If you have a low or fixed income and a simple tax situation that remains unchanged from year to year, you may be one of two million Canadians invited to automatically file your income tax return with the Canada Revenue Agency for free this tax season!

Invitation letters for using SimpleFile will be sent out to eligible people by mail or their CRA account over the next couple of months.

SimpleFile is an invitation-only phone or online service, which supports people to quickly and easily file their taxes from home, at a time that suits them.

You may also be invited to try out a new digital option as part of a pilot, as we work to provide even more filing options to Canadians. With SimpleFile, you only need to answer a series of quick questions, and then the service uses your answers, with the information we have on file, to auto-file and process a tax return on your behalf.

The CRA’s digital option was first introduced and offered to individuals who had never filed a tax return or had a gap in their filing history. This filing season, for the first time, this free and simplified digital option is available to invited individuals with a recent filing history.

Did you receive an invitation to SimpleFile?

You can file your 2024 income tax and benefit return quickly and securely using SimpleFile, if you receive an invitation letter in the mail or in your CRA account.

• SimpleFile by Phone and SimpleFile Digital are available 21 hours a day between 6 am and 3 am (Eastern time), 7 days a week from February 24, 2025
• Your letter provides the information you need to use these services, including phone numbers or web link, as applicable
• The SimpleFile services will ask you to verify your information and provide answers to a few quick questions – there are no calculations for you to do
• You do not need to speak to a CRA contact centre agent to use either of these services.

Filing your taxes is necessary to access benefit and credit payments including the Canada Pension Plan and the Canada Child Benefit. If you have not yet filed your taxes, and not been invited to SimpleFile, get in touch and I can help you.