Tag: tax collection

CRA Recalibrates to Grab Its Share From Burgeoning ‘Underground Economy’

The underground economy is growing but the Canada Revenue Agency has a plan of attack on neglectful and evasive taxpayers, say federal reports. “The underground economy in 2021,” a Statistics Canada report released Feb. 20, said the value of unreported transactions in 2021 was estimated at $68.5 billion, or 2.7 percent of gross domestic product…


Federal Government Tax Collection Hits Record $2 Trillion in 6 Months

The U.S. federal government has collected record high taxes exceeding $2 trillion during the first half of the fiscal year, from October 2021 to March 2022, according to the Bureau of the Fiscal Service. In the first six months of fiscal year 2022, which began Oct. 1, 2021, tax collections totaled $2.12 trillion, up over…