{"id":4867,"date":"2017-11-07T07:05:26","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T07:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=4867"},"modified":"2017-11-07T07:05:26","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T07:05:26","slug":"secret-agent-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=4867","title":{"rendered":"Secret Agent Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Liberal government may have allocated $1-billion in long-term funding to the Canadian Revenue Agency (CRA) <em>to fight tax evasion<\/em>, but only $35-million in new money was spent on that front in 2016-2017.<br \/>\n&#8220;I was surprised the number was so low,&#8221; Liberal Senator Percy Downe said of the information that he received from the CRA.<br \/>\nHe added the agency remains vague on the actual amount of money that it has been recovering as part of its increased auditing efforts. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <strong>&#8220;Unfortunately, it&#8217;s a continuing effort on the part of the CRA to try and mislead Canadians about what they are doing.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4870 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/CRA-Agent.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/CRA-Agent.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/CRA-Agent-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/CRA-Agent-768x571.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4871 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/off-shore-partiers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/off-shore-partiers.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/off-shore-partiers-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/off-shore-partiers-768x502.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4872 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Court-Painter-Off-Shore-Partiers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Court-Painter-Off-Shore-Partiers.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Court-Painter-Off-Shore-Partiers-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Court-Painter-Off-Shore-Partiers-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Liberal government may have allocated $1-billion in long-term funding to the Canadian Revenue Agency (CRA) to fight tax evasion, but only $35-million in new money was spent on that front in 2016-2017. &#8220;I was surprised the number was so low,&#8221; Liberal Senator Percy Downe said of the information that he received from the CRA. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=4867\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Secret Agent Man&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4867"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4875,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867\/revisions\/4875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}