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CRA will pay interest on 2022 tax refunds starting on the latest of these three dates:

• May 30, 2023
• the 30th day after you file your return
• the day after you overpaid your taxes

Only a cursory verification is done initially before the refund is issued. One year, I received my refund about a week or two after filing electronically. Months later, I received a request for more information about some the items on my return, including a request for copies of supporting documentation.

Haven't heard of any changes to the refund interest payable dates because of the strike.

Strike ended May 4.

Our NOAs arrived last Friday by Canada Post.
Filed mid-April by accountant.

Norman1:

Presumption

163.4 (1) In the absence of evidence to the contrary, a document purporting to be an official image of an eligible bill is presumed to be an official image of the eligible bill.

Admissibility

(2) An official image of an eligible bill is admissible in evidence for all purposes for which the eligible bill would be admitted as evidence without proof that the official image was created by or on behalf of a bank in accordance with the by-laws, rules or standards made under the Canadian Payments Act.

True copy of contents

(3) In the absence of evidence to the contrary, an official image of an eligible bill is presumed to be a true and exact copy of the contents of the eligible bill.

Now, that's scary. Talk about presumptuous!
RetirEd

Paper-filed Apr 24 and got our NOA May 17.

Due date for 2022 taxes owing was May 1, 2023.

Bill said
AltaRed, below is a link that illuminates just one of the reasons I believe paper filing is more environmentally benign than e-filing, previously I really didn't think it appropriate to take up space articulating a long argument here but on the weekend I happened upon this. There are many more factors, this one only deals with some of the environmental impacts of "the cloud", you may find it (and the podcast) interesting.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/spark/digital-data-has-an-environmental-cost-calling-it-the-cloud-conceals-that-researcher-says-1.6641268  

Filing electronic is to save CRA time and effort. Doubt they care about the environment.

CRA also does not have completely separate workflow for returns filed by paper.

Paper returns are opened and someone keys the numbers into the computers. Any extra documents included with the return are presumably scanned into the computers too. From that point on, the electronic information is used. Just as if the return was filed electronically.

It is unlikely CRA staff will ever retrieve the paper copies from storage unless the scanned copy is poor or the taxpayer complains that some of the numbers were data-entered wrong.

AltaRed said
Digital information is both the present and the future

That sums it up. Same with digital banking and electronics statement only. Whether one trusts the security or not does not matter, its the only way going forward.

I dont think a single person file paper tax return cuz they were thinking of the environment. Its more cuz they simply want to stick to the tradtional method or the fear/unease of technology. For some tax return that requires some special supporting documents, I can see why paper return will be an advantage too. For example, I rather provide all supporting documents upfront, rather than waiting for them to come back to me for it.

As for paper filing, the quick paper format from a tax software has a barcode that CRA simply scan and it populates all data, no typing required either.

There will always be paper filing; NETFILE personal tax software cannot handle all situations.

One situation I had multiple times is electing to defer tax on a distribution of spin-off shares by a foreign corporation.