Battle brews between CRA and the auditor general over COVID program payments

With two milquetoast words contained in the response to Auditor General Karen Hogan’s report on COVID-19 benefits published Tuesday, the Canada Revenue Agency and Employment and Social Development Canada sent a shock wave across the federal government.Sign up to receive the daily top stories from the National Post, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.

But top CRA officials said that number is “overstated,” based on “unreliable indicators” and is likely full of “false positives,” according to both a document provided by the agency to the federal public accounts committee in November and a background briefing with the National Post Wednesday. “This assessment could have been used for the purpose of either halting future claims or identifying applicants for post-payment verification.”

“Our view is that using the GST/HST data on its own as an indicator of risk is necessarily going to lead us down the wrong path,” a senior CRA official said on background Wednesday. But that wouldn’t be “cost effective” and the agency is prioritizing “high risk” files to maximize its returns, a top CRA official said.Article content

Oh no. The liberals were caught. Deny deny deny. Trust your government? Well… deny deny deny.

Was she off by a million?

Symptom of a system where govt can create money at will. We are past the point of return.

We are nowhere near the realization of the amount of money this government spent without guarantees of ever getting it back. Oh, wait, they are. Inflation caused an increase in prices which attracts an increase in consumption taxes. We all pay.

I totally side with the auditor general, even before the findings. They've spent like they robbed the brinks truck since 2017, bout g.d. time the auditor general had a thing or 2 to say!

What a stooge she is.

A good auditor general is worth their weight in gold to the Canadian public. Their toe nail clippings have more credibility to Canadians than the entire Liberal caucus.

25 % of high school kids applied and got cerb without ever having a job. Unrecoverable. What could possibly go wrong when Canada dangles free money without checks and balances? Oops

It doesn't take a genius to know that our finances have been mismanaged. Thank-you AG for doing your job! For the CRA to contest the report is just more validation of the gaslighting the Liberals are noted for...

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