Duty of Care victory:
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) is declaring victory in the court battle to save the historic ‘duty of care’ court ruling against the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA).
This morning a panel of three judges in the British Columbia Court of Appeal accepted an agreement between Irvin Leroux and the CRA that ends the proceedings, leaving intact the ‘duty of care’ ruling achieved in the April 2014 court case between Mr. Leroux and the CRA. The CTF has been paying Mr. Leroux’s legal costs during the appeal stage in an effort to protect the ‘duty of care’ ruling.
Hats off to them. If you had planned to hit the tip jar this month, I’ll ask you send it to the CTF or Canadian Constitution Foundation (who also footed a lot of the legal costs) instead.
h/t Nold.
In all truth Canadians are not Americans. Canadian must bend over and grasp their ankles.. They are always F***ed by the TAX man.. It’s a British Hallmark…
Chipping away at the guiding principle of Canada’s civil service: “Government of the people, by the government, for the government.”
I had a situation with revenue canada, nothing of this scope.
in 1976 they came after me in a sweep regarding landlords failing to report income or some such thing. anyways, they deemed cancelled cheques showing the same amount, date, specifying a rental payment, as *unacceptable* for proof of rent. they demanded official receipts. I was beside myself. but providence stepped in, and by remarkable luck I saw my old landlord @ a restaurant and soon after the official receipt slid thru the mail slot. I took my complaint to the Lieberal MP at the time who shrugged.
the 2nd occasion was around 1986. I was teaching @ a private college, claiming business expenses. revenue canuckistan without warning disallowed the deductions and deemed them ‘earnings under contract’. I pleaded with the college to support my fight with the SOBs but I guess they knew better. So I went fine, stopped fighting the change and promptly claimed vacation pay which, sonofagun, covered all the normal payroll deductions.
except when revenue canuckistan did the ‘recalculation’ they *copied* the amount I claimed as business income into the ‘box’ called wages and salary, thereby doubling my supposed income and likewise the tax bill. it took the better part of 2 years for them to admit this error, in the mean time I had moved and naturally, the new tax office told me I had to ‘deal with the tax office in the other city’. really? I enquired. *do you people mean that if I moved to Inuvik NWT, I would have to fly all the way back to where the college was to deal with YOUR mistake?*
I also laid out ALL the documentation I had out on their counter, including all their threats, pointed again to THEIR error and told them if they didn’t tell me they were going to fix it, my next stop would be the local newspaper. It happened to be the same time as a big scandal involving secret quotas at another tax office in another city.
Couple weeks later I get a ‘reassessment’ removing all penalties and interest and with the correct income figure.
the 3rd and last spat I had with them was around 1996-7 when I was helping build a medical lab. That one was kind of funny. the general contractor was the type that used the dashboard of his pickup truck as his office. I discretely asked for pay stubs but was advised by some of the fellows he didn’t do it that way, but not to worry. so, each week I would report my hours and he would cut the cheque right there in his office, i.e. a pickup truck. it was kind of funny but the cheques were all good. come tax time, the project is completed long ago, but no T4. so I tell my story to the revenue canuckistan assholes and file based on what documents I had. which was basically nuttin. the rev can shythead starts in on me with all kinds of shoulda-couldas, including demanding a pay slip. whereupon I reply, my interpretation of THAT tactic would be a sure fire way to get let go. is that what he wanted? you prick that has NO CONCEPT of the real world? hmmm?
etc etc.
they haven’t bothered me since except once when I claimed my Labrador as a tax deduction against my rental income seeing as she seems to have taken the job on herself of advising me of the approach of unfamiliar footfalls. I responded to *their* challenge that a Labrador could hardly be deemed a guard dog, by threatening to buy a professionally trained german shepherd for who knows thousands of dollars and use THOSE expenses as a deduction. I also pointed out some news items about some criminal activity in the vicinity as justification for a guard dog and wtf business was it of THEIRS to ‘split hairs’ about which go**amn breeds were best for that role.
they backed down. you have to put the fear of God in them.
p.s., I haven’t had to pay I/C taxes for quite some time. thanks to that Lieberal c**t in Queens Park for instance, my constantly increasing utility bills allow me to deduct 100% of rental income. any remnants are covered by the 10,000 basic deduction.
fcuk ’em.
Too little too late.
Duty of Care is as dead as the Magna Carta.
Government owns us.
Kleptocracy replaced Democracy some time in the 70s and we never noticed.
Theft by government is so institutionalized now that most citizens regard this as normal as breathing.
Parasites now outnumber the hosts.
What cannot go on, ends.
Nasty reset coming, much entertainment along the way.
The worst of the roving bands of thieves and killers will be former government employees, just doing what comes naturally.
On the bright side they will enrich your topsoil if treated properly.