From: AlanBaggett@volcanomail.com   
      
   Prime Minister asked to direct Canada Revenue Agency to forgive aboriginal   
   women's back taxes : CRA SOTW   
      
   Native Leasing Services wants Justin Trudeau to ask the CRA to expedite its   
   request for tax relief on behalf of nearly 4,000 former employees.   
      
      
   By: Joanna Smith Ottawa Bureau reporter, Published on Thu Dec 17 2015    
      
   OTTAWA--Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is being asked to direct the Canada   
   Revenue Agency to forgive a group of mostly low-income aboriginal women who   
   believed the Indian Act exempted them from paying personal income taxes.   
      
   Native Leasing Services, an employee outsourcing company based at Six Nations   
   of the Grand River is seeking a remission order on behalf of 3,916 former   
   employees who lost a long-running legal dispute to be exempt from paying   
   income taxes because their    
   employer is located on a reserve.   
      
   Ljuba Irwin, the CEO of O.I. Group of Companies that includes Native Leasing   
   Services, faxed a letter to Trudeau on Thursday morning asking him to   
   intervene and expedite the remission order.   
      
   "You can appreciate that, because of the length of time it has taken to reach   
   finality on this matter, most of these affected individuals of modest means   
   will not ever be able to pay the taxes, interest and penalties back, and the   
   aggressive collection    
   approach of the CRA is only causing unnecessary distress and suffering," Irwin   
   wrote in her letter.   
      
   One of those women is Ramona Dunn, 53, who the Canada Revenue Agency says owes   
   nearly $94,000 in unpaid taxes, penalties and interest for the time she worked   
   as a registered nurse and diabetes educator at Anishnawbe Health Toronto.   
   The PMO would not comment on the letter.   
      
   "It is an on-going file with Revenue Canada, it would be inappropriate for us   
   to comment on it," Trudeau spokeswoman Andrée-Lyne Hallé wrote in an email.   
   Philippe Brideau, a spokesman for the Canada Revenue Agency, said he could not   
   discuss specific cases due to privacy.   
      
      
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