2004-2005 CRA at a Glance

• Collected close to $305 billion--averaging over $1.2 billion every working day, including:
  • Over $42 billion on behalf of the provinces, territories, and First Nations
  • Over $17.7 billion for Employment Insurance Premiums
  • Approximately $29 billion in net revenues on behalf of the Canada Pension Plan
• Benefit and credit payments worth close to $12.5 billion distributed to over 11 million entitled Canadian recipients
• Over $1 billion in interest and penalties waived or cancelled under fairness provisions
• Almost 1.5 million employers withheld and remitted $171 billion in source deductions--about 56% of the revenues we collected
• Close to $10.2 billion in fiscal impact identified through measures for addressing non-compliance
• Almost 90 agreements with other government departments and agencies for joint program delivery
• Over 24 million individual and trust tax returns and 1.5 million corporate tax returns processed
• Over 24 million tax-related visits to the CRA's website
• Approximately 22 million public enquiries answered
• Almost 15,800 volunteers completed more than 458,000 simple tax returns for low-income, eligible taxpayers
• More than 6,600 voluntary disclosures processed, with related assessments totalling nearly $320 million
• Resources:
  • Operating budget of $3.2 billion
  • Workforce of up to 34,300 permanent employees across Canada, and a term population which fluctuates to approximately 10,000 during peak tax filing season

Date modified:

2005-10-26