Commentary
Oh great. Just what we needed. The Canada Revenue Agency is getting new implements of torture. Not the old-tyme rack, thumbscrew, and boot. Instead, they want to hit you with huge fines and perjury charges if you don’t do the audit their way. Bad King John is back.
The excuse, of course, is “efficiency,” a subject on which governments are famously expert. But here’s the thing. If you’ve ever been audited, and I don’t just mean the formal Inquisition but a simple matter of them thinking you owe money you don’t, you are well aware that they hit you with rapidly escalating fines but won’t take your calls….