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Should Canada implement automatic tax filing? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 weeks ago by sbv@sh.itjust.works to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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CRA is running a public consultation on automatic tax filing. You can fill it out here.

It's unbelievable that Canada makes people with trivial tax needs jump through so many hoops. If someone is elderly and poor, they need to file taxes to receive their full benefits. That's a huge barrier to many people.

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[-] DScratch@sh.itjust.works 40 points 2 weeks ago

Sure, it’s bad for the people who have a hard time understanding their taxes and can’t afford an accountant, but small businesses like Intuit and H&R Block need the millions of dollars people spend dealing with this bullshit.

Look at socialist hellscapes like Ireland. Pay As You Earn taxes?! Communism!!

[-] StoneyPicton@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 weeks ago

The excuse that any system that creates jobs should be kept alive for that reason is ridiculous. What is your response the the AI and robotics industry that continues to eliminate jobs until there are none left? How will our "system" handle that?

[-] DonkMagnum@lemy.lol 15 points 2 weeks ago

I'm pretty sure that was sarcasm. I hope.

[-] DScratch@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago

Yes.

I used to work for Intuit and had to quit. I couldn’t take working for a place that (imo) made the world worse for people so they could make line go up.

[-] StoneyPicton@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

Sorry about that. I'm getting way too angry at how stupid people are.

[-] DScratch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

I feel you. It’s hard to not.

But at the same time, we have to try understanding people and empathising with them if we want to bring people back together.

The world has been intentionally divided to make us easier to control. The only way to counter that is to reunite, you know?

[-] StoneyPicton@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

I understand people all too well. My belief is everyone is justified in their approach to life by either genetics or experience and should be free to express and act on these within the confines of the law. But I also believe that to disguise our opposition to some beliefs and to not call out something as "stupid", which is a very general term that can be ascribed to a variety of demographics, is wrong. I believe in peoples right to free speech, but question the freedom to lie (what is a lie?). I admire and support the efforts to empathize with all people but I also recognize that if those efforts leads to the loss of the battle for freedom and equality then it must be treated as a secondary consideration.