Opinion: Pre-filled tax returns in Quebec? Let's not go there

“The art of taxation consists of plucking the goose so as to obtain the most feathers with the least possible amount of squawking.”
The statement, attributed to Jean-Baptiste Colbert, comptroller-general of finances in France under King Louis XIV, is as relevant today as it was then. Put another way: It is in the interest of government to make the collection of taxes as painless as possible — but it is not necessarily in the interests of taxpayers to leave it almost entirely up