As an accountant with a celiac wife, I read the rules on claiming a refund for it, laughed, and immediately thought, this is... Ridiculous. We have never claimed a cent because it is not worth the time or effort. Whoever conjured up that policy needs to be taken out to the woodshed.
Here is my best story about how useless the CRA is. I had an GST audit done on a company I manage. They come back and tell me I have paid 8K TOO MUCH after I send in the information. Ummm, what. No I haven't, its all auto done from the software and I know what I am doing, and its audited on top of that. They go through it manually and somehow come to an 8K Refund. Then the agent says "Well I can't pay you back 8K when we are auditing you, can you go through this and see if I made any mistakes". It was all mistakes. I sent back "oh you missed x, y, and z, if should be 5K". They then sent me 5K. They literally had no idea what they were doing. Then the agent says "I am going to keep your file open for 2 more weeks because I don't want to get assigned another file and I go on vacation in 2 weeks." They actually said that to me, on the phone, on what I assume was a recorded call.
The CRA is beyond an absolute joke, I have never dealt with more incompetent people on the daily. No wonder people commit tax fraud because it's the equivalent of tricking the kid in the back of the class that was eating glue all day to give you their lunch money.
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