Canadians should be told if their banking info shared with IRS, says Pierre-Luc Dusseault MP

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Canadians should be told if their banking info shared with IRS, says MP

Canada Revenue Agency says banks should tell their clients

By Elizabeth Thompson, CBC News Posted: Mar 17, 2017 5:00 AM ET


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Gee I wonder if Elizabeth Thompson or Diane LeBouthillier and Pierre-Luc Dusseault bothered to read the email i sent them and many others on St Valentine's Day?

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From: David Amos
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 15:49:52 -0400
Subject: Hey Ted Gallivan and Lisa Damien RE FATCA etc I just called about "Due Diligence" YEA RIGHT Just exactly how corrupt is the CRA and the CBC???
To: Lisa.Damien@cra-arc.gc.ca, ted.gallivan@cra-arc.gc.ca, "Bob.Hamilton" , "harvey.cashore" , "Diane.Lebouthillier" , "bob.paulson" , office@taxfairness.ca, gail.dugas@taxfairness.ca, dconache@uottawa.ca, jeffsadrian@kpmglaw.ca, gopublic , "John.Ossowski" , "mark.vespucci" , "Russell.George" , George J Russell TIGTA , td ombudsman
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"Banking records of more than 315,000 Canadian residents were turned
over to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service last year under a
controversial information sharing deal, CBC News has learned.

That is double the number transferred in the deal's first year.

The Canada Revenue Agency transmitted 315,160 banking records to the
IRS on Sept. 28, 2016 — a 104 per cent increase over the 154,667
records the agency sent in September 2015.

Lisa Damien, spokeswoman for the CRA, attributed the increase to the
fact it was the second year for the Canada-U.S. information sharing
deal that was sparked by the U.S. Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act
(FATCA).

"The exchange in September 2015 was based on accounts identified by
financial institutions at the time," she said. "The number of reported
accounts was expected to increase in 2016, because the financial
institutions have had more time to complete their due diligence and
identify other reportable accounts."

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Anyone remember this email now???

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From: Pierre-Luc.Dusseault.A2@parl.gc.ca
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 17:25:42 +0000
Subject: RE: DEJA VU or what? Fwd: RE FATCA ATTN Pierre-Luc.Dusseault I just called and left a message for you
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Hello,
I'm sorry I can't read emails send to Mr Dusseault personal inbox. I can't see the links between all the documents you send me and Mr Dusseault... is there anything urgent I can help you with ?

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Stagiaire parlementaire // Parliamentary Intern
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From: Premier of Ontario | Première ministre de l’Ontario
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Subject: Automatic reply: DEJA VU or what? Fwd: RE FATCA ATTN Pierre-Luc.Dusseault I just called and left a message for you
To: David Amos

Thanks for your email. I value your input and appreciate your taking the time to get in touch with me.

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From: David Amos
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Canadians should be told if their banking info shared with IRS, says MP

Canada Revenue Agency says banks should tell their clients

By Elizabeth Thompson, CBC News Posted: Mar 17, 2017 5:00 AM ET

The CRA should advise Canadian residents when it shares their bank account information with the IRS, says NDP MP Pierre-Luc Dusseault. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press) 

The Canada Revenue Agency should notify Canadian residents when their bank account information is being shared with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, says the NDP's revenue critic.

Pierre-Luc Dusseault says informing Canadian residents their information is being sent to the IRS could prevent others from landing in the same predicament as Jeffrey Pomerantz, a Vancouver area man facing a $1.1-million lawsuit for failing to file a form reporting his bank accounts outside the U.S.

Dusseault said there could be more lawsuits because of the "large number" of files regarding Canadian bank accounts being transferred under an intergovernmental agreement between the U.S. and Canada.

The deal was negotiated in the wake of the U.S. adopting the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).

"I would emphasize again the need for the CRA to notify Canadian taxpayers when they transfer their files to the IRS, a foreign government department," said Dusseault. "This notification may avoid that kind of situation."

• Department hits Vancouver-area man with $1.1M lawsuit over bank form
• Transfer of banking records of Canadian residents to U.S. taxman doubles

Canada's Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien has already recommended that Canadian residents be notified when their bank account information is transferred, Dusseault pointed out.

In September 2016, the CRA shared information about 315,160 bank accounts — double the number it shared a year earlier in the first year of the agreement.

However, Revenue Minister Diane LeBouthillier's office said it is the responsibility of individual banks to let clients know if information about their bank accounts might be transferred.

Pierre-Luc Dusseault, NDP MP for Sherbrooke, says the transfer of information about banking records could lead to more Canadian residents being pursued by U.S. authorities. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press)

"The legislation implementing the Canada-U.S. Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) requires that Canadian financial institutions communicate with account holders of pre-existing accounts if there is information suggesting that they are a U.S. citizen or resident (e.g., their client file contains a U.S. contact address or phone number,)" said spokesperson Chloé Luciani-Girouard.

"These clients would therefore be on notice that their information may be exchanged with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service."

CRA will respond to requests

While the government has no plans to inform people whose bank account information has been shared, those who want to know can contact their financial institution or the CRA, Luciani-Girouard said.

"The CRA will respond to any request to confirm whether information relating to a particular individual or entity has been reported and provided to the U.S. under FATCA. To date, fewer than 10 such requests have been received by the CRA," she added.

