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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The May 2 Ontario Budget announced the government’s intention to introduce legislative changes on various issues.

The article "Must Audit Support Documents be Electronically Filed?", published in the April 17, 2013 issue of Knowledge Bureau Report has been amended.

A “synthetic disposition” refers to financial arrangements which allow taxpayers to defer tax by “economically” disposing of a property while continuing to own it for tax purposes. These transactions were shut down as of Budget Day, March 21, 2013.

On May 2, 2013, the Bank of Canada announced that a new Governor of the Bank had been appointed under Section 9 of the Bank of Canada Act.

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