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Finance committee  No, I don't think we can respond.

December 11th, 2018Committee meeting

Ted Gallivan

Finance committee  I think this issue has been raised before, and we did take a look back. I think the review you're referring to is the review conducted by the Department of Finance on proposed legislative change, so that would be within the purview of the Department of Finance. To answer your qu

December 11th, 2018Committee meeting

Ted Gallivan

Finance committee  I will make just two quick points vis-à-vis offshore. First of all, it's not just the agency's opinion that these matters take longer. The Income Tax Act provides three additional years for the agency to finalize compliance work with respect to transfer pricing, offshore assets a

December 11th, 2018Committee meeting

Ted Gallivan

Public Accounts committee  I would just like to add that an email has been sent to all employees. In addition, in our action plan, we have planned a consultation to ensure we inform employees. It's not enough to change the procedures; they must be explained better. It's set out in the action plan.

December 10th, 2018Committee meeting

Ted Gallivan

Public Accounts committee  That's why our own internal audit, in bringing to our attention this risk of inconsistency, led us to our need to clarify the guidelines—specifically, for example, in the financial institution delays. We'll put in examples: “This is clearly a serious situation. This is a less ser

December 10th, 2018Committee meeting

Ted Gallivan

Public Accounts committee  On the real estate, again, to go back to the ROI and some of the discussion here, we've looked at thousands of files. I think we're well north of $200 million in identified tax through these projects. I think part of the thinking was about the fairness of the regime and the conce

December 10th, 2018Committee meeting

Ted Gallivan

Public Accounts committee  It starts with the legislation. It's fairly broad. It says that the minister “may”, and then it kind of stops there. The agency does have criteria and does have procedures to follow, but we want to, and have to, leave room for judgment. These requests are subject to judicial revi

December 10th, 2018Committee meeting

Ted Gallivan

Public Accounts committee  We can get that. I think the key point would be that it varies tremendously from payroll audits and regular filers, which is down at 5% or 10%, to multinationals, where close to 100% take us to court.

December 10th, 2018Committee meeting

Ted Gallivan

Public Accounts committee  It's definitely true that the new funding didn't force us to make those choices. In the past, if we wanted to ramp up on the underground economy, we had to reduce other efforts. When we receive incremental funding from government, it does allow us to expand in multiple areas. T

December 10th, 2018Committee meeting

Ted Gallivan

Public Accounts committee  Again, when we were asked to produce those estimates, one of the concerns we had.... For example, with the multinationals that are within my responsibility, I would like to see declining returns to scale. Today, with the number of audits we do, we have 20:1. If I do more audits,

December 10th, 2018Committee meeting

Ted Gallivan

Public Accounts committee  To give you a sense of it, both on the individual side—that is, regular T4 tax filers who just get a letter asking for evidence—and on the multinational side, those are relatively high ROIs, at 20:1. On the individual Canadian side, the investment is relatively low: a stamp, a le

December 10th, 2018Committee meeting

Ted Gallivan

Public Accounts committee  Quickly, the expectation was that for the billion dollars, we would yield $5 billion. In the first two fiscal years, the lift was $2.6 billion, so we saw clearly that the value was going to be achieved. Our concern was that when we were tagging individual files, we were worried

December 10th, 2018Committee meeting

Ted Gallivan

Public Accounts committee  I have two points of clarification. The first is that the debt writeoff number there is not just for our compliance work; it's for all debts that the agency has. When you put that in relation to the $460 billion to $480 billion the agency administers every year, it's actually a

December 10th, 2018Committee meeting

Ted Gallivan

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to highlight three points. The first is about coverage; the second is about the results; the third is about what the OAG found. In terms of coverage, I can confirm that for the 1,200 multinationals operating in Canada, we have 100% risk covera

December 10th, 2018Committee meeting

Ted Gallivan

Finance committee  From a compliance perspective, what the minister has asked the agency to do increasingly is to match our compliance response or intervention to the issue. Where possible, we need to be leading with education, with rules clarifications, maybe suggestions to the Department of Finan

May 3rd, 2018Committee meeting

Ted Gallivan