First-year university students don’t expect to pass when they get 17% on their final exam.

Yet, Prime Minister Mark Carney is rewarding the Canada Revenue Agency’s poor performance with more power over taxpayers.

Carney’s recent budget confirms his government is expanding the CRA’s power to file taxes for more Canadians. The CRA’s poor performance perfectly demonstrates why automatic tax filing is a bad idea.

The Auditor General found the CRA’s “responses to general individual-tax questions were accurate only 17% of the time.”

That means the CRA gave the wrong answer 83% of the time.

The CRA barely received a D- when it comes to answering business tax questions, giving the correct answer only 54% of the time.

The Auditor General also found Canadians were only able to get a CRA ag

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