Introduction (con't)

CCRA at a glance map (text version)

• On average, close to $300 billion in revenues annually - $1.2 billion every working day
• Over 50 agreements with other government departments and agencies for joint program delivery
• Coordination of Fairness Provisions, estimated $200 million in interest and penalties forgiven
• Agreement to collect about $37 billion annually on behalf of the provinces and territories
• Almost 23.3 million individual and trust tax returns and 1.3 million corporate tax returns processed
• Over 35 million public enquiries every year
• Benefit and credit payments worth over $10 billion to over 10 million eligible Canadian households
• 44,000 employees at 750 service sites across Canada
• Customs seizures of some $679 million in contraband including drugs
• 3.5 million hits on the CCRA's Web site each month during peak tax season
• 111 million travellers entering Canada annually through customs service locations
• 16,000 volunteers completed 471,000 tax returns
• More than 10.6 million customs commercial releases processed annually

Date modified:

2002-03-21