Finance committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chair. Thank you for the opportunity to appear before the committee to present and to answer any questions that you may have on the Canada Revenue Agency's 2016-17 supplementary estimates (B). Mr. Chair, as you are aware, the Canada Revenue Agency is responsi

Finance committee  As you said, the $444 million does not appear in these estimates. The amount will mainly be added to our compliance measures. In the estimates, there is a figure of $1.067 billion for those measures already. A large part of the $444 million will also be invested in those same pro

Finance committee  Absolutely. The figure should be approved within a few weeks. It will then be tabled in the supplementary estimates (B). That is our objective.

Finance committee  I do not have the graph you are referring to in front of me. However, the 2016-17 report on plans and priorities that has been tabled does not include the recent investments announced in the budget. A report on plans and priorities presents all sources of funds that have been app

Finance committee  The reason it is not included in the report on plans and priorities is that it was tabled before the budget. We cannot add—

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, we cannot adjust the report on plans and priorities when we have to produce it before the budget is announced. Those funds have not yet been announced and they are not public. The process means that these figures will be reflected in the next report on plans and priori

Finance committee  I'm sorry, that was around the what?

Finance committee  First of all, the budget 2016 funding that we've been talking about for a few minutes is not in these main estimates. The main estimates represent the decisions made by Parliament in the past up to a certain point. But yes, we received back then a very large sum of money to rev

Finance committee  What I can tell you is that the agency spends approximately $100 million a year towards the improvement of these systems. It varies from system to system, obviously. Some of the $1 billion is towards developing certain systems to have better business intelligence, for example. T

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, good afternoon, and thank you for the opportunity to appear before the committee to present the Canada Revenue Agency's main estimates for 2016-17 and to answer any questions that you may have on the associated funding. As you are aware, the Canada Revenue Agency is r

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  Actually the numbers I referred to were for personal taxes.

Finance committee  The numbers I have here are for last year, not this year, which I think grew quite a bit. We had 2.7 million individuals and 1.9 million businesses registered.

Finance committee  As always, we are following a process, but the budget was obviously announced after the deadline for producing main estimates documentation. In short, what was announced in the budget will follow the usual process—the money will be provided to the agency through supplementary est

Finance committee  Thank you for the question. Yes, we've seen a constant growth over the last five to seven years of our tally within the online filing. If you go back around five to seven years, we would be around 55% to 60% of folks who would be filing electronically. Last year we finished the