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Isn't it interesting that federal employees get to have their names 'blacked
out' when it comes
to criminal investigations.
How many other institutions have that privilege - AND WHERE THE HELL DID IT
COME FROM FOR THE
FEDS ?
"Alan Baggett" wrote in message
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Tax Collector was in on Fake Charity Scheme :CRA SOTW
Internal investigation reveals Canada Revenue Agency employee claimed
$35,000 in fake donations
By Chad Skelton, Vancouver Sun August 3, 2010
A federal tax collector from B.C. is one of the people implicated in a
multimillion-dollar charity fraud tax scheme recently busted by the
Canada Revenue Agency, according to internal government documents
obtained by The Vancouver Sun.
On April 8, the CRA sent out a news release announcing that, as a
result of its investigation, three people from Victoria were being
charged with tax evasion after allegedly selling $7.6 million in
charity receipts for as little as one-tenth of their face value.
What the agency didn't mention is that one of the people who bought
those fake charity receipts was a CRA employee.
An internal CRA investigation, obtained by The Vancouver Sun through
the Access to Information Act, now reveals that three months before
the CRA announced the charges, it discovered one of its B.C. tax
collectors was a participant in the scheme.
According to the investigation report, after shutting down the scheme,
investigators began combing through the tax returns of more than 450
people who made donations to the charities in question. That's when
they noticed one of the donors worked in a CRA tax office in B.C.
When interviewed by CRA investigators, the employee originally denied
being a part of the scheme, saying her only involvement with the
charities was donating a few used items to them.
"However, the investigation revealed that she provided the organizer/
promoter with a cheque that was cashed," the report states.
Further investigation determined that, from 2004 to 2006, the woman
claimed $35,000 in fake donations on her tax returns.
As a result of the investigation, the woman's prior returns were
reassessed, with the $35,000 in donations disallowed plus additional
fines for "gross negligence."
The woman's name was blanked out of the copy of the report released to
The Sun, as was the exact tax office she worked out of.
CRA spokeswoman Caitlin Workman told The Sun in an e-mail that the
woman no longer works for the CRA.
Asked why the CRA didn't note the employee's involvement in the scheme
in its April 8 news release, Workman said the CRA only advises the
public of matters that are before the courts and the employee was not
named in the court file.
"Furthermore, the employee was just one of the over 450 individuals
who purchased inflated donation receipts," Workman wrote.
Criminal charges in the tax-fraud scheme were laid against Victoria
residents Martin Danso-Dapaah, Carrie-Anne Danso-Dapaah and Michael
Meszaros, in connection with the sale of fake receipts.
According to court records, the fake receipts -- issued by CanAfrica
International Foundation and the Canadian Foundation for Child
Development -- resulted in $2.2 million in unpaid taxes.
cskelton@vancouversun.com
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