For many Canadian taxpayers, filing their income tax return each spring is really a headache. Our archives remind us that computers have greatly simplified this task since the 1980s.
On the show Everyday April 7, 1983, host Ghislaine Paradis presents a computer innovation. Not only is it possible to make your tax return via computer, but you can also file it at home.
Save time on our personal computer
Previously, it was possible to entrust your taxes to professionals equipped with massive computers, explains computer scientist Louis-Philippe Hébert. But now his company Logidisque has developed software that fits on a floppy disk and can be used on our personal computer.
Logidisque software allows you to complete a tax return form on screen. There are no miscalculations, the computer scientist assures us, and we will get within minutes the total tax to be paid to the government.
” For the computer, a complex tax report is as simple as a simple tax report “
In the early 1980s, however, it was not possible to file an income tax return in full by computer.
The printer or the little electronic secretary of the computeras Louis-Philippe Hébert calls it, only a few lines are sent the amounts to be entered in the appropriate income tax return paper boxes.
Hire a computer company
Computers offer solutions to find each other in this kind of maze of tax lawsannounced antenna leader Bernard Derome at Newscast on February 8, 1989.
In the following report, journalist Claude Desbiens visits a new franchise company that has set up shop in Montreal. Solutions 2000 has developed a computer-based tax treatment to maximize taxation.
It costs individuals approximately $ 50 to use the computerized services of this company. The raw customer information is processed by the computer, and then the tax reporting software enforces the law while providing the best scenarios for its users.
In 1989, 60% of Canadian taxpayers filed their own tax returns, journalist Claude Desbiens told us. However, more and more of them may turn to IT solutions in the coming years due to the complexity of Canada’s tax system.
A potentially highly profitable market that was essentially divided between the H&R Block and Solutions 2000 companies at the time of making this report.
File and file our tax return online
Then, at the dawn of the new millennium, it is now possible to make and submit our income tax return via the Internet, let us Jean-Hugues Roy in the program Branch on March 25, 2000.
To take advantage of this solution, which is still in the pilot project stage, you must first obtain an access code from the federal government that will allow us to submit our declaration through this method.
Journalist Martine Pagé explained that it is also up to the taxpayer to deal with the various tax processing software that appear on the Internet and which – in addition to not always keeping their promises – are not all approved. of different ministries.
In 2000, after all, the electronic highway wasn’t as fast as we’d like, but the ways are multiplying …
Source: Radio-Canada
