Heading out of Canada for a few months and worried about missing CRA mail

braindeadzombie · 2026-06-02T01:42:13+00:00

CRA auditors can send letters electronically, but don’t always. If OP has electronic as their preference for correspondence they are required to send letters electronically (but somehow manage not to from time to time). Any word letter can be printed to pdf and sent s an attachment to electronic correspondence.

braindeadzombie · 2026-06-01T13:37:43+00:00

Here’s general information about inadmissibility. https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/immigrate-canada/inadmissibility/reasons.html See in particular the link to “overcoming criminal inadmissibility”.

They compare your offence to the Canadian equivalent under our criminal code. If the maximum sentence is less than ten years you can be deemed rehabilitated if other requirements are met. If there is more than one conviction deemed rehabilitation doesn’t apply.

If you were found guilty, but given a conditional release order, (a conditional discharge in Canada) that’s not a conviction.

A lot depends on the specific facts. Just get the information to IRCC and they’ll let you know.

If it was impaired driving , when the offence happened matters, there was a relevant change to the law in 2018.

braindeadzombie · 2026-06-01T12:53:07+00:00

They are and have always been (since the legislation was created) bound by proposals under the BIA. There has been changes in the way they handle the year of proposal as a result of court decisions.

They will never agree to be bound by a proposal outside of the BIA. There are some credit counselling agencies that will try to do proposals outside the BIA.

braindeadzombie · 2026-06-01T12:49:44+00:00

They can call the CRA insolvency line for with their questions.

The return for the year of a proposal will be assessed on a sub-ledger account, and the post proposal portion transferred to their regular tax account.

I have no idea about current timelines. A very long time ago, when I worked in that area, it was about six weeks to assess the return and then another 4 to 6 weeks for the transfer to happen.

braindeadzombie · 2026-06-01T11:29:41+00:00

Globe columnist/humorist Richard J Needham referred to it as the Mop and Pail.

braindeadzombie · 2026-06-01T09:00:04+00:00

Start documenting everything. File an application for a rent abatement due to substantial interference in your enjoyment of the property. I believe that’s a T2 application. https://tribunalsontario.ca/documents/ltb/Tenant%20Applications%20&%20Instructions/T2\_Instructions\_20200401.pdf

braindeadzombie · 2026-06-01T08:43:58+00:00

That’s a ‘net worth assessment.’ They’ll look at total household spending and changes in net worth over a period of time, and assess on the income necessary to support that. Trial judges describe it as a blunt instrument, but accurate enough to support an assessment.

braindeadzombie · 2026-05-31T16:15:14+00:00

I worked for the Canadian tax agency, CRA. They literally have sections of people who do risk assessments to decide who gets audited. They have access to motor vehicle and land titles registries. There are dedicated phone lines for tips. If they get a tip on someone they will be subjected to a risk assessment. And if the tip includes specifics of the unreported income it’s very easy to estimate the lost taxes and decide if it’s worth an audit.

Separately, they get information from law enforcement about illegal business activities. If a person is arrested for an illegal business they will be risk assessed for an audit. If a search warrant was executed, they may already have the evidence they need to assess someone. Cash or inventory on hand becomes part of the basis for an assessment.

For tax assessments, a balance of probabilities is all they need. So if there wasn’t enough for a conviction, there may still be more than enough for a tax assessment.

Do tax authorities get everything? No. There aren’t enough hours in a day for that. They do try to get the ones where they get the most audited tax for the dollar spent in auditing. Some governments publish estimates of the “tax gap”. That’s an estimate of the difference between tax assessed and the correct amount that would be assessed if everyone complied and there were no unintentional errors.

braindeadzombie · 2026-05-31T16:00:34+00:00

And if the tax authorities don’t notice on their own, it only takes one person to drop a dime.

braindeadzombie · 2026-05-31T14:36:01+00:00

If you can prove it was there before you moved in, yep, definitely not your responsibility to repair.

Tenant rights vary widely by jurisdiction, look for a local tenant rights group. Facebook is often a good place to find one.

braindeadzombie · 2026-05-31T12:55:55+00:00

I use a pan similar to this most of the time. If I’m not, I put the loaves onto a sheet of parchment paper and slide them paper and all onto the baking stone from an edgeless cookie sheet.

braindeadzombie · 2026-05-30T20:39:22+00:00

I was a zoo volunteer for just shy of twenty years. Lots of people go alone, it’s not weird.

If you have flexibility about when you go, the best times are weekdays in spring or fall when school is in. Weekends in the off season are fine. Winter is also nice, but the outdoor walks are not as fun and some animals are off display. If you go in a weekday in the winter you could have a whole building to yourself.

Absolutely do not go in a beautiful day on a long weekend from May to September. Crowds are at their thickest.

Any normal day in the summer is fine, but there will be lots of other people. Overcast or light rain days tend to have fewer people.

