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From: sharx35@hotmail.com
"cognomen@domus.ca" wrote in message
news:E5Mzn.60634$Ht4.30415@newsfe20.iad...
> Incredible!
>
> I understood that the reason Revenue Canada's name was changed to 'Canada
> Customs and Revenue Agency' was so that the two departments could legally
> exchange information to catch 'all those people on income assistance who
> were vacationing out of country while still collecting benefits'.
>
> Then they decided there weren't enough of them to warrant the merger, and
> they changed their name to 'Canada Revenue Agency'. Now, if they're
> sharing information with city departments, shouldn't they first have to
> change their name to 'Canada Revenue and Provincial Traffic Ticket
> Enforcement Agency'?
They also collect from deadbeats who are not paying support for their
children. The MORE dead beats and other scofflaws that get nailed, the
better. Ditto for asshole drivers who evade paying their much deserved
fines.
>
>
>
> "Alan Baggett" wrote in message
> news:189f7fa2-0565-41bc-a5a3-6bf7c4a1e32f@20g2000vbr.googlegroups.com...
> Canada Revenue Agency now Collects Parking Tickets? :CRA SOTW
>
> Provinces, cities track down unpaid tickets
> By Peter Rakobowchuk, THE CANADIAN PRESS
>
>
> MONTREAL - Canadian motorists who think they can ignore old speeding
> or parking tickets shouldn't get too comfortable.
>
> Tickets from years past can come back to haunt scofflaw drivers in the
> form of much higher fines.
>
> "We have some people we have been going after who have in excess of 50
> outstanding tickets," says Steve Jackson, executive-director of the
> claims and recoveries program of the Alberta Justice Department.
>
> Jackson says his department tracks down unpaid fines that are more
> than one year old and registers the offender with the Canada Revenue
> Agency.
>
> "We're allowed to intercept their income tax refunds and the GST
> rebates."
>
> Jackson says he's gone after offenders across Canada and the United
> States and advised them their income tax return will be redirected
> until their outstanding debt is settled.
>
> "You could have people who are living in the U.S. temporarily who are
> still deemed to be Canadian and are filing Canadian income taxes," he
> said.
>
> Jackson noted that one motorist had 57 outstanding tickets over a five-
> year period which included speeding, driving an unregistered vehicle
> and driving with a suspended licence.
>
> The man was eventually incarcerated when authorities caught up with
> him.
>
> Jackson recalled another case last year when a father came in to pay
> his daughter's fines, which totalled more than $5,000.
>
> Pietro Macera, a bailiff who collects unpaid fines for the City of
> Montreal, says a five-year statute of limitations on outstanding fines
> can be renewed.
>
> "Whether it's a civil matter, a ticket matter, a criminal matter, it's
> gonna catch up to you," he said in an interview.
>
> Macera, 50, says any unpaid fines will stay in a town or city's
> computer system.
>
> "So you're driving and you get grabbed by the police for speeding, or
> a red light, or a burned-out light - well that day is not your lucky
> day, especially if you've ignored that $100 speeding ticket."
> Macera says the ticket can end up costing $500 with court costs and
> other fees that have been tacked on along the way.
>
> In some courts in Nova Scotia, motorists who require extensions to pay
> a fine will appear before a justice of the peace to discuss payment
> options.
>
> But if a fine is past due and without payment for six months, it will
> be referred automatically to Service Nova Scotia and Municipal
> Relations for collection action.
>
> There are no extensions on fines that have been referred for
> collection and a motorist can't renew his licence or registration
> until the outstanding fine is paid up.
>
> In Ontario, overdue fines may not be such a big problem - in fact,
> some motorists have even ended up paying twice.
>
> Rolly Riopel, runs POINTTS, a Barrie, Ont., firm that provides legal
> representation for people who want to fight their traffic violations.
>
> He says "hundreds, maybe thousands" of Ontarians may have paid overdue
> traffic fines to both the province and their local municipality.
>
> The Ontario government transferred enforcement of provincial offences
> to municipalities between 1999 and 2002 and many hired collection
> agencies to go after outstanding fines.
>
> Over a five-year period, at least 50 motorists have come into Riopel's
> office to complain they had already paid the province but were still
> being chased down by local municipalities.
>
> "The only thing I could say is either you have a receipt or you
> don't," he said in an interview.
> "If you've got a receipt, no problem, (but) if you haven't got a
> receipt, you have to pay it again."
> Riopel, 62, says most of his regular clients are first-time offenders,
> who are worried about losing their licence, points and insurance
> premiums.
>
> "They want to try to keep their record as clean as possible," he
> said.
>
> But the former Ontario Provincial Police officer says he's noticed
> fewer people have been coming to him for help in recent years.
>
> "Either people are paying their fines or they've caught up to
> everybody who was outstanding," he said.
>
>
>
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