CRA in Brief

• Agreement to collect on behalf of the provinces, territories, and First Nations - representing $37 Billion for 2002-2003
  
  
• Application of Fairness Provisions - estimated $319 million in interest and penalties forgiven
  
  
• Over 22 million individual and trust tax returns and 1.4 million corporate tax returns processed
  
  
• Approximately 11 million requests for pages on the tax directory portion of the CRA's Web site each month during peak tax season
  
  
• Benefit and credit payments worth over $11 billion to over 10n million eligible Canadian recipients
  
  
• Over 40,000 employees at more than 200 offices across Canada.
  
  
• Almost 16,000 volunteers completed 498,0000 tax returns
  
  
• Over 60 agreements with other government departments and agencies for joint program delivery
  
  
• Over 25 million public enquiries
  
  
• Collected over $300 billion - averaging $1.18 billion every working day

Date modified:

2004-02-09