(Originally posted on February 3, 2016)
CRA’s Annual Office Audit Letter Campaign
We have recently been informed that it is time for the Canada Revenue Agency’s annual fishing trip! CRA will soon be conducting its seventh annual Office Audit Letter Campaign.
Starting shortly, the CRA will send approximately 30,000 “intent-to-audit” letters to selected groups of individual taxpayers and business owners who claim consecutive business or rental losses or who are employees claiming employment expenses on line 229 of their tax return. (Form T777)
The objective for CRA is to encourage recipients of the letter to take a second look at their tax returns and to determine if they have in fact made an error or oversight.
If errors or oversights are identified, CRA would then like the taxpayer to make the necessary corrections through ‘My Account’ on the CRA Website or by submitting form T1-ADJ for the relevant year(s).
CRA says the objective of these campaigns is to help small business owners and individual taxpayers to better understand their obligations and responsibilities when it comes to the Income Tax Act.
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