Tax Return Scam

A lot of what is going on right now is related to the SIN Desjardins breach last year. Fraudsters are creating Tax Returns with the stolen SINs and more importantly, they are making CERB applications. This has happened to many of my clients and it’s not a funny situation. Many calls to Revenu Canada, Desjardins lawyers, Police report, calls to equiFax, Trans Union…it does not end. Paper Returns have to be filed for these situations…for now anyways… There will have to be a push to CRA to add extra layers of security for the next Tax Filing season, cause otherwise what will stop false returns from being reported.

They are adding it now go look up business account and see the login process

Nah - all they’ve done is add CAPTCHA which won’t actually stop any decent hacker. Easily bypassed. Just irritating to us normal folks. This is not a solution and is, at best, a stopgap.