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Finance committee FINTRAC analyses all reported transactions; there is no $1 million threshold and some such thing. I repeat, FINTRAC analyses all reported transactions, and there is no threshold in place. Perhaps CRA officials can respond directly to your question.
November 7th, 2006Committee meeting
Diane Lafleur
Finance committee Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just to clarify for members of the committee, the Canada Revenue Agency right now is permitted under the law to submit a voluntary information report to FINTRAC where it is already investigating a case of potential tax evasion. FINTRAC then would do its
November 7th, 2006Committee meeting
Diane Lafleur
Finance committee Similar to the previous amendment, we would recommend adding back in proposed section 6.1 for the client ID requirements at the end of that section.
November 7th, 2006Committee meeting
Diane Lafleur
Finance committee Sure. Briefly, I think what we would say is we would be prepared to accept this motion with one small change. Part (a) is acceptable as it makes a necessary technical change, in our opinion. But on the last line of that motion, we would ask that it now read “with the requirement
November 7th, 2006Committee meeting
Diane Lafleur
Finance committee I'll ask Mr. Jalbert to answer that.
November 7th, 2006Committee meeting
Diane Lafleur
Finance committee Yes, it does.
November 7th, 2006Committee meeting
Diane Lafleur
Finance committee That's right.
November 7th, 2006Committee meeting
Diane Lafleur
Finance committee Paragraph (b), but not paragraph (a).
November 7th, 2006Committee meeting
Diane Lafleur
Finance committee What we can do is give you essentially a full account of where we are on each recommendation.
October 31st, 2006Committee meeting
Diane Lafleur
Finance committee Sure, absolutely.
October 31st, 2006Committee meeting
Diane Lafleur
Finance committee All of the submissions we've received, where we got the okay, were posted on the Department of Finance website, and I believe they're still available on that website.
October 31st, 2006Committee meeting
Diane Lafleur
Finance committee Most of the submissions deal with details of implementation—how you actually tailor these kinds of recommendations to the existing business practices of the reporting entities. They're really on the technicalities of implementation more than on the legislation. But in terms of
October 31st, 2006Committee meeting
Diane Lafleur
Finance committee Absolutely. They're on the front lines of this fight, and they are absolutely willing partners in this fight. They understand the risks and vulnerabilities of not taking this seriously. It's a reputational issue for them as much as anything else, so it's real bottom-line dollars
October 31st, 2006Committee meeting
Diane Lafleur
Finance committee I'll let Monsieur Jalbert—
October 31st, 2006Committee meeting
Diane Lafleur
Finance committee In terms of what's in the legislation, what I want to be clear on is the combination of the legislation and the regulations that will come pursuant to this legislation. The vast majority of the recommendations will then have been taken into account. As I mentioned, there are a
October 31st, 2006Committee meeting
Diane Lafleur