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Tax filing digitally for 2025
January 9, 2026
5:41 am
savemoresaveoften
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COIN said
"The problem appears to have persisted for several years, with some families facing reassessments for three consecutive years."

Did the CRA not uncover this problem when they test drove the software?  

I believe CRA only certify the efiling aspects of the software, not the mechanism nor acuracy of how numbers flow thru within the software etc ?

January 9, 2026
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That's correct: CRA's NETFILE certification doesn't test everything.

People have found differences in the return NETFILE-certified tax software generates for the same input. I've run into actual software bugs.

CRA obviously does not need to verify the parts of the return that aren't included in the NETFILE upload either.

It is also not a software bug if an incorrect return is NETFILE'd because taxpayer tells the software the children are supported by only one of the parents and the software uses the income of that parent only as the family income for calculating the child care tax credits.

January 9, 2026
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Back to paper filing for a moment (sorry, this site makes it impossible to find out how to start a new thread): Got letter from CRA today outlining the deal on paper filing, link below is the page dedicated to paper filers.

Note you can call an automated line to order paper forms, schedules, etc, will have to provide SIN, hopefully no need to wait for a person.

If you do it yourself online appears you can order up to 9 copies of anything.

I'm assuming this kicks off Jan 20 too. The letter concludes by saying "The CRA will continue to support you if you choose to file on paper". I'm taking that as a lifetime guarantee.

https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/campaigns/income-tax-benefit-return-paper.html?utm_campaign=not-applicable&utm_medium=vanity-url&utm_source=canada-ca_file-on-paper

January 9, 2026
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CRA will continue to support the filing of full paper T1 General returns. CRA has to because there is a significant number of things in a return that NETFILE cannot handle.

CRA can request the full paper T1 General return to handle some disputes. The NETFILE upload does not have the full contents of the paper T1 General return.

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