Measuring, disclosing Canada’s tax gap key to combatting evasion

Bill S-258 would amend the Canada Revenue Agency Act to require the CRA to report on all convictions for tax evasion, including a separate report listing all convictions for overseas tax evasion, in an annual report tabled in Parliament.

National Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier speaks with reporters in the West Block in October 2022. Bill S-258, tabled by CSG Senator Percy Downe on March 29, would, among other things, require the Minister of National Revenue to report to Parliament on the tax gap every three years.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY CSG SENATOR PERCY DOWNE

April 24, 2023

I have introduced Bill S-258, the Fairness for All Canadian Taxpayers Act, in the Senate, requiring the Government of Canada to disclose all convictions for overseas tax evasion and to measure the “tax gap”—the difference between what taxes should have been co...

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