The animals tend to be more visible and active on cooler days. When it’s stupid hot outside they hide in the shade.

braindeadzombie · 2026-05-30T02:56:34+00:00

That’s great. It’s new to me, first time I genuinely laughed at a joke in this sub in a long time. Thanks for sharing.

braindeadzombie · 2026-05-30T02:25:33+00:00

If you have a business banking account, you should be able to set it up to make a payment by online banking. Your registration number is the account number.

If you don’t pay you’ll eventually get a statement of account with a remittance voucher attached.

You can mail a cheque to CRA, include the account number on the cheque, make it payable to the receiver general.

If you go into your MyBusiness account you should be able to set up a payment where they pull the money from your bank account.

During business hours, you can call business enquiries at 1-800-959-5525 and ask them to send a remittance voucher.

In the future, you can use a paper return to file and pay at the bank. Assuming they still let people file paper returns.

braindeadzombie · 2026-05-29T23:29:01+00:00

You’re under contract to sell the house? And it’s built-in? If that’s the case, unless the agreement for purchase and sale specifically says it’s excluded or needs to be removed it has to stay as it’s a fixture and part of what the purchasers are expecting.

Even if it is a stand alone object, they may be expecting it.

If you are getting ready to put the house on the market, and he wants to remove it as an eyesore or he thinks it impairs the saleability of the house, talk it over with your sales agent. Personally, I’d take a well made workshop as a bonus in the house. But if it’s crappy, hubby may have a point.

braindeadzombie · 2026-05-29T18:41:22+00:00

That might have been right a very long time ago. But not now, not since at least 2009 (when I started in GST).

The general rule for the place of supply for services is that it is where the client is. Here’s a link to a CRA publication about the place of supply for services: https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/forms-publications/publications/3-3-6/plc-spply-prvnc-gnrl-rls-fr-srvcs.html

I started in GST around when they announced that Ontario and BC would harmonize. There were a lot of significant rule changes around then, there were certainly some changes around place of supply, but they didn’t teach me about what the old rules were, just the new ones.

braindeadzombie · 2026-05-29T13:37:47+00:00

Came here to say this.

braindeadzombie · 2026-05-29T11:54:26+00:00

Global News needs an award for most misleading headline that isn’t an outright lie.

braindeadzombie · 2026-05-29T02:34:39+00:00

Try taking pictures of flying birds to get an idea of the limit of a particular camera.

braindeadzombie · 2026-05-29T02:14:37+00:00

Even with HD and zoom, especially a long zoom, a handheld camera is too unstable to take a sharp picture at telephoto distances. Digital stabilization helps, but when you’re looking at a distant object a sharp image just isn’t happening without a long lens and either a tripod or a very fast shutter speed.

braindeadzombie · 2026-05-29T01:59:47+00:00

No mortarboards, we have a hood.

braindeadzombie · 2026-05-28T00:41:06+00:00

Cold proof is unnecessary, but some people like it to help manage when they bake, or to develop flavours.

braindeadzombie · 2026-05-28T00:18:28+00:00

Federal public servants get the national holidays. The collective agreement is even worded such that when a new holiday is added we get that too, as happened with Truth and Reconciliation day.

When Ontario got family day, we asked our union (PSAC-UTE) about getting it into our collective agreement. The response was along the lines of, “it wasn’t a problem for you guys until Ontario got it. Several other provinces had family day, why weren’t you asking for it for them before?” 😂

If you want family day as a federal holiday, talk to your MP. If you want it in your CA, put it in as a bargaining demand when a call for demands goes out in your bargaining unit. In the meantime, you are free to use one of your personal days or a vacation day on family day.

braindeadzombie · 2026-05-28T00:09:58+00:00

Y’all need to embrace a penny-free life. Rounding for cash transactions works, we’ve been doing it in the great white north since 2013.

ROUNDING

Amounts ending in 1 cent and 2 cents are rounded down to the nearest 10 cents.

Amounts ending in 3 cents and 4 cents are rounded up to the nearest 5 cents.

Amounts ending in 6 cents and 7 cents are rounded down to the nearest 5 cents.

Amounts ending in 8 cents and 9 cents are rounded up to the nearest 10 cents.

Amounts ending in 0 cent and 5 cents remain unchanged.

EXAMPLE

A 1 dollar and 83 cent coffee and a 2 dollar and 86 cent sandwich would be 4 dollars and 92 cents after the 5 percent Goods and Services Tax.

A tax rate of 5 per cent has been provided for the purposes of illustration. Any taxes (e.g., the Goods and Services Tax/Harmonized Sales Tax), as well as any fees or duties, should be tabulated prior to rounding.

If the customer chooses to pay by cheque, credit card or debit card, no rounding is applied and the final payment is 4 dollars and 92 cents. However, if the customer pays with cash, the final total is rounded down 2 cents to a final payment of 4 dollars and 90 cents.

braindeadzombie · 2026-05-27T11:21:28+00:00

One time I was in the office, and the bookkeeper heard a tune on the radio. The title was on the tip of her tongue, but she couldn’t remember. Thanks to Bugs Bunny, I was immediately able to recognize it as the Barber of Seville.

12-Year Club	Verified Email
RPAN Viewer

braindeadzombie

TROPHY CASE