Automatic tax filing for qualifying Canadians could see them receive an average of roughly $2,000, according to a new report, but doing so would also cost hundreds of millions of dollars over the next few years. The Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) released a report Thursday outlining the cost of the program, which was announced in…
“The tax loss to the Alberta government would have been nearly $781,000, including the cigarettes seized incident to arrest. The federal tobacco tax loss was about $452,000. While not particularized as a fraud against the federal government, the total tax loss to taxpayers would have been $1,232,516.13.”
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