Unaudited Supplementary Financial Information

Financial Performance Information – Parliamentary Appropriations

Overview

For 2005-2006, Parliament had approved planned spending for CRA in the amount of $3,028.9 million through the Main Estimates, as shown in CRA's 2005-2006 to 2007-2008 Corporate Business Plan.

The 2005-2006 Main Estimates have been adjusted to include: $165.4 million for the Carry-forward from 2004-2005; $145.4 million for Collective Agreements, mainly due to the CRA/PSAC agreement signed December 10, 2004; $95.8 million increase for Respendable Revenue adjustment for information technology services provided to Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA); $45.7 million for Maternity and Severance payments; $27.0 million for Budget measures arising from the 2004 and 2005 Federal Budgets; $10 million increase for the Children's Special Allowance Statutory Authority; and an increase of $0.7 million related to the Canada Pension Plan. Offsetting these increases, the CRA returned $24.7 million in funding to the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat pending the approval of the Offshore Trusts Initiative legislation and $7.0 million for Department of Justice costs incurred by the Agency between April 1, 2005 and December 31, 2005. The Agency also contributed some $36.8 million related to Expenditure Review Savings for Departmental Initiatives and Procurement Reductions. This resulted in a total approved planned spending of $3,450.2 million for 2005-2006, representing an in-year increase of 13.9% over the original Main Estimates. See Table 3.1 for additional information.

Actual spending for CRA totalled some $3,707.4 million resulting in $104.4 million unexpended at year-end. After removing $3.6 million (reversal of payments to Justice Canada for the January 1, 2006 to March 31, 2006 period) and $0.1 million (unused resources related to the 2005 Advertising Campaign), and $17.3 million related to Vote 5 (Contribution to the Ministère du Revenu du Québec), the remaining $83.4 million in operating funds is available for use by the Agency in 2006-2007. After adjusting for the Justice, Advertising Campaign and Contribution authorities, the lapse represents 3.2% of the operating portion ($2,599.0 million) of the total authorities of $3,811.8 million.

The $83.4 million carry forward to 2006-2007 will be used primarily to focus on selected strategic investments linked to Agency priorities from the Agency 2010 Blueprint such as: Focussing on Core Business (GST/HST Redesign and Integrated Revenue Collections), $50.6 million; Strengthening Core Infrastructure through investments in Network Services enhancements and Data Centre Facilities, $13.0 million; Maintaining Trust and Integrity via investments in Security Modernization and Data Centre Recovery, $10.3 million; Managing Human Resources and Labour Relations through enhanced training such as the Observe and Attest initiative and Student Recruitment and Retention program, $10.1 million; as well as various Business Development initiatives, $2.6 million.

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Date modified:

2006-11-23