$50 a Day, 10% of Everything: The CRA’s New Penalty Machine | CRA Uncovered

Bill C-31 just cleared the House finance committee. It hands the CRA two new penalties. The first is a notice of non-compliance: $50 a day, up to $25,000, with no judge needed, and the CRA’s own reassessment clock stops while it’s outstanding. The second is a compliance-order penalty: 10% of your total tax payable for every year the order covers, which can’t be waived through normal taxpayer relief. We cover the fair-minded exceptions, the undefined “disproportionate” test, and the double standard: the CRA pays nothing when it’s slow, while you pay $50 a day. Plus what to do before this becomes law. Got an aggressive CRA request? Tell us at https://crauncovered.com. Dollar examples are CRA Uncovered illustrations, not real cases.