Although the Canadian tax system is a “self-assessing” one, in which taxpayers calculate and report their income to the federal government on an annual basis, the fact is that the returns of many, if not most, individual taxpayers are actually prepared by someone else—perhaps a willing family member or friend, one of the many tax return preparation services or an accountant. It follows, therefore, that most taxpayers will, at least on occasion, find it necessary to deal with the Canada Rev...
