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Originally Posted by GGG
How is this one the CRAs fault? You don’t have your slips from your employers and investments? Just go get them from your investment accounts. It’s nice that the government does most of this but come on you should know all your sources of income and where to get the forms from those sources.
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In past years, I haven't received all physical slips sent to me from certain investment sources. Therefore I got assessed penalties for not paying taxes on some sources I didn't even know existed (I didn't always handle my own investments, or a slip gets lost in the mail etc).
So the CRA rep says to me that in order to avoid that situation in the future, always rely on the autofill slip function from the CRA. It's rock solid reliable. Sure, got it, no problem.
So in February this year, when I received some paper slips from certain funds, I just thew them away because, hey, I've been told by the CRA to just rely on their system and I've been burned by relying on physical slips before.
It's now April 13th and these slips still haven't been uploaded to the CRA website. I'm going on a trip in 2 days out of the country until the end of the month. When I called CRA a few weeks ago, they had no answers for me.
Is it my responsibility to pay my taxes and include all info? It sure is. But if the CRA gets everyone hooked on autofilling slips from the CRA website and sells it as "foolproof", should anyone be surprised when this thing blows up after they implode their system for no reason with no real advance warning?
If you blame people for following their advice, you can kiss my ass.