It’s taken more than five years, but it appears that legislation to significantly limit the amount that consultants can charge for assisting persons with disabilities or their family members in applying for the disability tax credit will finally become effective.
As a result, some Canadians have turned to consultants to help apply for the credit, both for the current year and up to nine prior tax years. Indeed, in the past decade, a mini-industry has emerged of consultants offering to help file DTC claims. There’s even an industry association: the Association of Canadian Disability Benefit Professionals.
The government felt that persons with disabilities have been paying “excessive fees to certain promoters” for their assistance in making a DTC request. It is estimated that promoters collected a total of between $9.5 million and $25.4 million in approximately 36,000 DTC requests for the 2018 calendar year alone.
Under the just-released Disability Tax Credit Promoters Restrictions Regulations, which could become effective as early as next month, the maximum fee that a promoter can accept or charge is $100 for helping to complete the DTC application form or $100 per tax year where the fee is contingent upon the DTC claim succeeding.
Maybe Trudeau should quit overspending and denying people these tax credits - then we wouldn’t have this industry
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