CRA indicates that it has no specific policy for providing interest relief where its Registry falsely indicates that a registration number is valid

CRA indicated, respecting the GST/HST Registry for confirming GST/HST registration numbers, that “they have resolved the issue of false positives that occurred in some instances.” CRA went on to indicate that the “CRA does not currently have a specific policy to waive penalty and interest in cases where a supplier of real property relied on the GST/HST registry to verify a recipient’s GST/HST registration status and the GST/HST registry gave a false positive.”

Neal Armstrong. Summary of 28 February 2019 CBA Roundtable, Q.26 under ETA s. 221(2).