Canada has a Taxpayer Bill of Rights. It was first published in 2007 and lists 16 rights, including “to pay no more and no less than what is required by law.””
Canada has a Taxpayer Bill of Rights. It was first published in 2007 and lists 16 rights, including “to pay no more and no less than what is required by law.””
When the government is this desperate for your money, it wion’t be long before the government starts coming after what’s left of your money.
the Canada Revenue Agency is similar to the KGB in Russia, you vil pay und you vil like it
Well … seizing your personal assets isn’t exactly unprecedented…
https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/The-Adam-Smith-Institute-Blog/2011/0102/European-nations-begin-seizing-private-pensions
This is where I would pivot to selling my employees for scientific experiments and taking a medical deduction.
Our mother had a great saying “Render unto Caesar what belongs to Caesar, but not a penny more!” This was when Jean Chretien was the Prime Minister of Canada (approx. 30 years ago) and still applies.
It is your money, you MUST be vigilant about what happens to it.
“Everything government says is a lie and everything it has, it has stolen.” – Nietzsche
Rights? Canadians don’t have rights. We have privileges.
The company’s quite limited privilege to question the #CRA was revoked because of course it was. Did anyone think that was going to go differently?
Was anyone still wondering why TransCanada Pipeline is now called TC Energy, headquartered in Texas?
Was anyone still wondering why TransCanada Pipeline is now called TC Energy, headquartered in Texas?
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The IRS in the US is probably worse. Just look up Lois Lerner to see why. They had her nailed for applying partisan politics in evaluating the approval of non-profit organizations during the “Tea Party” political phase. Remarkably, when a congressional committee subpoenaed her emails, which would have identified the parties within the IRS purposely targeting conservative organizations for scrutiny, non-approval and audit, the hard drive on her computer suddenly became corrupted and unrecoverable. Someone made the mistake of pointing out that all this information would be accessible on back-up tape drives. And, low and behold, those tape drives were accidentally erased TWO WEEKS after their request by subpoena by congress. The FBI, then, stepped in and said, “Nothing to see here, move along.”
Scumbag bureaucrats like Lois learner are gonna scumbag. We have plenty as well. Being a dual citizen and filing in both Canada and the US, I can tell you the IRS are difficult, but compared to the CRA they are friendly and transparent. When you speak to an IRS agent, the first thing they do is give you their name and ID number, so you can get back to them as you work through the issue. As you all know with the CRA, you have to apprise the new person of the situation, like you are starting over. They do not willingly provide their full name and contact information, snail mail is de rigeur, or fax, e-mail is verboten.
Your rights are enumerated and inviolable, unless you’re stupid enough to try to exercise them.
Canada is inching towards North Korea faster than anyone realizes.
Rights? What rights do we Canadians have that government cannot limit, suspend or outright ignore whenever it suits them and suffer zero consequences?
This is why people keep their corporations registered in countries like the Caymans, and Bermuda …
Also, if in the depths of a -25 centigrade winter storm you should see some poor soul stuck in the ditch, they’re certain to freeze to death and no other traffic will be by until morning, always be sure to ask before extending aid if persons in said vehicle are now or have ever been employed by CRA, or the IRS … or members of the #Librano Party of Canada, the NDP, the Green Party, or the Democrat Party.
Let your fear of a poor outcome be your guide, act accordingly.
After I inherited my father’s estate, my income increased enough that I was subject to the Alternative Minimum Tax. In essence, I not only have to fill out the T1 like everyone else, I have to go through the process once more because I, according to the government, make too much money.
I was first made aware of that several years ago when, after filling out my return and claiming my deductions and credits, I still owed the CRA, even though I couldn’t find my mistake nor as it clearly stated on my assessment as to why. In addition to completing the T1 and all the associated forms, I have to fill out a T691, though that is not clearly stated in the tax guide.
After speaking to the CRA about it, and receiving its explanation, the agent at the other end of the line flat out told me, chuckling while doing so, that I’m “not allowed to have too good of a year”.
I could have fought it in court, but the amounts each time weren’t enough to make it worthwhile. Why spend, say, $2000 on legal fees to prevent having to pay $1000 more in tax? (It wouldn’t surprise me if the government already thought of the same thing.) It’s always cheaper and easier to pay the extra amount and clear it off the books.
Nice country we have, isn’t it?
We have the alternative minimal tax in US too! Wonder who thought of it first?
Apparently, a lot of countries do. Governments appear to be afraid that the masses might prosper and live comfortably.
It’s not that the investments I inherited from my father weren’t already taxed. He worked for the money that he would then save and invest after paying tax on his earnings. He paid tax on whatever revenue they generated. When he died, his estate was taxed for the capital gains that they yielded. Then, of course, I’m being taxed on whatever income I received from them.
oh wow. see posting below. one of my students operated a rustproofing franchise.
he had same thing happen. he just started like 3 months into it, audit time!
so he collected it all up waited patiently for the Rev Canada bean counter to scold him for not speaking up he calmly responded his experience whenever you countermand ANYTHING with the tax people they just double down so he chose to remain silent.
l was audited 3 times, beat them every time with extensive documantation. l betcha thats another angle they use, working stiffs have to do the paperwork themselves absent a licenced accountant. l betcha they have a slang inside term for such whose accounting system is a shoebox full of receipts and cancelled cheques.
lve written off over $100,000 rental income over abt 20 years. the calibre of rooming house tenant has SEERRRRRRiously slid. lve got a real estate agent coming over talk about what to finish up, how to coordinate a lease on a rental property with the closing date, etc
I’m sure that the CRA figures that since I now make a decent income through my inheritance, I should have known about the AMT as I would have had an accountant prepare my tax returns. (I used to and I’ve got a few stories about that!)
