This site is for anyone with an interest in the Community Volunteer Income Tax Program (CVITP). We hope it will be of particular interest to CVITP volunteers and community-based organizations across Canada which host CVITP clinics. But we hope that members of the general public, journalists, policy wonks and politicians will also find it useful.
If this is your first time visiting the site, you might want to check out the various sections on our menu. On this site, you can learn about:
- Why we started this website, what we hope to accomplish with it, and who we are
- The connection between the CVITP and the Government of Canada’s Poverty Reduction Strategy
- The latest CVITP related news and, of course, our slant on it
- What’s changed or new in the current tax year for low-income Canadians and their income tax and benefit returns
- What’s happening at the federal level and with the Canada Revenue Agency
- What’s happening with the provinces and territories and their part of the income tax and benefit return as well as the impact on low-income Canadians
- Information and ideas, as well as a Networking Forum for CVITP volunteers
- Information and ideas, as well as a Networking Forum for CVITP host organizations
- How you can contact us to tell us what you think
What’s New
Check out our Blog page to see the latest news and what we think of it.
Here are the most recent articles we have posted:
Using Municipal Poverty Data to Better Target CVITP Service (see link below) 
How to Reduce the Number of Chronic Non-filers by Using the CVITP Better (see link below) 
Why You Should Tell Clients the Benefits Estimates in Their Returns (see link below) 
How to Reduce the Number of Recent Non-filers by Using the CVITP Better (see link below) 
How Many People Failed to File a 2021 Return? (see link below) 
Great CRA Innovations: Represent A Client (see link below) 
One Way to Get Useful Data on Your CVITP Clinic: Ask the CRA for it (see link below) 
Great CRA Innovations: Annual Data on CVITP Results (see link below)
- Using Municipal Poverty Data to Better Target CVITP Service
- How to Reduce the Number of Chronic Non-filers by Using the CVITP Better
- Why You Should Tell Clients the Benefit Estimates in Their Returns
- How to Reduce the Number of Recent Non-filers by Using the CVITP Better
- How Many People Failed to File a 2021 Return?
- Great CRA Innovations: Represent A Client
- One Way to Get Useful Data on Your CVITP Clinic: Ask the CRA for it
- Great CRA Innovations: Annual Data on CVITP Results