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. 

Al Emid, one of three authors along with Evelyn Jacks and Robert Ironside of Financial Recovery In A Fragile World, recently appeared on the financial talk show Money Talks airing on Astor Communications’ station San Diego AM 1450. The broadcast was also carried in the Inland Empire area of California.

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Come out to meet Director of Operations, Al Gordon and Knowledge Bureau faculty member, Alan Rowell, MFA, DFA-Tax Services Specialist, who will be speaking on Real Wealth Management™ – Tax Efficient Retirement Income Layering at the RRC on April 3.

The March 21, 2013 budget was a significant document, which upon reflection, will require high net worth clients, particularly business owners, and their advisors to rethink wealth, retirement  and estate plans. 

Offshore Tax Cheats: the Finance Department wants You! The CRA will be empowered to pay you a “finder’s fee” for identifying international tax cheats as a result of new provisions in the March 21, 2013 budget. Further, businesses using “zapper” software to evade taxes by hiding or “suppressing” sales income will face stiff new penalties and criminal convictions – with fines in the 7 figures.