EFILE Transmission Issues – CRA Comments

On April 30, 2021, some practitioners experienced challenges e-filing personal tax returns, including receiving the message “Unable to get response from the Government Agency. Please try again later CRA T1 EFILE service failed at returnCode=500”.

CRA responded (on April 30) stating that “We are experiencing peak volumes, please try the transaction again. If you are using batch processes to submit returns, please revert to individual submissions.”