T1 Filing Compliance: Canadian Tax Return Timeliness by Demographics and Geography

T1 Filing Compliance data from the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) presents information about individual tax returns filed on-time or late. The returns are grouped by demographic, geographic, and economic characteristics for the 2024 tax year. The dataset was last updated on July 7, 2026, and is published under the OGL-CA-2.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze geographic patterns in tax filing timeliness based on the geographic grouping mentioned in the description.
• Model demographic predictors of late filing based on the demographic characteristics mentioned in the description.
• Study correlations between economic characteristics and compliance rates based on the economic grouping mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from the authoritative Canada Revenue Agency (CRA).
• Covers the 2024 tax year with a specific update date of 2026-07-07.
• Published under the permissive OGL-CA-2.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.

Provenance

Source

Canada Revenue Agency | Agence du revenu du Canada

Collection Method

Administrative data from filed T1 individual tax returns.

Time Range

2024 tax year

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-07 18:31:44.855781; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Canada