03/12/2026
CRA changed the authorization policy
Canada Revenue Agency has changed the tax payers’ authorization policy recently. Under the new rule, the tax payers have to have an online account with CRA through which they would authorize their Accountants /Tax Preparers. Accountants /Tax Preparers can also ask/request authorization through their own representative account from their clients.
This new rule might slow the tax filing process because a lot of tax payers do not have online account with CRA. Thousands of tax payers even does not know /aware what it is. A tax payer may need to visit multiple times to the Accountant’s office in order to complete his/her tax returns and the Accountants/Tax Preparers need more time too. So, the tax filing might be costlier than before in the hands of the tax payers.
We recommend to make the procedure easier minimizing the risks by adopting alternate method.
