Finance committee  Yes. The court process is ongoing right now.

Finance committee  Thank you for the question. I don't know all the details or the reasons. But what I can say is that the overall increase in income is obviously one of those reasons, and the tax debt has gone up as a result. I can assure you that, every year for the past few years, the CRA has

Finance committee  Forgive me, but I don't have all the information as to the reasons. But I can tell you that income has increased significantly. We strive to be as effective and efficient as possible with the staff we currently have. As I said earlier, every year for a number of years, we have b

Finance committee  With the trend, we've seen a considerable increase since 2010, when we were at about 60% of returns being sent electronically. With the filing season that we just terminated, we're up near 81%. There's a drastic increase from that perspective. Last year we were around 77%. It's s

Finance committee  I'll answer the first part of the question and then ask my colleague to answer the latter portion of it. The spend on the internal services is $831 million, and $353 million of that is in relation to our IT function. That said, the IT spend is not obviously all in relation to th

Finance committee  To re-emphasize, the investigation was conducted and clearly showed at the time it happened that system controls were not operating in the way they operate today, the best practices we have today to flag certain payments. I'm not going to go into details, obviously, on the taxpay

Finance committee  I'll open by saying the $5.7 million is actually the amount that was tagged through the budget and was given to CRA for the implementation of that.

Finance committee  That's in relation to that cheque, right? The $300,000 cheque you're referring—

Finance committee  There were no charges laid directly related to that particular cheque. The CRA did say that we were going to investigate the issuance of the cheque, which we did. We released the results of that review, which basically confirmed that in the particular case with that cheque, it wa

Finance committee  Absolutely.

Finance committee  First of all, I'd like to make the point that the $119 million is really the variance between the main estimates and the main estimates. Last year, for example, in our main estimates as relating to budget 2012 we had a reduction of $56 million. Therefore, we have a reduction now

Finance committee  No auditors. There were obviously reductions in FTEs during these. The main savings were generated through increasing our services in an electronic fashion, so adjusting to what Canadians want. A lot of the reductions obviously have to do with just doing things better, especially

Finance committee  Actually, the reduction I referred to in my opening remarks, the reduction of $203 million, makes up the vast majority of that reduction. That's a reduction in the softwood lumber disbursements, so it doesn't really affect our program. It's just a revision by the Department of Fi

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon. Thank you for the opportunity to appear before the committee to present the following and to answer any questions you may have on the Canada Revenue Agency’s 2014-15 main estimates. Mr. Chair, as you are aware, the CRA is responsible for th