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Matthew Lau: Maybe AI can solve tax complexity

The cost of personal tax assistance keeps rising. New technology may help but only governments can fix the tax system by simplifying it

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Statistics Canada’s “accounting services price index” (ASPI), newly updated with 2025 data, shows the price of accounting services rising less rapidly than the prices of most other things. Last year the ASPI rose 1.1 per cent, while the consumer price index (CPI) for all goods and services rose 2.1 per cent. Lower inflation for accounting services continued a longer-term trend: from 2010 to 2025, the ASPI rose 28.6 per cent, much lower than the 40.9 per cent increase in the total CPI.

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