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Finance committee  I don't know that we track this. I do know that we have obviously the issue of residency and that has a difference, as you well know, in terms of the actual tax rate you're paying, and so on. I don't know the degree to which our stats shop, which shares a lot of information with Statistics Canada, would have anything beyond that, but that is something we can go back and confirm.

May 28th, 2014Committee meeting

Brian McCauley

Finance committee  No, in the sense that I think what the OECD and others have said is to calculate with a level of assurance that then could be used in terms of the practical administration of income tax and other taxes. There's a whole academic exercise that academic communities could carry on, and maybe for some purposes it has value, but I don't think that has shifted significantly from the OECD's perspective a year later.

May 28th, 2014Committee meeting

Brian McCauley

Finance committee  I don't think any of us are experts, but I'll certainly try. It's my understanding that that provision doesn't necessarily provide the security for protection of taxpayer information that's required under the Income Tax Act and that it is insufficient, but that's my understanding.

May 28th, 2014Committee meeting

Brian McCauley

Finance committee  To date, the general approach certainly of ourselves and Finance is that there hasn't been value in estimating the tax gap. We have looked very closely at what other countries are doing. “Tax gap” is thrown around a lot in terms of what it actually means and how it's used. We have been looking at what is happening in the U.K. and the U.S. and others and looking at whether or not....

May 28th, 2014Committee meeting

Brian McCauley

Finance committee  Yes, that's the number we were hoping to get through Treasury Board. I'm not quite sure what the technical costs would be that Finance would have been referring to. Assuming that the implementation of the measure is actually passed, which is yet to happen, if that happens then there's always a hard scrub of the numbers.

May 28th, 2014Committee meeting

Brian McCauley

Finance committee  No, for sure.

May 28th, 2014Committee meeting

Brian McCauley

Finance committee  We haven't done any estimates that are different from what Finance would have done. The way we've designed the system, basically, is that at the end of the day, whether it's 5,000, or 55,000, or 555,000, the system we've built can handle that flow. We're sort of agnostic when it comes to the actual number.

May 28th, 2014Committee meeting

Brian McCauley

Finance committee  Actually, that falls under my area of responsibility. We've given testimony on this several times at this committee and at Senate as well. We simply do not take, nor invite or provide any opportunity for any political direction, on any files in terms of the choice of an auditor or who we're auditing in the charity world.

May 28th, 2014Committee meeting

Brian McCauley