Archive for the 'Collections' Category

Trust accounts

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

In Canada Trustco Mortgage Company v. The Queen, 2008 TCC 482, aff’d 2009 FCA 267, the Tax Court held that a financial institution must comply with a requirement to pay even where the the funds sought to be seized from the institution were held in a lawyer’s trust account. (more…)

Limitation Periods and Collections

Friday, June 19th, 2009

In Markevich v. The Queen, 2003 SCC 9, the Supreme Court held that a limitation period applied to prevent the CRA from collecting an old tax debt. The CRA was no different from the rest of us, the Court said: limitation periods exist for good reasons, and the reasons apply to the government as well as those it governs. (more…)


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