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Declining AI consent

Consent to AI processing is optional. Declining it means typing your boxes in by hand, and it does not reduce the return you can prepare or what you pay.

Updated 24 July 2026 · 1 min read

Hypertax asks for your consent before any part of your tax information goes to an AI vendor. Canadian privacy law requires your permission before a slip image leaves Hypertax for a vendor outside Canada, and saying no is a supported choice, not a degraded one.

The consent names the vendor and the purpose. Reading your uploaded slip is one purpose. Rewriting question text is another. They are separate choices, and you can allow one and refuse the other.

Consent is opt-in. Nothing is sent unless you have ticked the box for that purpose.

What changes if you decline

  • You type the boxes from your slip by hand instead of uploading a photograph.
  • Questions and help text appear in their original wording.
  • The Premium review pass does not run.

What does not change

  • Every line of the return you can prepare.
  • Every credit and deduction Hypertax supports.
  • The price. Declining consent does not cost more, and it does not cost less.
  • The finished PDF.

Changing your mind

Withdraw consent at any time from your account. Withdrawal stops future processing. It cannot unsend something already sent, and Hypertax says so plainly rather than implying otherwise.

Where the formal wording lives

The consent documents themselves set out the vendor, the purpose, the fact that the data crosses the border, and how long the consent lasts. They are linked from the consent screen and from the legal section of the site.

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This article explains a form and a process. It is general information, not tax advice about your own situation, and Hypertax does not send your return to the CRA — you print it and mail it. See the not-tax-advice notice and the rest of the help centre.