Finance committee  We have confirmed publicly that we have a small number. I believe we have confirmed publicly that there are five criminal investigations under way. At this point, given people's legal rights and the aggressive criminal defence in these cases, we haven't brought any to charges lai

Finance committee  Again, I think we haven't confirmed publicly the exact number that we have under criminal investigations. I think the point needs to be made, though, that many of these sophisticated taxpayers paper over their tax planning with multiple legal opinions and law firms. I think there

Finance committee  Again, I think in all four cases, Panama, Paradise, Bahamas and Isle of Man, 100% of the taxpayers' names were risk-assessed by the audit function. Based on the facts, the current jurisprudence and current Canadian law, we believe we took whatever action we could. In the case of

Finance committee  No.

Finance committee  Just before COVID, we had reported that we'd exceeded a billion dollars in gross reassessments. I think that's the direct economic impact. I think the real property community, some real estate agents and lawyers involved, have also got the message that it's a higher area of cover

Finance committee  There's a lot packed into that question. Before turning to the digital issue, I will limit myself to the issues that concern us at the agency. In terms of our protocol regime, which includes protocols with Barbados and Luxembourg, those arrangements were made at a certain point

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I will answer your second question first, and I will accept your invitation, thank you. There are 270 auditors roughly, and our ramp-up was definitely in the space of multinationals and high-net-worth individuals, but we also leaned into the real property s

Finance committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Lemire. Half of our overall budget of $900 million is aimed at abusive tax planning by multinationals or wealthy citizens. This represents 50% of our overall budget, or about $450 million. I can follow up to give you the exact number, but it's us

Finance committee  I'll make a clarification. You're talking about an amount related to collection, not assessment. In the current fight, we're assessing, and then there's the collection. For these analyses, we rely on the past. We look at what the marginal ratio of our results is. Because we have

Finance committee  That's an excellent question. When it came to these emergency programs, the rules were pretty clear. With regard to the emergency wage subsidy, for example, we had to base our decisions on existing legislation. For people with a history of aggressive tax planning, we spent a lo

Finance committee  I think there's work to be done on the legislation itself. There are a number of ways, outside of the assistance programs, to address this issue that we are all concerned about. When we see cases, such as the Loblaws case, before the courts, or the Cameco case where, despite the

Finance committee  It's Mr. Gallivan here, Mr. Chair. Mr. Vermaeten has sent me an email saying that he got disconnected.

Finance committee  I can return the favour and answer something in his space. We had embarked on a “people first” initiative within the CRA to try to design our programs and business practices from the taxpayer perspective, including by talking to taxpayers. In the case of the CERB, we had no time

Finance committee  Thank you very much for the question. You're right. The intent of the program is to support Canadians in positions of need. There's recognition, in the fluid situation, that the rules did change retroactively. An example would be an employee who rightfully claimed the CERB, onl

Finance committee  I think the first thing to talk about is the word “fraud” and where we would apply these measures and where we wouldn't. People who have made a mistake, people who are confused, will simply be asked to repay the funds. That's not really where we are focused. We are focused on o