Finally CRA obeys the law

Clearly, the Canada Revenue Agency cannot be trusted to produce an accurate and unbiased estimate of the tax gap, and Canadians are owed an independent analysis of the scale of uncollected taxes in our country.

Parliamentary budget officer Jean-Denis Fréchette, pictured in this file photo at a Senate Finance Committee meeting. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SENATOR PERCY DOWNE

March 26, 2018

OTTAWA—Since 2012, the parliamentary budget officer (PBO) has been trying to fulfil my request to measure the tax gap, the difference between what is owed in taxes and what has actually been collected, but has been stonewalled by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) and its refusal to release the requi...

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