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XPost: can.general, can.politics, ott.general
From: not@home.anymore
Viejo Vizcacha wrote:
> On Nov 10, 4:24 pm, simplicity wrote:
>> On Nov 10, 11:25 am, Alan Baggett
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Revenue Canada mistakes created tax mess for dying woman : CRA
>> > SOTW
>>
>> CRA applying interest on the amounts that they send to people by
>> mistake is not a new thing.
>>
>> Something similar happened to the friend of mine. He was laid off
>> by Nortel and collecting EI. For a reason I do not recall - I
>> think he was late with his biweekly report, his EI was suspended
>> for two weeks or so. He ignored it and did not appeal because he
>> was in the process of accepting the offer. After few months, he
>> found extra $800 deposited to his account. When he called SC, he
>> was told that this amount is a "correction" - some $970 in total
>> minus income tax withheld as usually. After few more months SC
>> called him and said that the "correction" was a mistake and he
>> has the overpayment of just over $1000. Why $1000? Oh, it $970
>> plus 12% annual interest compounded daily on the outstanding
>> balance. The balance they created!!! How about the tax withheld?
>> - he asked. Oh, you will receive T4 and claim it with your next
>> return - he was told.
>>
>> This is the quality of those intellectual giants who work for the
>> government bureaucracy. Each of them, no doubt, passed the strict
>> qualifying exams.
>
> The funny thing with this type of disputes with Revenue Canada is
> that, if you go to court, most likely you will win, but the cost
> of going to court will be several times the amount in dispute.
> So, you either accept your loss, or dispute, win, and then lose a
> lot more.
Costs are fully tax deductable.
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