"Whistleblower protection is crucial to ensuring professional integrity is paramount during the tax assessment process." "CRA officials are frequently put in precarious situations where they are asked to hold powerful players to account in a high-stakes setting," she said. "These are people who have immense skill, technology, expertise and other big companies on their side, so they need to be on a level playing field."ĭaviau said an important step in improving the situation would be to enshrine better protection for whistleblowers. "Employees at the Canada Revenue Agency are up against tax giants," she told MPs. "That has reduced the capacity of employees at the CRA to be able to deliver on getting international tax avoiders to pay their fair share," she said.Īs a result, Daviau said, CRA has better resources for catching tax cheats within Canada than for pursuing those who have set up elaborate international tax avoidance schemes. "The CRA employees, by comparison, often feel outgunned by those trying hardest to avoid taxes."ĭaviau said the CRA unit that specialized in highly complicated international tax avoidance and evasion structures was broken up several years ago and its members were reassigned to other, more generalized groups. "Their job is to go after individuals and entities that, in effect, have unlimited resources and can aggressively exploit legal and international grey areas for their own gain. "Our CRA professionals are amongst the best in the world at what they do but they face great challenges," Daviau told member of the House of Commons finance committee. For low-income filers seeking a clinic during tax season, please call 250.763.8008 ext.Debi Daviau, president of the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada, says professionals who work for the Canada Revenue Agency need better organization and the right tools to crack down on offshore tax evasion.Ĭanada Revenue Agency officials are being "outgunned" by "tax giants" when it comes to cracking down on offshore tax cheats, the head of the union representing CRA auditors told members of Parliament Thursday.ĭebi Daviau, president of the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC), said her members are passionate about their jobs but they need a better structure and the right tools to do their jobs. Coordinates annual volunteer-based income tax preparation clinics for low-income filers
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