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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Tiff Macklem, Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada, told the Economic Club of Canada in Toronto last week that the Canadian economy needs annual growth of at least 2.5% to put a meaningful dent in the remaining slack in the Canadian economy.