Will CRA assess penalties under s. 284.01 where a large business inadvertently reports the wrong province to which a recaptured input tax credit relates (e.g., Ontario rather than B.C.), but this error does not result in an increase to the net input tax credits that should be reported? After referencing the Electronic Filing and Provision of Information (GST/HST) Regulations, CRA responded:
[A]n over-reported RITC amount has been reported for Ontario, and no RITC amount has been reported for British Columbia. As the penalty calculations in section 7 of the Regulations are based on the difference between the RITCs that should have been reported for each particular province in a specified return for a reporting period and the RITCs that were actually reported, or un-reported, for that particular province in that return, the over-reported amount of RITCs for Ontario would result in a negative penalty calculation… that…[p]ursuant to section 125… is deemed to be nil. … However, the un-reported amount of RITCs for British Columbia would result in a penalty amount equal to a minimum of 5%, to a maximum of 10%, of that un-reported amount, where the amount remains unreported for 5 complete months or more.
