From: AlanBaggett@volcanomail.com   
      
   Canada Revenue Agency Tax overseer to testify in Irvin Leroux civil suit : CRA   
   SOTW   
      
   September 4, 2013    
      
   Mark NIELSEN Citizen staff   
   mnielsen@pgcitizen.ca   
      
   Canada Revenue Agency has agreed to let one of the people who investigates   
   allegations of fraud and corruption lodged against its auditors take the   
   stand, Prince George businessman Irvin Leroux said Tuesday.   
      
   Leroux has launched a civil suit against the CRA and is claiming, in part,   
   that a CRA auditor, who has since died, had offered to resolve his issue in   
   exchange for a $25,000 bribe.   
      
   To support the allegation, Leroux's counsel is seeking "similar fact   
   evidence," namely the existence and details of any investigations into CRA   
   employees arising from other such complaints.   
      
   During an examination for discovery in June, a lower-ranking CRA official   
   refused to answer questions about such allegations and in response a B.C.   
   Supreme Court master ruled the CRA must provide details of complaints it has   
   received.   
      
   The CRA appealed that ruling, arguing in part that the answers and documents   
   Leroux's counsel is seeking are not relevant to the issue at hand. It also   
   said the search for the documents requested would take too long to address for   
   privacy concerns given    
   their relevance to the case.   
      
   But in an apparent compromise, the CRA has agreed to let the investigator   
   testify for an hour during an examination for discovery leading up to a 10-day   
   trial, now set for Sept. 20.   
      
   Leroux said Tuesday the outcome is better than what he had hoped for.   
      
   "Why would you want to speak to a little peon down the line when you've got   
   one of the top people whose job is to investigate the corruption and the   
   extortion at Revenue Canada?" Leroux said.   
      
   Leroux is alleging that during a 1996 audit, the CRA, then known as Revenue   
   Canada, removed papers from his office without his consent, then lost or   
   shredded them and then assessed him for almost $1 million in taxes, penalties   
   and interest.   
      
   The tax prosecution was eventually resolved with the CRA owing Leroux a   
   refund. However, as a result of the CRA’s actions, Leroux says he lost his   
   home, his business - a private campground near Valemount - and his life   
   savings. He is seeking compensation    
   through a lawsuit he filed against the CRA in 2006.   
      
      
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