Finance committee  I guess as a general comment I would say two things. We're cognizant of the challenges that poses, and at the end of the day, we're taxpayers as well, so I can recognize that challenge.

Finance committee  It's a significant change.

Finance committee  I'd say there are probably three elements to that. One is to, if you will, better work with those key partners we have been working with, and obviously not significantly enough, to better communicate the information we've been trying to communicate on the improvements and chang

Finance committee  Thank you for the question. Mr. Chair, I think in the interest of time, I won't repeat all the things we have changed, but to focus on the Golden Scissors Award, I believe that was awarded to the minister specifically for the remittance threshold reduction change that the govern

Finance committee  I think it depended on whether it was payroll tax, EI, income tax, but the aggregate effect of that change in remittance thresholds was to reduce the number of remittance transactions across the entire small business community from about 800,000 down to about 500,000.

Finance committee  This was an issue that I heard on a consistent basis in the consultation forums that I participated in over the course of last fall. In many cases there was surprise on the part of small businesses when they were informed that there were certain flexibilities that were available

Finance committee  I think that CRA is not the only organization that is involved in monitoring and pursuing terrorist financing. We are actually a very small bit of a bigger effort, but nobody else does charities registration.

Finance committee  For CRA specifically, the unit we have that is involved in that, we spend roughly—I didn't bring the stats with me today—I think it's around $3 million a year. Those are the resources we have committed to that unit within my directorate.

Finance committee  As a result of the budget 2012 initiative? I believe it's around $13.5 million over a five-year period.

Finance committee  I think that's a bit of a difficult question to answer at this point in time, because wrapped up in that are policy issues that of course are the prerogative of the Department of Finance. At this point in time, the CRA or the government's position is that bitcoin does not meet th

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, I think you can appreciate that I'm not in a particularly good position to respond directly to the question. Mr. Cullen, perhaps that could be forwarded back to us. We will take this back to the department, absolutely. If you could share the correspondence with us as

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

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  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  Not specifically.