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. 

It’s important for you to file a tax return for children who have any earnings from active employment or self-employment.

Red Adair, an Oilwell Firefighter once said, “If you thought hiring a professional was expensive, wait until you try hiring an amateur!” 

In the final three months of 2013, seniors will receive an inflation-adjusted increased OAS benefit of $550.99 per month, which makes the total annual OAS benefits a total of $6,578.06. 

Tax service professions are one of the few careers that have outpaced economic growth for the past ten years.

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October 1, 2013. National business educator Evelyn Jacks, president of Knowledge Bureau has added two new distinctions this year: she was recently ranked one of Canada’s Top 25 Women of Influence for the second year and she is the Manitoba Club’s 2nd female president in its 77 year history.