Overall, across a couple of budgets we were expecting to gross $5 billion in identified additional tax revenue non-compliance. As of March 31 this year, we should have been at $3 billion and we were at $4.4 billion, $1.4 billion ahead of where we projected to be in identifying non-compliance and sending out a bill.
The court system, on the other hand, is feeling the strain. The Tax Court of Canada reported a 70% increase in complex cases over a recent period. We're seeing that some of the fight around the CRA identifying non-compliance is now shifted to the Tax Court of Canada and the Federal Court of Appeal.
We're doing more to get our audits for litigation up front, to make sure our appeals function and colleagues in the Department of Justice have funds. I think there are real pressures now with colleagues in Justice, because we're more successful in identifying non-compliant people, but they're not just rolling over and paying us. In some ways this has become a legal fight around CRA access to information and then the tax bills.
In some ways that's a strategic win. We have a lot of cases in front of the court, where they need to be perhaps, but we're a long way from winning those legal fights and having the capacity to successfully defend those in Justice.