When you’re lucky enough to get a CRA bureaucrat on the phone, they’re most likely to give you the wrong personal tax information.

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Yet, Prime Minister Mark Carney is rewarding the Canada Revenue Agency’s poor performance with more power over taxpayers.

Carney’s recent budget confirms his government is expanding the CRA’s power to file taxes for more Canadians. The CRA’s poor performance perfectly demonstrates why automatic tax filing is a bad idea.

The Auditor General found the CRA’s “responses to general........

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