Time’s Up: CRA’s 100 Day Mandate for Improvement

After years of frustration on the part of tax professionals and taxpayers alike, the Finance Minister ordered the Canada Revenue Agency to clean up its act in 100 days. Specifically, the improvement plan was to run from September 2 through December 11. Finance Minister and Minister of National Revenue, Francoise-Phillippe Champagne instructed CRA to fix “unacceptable wait times and service delays.” Time’s up this week and CRA has released an update on progress. What gets measured, gets done. Let’s see what CRA’s metrics show. 

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Although the new T1 Return and Schedules will not be available from the CRA website until January 7, the forms went to print on December 16 and are available in EverGreen Explanatory Notes right now.

'Tis the season and Canada Revenue Agency will once again send out an estimated 33,000 letters to Canadian taxpayers asking them to “reconsider” their prior year’s personal tax return. 

The new T1 return includes a space to send the taxpayer’s email address to CRA.

Recently, the Tax Court of Canada (TCC) levied interest and gross negligence penalties against five taxpayers who were shareholders and operators of a family restaurant.