page 20 - April 6, 1977 - North Shore News

Taxpayers made close to

two million errors in arith-
metic when completing their

tax returns last year. Fortun- —

ately for the majority of
them, computers at Revenue
Canada, Taxation caught and
corrected the errors, auto-

atically adjusting =the
amount of tax
usually in favour of the
taxpayer.

The single most common
‘cause of errors last year was
the calculation of the Canada
and Quebec Pension Plan
payment. Of the nearly one
million adjustments to re-
turns in this area the
majority resulted from tax-
payers either neglecting to
claim their CPP or QPP
overpayment or neglecting to
include their contribution as
an eligible deduction. Other
common errors included mis-
calculations or claims
contributions
‘by information contained in
T4 information slips. |

for

Unenployment insurance
premium.calculations caused
an additional 440,190 errors.

Taxpayers’ claims for the
interest and dividend income.
deduction resulted in 350,000.
errors and calculations con-
cerning medical expenses
and. charitable donations
caused 200,000. 7

“A total of 188,000 tax-—

payers neglected to claim

payable, .

- married

unsupported -

ween ee

- expense
deduction? of $150 and
another 160,000 reported
income that did not agree
with information supplied by
employers on T4 and. T4A
information slips.

The pension income de-
duction caused 117,000
errors in claims for personal
exemptions such as the age,
married exemption and claim
for wholly dependent child-
ren accounted for 110,000
errors. The eguivalent-to-
exemption
exemptions for other depen-
dents’ accounted for 82, 000
errors.

Many errors are picked up |

by computers at the Taxation
Data Centres and last year
resulted in savings to tax-

‘payers of $150 million. In

addition, many taxpayers

‘benefitted as a result of

general averaging which is
applied automatically to all
tax returns and averages a
taxpayer’s income over a
five-year period. This meant
an average saving of $78 in
taxes for 2,750,000. tax-
payers.

Last year a total of 9.5
million taxpayers received
‘average refunds of $268.36,
up from $244.30 the year
before. Refunds are delayed
when a taxpayer’s return is
rejected because of insuffi-

cient information, arithmetic

and other errors.

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