If you would. It's a side thing, but it just seems to me that more and more over the years.... The last budget--not this budget, but the previous budget--showed going into the future that there would be even more revenue, as a percentage, coming from personal income tax and a further lowering of the percentage from corporate taxes. Correct? I'll leave it with you to give me the information.
I don't want to put you on the spot; it wasn't a trick question. But I looked at this and I recall reading not that long ago and understanding that at one time corporations actually paid the majority of the revenue of Canada, and now we're almost at the point where it's personal, and the difference between 46 and 16 is huge. As I say, the last budget of the current government sends us even further into that trend line, which some of us would argue is not all that healthy.
If I might, I'm going to read this from volume I, page 2.37, the chart you referred to in your opening comments, the second box, Canada Border Service Agency: “This manipulation of data”—and you're going to explain to me what “this manipulation of data” means—“involves complex and cumbersome manual processing and reconciliation. These nonetheless fail to explain differences between the amounts receivable in the general ledger and the various reports taken from the tax program systems in support of the reported amounts. Management of Canada Border Services Agency has identified underlying causes of some of their unreconciled differences. However, unexplained differences remain at year-end.”
Please explain “unexplained” for me.
