Financial Spending Profile / Budget Management Strategies

The CCRA has a projected $3.2 billion budget for the 2004-2005 fiscal year. The division of this budget by business line is displayed in Exhibit 2 below.

Over the planning period, the Agency expects to continue with the successful efforts made in recent years to pursue an active re-allocation agenda. This will contribute to the government-wide effort to align federal spending with the highest public policy priorities and help finance the Agency’s business transformation objectives.

Our budget management strategy for the planning period is comprised of the following key components:

• We will remain committed to strategically managing costs and will continue to pursue further efficiency and productivity gains beyond those already identified under the Horizontal Review umbrella.
• Through the management of our strategic Investment Plan, we will continue to fund investment opportunities in support of business transformation initiatives and systems integrity requirements.
• We will conduct a comprehensive review to validate whether the current A-base program budgets are aligned with Agency priorities, in addition to our participation in the Government’s expenditure review process.
• We will discuss with central agencies of the Government of Canada, opportunities to invest further in revenue-generating audit and collection activities.
• We will explore additional service improvement opportunities.

We will also continue to vigorously pursue re-allocation and productivity opportunities. However, it is evident that we are facing a number of significant program integrity issues that cannot be resolved solely through internal re-allocation efforts. These include funding for the security and sustainability of information technology systems, and for processing the growth of tax transactions. We will need to discuss these concerns with Treasury Board Secretariat and Department of Finance officials.

Exhibit 2: Spending Profile by Business Line ($million)

Date modified:

2004-10-08