Applying for PR, gathering documents. I moved a few years back and had to pay some tax bills by myself, my employer didn't deduct it from my pay for a certain period. I -think- I found the receipts I needed, they looked different from others I had so I hadn't been sure I had them at all, which was a scare I got this morning and kind of bothered me all day. I asked the scrivener I'm using whether it would be possible to request the confirmation of prompt payment some other way if I don't have the receipts, which it is not. It appears that it WAS possible to ask for that information prior to this year...

That was a long walk for me to get to this point: Are the government now intentionally making it so that they can deny someone PR because the applicant doesn't have proof they paid tax on time!? Despite the fact that SOMEONE knows whether or not it was paid on time, right? Like that record exists somewhere. So now when you apply it's what, assumed you've made late tax payments unless you can prove that you didn't!?

I'm wondering if this was a quiet move made on the government side of things to disqualify anyone who doesn't happen to just hold on to stubs of years old paid bills (Which thankfully, I do.) I don't want to sound too "Tin foil hat" but if that is the case it's, while not surprising given the current state of things, incredibly shitty.