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CRA Using Big Data to Catch Tax Cheats

The CBC has reported that The Canada Revenue Agency is increasingly using "Big Data" and automated analysis of it to target their compliance and collection actions. That is not really news or surprising in itself, but in that the CRA is using information it can collect from social media and the wide wide web citizens are unknowingly providing. Read the article here.

Auditor General's Report on Income Tax Objections

The Office of the Auditor General of Canada released their report on their audit of how the Canada Revenue Agency deals with Income Tax Objections. Not surprising anyone in our industry, they found the CRA has not been processing the objections "in a timely manner". More upsetting is that the backlog in appeals is growing and there are billions of dollars in unresolved disputes. Read more..