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August 3, 2011

CRA targeting restaurants

By Peter Aprile
CRA targeting restaurants
CRA targeting restaurants
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The Globe and Mail published an informative article on August 2, 2011 explaining the CRA’s new audit program that targets restaurants using software designed to suppress restaurant sales i.e., zapper software. In addition, the Globe reports that the CRA intends to “develop a broad strategy to tack the problem” and that, although several cases are under investigation, the CRA has successfully prosecuted two cases. Read the Globe article entitled Taxman Finds Rampant Restaurant Fraud.

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