During his recent election campaign, the Prime Minister promised an increase to the Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) if he was elected, but increasing the GIS is not the best way to help out Canadian seniors at this time. Instead, it’s way past time to give some relief to single seniors who pay taxes because there are many tax benefits that a senior couple, married or common-law, can take advantage of that single seniors are not eligible for. Single seniors sometimes pay several times more income tax on the same amount of income than a couple together pays, even though most non-discretionary expenses are similar.