In other words, the government always has an answer for everything and the government is never wrong.
While I was sorting through my late father’s papers, I found his old income tax returns. The oldest one was for 1966. It was 4 pages long. There weren’t any other forms or deductions with it and I’m not even sure that those were regarded as necessary back then.
Lester Pearson was Prime Minister that year. Then, in 1968, Canada took leave of its senses, elected Pierre Trudeau to succeed him, and our tax system went completely to hell after that. And it keeps getting worse. Two years ago, the Schedule 3 for reporting capital gains was a single page. Now, thanks to the recently departed PM Dingelfritz, it’s 5 pages long. (But we’re supposed to reduce our use of paper to “save the planet”, right?)
Of course, the government could make things simple and that could take about an hour or two. What would the civil servants do for the rest of the day?
You have the right to remain silent, and silent you shall remain.
Speaking of “rights” from gov’t in tier 2 Canada, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg refused entry to anyone who couldn’t show they were double vaccinated in 2019-2021
From their re-opening page:
“We have to be careful about equating a choice not to get vaccinated with these protected characteristics when looking at what can be considered discriminatory.”
Gov’t said you couldn’t get on an airplane or interprovincial bus or cross an international border without proof of the jab, I guess that’s your choice, like the Premier of garbage New Brunswick who suggested at one point that unjabbed people may have to be banned from grocery stores. I had no idea that eating was a “choice” in tier 2 Canada. Now I know better.
https://humanrights.ca/news/reopening-compliance-manitobas-public-health-order
ha ha had the same thing happen in late 80s.
l was claiming self employed earning teach at a private school, Rev Canada as it was called said no no no ’tis employment under contract like regular public funded colleges.
ok.
wiped out all manner of deductions, l approached college mgmt to support my original assertion, they were silent. l had moved from st catharines to burlington in the mean time.
so l said h’o-kay, ’tis wages is it? lm owed vacation pay.
meanwhile Rev Canada did not *move* the earnings from the self employment box but ADDED it to the salary and wages box. falsely doubling my income.
among other things Rev Canada said l had to deal witht he tax office in the cntre where the pay was earned. so l retaliated asked if that happened to be Flin Flon would l be chartering planes for thousands of dollars back and forth to get redress?
after 2 years of threats and interest and penalties l laid it all out on the counter at the downtown hamilton tax office circled and underlined thing
showing
their
error.
meanwhile at one point l was told pay the taxes it will be refunded if need be. l challenged them but what if the legal view is that by paying them l am tacitly admitting they are owed? sound of crickets.
then l told them to fix it finally or nxt stop was Hamilton Standard newspaper meanwhile they just been put thru the wringer for unofficial quotas.
l owed a trivial difference final analysis. l told people that year they spent all my taxes chasing after money l didnt owe.
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/conrad-black-a-mark-carney-win-would-be-a-disaster-for-canada
Off topic
Sorry I did not know where to post this. But needed to be posted I think.
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Too bad.
The little bit I could read using a screen capture looks like it needs to get around.
The courts picking any excuse to side with the Gummint.
After the carbon tax appeals (but we are in a state of climate emergency) and the dismissal of Mr. Peckford’s case (it’s over now, so it’s a moot point…..so if I abuse someone and then stop, the courts will consider it a moot point? Cuz that’s exactly what their reasoning as)
You didn’t file in a timely manner, so we will just take what we are not legally entitled to.
If I don’t file my 2025 tax return in a timely manner, does that mean it is null and void, and no taxes for me this year?
Ah, but the courts in this country only skew in one direction. Skew is not totally the correct word, but you get my drift.
In the future, Canada will simply count all businesses as owing twice their actual indebtedness. Whenever they aren’t called on it, the financial benefit will simply accrue to the government because “precedent”.
Things like this would happen less often if you guys had more guns and were bigger arseholes – like us down south;)
Sorry, remind me dude, whose country was ruled by a house plant the last 4 years?
Say what you want about the #ShinyPony, he didn’t dump in his Depends on TV.
Yeah, despite 100s of millions of guns in private hands you don’t read or hear about Yanks actually using them against their proven enemies in government and the establishment.
In the UK, you are arrested for saying anything the Leftist government doesn’t like. You are arrested for being within 100 meters of an abortion mill and protesting. No one in the UK is allowed arms.
I live in a town with an abortion factory, and there are protestors every day – all day – right in front. No one bats an eye. As an American I can say what I please about Democrats and do all the time and no one is arresting me.
Can you spot the difference? Do you see why it might be dangerous in the US to take away all our rights as they have done in the UK? The English tried that in 1775. How did that work out?
I’m all in favor of the right to bear arms. It is essential, along with the right of free speech, to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
But the post was about a government agency doing dirty and Agammamon said it wouldn’t happen if Canadians had more guns.
Well, you Yanks have a lot more guns but American government agencies, the IRS for example, still abuse their power, against the Tea Party movement for example, and get away with it.
Having a lot of guns isn’t in itself enough to stop the abuses.
Just wanted to add that I think if the Brits had the same gun rights as in the US that the UK government would still enact all, or at least most, of the draconian laws it has already has to date.
Government is an almost unstoppable force but it requires both the means and the will to stop it.
One more add: the basic problem as I see it is that no one or no group wants to be the first to take up arms against the government and be the first to die in battle.