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CRA’s YouTube Gambit Garners 22,000 Tattling Tips :CRA SOTW

You might remember this Tax Tale from way back in February of this
year: http://groups.google.com/group/can.taxes/browse_thread/thread/5c5c9c6935f561e8/4e24651c39dbdcc6?q=
WELL, here’s the response,

OTTAWA — The Canada Revenue Agency received 22,000 tips from Canadians
tattletaling on their neighbours last year.

National Revenue Minister Jean-Pierre Blackburn said calls are coming
in through a national hotline, known as the Informant Leads Program
(http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/gncy/nvstgtns/lds-eng.html), established a
few years ago.

“People call and denounce companies or individuals who appear to be
fraudulent or don’t appear to pay their share of income tax,”
Blackburn said. “Every time someone denounces someone else, our
ministry verifies to see whether the accusations are truthful.”

Monday, the federal government said it is enlisting the help of young
filmmakers to encourage Canadians to pay their taxes.

The agency announced the winners of its YouTube video contest on the
underground economy.

Blackburn said the problem is serious and people are only running
after trouble if they think they can get away without paying their
fair share.

When your neighbours boast they don’t pay taxes, they are hurting you,
the minister said.
“If projected revenues don’t come in, the government will have to
raise income taxes the following year,” he said.

But the winners of the YouTube contest don’t want viewers to get the
impression they are being encouraging to rat out anyone.

“It’s about your guilty conscience,” said 24-year-old Simon Lavictoire
of Saint-Georges, Quebec.

Toronto’s David Hall, 24, agreed and said the video he and his friends
produced is about “self-awareness.”

Their video reminds viewers their taxes fund child care, pensions and
parks. It will be used by the Canada Revenue Agency in its promotional
material.


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