2005-2006 CRA at a Glance

• Collected close to $330 billion—averaging over $1.3 billion every working day, including:
  • Almost $52 billion on behalf of Canada's provinces, territories, and First Nations
  • Over $17 billion in Employment Insurance premiums
  • Nearly $30 billion on behalf of the Canada Pension Plan
• Distributed benefit and credit payments worth close to
  $14.7 billion to over 11 million entitled Canadian recipients
• Met or mostly met 86 of 89 results indicator targets
• Over $626 million in interest and penalties waived or cancelled under Fairness Provisions
• Over 1.5 million employers withheld and remitted $183 billion in source deductions—about 56% of the revenues we collected
• Over $10.4 billion in fiscal impact identified through measures for addressing non-compliance
• 141 program delivery and information exchange agreements with provinces, territories, First Nations, and other federal government organizations
• Approximately 25 million individual tax returns and 1.6 million corporate tax returns processed
• Almost 30 million tax-related visits to the CRA's Web site and over 50 million forms and publications downloaded
• More than 25 million public enquiries answered
• Almost 16,000 volunteers completed nearly 500,000 simple tax returns for low-income, eligible taxpayers
• More than 7,300 voluntary disclosures processed, with related assessments totalling over $330 million

Unaudited

Date modified:

2006-11-23