Finance committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Chair. I can confirm definitively that the commissioner's statement is accurate and true. The management of the regulatory responsibilities that the CRA has for charities registration, monitoring, and compliance rests solely with CRA departmental

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, if I may, I think the question that is being asked is more directly a question for our Department of Finance. It's a policy question issue. I know as we were looking at implementing and putting together the IGA, the intent was to find a way for Canadian financial ins

Finance committee  The costs that we are working with for our ability to implement the obligations that we have to administer this agreement is funding of, I believe, $15.7 million or $15.8 million, which has been allocated to the CRA to implement this over these next few years. Those costs are p

Finance committee  I may be able to add something to that. We have measured or taken stock of the number of formal complaints concerning political activities of charities that we have received since 2008-09. They range between 20 and 159 complaints of some sort. I do not have information that bre

Finance committee  I have the number of years. Let me clarify. If I said $15 million, I believe I misspoke. If I might be permitted to correct myself, it's $5.8 million over the period 2014-15 to 2018-19.

Finance committee  The bulk of those resource requirements are in 2014-15, because we're setting up the front-end system to be able to receive and transmit the information. Then there are some smaller amounts on an ongoing basis in those outer years to manage the ongoing vetting and assure ourselve

Finance committee  I think the biggest advantage or the biggest part of those moneys is used to create an electronic application and annual reporting system for charities. Currently their only ability is to file this to us in paper format, which is cumbersome and frankly old world. The moneys tha

Finance committee  I'll find that answer, so as to not take up your time. I'll come back to it.

Finance committee  Yes, there is. Political activities are those that seek to: ...further the interests of a particular political party; or support a political party or candidate for public office; or retain, oppose, or change the law, policy, or decision of any level of government in Canada or

Finance committee  Not specifically.

Finance committee  No, it has not.

Finance committee  Let me just add to that. One part of this exercise or effort is to clarify the rules for international business transaction; that's the BEPS work. The other part of this is an increasing collaboration and the development of a multilateral exchange-of-information arrangement where

Finance committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair, and committee members. Thank you all for the invitation to appear before you today. We're here to discuss the CRA's role in combatting terrorist financing as part of the government's anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing regime. As a member

Finance committee  Thank you for the question. As we have indicated in previous testimony, it is indeed the case that our charities registration and regulation are conducted solely by officials in the department, without direction from the minister or the minister's office. Charities play an impo

Finance committee  Thank you for the question. As I think the committee is aware, in the last few years, CRA has undertaken a significant number of initiatives aimed to reduce the burden of compliance for small businesses in the country. For example, we made a number of changes to the small busine