More idiocy from CRA

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CRA never fails to provide interesting “surprises”!

We filed for a client 8 years of returns at the same time, sequentially…CRA picked one year and held it but assessed all the others more or less immediately. Expected the one held to take time as there was a significant loss and also large meds claim on it.

Some time later we received a request for info about a rental loss on the 2023 return. That return didn’t have a loss…it was NIL (CCA redux of income); we responded appropriately and provided all requested info…including the fact it wasn’t a loss.

Just got the NOA on the “withheld year”…denying the loss. But that wasn’t the year the request asked for…and NOW, after assessing the return they’re asking for med proof (that’s fine).

WTF are they smoking at CRA that they can’t even get the year they are requesting info for correct?

WFH apparently goes well with legal weed!

More make-work from the bozos we all have to put up with. I’m mad. But there is nothing, of course, to be done except compaining here, because nobody else seems to be able to make a dent on therm.

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Had a recent employment expense review where the CRA decided to only allow the portion of the expense the employer already reimbursed them for, not the part we actually claimed.

It’s insane the nonsense the CRA is pulling right now. The CERB stuff is my current thorn in the side. They remove the cerb section of the benefits and credits, stop putting CERB documentation into online mail accounts, and when I called them the other day as it’s been over a year with no response from them since we sent in a CERB review package, they refused to talk to me stating that our authorization doesn’t extend to CERB and they will only talk to us if the client is sitting beside us or on a conference call.

I’m sorry…what?

Lunacy.