Audit – Dale Barret

I Lost My Battle with the CRA, but I Won the War (originally on The Lawyer’s Daily)

November 22, 2019
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My law firm cannot make the claim that we have won all of our cases in the Tax Court of Canada, but what we can tell you is that every single case we have won in tax court — either in trial or a settlement — was lost at the CRA objection stage. And in […]

October 10, 2019
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Sometimes a taxpayer is randomly selected for an audit. It’s like winning the worst lottery in the world, and there’s nothing you can do to change that. But apart from a random tax audit, the odds of being targeted for an audit are dependent on a variety of risk factors. In short, the odds of […]

April 9, 2019
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By Dale Barrett – Managing Lawyer at Barrett Tax Law and Tax Columnist at the Lawyer’s Daily. Originally published by the Lawyer’s Daily. In my first article in this series, I expressed the opinion that the entire Harmonized Sales Tax system and its legal framework are fundamentally flawed. I outlined four of the nine problems […]

April 8, 2019
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By Dale Barrett – Managing Lawyer at Barrett Tax Law and Tax Columnist at the Lawyer’s Daily. Originally published by the Lawyer’s Daily. In any self-reporting or honour system like we have in Canadian taxation, there must be a means by which the state can verify the correctness of information provided. Enter the tax audit […]

August 3, 2018
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Beware The Net Worth Audit (re-published from TheGaap.net) August 1, 2018 Dale Barrett Managing Partner Barrett Tax Law Arguably, the cheapest, fastest, and dirtiest way in which the CRA can audit a taxpayer is by employing the “net worth” method. It throws all principals of good audit practice to the wind and allows the […]

I Lost My Battle with the CRA, but I Won the War (originally on The Lawyer’s Daily)

More Reasons to Abandon the HST (originally on Lawyer’s Daily)

CRA Auditors Less Concerned with Correctness than with the Size of Reassessments (originally on Lawyer’s Daily)

Beware The Net Worth Audit

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I Lost My Battle with the CRA, but I Won the War (originally on The Lawyer’s Daily)

20 Tax Audit Triggers

More Reasons to Abandon the HST (originally on Lawyer’s Daily)

CRA Auditors Less Concerned with Correctness than with the Size of Reassessments (originally on Lawyer’s Daily)

Beware The Net Worth Audit

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