By Matteo Cimellaro Local Journalism Initiative Reporter As the Canada Revenue Agency seeks ways to encourage more Indigenous Peoples to file federal income taxes, researchers argue the federal agency needs to go beyond half-measures like simplifying technical language and running public information campaigns. “The full measure is for them just to do your taxes,” Saul Schwartz, a tax researcher at Carleton University’s School of Public Policy & Administration. Two-thirds of Indigenous Peoples have filed taxes in the past year, according to a recent report commissioned by the CRA. That number hardly changed throughout the 2010s, according to an access-to-information request obtained by Carleton researchers. Filing taxes can have benefits for low-income filers in particular, as they may be eligible for child benefits, Indigenous tax exemptions, sales tax refunds and refundable

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