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Wouldn't make more sense to set up your own CRA account ... in this day & age, most everyone should have one.

IMO,

Dean

One reason to print and mail is the fact that one cannot Netfile a return for a deceased person. I learned that when my mother died. I had to print and mail her last two returns. It was a surprise to me at the time. I was using Ufile and they conveniently have an option to just print the required pages for CRA.

Give Studio Tax a try. It's free, comprehensive and easy to use.

Pricing of StudioTax has changed.

It is now $15 to NETFILE or print the 2020 return, unless total income (line 15000) less than $20,000 or the return is for a northern resident (Northwest Territories, Yukon, and Nunavut).

The CRA themselves has the income tax calculation software. And they keep maintaining their software with the up-to-date rules or numbers for the upcoming tax year.

Why the CRA has to certify some 3rd party vendor software to ensure that they replicate their calculation accurately when the CRA can simply wrap up their software and provide it to the citizens officially and for free?

Electronic tax returns make auditing a lot faster and easier for the CRA. So if the CRA wants people to NETIFILE, then they should provide the tools for people to do so.

It does not cost the CRA any extra because the software is something they already have and up-to-date for each tax year.

Then there will never be discrepancy if everyone is using the official income tax software from the CRA.

I apologize for my misinformation about Studio Tax and I learned it here from these astute members. It's been free up until this year and as a matter of fact I downloaded the latest version and was starting to populate the information but will need a license to print or file. Looks like I'll have to suck up the $15 cost as it's cheaper than having to start learning new software and these guys support Quebec tax returns.

Can't 'save as' a PDF and we can't print until the software is approved by CRA. We'll see what changes one it's approved. I file electronically so I'm fine with the $15.

CRA yet suspended 100,000 accounts yesterday over suspicion of potential data breach. Who can have massive access to 100,000 taxpayer account credentials? My guesses (1) CRA database team (i.e. inside job) and/or (2) third party tax software developers

Millions of Canadians file their income tax return by NETFILE for reasons of ease, and speed of tax return submission/refund. Ah, also for sense of security which can be false. Logically, the CRA should let taxpayers submit their T1 return directly online from MyAccount. Unfortunately, that is not available. To netfile, you must employ a CRA certified third party software. That's problematic as millions of taxpayer identity and tax return details have to go through them and then get netfiled. By the way, CRA identifies you on the phone by asking your name, DOB, SIN, and the amount of a line on your recent tax return. These are all info readily available to the software companies if they determined to keep a copy during netfiling.

First of all, many of these tax software are offered for free. There are no ads. How can these software companies survive with no revenue for years or even a decade? For instance, some of you might remember Studiotax has been offering their free software starting 2003 or so?!

I scanned through the list of certified software vendors. Few of them tell you about their office address or phone number or a name. Studiotax is one of the couple that have an address posted. But looking closer, Sutdiotax address is a PO Box at a UPS store on Bank St. How can you say Suite 325 when it is a box number? Fooling is frauding.

I won't start suspecting Studiotax if they don't start charging. They start charging after 17 years make me think they want me to believe that they are a for-profit company, not after anything else like your credentials. This is arguably a strategy to cover up what led to the CRA portal shutdown last August. Just too many CRA phone scams as well. Google it as I don't want to go into that.

You might say all tax software companies have a privacy policy claim on their website. That doesn't mean a thing. To all tech savvy members reading this, start recording your internet traffic next time before you netfile. Then afterwards, examine for any IP addresses that does not belong to the CRAs. I never did this myself, but I will if I still decided to netfile this year. As they say, it is called "trust and verify".

How and why would any external organizations have someone's CRA login information ? Any ideas ?