CRA Annual Report to Parliament 2005-2006

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Results Highlights

The CRA is committed to being accountable to Canadians about how well it administers Canada's tax and social benefit programs. We do this by setting meaningful performance goals and objectively measuring results in order to drive continuous improvement across our program activities. As shown in the chart below, in 2005-2006, we continued to achieve the majority of expected results that we established for our Tax Services and Benefit Programs strategic outcomes. At the same time, we identified some areas where results fell short of our expectations.


Notable Successes
  • More than 90% of individuals, employers, and GST/HST registrants continued to file tax returns on time.
  • More than 90% of individuals paid their taxes on time.
  • We sustained strong performance in issuing more than 99% of 75 million payments on time under the Canada Child Tax Benefit program, the GST/HST credit program, and related provincial and territorial benefit and credit programs.
  • We leveraged our federal delivery infrastructure to administer eight more benefit programs and services for provinces, territories, and other government departments, bringing the total to 66.
  • Our programs to address reporting non-compliance identified a total fiscal impact of over $10.4 billion, exceeding our estimate of $7.2 billion.
  • We earned an A grade for “ideal compliance” under the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act for responding within legislated timeframes.
  • The CRA received five gold and three silver Government Technology Exhibition and Conference awards for information technology achievements.
Areas for Improvement
  • The level of tax debt grew from $18 billion in 2004-2005 to $18.5 billion.
  • Our estimate of timely filing by taxable corporations has fallen to 85.9% which is below our target of 90%.
  • The rate of timely payments by taxable corporations and of source deductions by employers has declined to 88.7%.
  • Compliance rates continued to erode to 87.9% in 2005-2006 for individuals with tax credits/deductions not subject to third-party reporting.


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Date modified:
2006-11-23