Introduction: Statute-Barred Tax Years & Statute-Barred Tax Audits Canada’s Income Tax Act sets out a “normal reassessment period,” after which the Canada Revenue Agency generally cannot reassess a person’s taxable income or tax payable. For most individual taxpayers, the normal reassessment period expires three years from the date that...
Introduction – CERB and CRB claims before the Federal Court The Canada Revenue Agency (“CRA”) has been assessing, and often denying, Canada Emergency Response Benefit (“CERB”) and Canada Revenue Benefit (“CRB”) claims. Recourse for those individual taxpayers denied CERB and CRB is to request a second review from the...
Introduction: The Access to Information Act And The Privacy Act An Access to Information and Privacy (ATIP) request, also referred to as Access to Information and Personal Information request, allows a Canadian taxpayer to exercise his or her right to access records of government institutions, including personal information held...
Oliveira v. The King (“Oliveria”) demonstrates the need for taxpayers to diligently follow the deadlines stipulated on the notices received from the Canada Revenue Agency (“CRA”). Deadlines stipulated on notices of assessments, reassessments, or confirmations are based upon Canadian tax legislation i.e., the Income Tax Act (“ITA”) and the...
Burke v. The King, 2022 TCC 158 The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) conducted tax reassessments for the tax years 2014, 2015, and 2016, expressing doubts about the reported amounts in taxpayer Mr. Burke’s tax returns. Since Mr. Burke recorded most of his business dealings through handwritten notes and ledgers,...
Big box store was ordered by the Federal Court to turn over its client lists to the CRA In November 2022, the Federal Court granted the CRA’s request to force J.D.Irving to turn over its clients’ data from January 1, 2019, which included the complete name, contact information, CRA...
Introduction – T1135s and Beneficial Ownership The Canadian Income Tax Act requires that Canadian tax residents who own “specified foreign property” with a cost of $100,000 or more in Canadian dollars file an annual Foreign Income Verification Statement, or “T1135”, with that year’s tax return. Specified foreign property as...
Penalties Canada’s tax statutes contain various penalties that seek to curb non-compliance. A gross-negligence penalty aims to punish a taxpayer whose conduct “involves a high degree of negligence tantamount to intentional acting, an indifference as to whether the law is complied with or not”: Venne v R., 84 DTC...
Introduction – CRA’s Court Order against Coinsquare On September 18, 2020, the CRA filed a Federal Court application against Coinsquare in order to compell the Toronto-based cryptocurrency platform to disclose tax information related to its customers. We covered this issue in depth here (https://taxpage.com/articles-and-tips/cra-wants-coinsquare-to-disclose-confidential-client-info/) Following a Federal Court ruling...
What is a Tax Notice of Objection? A tax Notice of Objection is a formal dispute filed with the Canada Revenue Agency wherein the taxpayer appeals tax amounts assessed against the taxpayer by the Canada Revenue Agency. For example, a taxpayer may argue an auditor improperly imputed taxable income...