The Canada Revenue Agency's (CRA) investigation into tax cheats taken by Canadians in the Panama…
Thousands of CRA accounts affected by CERB-related hacking
March 23, 2021 – Chris Chezepock thought he was making a simple call to unlock his online taxpayer account when he rang up the Canada Revenue Agency on Wednesday morning. Instead, the 31-year-old Toronto man discovered that his identity had been hijacked, with a...
CRA locked 800K Canadian taxpayers out of accounts
March 15, 2021 – The Canada Revenue Agency locked out 800,000 users from their online accounts on Saturday out of fear that people’s usernames and passwords have been hacked. Citing the cybersecurity risk of having this information in the hands of potentially...
Vancouver man sentenced to 29 months, fined $645K for tax evasion, forgery
Feb. 28, 2021 – The Canada Revenue Agency says a West Vancouver man has been sentenced to 29 months in jail and handed a stiff fine for attempting to avoid a tax bill. Court records show Michael Sholz was sentenced Wednesday in provincial court in Vancouver....
CRA conducts simultaneous Panama Papers raids in the GTA, Calgary and Vancouver
Nearly two years after the Panama Papers leak was made public, Canadian tax officials have carried out their first major raids, executing three search warrants across the country. The simultaneous raids Wednesday morning in West Vancouver, Calgary and the GTA were all...