tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622776924781844427.post7651143800715897560..comments2024-02-16T05:35:52.235-05:00Comments on Tax, Society & Culture: Canada's tax evasion problem in need of resources & leadershipAllisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16733465339926078146noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622776924781844427.post-49785154782283357532012-11-15T15:06:28.815-05:002012-11-15T15:06:28.815-05:00thanks for this. Encouraging news.thanks for this. Encouraging news.Allisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16733465339926078146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622776924781844427.post-501984376824251602012-11-15T13:38:28.775-05:002012-11-15T13:38:28.775-05:00It looks some criminal charges did come down today...It looks some criminal charges did come down today. From the Montreal Gazette:<br /><br />http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Reza+Tehrani+owner+Aviron+Technical+Institute+faces/7553592/story.html<br /><br />Reza Tehrani, owner of the Aviron Technical Institute in Town of Mount Royal, is among the latest to face criminal charges as part of a probe into federal income-tax evasion “involving former corrupt Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) officials,” the RCMP announced Thursday.<br /> <br />The force said Tehrani, 55, faces a total of 13 counts.<br /> <br />Liora Suissa, 49, apparently a former CRA official, faces five charges.<br /> <br />“They are charged with conspiracy, fraud, breach of trust by a public officer, as well as bribery of public officers,” the Mounties added in a morning news release.<br /><br /><br />Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03894651289037073128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622776924781844427.post-28749492876833122992012-11-15T08:36:37.184-05:002012-11-15T08:36:37.184-05:00And the web gets bigger and bigger. I'm, unfo...And the web gets bigger and bigger. I'm, unfortunately, not shocked. But it is a governance crisis. Cleaning it up will be tough.Allisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16733465339926078146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622776924781844427.post-55292549137555345382012-11-14T23:33:30.792-05:002012-11-14T23:33:30.792-05:00New links found between tax auditors and Montreal&...New links found between tax auditors and Montreal's construction industry<br /><br />The RCMP has found a series of new and disturbing links between auditors at the Canada Revenue Agency and officials in Montreal’s construction industry, including a series of joint visits to the city’s casino, a golf trip, home renovations and a stalled audit, court records show.<br /> <br />A recent search warrant, obtained by Radio-Canada and The Globe and Mail, alleges nine CRA officials attended a Montreal Canadiens home game in late 2005 with the principals in B.T. Céramique, a company that had recently benefited from a lax audit by the federal agency, according to the RCMP.<br /> <br />Internal CRA documents obtained by the RCMP allege that an auditor who was not at the hockey game received an order at one point from one of her managers, Madan Kehar, to stop auditing B.T. Céramique because “she had done enough” on the file.<br /><br /><br />No charges have been laid as part of the ongoing RCMP investigation into allegations of corruption in the CRA’s Montreal office and none of the allegations in the search warrant has been proven in court. The CRA has suspended or fired a number of its employees in Montreal as part of its own internal investigation into alleged wrongdoing and corruption.Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03894651289037073128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622776924781844427.post-64889271292388571942012-11-14T23:30:57.185-05:002012-11-14T23:30:57.185-05:00The word on the street is their is a lot of overla...The word on the street is their is a lot of overlap between the individuals with offshore accounts and individuals involved in the Montreal construction/corruption industry. The problem that many including Downe seem to be forgetting is if you go back to the early days of the Montreal construction scandals one of the first groups of public officials that were suspected of being compromised by Construction bosses were several senior staff members of the CRA's Montreal office. Unfortionately when you have employees of the tax administration service receiving free meals, free hockey tickets and all the other things public officials get from construction bosses it has hard to adminster the tax system properly. Luckily for Canada I think the problem is when centered on Montreal more than other parts of the country.Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03894651289037073128noreply@blogger.com