year, since "the CRA will catch any errors anyway".
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Yeah, that's not how it really works.... but I'm not surprised people think this way. Some of the ideas some people have about the CRA are inexplicably stupid. I'm glad I'm not dealing with most of that stuff anymore.
Someone doing something like that though is potentially filing inefficiently and paying more taxes than needed to the government. It's not filed wrong, it's just not filed in a way advantageous to the tax payer.
I saw a tax return someone did themselves using older programs and literally did not fill in the form for the climate action incentive (because it wasn't there), thus didn't get it.
I've even seen some people who use the paper books the CRA used to hand out and file that way. They fill it in wrong/it's outdated and then don't get a bunch of their personal tax credits.
There are free programs. Why anyone wants to use an outdated one or avoid a cheap one to make sure they get that back and more is mystifying.