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On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:18:11 -0500, wrkitout@gmail.com wrote:

>x-no-archive: yes   On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:51:03 GMT, Jim McCarthy
><JimMcCarthy@roc.usenetexchange.com> wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:40:19 -0500, myhome@mts.net wrote:
>>>x-no-archive: yes   On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:08:44 GMT, Jim McCarthy
>>><JimMcCarthy@roc.usenetexchange.com> wrote:
>>
>>>>Checking with local lawyers, they confirm that if legal tender is proferred in
>>>>settlement of a debt, and then refused by the creditor, then the creditor is
>>>>actually voiding the debt owed.
>>
>>>>Perhaps if a group of taxpayers descended on the local CRA offices, with 
>>>>cash in hand to pay their bills, together with a lawyer as Officer of the
>>>>Court, with lots of media as witnesses, then perhaps CRA would stop 
>>>>acting criminally in refusing to accept legal tender?
>>
>>>>Grosvenor last year at the Edmonton tax office called the media about this
>>>>situation, after local CRA flunkies threatened to call the police because he
>>>>was paying in cash.
>>
>>
>>>I thought I read that he used change to pay his taxes, is this true?
>>
>>>If they are not setup to receive change as a payment then I can see them
>>>refusing. If you check the wording on paper money it says that it's legal tender
>>>and the CRA will take that, it doesn't say that on coin.
>>>How about checking this out, see if he walked in with coin to pay his debt as
>>>he's known to enjoy pushing their buttons. I'm sure others would like to know if
>>>this was indeed the senario or not.
>>
>>Under the Canada Bank Act, used by Grosvenor when paying at CRA, the following
>>amounts of coins are legal for payment in Canada:
>>
>>1 cents			25		  0.25
>>5 cents	          	           100		  5.00
>>10 cents =+25 cents			10.00
>>$1 coins		25		25.00
>>$2 coins		20		40.00
>>
>>Total coins allowed by law = 	            $80.25
>>
>>
>>If thousands of you oppressed taxpayers were to pay your taxes to CRA in CASH,
>>with lawyers and media attending, how long do you think it will take for the
>>crooks mismanaging CRA to finally obey the law of the land?
>>
>>Particularly if by refusing cash/legal tender as payment, they wind up voiding
>>the taxes owed??!!
>
>My question was not answered, you skirted around it, btw how much did he owe?

Around $800 GST.