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Originally Posted by bizaro86
It's probably a net benefit for most people, but some people are going to end up really screwed.
Because it'll be the person with a lower-income job that gets a tax refund in the mail they weren't expecting and spends it, only to find out the government missed their gig work income or the trust income from their grandma's estate or whatever, and now they owe the refund back, plus they owe back some of their child benefit money, and probably interest as well. And when they can't pay it back (because they spent the money already) there will be penalties.
This is a great idea if it were to be competently implemented. But there's no evidence that the CRA will be able to do so.
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Sure and the competence of CRA is a question. At the same time, there are plenty of examples where this kind of thing has been implemented and it works fine. I think something like 90% of returns could be handled this way and there's no good argument for why they shouldn't be.