CBC News talks to BMD for information about the Disability Tax Credit

Tom McFeat, a Senior Writer for CBC News,  researched the Disability Tax Credit for a recently posted article on the CBC website.  Here is an excerpt what he reported…

“A Winnipeg-based tax credit consultant says it isn’t just potential claimants, but also their doctors, who frequently don’t understand that severe disabilities are not the only ones that qualify for the DTC. The result, according to Barry Ho of BMD Services, is that doctors will often tell patients they don’t qualify when, in fact, they do. Ho says he knows of doctors who have told patients they couldn’t qualify for the DTC simply because they walked into the examining room and thus were assumed to be too mobile to qualify.”

‘Doctors, for the most part, do not understand how to complete the DTC certificate for the moderate and less-than-moderate groups.’ Barry Ho, BMD Services

   “The key aspect of the DTC is for anyone involved to understand that the DTC qualifying    rules include the severe, moderate and less-than-moderate restriction levels,” Ho said.  “Doctors, for the most part, do not understand how to complete the DTC certificate for the moderate and less-than-moderate groups.”   

“Ho, who is a former CRA auditor, says it would be more accurate to rename the disabled tax credit as “the health restriction tax credit.” “

 

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