Your taxes are going digital. How's that going to work here?
So, the Canada Revenue Agency is shutting down its physical drop boxes after this tax season. Yeah, revenu Canada wants everything online, wants us all filing digitally. And here's the thing about Peterborough: for a lot of folks, especially some of our Elders or those out in the Kawarthas who don't have the best internet, or maybe just prefer doing things the old way, this is going to feel like the river's just changing course without a warning. It’s a shift, and not everyone’s set up to navigate it smoothly.
We've got a good number of small businesses on George Street and around Hunter Street, and many of them still rely on paper for their records, for their peace of mind. Losing that drop-off option at the local CRA office, or even just having to trust everything to the mail system, it just adds another layer of friction. Peterborough has always been a place where we value the personal touch, whether it's at the farmers' market at Morrow Park or a Petes game at the Memorial Centre. This feels like a push away from that, a move that doesn't quite acknowledge the rhythm of a place like the Electric City, where sometimes, the current moves a little slower, a little more deliberately.
This is the Electric City — small town, big current. Let's go.
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