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　　Tax Season Scams Survey
 
　　Highlights
 
　　There is a high number of Canadians being exposed to tax season scams.
　　One in five (20 per cent) of Canadians have been exposed to a tax season scam.
 
　　One in ten (14 per cent) of Canadians cite themselves, a close friend, a family member, or someone else they know as being victims of a tax season-related scam.
 
　　Men are twice as likely as women to have been a victim of tax season-related scams themselves (6 per cent men vs. 3 per cent women) or have known a close friend (6 per cent men vs. 3 per cent women) or someone else (11 per cent men vs. 6 per cent women) to be a victim of such a scam.
 
　　Fewer women (17 per cent) cite having been exposed to tax season scams in comparison to men (23 per cent).
 
　　Younger Canadians, aged 18-34, are more likely to have been a victim of tax season scams (8 per cent) compared to middle-aged (4 per cent, aged 35-54) and seniors (2 per cent, aged 55+) Canadians.
 
　　Younger Canadians are also at least twice as likely to know a close friend (9 per cent), family member (9 per cent), or someone else (15 per cent) who has been a victim compared to their middle-aged or senior counterparts.
 
　　Canadian seniors (14 per cent) are the least likely to have been exposed to tax season scams, ahead of their middle-aged (20 per cent) and younger (29 per cents) counterparts.
 
　　Quebecers (13 per cent) are least likely to say they’ve been exposed to a tax season scam, slightly ahead of Atlantic Canadians (16 per cent), Prairies residents (19 per cent), Albertans (21 per cent), British Columbians (23 per cent), and Ontarians (24 per cent).
 
　　Canadians are exposed to a number of different tax season scams.
　　Phishing emails/telephone calls (11 percent of Canadians surveyed exposed).
 
　　Identity theft (5 per cent).
 
　　Abuse of charitable organizations and deductions (4 per cent).
 
　　Tax preparer fraud (3 per cent).
 
　　Other (2 per cent).
 
　　The majority of Canadians don’t know where to report fraud.
　　54 per cent of Canadians don’t know where to report fraud.
 
　　Men (51 per cent) are more likely than women (41 per cent) to know where to go.
 
　　Seniors (55 per cent) are also more likely to know of the outlets to report fraud, ahead of middle-aged (42 per cent) and younger (38 per cent) Canadians.
 
　　Quebecers are the least likely to know the proper outlets when it comes to reporting fraud, even though they have been victimized the least.
 
　　Two in three (66 per cent) Quebecers don’t know the proper outlets to report fraud should the become a victim of a tax season scam, drastically ahead of Ontarians (54 per cent), Prairies residents (50 per cent), Atlantic Canadians (49 per cent), British Columbians (47 per cent), and Albertans (42 per cent).
 
　　Canadians lose significant amounts of money to tax season scams.
　　One in five (18 per cent) of Canadian’s who have been victims of tax season scams either lost or know of someone who’s lost more than $1,200, while one in ten victims of tax season-related scams have lost between $25-$100 (9 per cent), between $251-$750 (10 per cent), or between $751-$1,200 (8 per cent).
 
　　More than one in ten (14 per cent) victims of tax season-related scams don’t know how much money they’ve lost from these scams.
 
　　Canadians trust accountants for tax season advice.
　　Two in five (41 per cent) Canadians seek guidance from a professional accountant.
 
　　More Canadians seek tax season guidance from family members and friends (29 per cent) and online sources (18 per cent) than from a financial advisor (17 per cent), while one in ten (8 per cent) seek guidance from some other source.
 
　　Note to editors:
　　These are some of the findings of an Ipsos Reid poll conducted between February 6 to 12, on behalf of CGA-Canada. For this survey, a sample of 2,009 Canadians from Ipsos' Canadian online panel was interviewed online.
 
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