CRA fucked it up and they know it, and have no legal grounds to collect money from some of the people they claim weren’t entitled to the benefit. The REALLY important thing they failed to do was to distinguish between NET income and GROSS income on the application eligibility criteria which essentially blurred the lines for many working class Canadians who needed that money to stay afloat, and who thought they were allowed to take this money.
The government at the time really just wanted to keep the economy going so they injected this cash quickly, without much thought of the mistakes they were making along the way. Sure there were bad actors that took advantage of this, but there were also good honest people that are now being targeted because of CRA’s lack of clarity on eligibility requirements.
If only the CRA was so keen on recovering funds from the wealthy Canadians KPMG helped stash away over 200 billion in tax money, instead of going after working class Canadians who had nothing to fall back on, we’d be in a better position.
With the CRA its always go after the little guy, and let the big fish continue to steal. Want to read more? 10 billion from ordinary Canadians (for the most part) or 200 billion from the wealthy scammers? hmmm
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CRA fucked it up and they know it, and have no legal grounds to collect money from some of the people they claim weren’t entitled to the benefit. The REALLY important thing they failed to do was to distinguish between NET income and GROSS income on the application eligibility criteria which essentially blurred the lines for many working class Canadians who needed that money to stay afloat, and who thought they were allowed to take this money.
The government at the time really just wanted to keep the economy going so they injected this cash quickly, without much thought of the mistakes they were making along the way. Sure there were bad actors that took advantage of this, but there were also good honest people that are now being targeted because of CRA’s lack of clarity on eligibility requirements.
If only the CRA was so keen on recovering funds from the wealthy Canadians KPMG helped stash away over 200 billion in tax money, instead of going after working class Canadians who had nothing to fall back on, we’d be in a better position.
With the CRA its always go after the little guy, and let the big fish continue to steal. Want to read more? 10 billion from ordinary Canadians (for the most part) or 200 billion from the wealthy scammers? hmmm
[https://www.taxfairness.ca/en/resources/news-views/cra-strikes-secret-deal-wealthy-kpmg-clients-isle-man-tax-scheme?utm_source=chatgpt.com](https://www.taxfairness.ca/en/resources/news-views/cra-strikes-secret-deal-wealthy-kpmg-clients-isle-man-tax-scheme?utm_source=chatgpt.com)