Absolutely. I would also suggest that from an efficiency and an effectiveness point of view, for example, we be allowed to submit receipts or tax slips.... You know, they've pushed the electronic filing a lot to try to make things easier for people. What we find in many instances is that there is a much higher percentage of returns that are reviewed--not audited, but reviewed--requesting receipts, which then requires the paper filing of those receipts. It leaves the accountants in a quandary. Do we charge our clients for the extra time we need to spend processing this for them? Do we leave it up to them, when they may not understand what's being asked? To allow us to submit those T3 or T4 or whatever kind of slips they may be looking for, there should be a method for us to submit them electronically.
To give you an example, at the tax professionals advisory committee meeting last year in November, there was a huge issue about the authorization forms, which the CRA needs in order to disclose information to an adviser. It's a matter of privacy. There are huge--I mean huge--problems in the administration of those, because they're all paper-based. So we asked, because they require a signature, if they could be submitted electronically, perhaps in PDF format. We were told no, it's not a secure basis. Within 10 days of that meeting, there was an article on how the Internal Revenue Service has now gone to allowing PDF file attachments for certain types of documents and forms.