Personal Electronic Account at CRA Revenue Canada

The tax folks, CRA, or Revenue Canada as we used to know them have set up a process whereby you can open an electronic account, much like your bank, which allows you to track your tax return progress as it works through the system to your tax refund.

Click on
http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/eservices/tax/individuals/myaccount/menu-e.html
to open your personal, very secure account. At this time only you will know your account password. Eventually, the system will allow me to have access to your account, which when you have questions for me, I will be able to see where your troubles are.

Eventually this electronic account will enable you to deal with all arms of the government ,and hopefully replace the mountains of paper that they currently send out. This will be especially useful if you move around a lot or are on tour.
Things like child benefit cheques, Employment Insurance cheques and your old age pension payments will all be online for you to look at and deal with while on the Net. It's just part of the whole move to electronify business activities.

If your not yet up to speed, and don't have an email address to receive information and tax returns, please consider opening a Hotmail Acccount, which is FREE and accessible from anywhere in the worlld. Check out tommorrow's post to walk you through the Hotmail process.