CRA Tax Data

Question

I have a faculty member here at University of Guelph who has traditionally worked with subprovincial tax data for Ontario. He's noticed that the CRA website is no longer providing the data at the subprovincial level nor are they keeping (on the web) data beyond a 5 year period. As you can imagine this is an issue for any researcher looking to conduct any historical analysis.

So - my questions are: did anyone in the DLI world collect and keep this data as it was released? And for the folks at DLI - I'm not sure if this is out of your mandate - but is there anyway for you to ask about the historical data? and subprovincial data?

Answer

We did check with CRA and this information is now available only through as custom tabulation from CRA under cost recovery. If you want to pursue this request, this is how you can proceed based on the response we got from CRA:

For income statistics, we have data going back to 1984. Again, most of these are text files, though some recent years are in Excel or PDF.

What years of data do you require? When you determine which years you wish to receive, you may send a request to Client Services at SD-Client_Services@cra-arc.gc.ca . They will assign a you a request number, and I can provide you with a cost estimate and delivery date.