If you have questions or concerns about your taxpayer rights or what to do if you feel your rights have been violated, you can make a service complaint directly to the CRA or you can talk to your CFIB Business Advisor by calling or by e-mailing [email protected]. Skip to main content We often hear from business owners wondering if the Canada Revenue Agency CRA can do or say certain things when dealing with the collection of taxes.
So what are these rights? Here are a few of the 16 rights: You have the right to be treated professionally, courteously and fairly. You have the right to lodge a service complaint and to be provided with an explanation of the findings.
You have the right to request relief from penalties and interest under tax legislation because of extraordinary circumstances. You have a right to a formal review and subsequent appeal. Was the CRA negligent, and thus at fault with respect to the following: a.
Refusing the voluntary disclosure and threatening gross-negligence penalties? Failing to move the matter forward expeditiously? Taking and then clinging to unreasonable tax assessing positions and ultimately relying upon these in issuing tax reassessments?
Failing to give the taxpayer prior notice before issuing tax reassessments contrary to a promise to allow for a period to consider and respond? Referring to the matter as a "criminal tax matter" to the Bermuda authorities? Issuing unreasonable draft tax reassessments? Making bad faith settlement offers which it knew were untenable in order to maximize the collection of tax?
Providing incomplete responses to access to information requests? If the CRA did in fact commit negligence, was it liable for the following remedies: a Reimbursement of lost interest on amounts paid due to tax reassessment?
As such, the Court answered the first question as follows: The CRA must act reasonably when it performs an audit. The Taxpayer Bill of Rights is an important document that must speak to how an auditor comports themselves during the tax audit which is merely an administrative function; Negligence is sufficient to establish fault; It is not necessary to establish that the CRA acted maliciously.
Intentional conduct is only necessary for a finding of punitive damages; The CRA can be wrong without being at fault - the CRA is not at fault if it takes a reasonable position which later turns out to be incorrect; and To the extent CRA has powers under the taxing statutes, it must exercise them reasonably and not in an abusive manner.
The Individual Heads of Negligence With respect to the failure of the CRA to accept the voluntary disclosure application, the failure to move the tax audit forward expeditiously, issuing unreasonable draft tax reassessments, the Tax Court settlement offers and the access to information requests, the Court found that the CRA had not acted negligently and dismissed those portions of the claims.
However, it further found that the CRA was negligent and had improperly conducted its tax audit for the following issues: Creating and refusing to abandon clearly untenable tax reassessment positions; Failing to provide notice of forthcoming tax reassessments after promising to do so, which the Court characterized as akin to non-compliance with an undertaking; Making a request to the Bermuda authorities with reference to a "criminal tax matter"; Acting improperly in attempting to railroad through a settlement on issues it had already decided to abandon during the Tax Court Appeals; and The failure to properly disclose information through the Access to Information Directorate, resulting in the delay of inevitable disclosure by years and creating considerable expense to the plaintiffs.
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Sometimes the best way to deal with this situation is to avoid it entirely. While it is extraordinarily difficult to sue the CRA for negligence after the fact, a good tax representative can help prevent CRA's agents from being negligent in the first place during a tax audit or tax investigation.
When you get that initial letter from the CRA in the mail, consider contacting an experienced Canadian tax lawyer to represent you and ensure that your rights as a taxpayer are not infringed during the tax audit or investigative process. The content of this article is intended to provide a general guide to the subject matter. Specialist advice should be sought about your specific circumstances.
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David Rotfleisch. Registered retirement savings plans RRSPs are specifically designed to promote and encourage retirement savings for Canadian taxpayers. One of the most popular questions I get during my renunciation webinars and over the 4, files I've handled is, "Will I lose my Social Security after I renounce my US citizenship?
Bill C amended the Income Tax Act Canada the "Act" to provide tax relief to families wishing to transfer shares of Minden Gross LLP. The first days are in the books for the Biden administration. Many of us north of the border feel insulated from the comings and goings on in the U. It is likely an understatement that worldwide there is a sense of trepidation among taxpayers on what measures governments will take to raise tax revenues to pay for the pandemic Sign Up for our free News Alerts - All the latest articles on your chosen topics condensed into a free bi-weekly email.
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