Finance committee  Again, there is no direct percentage or performance pay that links the dollars collected by an individual collector and their compensation. Having said that, there is an expectation that employees will do their jobs. An employee who isn't successfully collecting will prompt a di

Finance committee  Again, right on point, in budget 2015 from the prior government and in budgets 2016 and 2017 under the current government, when incremental resources are made available to the CRA, there is an expectation around how many audit bills will result from that.

Finance committee  Five billion.

Finance committee  Last year the expectation or the projection was that we would find $380 million, and we found $500 million. This fiscal year the expectation was $800 million, at Q3 we were roughly at $800 million.

Finance committee  Let's look at the behaviour of the taxpayers most directly affected. Form T1135 is for the disclosure of offshore assets. Individuals and corporations have to report them. Since 2013, the number of those reported each year has more than doubled. Taxpayers, as a general rule of t

Finance committee  The first one might be what we call the audit change rate. In other words, of the audits that they take past certain threshold hours—20 hours in small and medium enterprises, 200 hours in large businesses—once they pass that preliminary phase, how many of those audits result in a

Finance committee  There's no financial incentive, but there's an expectation that, past those preliminary hours, there would be a change. I'd almost frame it the other way. We give our auditors 200 hours or 20 hours to make sure that it isn't the case of a compliant taxpayer. If it is, they down s

Finance committee  The second relates to quality, for small, medium, and large enterprises. We have a quality regime where there is a distinct unit that looks at the quality of the file. We have material and non-material errors, and auditors, based on their level of training, are expected to work t

Finance committee  The answer is no. Individual auditors receive no financial incentive or performance pay. There are projections established by region, because from a headquarters perspective, we have to allocate resources between small and medium enterprises and large enterprises, and between Atl

Finance committee  I would say the primary purpose of that is to prompt a conversation and an adjustment.

Finance committee  The primary purpose of that number and analysis. In other words, you may not be surprised that Atlantic Canada, population for population, has less of a financial need than Bay Street.

Finance committee  We work very hard to have a broad-based assessment of all of our executives on a number of different criteria.

Finance committee  Again, of maybe 50 line items that may appear in my assessment, there may be one line related to a revenue target alongside 50 other items.

Finance committee  I would say that the Government of Canada made certain commitments around revenue-generation, and at my level, it's part of my accountability to see whether I met it or not, alongside numerous other measures.

Finance committee  We know that it affects several thousand public servants because one of the measures taken by the Canada Revenue Agency was to create a telephone service for public servants affected by the Phoenix pay system. To date, more than 10,000 public servants have called us directly. Th