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

Finance committee  No, for sure.

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

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 o

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 understandi

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 hav

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

Finance committee  We can go back, certainly, to see what information we may already share with ESDC and others, and come back with what it is that we do currently share.

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, a

Finance committee  Yes, in the sense that we always look at the tolerances and thresholds. In fact, in budget 2014, there's a provision that's focused on small business and others to adjust the thresholds in terms of payment frequencies. We're always looking to adjust the system to fine-tune it, an

Finance committee  It's an internal decision based on a variety of information sources—letters from MPs, letters from individuals, and other charities.

Finance committee  No.

Finance committee  Because they're confidential. It would be like you writing a letter to the CRA. We don't make that public. If you choose to make it public, that's fine.

Finance committee  To supplement what Richard said, it's actually a two-tiered penalty system. There's one if you're actually the business using it. That's a significant monetary penalty. There's also a very significant penalty if you're actually a producer, promoter, and purveyor of these instrume

Finance committee  I'll just make one observation after some 30 years in all of this, which is that probably no one's more offended when things like that happen to an organization than the people in the organization. There's probably nobody more dedicated to rooting it out and making sure it doesn'