Canada Revenue Agency

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.

The Canada Revenue Agency is shifting 549 collection jobs in Ottawa to other tax centres across the country. It is almost certain not all of those employees will make the move from Ottawa. In essence they are latterally supporting their suggested intent to reduce their workforce through attrition.