This week as I was preparing my taxes, I noticed on the form that our EDA financial agent and I prepared through Elections Canada using their EFR software that somehow the receipt from Elections Canada was not eligible for ITA (Income Tax Act) refund. We must have made a mistake somewhere and I apologize to all those who may have attempted to file their taxes already and received no refund. 

For those who donated, please hold off on filing your taxes till the second or last week of April. You have till April 30 to submit for 2019.  Or if you have filed already and were unable to use the receipt that I had issued you, please do not feel discouraged. You will be able to file an amendment with your 2020 taxes and the new 2019 donation form that I will provide you will still apply. I am trying to fix this problem and get proper receipts to those who donated. It is quite a daunting task filling in the appropriate forms especially since we lost our Financial Agent just prior to the writ dropping. It made everything incredibly difficult. 

I will be in touch with those who donated, and will hopefully get the new forms out to all of you as soon as possible. This is all very new to both myself and the financial agent. 

Thanks,

Martin Deck