TORONTO —As Canadians file their personal income tax returns before next week’s deadline, they face a significantly more complicated tax system than existed just a few decades ago, finds a new study from the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank.
“A growing web of complicated rules and changes has made the tax system more difficult for Canadians to understand, which affects the cost—in time and money—of compliance,” said Finn Poschmann, resident scholar at the Fraser Institute and co-author of Tax Complexity in 2019: Can It be Tamed?