Liberal MP and former Finance Minister Carlos Leitão suspects Revenu Québec of resisting the implementation of a tax return that would simplify this annual operation for taxpayers.
Mr. Leitão was surprised on Tuesday that the tax agency concluded that it would be disadvantageous to introduce a pre-filled declaration.
“It looks like there’s a kind of institutional resistance,” he said in an interview with the To have to.
According to Mr. Leitão, minister from 2014 to 2018, it is difficult to understand why Revenu Québec does not see the advantages of offering this option to salaried taxpayers at the very least.
“With the information we have, I can’t build a scenario where it would be disadvantageous,” he said.
He notes that Revenu Québec seems to have chosen instead to facilitate access to tax data for users of tax preparation software designed by private companies.
Mr. Leitão was himself in favor of the pre-filled declaration for taxpayers.
“There were always 1001 obstacles, full of reasons why it couldn’t be done, that they didn’t have the IT means, he said. Full of elements, but I never bought their explanations. »
Before him, Jean-Marc Fournier, then Minister of Revenue between 2007 and 2008, was also in favor of the establishment of such a service. A pilot project had been left unaddressed.
The current holder of Finance, Eric Girard, also expressed a wish along the same lines, which prompted Revenu Québec to carry out preliminary analyzes interrupted by the pandemic.
However, the tax agency has concluded that it would be disadvantageous for certain taxpayers to generalize access to a pre-completed declaration.
More details will follow.