CRA With Faye - Should I Be Bullish Or Bearish With CRA?

This question arises in the context of litigation and negotiation generally but dealing with CRA can be a different animal. CRA auditors have the authority to require taxpayers to provide them with an extremely broad range of facts and documents. Their powers are fairly unique among government agencies which typically have much more tiptoeing to do around requesting personal information.

So as I've expressed before it can feel very invasive, and taxpayers and lawyers alike can have a very strong negative reaction to the process, which could translate to negative interactions with auditors. Of course, I must emphasize that no one strategy will work all the time and there is no one size fits all audit strategy. But something that people can forget when dealing with a massive government agency is that the people working for it are, well, people. And as good as those people may be and as committed as everyone is to administering the Income Tax Act in a non-biased,