by Frank Flynn | Feb 3, 2021 | Tax Assessment
There’s no shortage of former Canada Revenue Agency employees who leverage their CRA experience in the market place. There’s nothing surprising or unexpected about that. I happen to be one of those people. I worked as a taxpayer relief adjudicator and...
by Frank Flynn | Oct 31, 2020 | Tax Assessment
Canadian public discourse suffers no shortage of tax policy discussion. Politicians campaign on tax policy, think tanks publish reports on tax policy, advocacy groups demand changes to tax policy; coffee-shop sages ruminate on the subject. We’re awash in policy talk....
by Frank Flynn | Sep 9, 2020 | Tax Assessment
Never mind the debate about how much Canada’s emergency response benefit is, or should be, or should have been. That debate is ultimately going to be irrelevant in no time at all. A more pressing reality is that too many CERB recipients may have lost sight of...
by Frank Flynn | May 27, 2020 | Tax Assessment
In case you aren’t sufficiently bored, irritated, aggravated, etc. with hearing about the Coronavirus, here’s a quick word on how things look from inside the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). Remember SARS, the Ice Storm of 1998, or the north east power outage...
by Frank Flynn | Jan 19, 2020 | Tax Assessment
I write applications for relief from penalty and interest on tax liabilities. It’s a unique specialty in the world of tax. I know enough to know, what I don’t know. I’m not an expert in tax preparation, I’m not an accountant and accordingly, I...
by Frank Flynn | Dec 12, 2019 | Tax Assessment
If you work in the Accounting, Tax Preparation, or Tax Law industries, you’ve probably heard of the Taxpayer Relief provisions of the Income Tax Act (220.(3.1) of the ITA). And there’s probably a reasonable percentage of citizens who have an idea that they...
