You're correct that there are a number of factors that have increased the volume of accounts receivable at the CRA. One is aggressive compliance action such as the document posted to the CBC website that talks about going back 16 tax years. That's exceptional, and it really does ramp up the bill the taxpayer has to pay. In that 50% penalty, the gross negligence penalty that we apply very seldom goes back 16 tax years, and applying a gross negligence penalty is something that we do in a fraction of 1% of cases. We save that for the most serious types of non-compliance. Now when we do that, it does inflate the bill, and budget 2016 did provide us the resources to make sure we collect those assessments.
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