Statement of Management Responsibility for Performance Information

I submit for tabling in Parliament the Annual Report to Parliament 2009-2010 for the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). The Canada Revenue Agency Act requires that an annual report be tabled in Parliament. This report includes information about the CRA’s performance on the objectives established in its corporate business plan, including the measures and indicators developed to assist in evaluating results.

Management is responsible for maintaining systems and practices that provide reasonable assurance that the performance information presented in this report is consistent, accurate, comprehensive, and balanced. Making estimates and judgments to the best of its abilities, disclosing them appropriately, and developing robust measures and indicators for its strategic outcomes and expected results are also the responsibility of management.

The CRA’s Corporate Audit and Evaluation Branch conducts independent reviews of the CRA’s management processes (governance, risk management, and internal controls) and the effectiveness of its programs. Also, the Board of Management’s Audit Committee oversees management’s responsibilities for maintaining internal controls and the financial and results reporting systems; its members meet regularly with internal and external auditors. The Board of Management recommends the annual report to the Minister of National Revenue for approval.

This annual report includes the CRA’s results information with the assessment of the Office of the Auditor General, as shown on the next page.

The CRA also produces an annual Departmental Performance Report (DPR), as Treasury Board requires of all federal departments and agencies. It is tabled in Parliament separately from the Annual Report to Parliament 2009-2010 and provides a more operational view of the CRA’s performance.

Linda Lizotte-MacPherson
Commissioner and Chief Executive Officer
October 15, 2010

Date modified:

2010-11-02