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   XPost: misc.taxes   
   From: Canuck57@nospam.com   
      
   On 05/04/2010 11:45 AM, Alan Baggett wrote:   
   > On Apr 4, 11:52 am, Canuck57  wrote:   
   >> On 04/04/2010 10:24 AM, Alan Baggett wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On Apr 3, 8:56 pm, Canuck57    wrote:   
   >>>> My hats off to CTV, tonights W5 put the CRA under a new light.  Exposing   
   >>>> the natzi/KGB like behavior.   
   >>   
   >>>> I really fell off my chair how they brag about each audit netting the   
   >>>> government $280 or something like that.   
   >>   
   >>> If the average audit nets $280 is it really worth doing it?   
   >>   
   >> Probably cost the government $3000 in civil servant time and expenses.   
   >> But that is government for you.  CRA needs you!  Failed math, arrogant,   
   >> your hired!  Listening to the taped phone conversation, OMG, that was   
   >> real, not a movie.   
   >   
   > If the average audit nets $280 that likely means that there are a few   
   > really high dollar fines and a large number where they find nothing.   
   > They need to find a better way to use their resources.   
      
   Yep, that is why they manufacture it and them make a big deal out of it.   
     Sort of like people short of work time for EI in northern Ontario.   
   Light a fire and get hired to put it out.   
      
   >>> As the show noted some of these audits take weeks, months and on rare   
   >>> occasions even years.   
   >>   
   >> Yep.  It should not take that long at all.  Obviously institutionalised   
   >> harasement.   
   >   
   > Or else harrassment by negligence.   
   >   
   >>> As well, is the $280 'net'gain per audit before or after CRA expenses   
   >>> such as salary, travel etc. etc. ?   
   >>   
   >> No clue.  But it does show that if someone was inadvertantly out say   
   >> $280 what is the big deal?  This is small fry harrasement.  You would   
   >> think there are a lot of bigger fish to fry out there.  And lets face   
   >> it, there isn't much latitude on the an individual return, it amounts to   
   >> pay-pay-pay-paperwork you dumb sheep.   
   >>   
   >>>> Makes me wonder are they dilligent in letting people know they over   
   >>>> paid?  I doubt it.  I have known people who have missed deductions,   
   >>>> caught a year later when the new tax preparer finds it.   
   >>   
   >> --   
   >> Liberal-statism is an addiction to other peoples money.   
   >   
      
      
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   Liberal-statism is an addiction to other peoples money.   
      
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