{"id":8105,"date":"2020-12-13T00:44:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T05:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=8105"},"modified":"2020-12-13T00:44:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-13T05:44:34","slug":"were-not-going-to-have-a-christmas-says-woman-told-to-repay-18500-in-cerb-by-years-end-cbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=8105","title":{"rendered":"‘We’re not going to have a Christmas,’ says woman told to repay $18,500 in CERB by year’s end | CBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Charlottetown cake-maker disputes a letter from the Canada Revenue Agency saying she wasn’t eligible to receive the Canada emergency response benefit and should pay back the money by year’s end to avoid tax complications. The dispute involves net versus gross income.<\/p>\n

Source: ‘We’re not going to have a Christmas,’ says woman told to repay $18,500 in CERB by year’s end | CBC News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

TL;DR: seems that there was no obvious (according the lady here, and the CBC’s looky-loo) indication that GROSS income was the thing you had to evaluate (had to make >$5k GROSS in 2019), but she reduced her income (via legal deductions, supposedly) below $5K, so CRA sent a “gimme back” letter.<\/p>\n

My bet: CRA will give up on all but the most obvious frauds.\u00a0 If I recall, the probably incorrect ~800K offenders account for ~$1.7B of all the covid-19 relief spending (of ~$185B ??).<\/p>\n

Note that ~800K taking $9K = $7. 2B, so the 1.7B number is likely off.<\/p>\n

Is this a “morall hazard” thing?\u00a0 Simply letting people off will encourage dishonesty.\u00a0 Similar to how student debt can’t be forgiven?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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