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On Jul 20, 5:46 pm, "mastermind" <masterm...@work.now> wrote:
> The CRA bastards may have "lost" the case 12 years after their attack on this taxpayer, but the
> amount that HE lost during those 12 years doesn't allow for this to be called a 'win' for him.
>
> I hope to hell he has enough money left to sue them for damages - for all he's lost, plus
> punitive.

Let's all hope so.


> "Alan Baggett" <canadarevenue.age...@canada.com> wrote in message
>
> news:7bd08097-b522-499d-8745-2c1c7a53a02b@r34g2000vba.googlegroups.com...
> Irvin Leroux’s Sane Response to CRA’s Insane Five Million Dollar
> Mistake :CRA SOTW
>
> The following letter from Irvin Leroux appeared in the July 2009
> edition of TruckSpeaker (http://www.truckspeaker.com/) (email:
> edi...@truckspeaker.com)
>
> “CRA Million Dollar Mistake Cost Me Everything,” By Irvin Leroux
>
> For 12 years I have fought the Canada Revenue Agency over a million-
> dollar tax bill I didn’t owe – and won. Tax Court of Canada
> deliberations concluded that I didn’t owe a million dollars in
> personal income tax and GST, but I had judgments and a writ of seizure
> and sale on ALL my assets for that amount. I was guilty until proven
> innocent. I lost my house, my business, my land, my income, my
> savings, my future; I lost it all – approximately $4.5 million in
> assets. Why? Because CRA wouldn’t admit to their mistakes. They would
> sooner destroy me and try to bury me than admit they did wrong.
>
> I built a state of the art RV Park and developed an 11 lot subdivision
> in a beautiful valley in the mountains and saw my dream come true. I
> hosted 10,000 visitors a season and won a prestigious Tourism BC
> aware. My dream started to fall apart in 1996, when an auditor from
> the tax agency showed up to look at my records for 1993-1995. The
> auditor took my business receipts and other records, than misplaced
> those records at his office. He told me that someone put them on the
> pile that was to be shredded. Without my receipts to show my business
> expenses, numerous tax audits over several years concluded that I owed
> almost $900,000 in personal income tax, plus over $100,000 in GST,
> including interest and penalties.
>
> Over the past 12 years I have gone through the system to seek
> restitution for what CRA caused me to lose. In December 2006 with the
> support of my MP Richard Harris (Cariboo – Prince George) I was in
> direct contact with [then] Minister Carol Skelton and spokesman
> Terrence Scheltema. I was informed that [the Minister] “was using my
> case as an example to create her new taxpayers bill of rights and she
> wanted the outcome of my case to be an example of how Revenue Canada
> must be held accountable for its abuses of Canadians.” The outcome she
> referred to was the advice her office had given to me to file a legal
> statement of claim against CRA in November 2006 “in order that CRA
> could respond with a settlement offer.” Thirty months and 3 ministers
> later I am no further ahead and have another lawyer to pay.
>
> In May 2007 the Financial Post wrote an article called So Much For Tax
> Fairness. Canada Revenue Agency was unveiling an improved Taxpayer
> Bill of Rights and plans for an Ombudsman – Finance Minister Jim
> Flaherty called it the “next important step” in creating an
> accountable, fair tax system. Minister of National Revenue Carol
> Skelton stated “Canada’s tax system worked well for government but not
> always for taxpayers.” The Ministers’ speak the words but never put
> the words into action.
>
> CRA has unlimited resources to fight ordinary hardworking Canadians –
> I say its time to turn the tables. MY goal is to make 4.5 million
> friends. This represents the $4.5 million that was taken from me by
> the actions of the CRA. Each friend will hear my story and I will give
> them a forum to tell their story and let them know they are not alone.
> We will be able to pool this information which will give us strength
> and knowledge. No one wants an audit. Every friend will learn avenues
> that are available to them to protect themselves. Every friend will
> tell two friends to tell two friends and so on. Your newspaper is well
> aware that there is strength in numbers and I admire you for it.
>
> Editor’s Note: Irvin started a FaceBook page:http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid+51951718823
>
> For more details on Mr. Leroux’s story review the following tax tales:
>
> CRA Bankrupts BC Couple Over Nothing Part 1 of 2 :CRA SOTWhttp://groups.google.com/group/can.taxes/browse_thread/thread/559cea9...
> and
> CRA Bankrupts BC Couple Over Nothing Part 2 of 2 :CRA SOTWhttp://groups.google.com/group/can.taxes/browse_thread/thread/bdde6e3...
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
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> ------------------------------------------------------------Alan Baggett– Tax Collector’s Bible