Record #: BAR0504
Last Modified: 31 Jan 2025
Last Full Update: 31 Jan 2025

Description

Description (Service)

Trained volunteers available to assist members of the community with modest incomes who have difficulty completing their tax returns.

  • FREE Virtual tax clinic preparing tax returns over the phone and by email - open 12 months of the year
  • Individuals should fill in the Income Tax intake form at the bottom of the webpage: https://www.cwcbarrie.com/
  • Will operate a FREE Income Tax walk in clinic on Thursdays in March and April only
  • Will complete current year tax returns as well as previous years tax returns

Income Tax Clinics Program is sponsored by the Canada Revenue Agency. Community organizations and volunteers are not agents or employees of the CRA.

Service Details

Hours

Virtual clinic: Mon-Fri 9 am-4 pm - January 2025 to December 2025

Walk in Tax Clinic: every Thu 10 am-4 pm beginning March 6, 2025 until April 24, 2025. Located at the Ontario Works Office, 136 Bayfield St, Barrie

Closed during lunch

Areas Served Simcoe County
Eligibility Available to seniors, people with disabilities, single parents and others with a modest income who have basic, uncomplicated returns.
Income Limits per family
  • Family size is calculated as a single adult or couple and their dependent children under 18
  • if there are other adults living in the same household they would file a separate income tax return
  • the service will not accept returns which show an annual income exceeding approximately
    • $35,000 for one person family
    • $45,000 for a two-person family (combined income of a couple, or one adult with one child under 18 yrs)
    • $47,500 for a three-person family (combined income of a couple with one child, or one adult with two children under 18 yrs)
    • $50, 000 for a four-person family (combined income of a couple with two children, or one adult with three children under 18 yrs)
    • $52,500 for a five-person family (combined income of a couple with 3 children, or one adult with four children under 18 yrs)
    • $52,500 plus $2,500 for each additional dependent (under 18 yrs) for a family with more than five persons
    The service will not do returns:
    • which have legal or financial complications
    • which have self employed income or employment expenses * exception applies
    • which have capital gains or losses
    • which have interest income over $1,000
    • which have foreign property (T1135)
    • which have foreign income * exception applies
    • which have business or rental income and expenses
    • for deceased persons or individuals bankrupt in this tax year (or the year before, if that return has not yet been filed)
    Click here for exceptions and more details
Application

Fill in the Income Tax Intake form at the bottom of the webpage: https://www.cwcbarrie.com/

Call or email any questions

Languages English
Fees None

Address and Location

Located In Community Barrie
Address & Map
Barrie, ON
Canada
Physical Access Not Accessible

Contact Information

Toll Free Phone 1-800-959-8281, Individual Income Tax Inquiries with CRA
Website cwcbarrie.com
Primary Contact Winston Chan, Volunteer Coordinator, Income Tax Clinic - CWC Barrie; Phone: 249-315-8392; Email: taxes@cwcbarrie.com
Alternate Contact Roger Leus, Volunteer with CWC Barrie; Phone: 249-315-8393; Email: taxes@cwcbarrie.com

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