BC Marijuana growers beware> The information you are getting from the tax agency is false and filling an income tax return could land you in big trouble.
First of all, the agency spokesman who stated in the following newspaper article that the CRA must keep all tax information confidential is lying. The Canadian Income Tax Act, under 241(4)(p), allows the CRA to provide taxpayer information to a police officer prior to the laying of charges in cases of drug offences, money laundering, and terrorism.
In fact even in most cases where they are braking the law, the CRA regularly provides RCMP with taxpayer information, despite assurances that taxpayer information is held in the strictest confidentiality.
The CRA counsels their employees to commit perjury, human rights abuses; and tolerates acts of harassment (even sexual harassment), physical assault of female employees. The CRA has no limits to what it does; the law is little deterrence.
As for taxpayer information being shared with the police. Trust us the police and the CRA collaborate on files all the time. When you send in your tax return you might as well send a copy to the RCMP, because information is regularly shared with police; in fact, the RCMP share an office (in the Montreal burrow of Nun’s Island) along with several members of the CRA’s Montreal Tax Service Office Special Investigations unit. And you can be sure that if it’s happening in Montreal, it’s happening all over Canada.
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