Ottawa, Ontario, March 27, 2008… Quick Access for individuals, a new e-service which provides basic tax information for Canadians Online, was launched today by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA).
Quick Access provides individuals with h fast, easy and secure access to basic personal tax and benefit account information without having to telephone the CRA.
"Our government is strengthening Canada's tax advantage by reducing the overall tax burden by
$200 billion for Canadians and businesses by 2012-13," said Minister O'Connor. "We are also delivering more options to help Canadians to access their tax-related information online through Quick Access, a user-friendly way to get information Canadians are look ing for."
Quick Access is easy to understand and easy to use. The service provides individuals with the convenience and flexibility of seeing basic tax-related information, within a secure Web site, seven days a week. With Quick Access Canad ians can access information about their:
- Tax return status;
- Registered Retirement Savings Plan deduction limit;
- Canada Child Tax Benefit payment status;
- GST/HST credit payment status; and
- Univers al Child Care Benefit payment status.
To use Quick Access, Canadians need to provide the following personal information to identify themselves:
- social insurance number;
- date of birth;
- the amount calculat ed and entered on line 150 (Total income) of the 2006 or 2007 filed and processed income tax return.
For more information about Quick Access visit www.cra.gc.ca/quickaccess.
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