2006-2007 CRA at a Glance

• Just over $346 billion collected--averaging over $1.3 billion every working day--including:
  • $110.6 billion in personal taxes
  • $37.7 billion in corporate taxes
  • Over $52 billion on behalf of Canada’s provinces, territories, and First Nations
  • Over $17 billion in Employment Insurance (EI) premiums
• Almost $50 billion in Goods and Services Tax (GST)/Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) collected from over three million GST/HST registrants
• Over $15.2 billion benefit and credit payments distributed to over 11 million entitled Canadians
• Over 1.6 million corporate tax returns processed, including 14.0% electronically
• Almost $13 billion identified through measures for addressing non-compliance, a portion of which may be overturned as a result of appeals and an additional portion of which may be uncollectible
• Over 36 million tax-related visits to the CRA’s Web site and over 61 million forms and publications downloaded
• 60% increase in visits to My Account by taxpayers
• More than 15,800 volunteers completed over 500,000 simple tax returns for low-income, eligible taxpayers
• Almost 23 million public enquiries answered
• Almost 25 million individual tax returns were filed, including 50.6% electronically filed
• Approximately 1.6 million employers withheld and remitted over $192 billion in source deductions--about 56% of the revenues we collected
• More than 8,200 voluntary disclosures processed with related assessments totalling over $525 million
• Almost $466 million in interest and penalties waived or cancelled under our Taxpayer Relief Provisions
• Over $32 billion in contributions on behalf of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP)

Date modified:

2007-11-01