Public Accounts committee  One of the benefits of the social influencers in particular is that, by their definition, they're somewhat transparent, so our auditors are able to monitor. It's very surprising what people post on their Facebook pages and their Twitter pages, and so there's a lot of open-source

Public Accounts committee  I'd say there are three key components. We are active. We have specialized audit teams and training. We're trying to get technical experts. We're active in terms of capital gains, so there has been a clarification in terms of people buying and selling and what the tax treatment i

Public Accounts committee  Yes.

Public Accounts committee  Madam Chair, if you please, we can take that question. In fact, I'll ask my colleague to go first.

Public Accounts committee  Yes. As the Office of the Auditor General has already pointed out, we already have teams at work in these sectors. In the case of Airbnb, among others, we have acquired some experience, because we had to do audits on 10 to 20 houses for rent. The new measures will allow us to obt

Public Accounts committee  I would say the OECD doesn't just produce good guidance around how to facilitate voluntary compliance. Countries are working together to deal with aggressive non-compliance. There's something called JITSIC, whereby we already exchange information in relation to personal income ta

Public Accounts committee  Again, I was trying to defer to colleagues from Customs to address the importation aspect.

Public Accounts committee  I think the crux of this issue is that non-residents who are distributing the goods don't have to register. If I understand your question, it's about whether the legislation would fix it. I think that's been the crux of the discussion. If there was a requirement of foreign-based

Public Accounts committee  I think you've just jumped from digital delivery of content to customs importation.

Public Accounts committee  Madam Chair, for the committee's information, I would say that our focus is really the risk level. When we talk about rentals, we're talking about those people who have 20 houses or so and 15 apartments...

Public Accounts committee  I would say that the litigation is often driven by a desire to protect the privacy rights of the customer, so often we have quite good collaboration. Right now we're working with a cryptocurrency mining business, and the court process is driven by privacy and the privacy rights o

Finance committee  Again, we have to be mindful of the information-sharing agreement. Yes, it's true—

Finance committee  Internally within the CRA, we're trying to bring data from some parts of the organization to other parts of the organization. A really quick example is if you are trying to get the GST/HST home renovation credit or the GST/HST rebate on a new home. Normally we used to look at tha

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll take this one. All four teams are stood up in those areas of the country showing the highest risk. The team approach is linked to that BI concept where we try to look for patterns in the data and trends and, again, look for those common denominators. Y

Finance committee  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 no