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Canadian personal income tax filing survey
March 31, 2019
8:47 pm
Peter
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In editing the article about Free Canadian Income Tax Software in 2019, I didn't find much good material about how much Canadians pay to file their taxes, and how we do it (with software, paying others, and so on). So I've created a survey that can hopefully help gather some useful information. As an incentive for people to fill it out, I'll draw 2 random winners for a $50 cash prize via Interac e-Transfer.

https://survey.highinterestsavings.ca/Canadian-personal-income-tax-filing-survey-2019

April 1, 2019
6:54 am
hwyc
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... so Peter, will the survey closed on a specific date ? Or when the number of participants reached a big enough sample ?

Thanks for organizing all this.

April 1, 2019
7:18 am
Peter
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I'm thinking of running it for 2 weeks. But we'll see how the first week goes and then adjust the plan as necessary!

April 1, 2019
10:25 am
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It's impossible for me to complete the survey because I cannot answer question 3 and the survey keeps wanting a positive answer ??

" 3. If you pay someone to do your personal income taxes, how much do you pay them? "

I do my own taxes so I don't pay anyone. Entering zero didn't seem to be an appropriate response in order to complete the survey.sf-confused

April 1, 2019
10:35 am
pwm
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There's a flaw in question #3. It works if you enter zero.

April 1, 2019
10:54 am
Peter
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Sorry for the confusion. You can enter anything into #3: "n/a", "$0", "zero"

April 2, 2019
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Doug
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2 weeks seems reasonable, 3 might be necessary if low number of submissions. Definitely no more than 4 weeks, though, I think. sf-cool

Cheers,
Doug

April 25, 2019
10:30 am
Peter
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April 25, 2019
2:04 pm
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Interesting. Thanks Peter.

Apropos, got our returns from our CA today. I just finished double checking his figures using the calculator at taxtips.ca

After having done our own taxes for 25 years, it's hard to break old habits, lol.

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