The latest fraud for the Canadian taxpaying public to be aware of is phony emails that say they are from the Canada Revenue Agency and indicating that there is an Interac tax refund available.

The ride sharing companies which actually do the billing will have to provide accounting to their drivers and will have to remit the GST/HST as part of their payments to their drivers.

The Swiss Consulate in Canada has been writing to Swiss residents of Canada to advise them of the information exchange agreement between Canada and Switzerland.

Canadian non-residents are taxable in Canada to a tax on income from certain "passive" sources of income earned in Canada, including rent.

While postal code based audits are not new, CRA's formalization of the project is.

Fraudsters are again impersonating CRA collections officers and calling Canadians in attempts to steal money from them.

CRA is making more use of indirect tax audit techniques, including net worth tax audits.

The CRA announced in June 2017 that it is currently conducting tax audits of over 820 taxpayers and criminally investigating 20 cases of tax evasion specifically linked to offshore accounts.

CRA has introduced a new payment option for taxpayers owing taxes. Payments can now be made at any Canada Post outlet.

CRA released the latest tax evasion prosecution stats for April 1, 2016 through March 31, 2017 on September 7, 2017.

CRA is extending the scope of its tax audit techniques by entering the field of data analysis.

If you submit a GST/HST that claims a refund because you exported your purchases or incurred a loss so that your input tax credits exceeded you GST/HST tax liability, your GST/HST tax return...

As of July 1, 2017 all ride sharing drivers have to register for GST/HST and charge GST/HST on all rides provided even if they don't meet the normal threshold of $30,000 for GST/HST registration.

PayPal was served with a Federal Court of Canada order on November 10, 2017 requiring them to release to CRA details about PayPal Business account holders who sent or received a payment...

The Department of Finance announced 3 changes to the Canadian Income Tax Act on Tue July 18. The first one related to income sprinkling and is designed to reduce income splitting...

Changes to the Canadian Income Tax Act announced in the middle of the summer have attracted notice after Labour Day.

If you are reporting self employment your deadline for filing your 2016 T1 return is June 15, 2017.

If all other tax appeal recourses have been exhausted, taxpayers faced with wrong tax assessments or large tax balances owing that consist largely of penalties and interest, have one last chance procedure available...

While merely holding bitcoin, dash, or other cryptocurrency does not give rise to tax, the sale will result in a capital gain or full income inclusion.

While CRA has not responded to any of the submissions about the proposed changes to the voluntary disclosure program we are advised by CRA employees that their systems are being updated...