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Payroll withholdings — directors' liability (public company)

My client was a director of a public company which went out of business with unremitted source deductions for income tax, CPP and EI. The CRA wrote to him to propose assessing him as director for this payroll withholding liability.

I wrote to the CRA official with evidence to show that my client had resigned as director just over two years earlier. The evidence included publicly available information available through the securities industry. As the two-year deadline for assessing a director had run, my client could not be assessed.

The CRA agreed, and withdrew its proposal to assess my client.

Problem vanished!

(2009)