Comments on: Thieving clerk fined for unpaid taxes on stolen money (1)

By: beentheredonethat

beentheredonethat — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:54:43 +0000

In a lot of repects Revenue Canada is a lot like CBSA. They’s rather go after the easy targets. Less work (these are government employees don’t forget) and higher ‘sucessfully concluded’ statistics.

By: jt

jt — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:59:02 +0000

This was just done and the info released to effect some cheers from the peanut gallery. But my point above is valid. Even if the CRA had the cojones to actually go after the Big Boys of crime, I can assure you some clever tax lawyers are just drooling over the fees they could charge to fight the CRA on this one. Besides that, how many CRA employees want their faces front and center in a court room up against the Big Boys of crime? Cricketss……….?

By: Mac

Mac — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:03:23 +0000

Be careful what you wish for, gents. My experiences with CRA haven’t been helpful or useful. They’re very good at taking houses away from confused old widows who don’t pay their capital gains taxes when dispersing the family business. Going after hardcore criminals? Not so much.

By: Undecided Voter

Undecided Voter — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:45:43 +0000

‘Whose most likely to do that, Nom?’ No one is going to cut back on Quebec’s transfer payment ’entitlement’ as their just too influential with all of the federal parties, particularly the Librano’s.
Remember Harper getting his hands slapped by Quebec when he threatened to cut grants for cultural/social groups which caused his poopularity to take a nose dive in that province?
But I would love to see an elected senate. Its the democratic thing to do.

By: nomdeblog

nomdeblog — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:20:43 +0000

UV, your inference there is that you don’t like equalization payments flowing all over the place …good! Which also ties in with Jack’s recent ranting (correctly) about there being only one taxpayer. So if you want to fix these Enron-like accounting games between Ottawa and the Provinces, then you’ll need to “decide” who is most likely to do that?

Specifically we’ll need the help of a Senate to get these old legacy Trudeaupian Ponzi games killed. So that means proRogue’ing and whole lot of other stuff that we have had to hold our noses for and pray we don’t snooker ourselves.

By: Undecided Voter

Undecided Voter — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:05:13 +0000

Nom – how about sending them to the Quebec Nation and in return they could ask the federal conservative government to increase their $8 billion transfer payment which the Tories will gladly consider and we’ll all be the losers. Remember, crime pays in liberal Quebec as we all learned through their ADSCAM Ponzie Entitlement scheme.
Or a worse penalty of spending years sitting in the HoC listening to all the political lies & posturing in both official languages. Naw that would be too harsh.

By: MaryT

MaryT — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:48:56 +0000

Every tax prep office has clients that they send to the newest employee.
I had a mother come in with lots of info, did the return for her son, and he paid the taxes owed. But could not find out source of income, but took a guess when I read about him being in jail for bank robbery.
One must always report illgotten gains. Isn’t that what did in Brian.
But, the FOIP prevents one from telling the police about them.
And it is quite educational to see what the ladies of the night put down for source of income. Some were quite inventive. But, the did declare and pay their taxes.

By: nomdeblog

nomdeblog — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:36:51 +0000

UV , being undecided, would either:
- just hand out a heavy sentence of HST
or
-a much lighter charge with a show trial in Yemen followed by waterboarding

By: jt

jt — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:14:56 +0000

Crime pays, at least to the CRA! If you do the crime, you do the time & pay the dime. LOL.

That’s very interesting. Say some dude does $2 million in Maryjane “sales”, get’s caught, but shows receipts for “expenses” that reduce his income. Does he get a credit on his “taxable income? Whole new ball game here.

By: mike

mike — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:07:16 +0000

Revenue Canada needs to start assessing the Hells Angels and all levels of gang activity small and great, grow ops the whole bunch. But they will be too busy auditing all the home reno tax credits that will be claimed to bother.

mid island mike

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:27:03 +0000

Re: #9 -- Indeed it is, Jema. I think Canada needs a lot more tax cops.