• Tax law has more Americans living abroad renouncing citizenship, lawyer says

The information-sharing agreement was in the spotlight Thursday following a CBC report that Pomerantz, a dual Canadian-U.S. citizen, is being sued by the U.S. Justice Department for $860,300 US in civil penalties, late payment penalties and interest.

While Pomerantz filed income tax returns to both Canada and the U.S., the Justice Department said he failed to file a Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts report to the U.S. Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) for three tax years.

During those years, Pomerantz had accounts with the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and in Switzerland with Sal Oppenheim JR & Cie, in addition to a corporation in the Turks and Caicos Islands, the U.S. Justice Department said in its lawsuit.

In a separate case, Pomerantz is challenging an audit by the IRS.

Court challenge

Lynne Swanson, part of a group challenging the bank account information sharing agreement in Federal Court, said the Pomerantz case is an example of how the bank account information agreement can make some Canadian residents vulnerable.

The CRA transferred 315,160 Canadian bank records to the IRS in September 2016. (Susan Walsh/Associated Press)

"I don't think they should be transferring any information. Period. Full stop," she said.

"If they are transferring it, of course, they should be telling people that they have transferred it and what they have transferred. But I don't think they should be transferring anything."

Elizabeth Thompson can be reached at elizabeth.thompson@cbc.ca

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David Raymond Amos

Gee I wonder if Elizabeth Thompson or Diane LeBouthillier and Pierre-Luc Dusseault bothered to read the email i sent them and many others on St Valentine's Day?

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Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 10:15:04 -0400
Subject: RE FATCA ATTN Pierre-Luc.Dusseault I just called and left a
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"mark.vespucci" , mcu , curtis , "rick.hancox"Cc: David Amos , djtjr , mcohen ,
elizabeth.thompson@cbc.ca, "ht.lacroix" , "hon.melanie.joly"

Trust that Trump, CBC and everybody else knows that I speak and act
Pro Se particularly when dealing with the Evil Tax Man

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Transfer of Canadian banking records to U.S. tax agency doubled last year

Documents for thousands of Canadian residents transferred under controversial FATCA legislation

By Elizabeth Thompson, CBC News Posted: Jan 29, 2017 5:00 AM ET

The Canadian government sent twice as many banking records of Canadian residents to the IRS in 2016 as it did in 2015. (Susan Walsh/Associated Press) 

Banking records of more than 315,000 Canadian residents were turned over to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service last year under a controversial information sharing deal, CBC News has learned.

That is double the number transferred in the deal's first year.

The Canada Revenue Agency transmitted 315,160 banking records to the IRS on Sept. 28, 2016 — a 104 per cent increase over the 154,667 records the agency sent in September 2015.

Lisa Damien, spokeswoman for the CRA, attributed the increase to the fact it was the second year for the Canada-U.S. information sharing deal that was sparked by the U.S. Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).

"The exchange in September 2015 was based on accounts identified by financial institutions at the time," she said. "The number of reported accounts was expected to increase in 2016, because the financial institutions have had more time to complete their due diligence and identify other reportable accounts."

Prior to coming to power, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau opposed the agreement to share banking records of Canadian residents with the IRS. He has since changed his position. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)

The transmission of banking records of Canadian residents is the result of an agreement worked out in 2014 between Canada and the U.S. after the American government adopted FATCA. The U.S. tax compliance act requires financial institutions around the world to reveal information about bank accounts in a bid to crack down on tax evasion by U.S. taxpayers with foreign accounts.

Dual citizens, long-term visitors affected

The deal requires financial institutions to share the banking records of those considered to be "U.S. persons" for tax purposes — regardless of whether they are U.S. citizens.

Among the people who can be considered by the IRS as "U.S. persons" are Canadians born in the U.S., dual citizens or even those who spend more than a certain number of days in the United States each year.

Former prime minister Stephen Harper's government argued that given the penalties the U.S. was threatening to impose, it had no choice but to negotiate the information sharing deal. The former government said it was able to exempt some types of accounts from the information transfer.

The Canada Revenue Agency transfers banking records of people believed to be 'U.S. persons' to the IRS. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)

The Canada Revenue Agency triggered controversy after it transferred the first batch of Canadian banking records to the IRS in September 2015 in the midst of the election campaign, without waiting for an assessment by Canada's privacy commissioner or the outcome of a legal challenge to the agreement's constitutionality.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Treasury Board President Scott Brison and Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale have dropped calls to scrap the deal, which they had made before the Liberals came to power.

Watchdog wants proactive notification

Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien has raised concerns about the information sharing, questioning whether financial institutions are reporting more accounts than necessary. Under the agreement, financial institutions only have to report accounts belonging to those believed to be U.S. persons if they contain more than $50,000.

Therrien has also suggested the CRA proactively notify individuals that their financial records had been shared with the IRS. However, the CRA has been reluctant to agree to Therrien's suggestion.

Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien has questioned whether the CRA is transmitting more banking records to the IRS than is necessary. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press)

NDP revenue critic Pierre-Luc Dusseault said the increase in the number of files transferred was "surprising," and he questioned whether financial institutions are only sharing records of accounts worth more than $50,000.

"I don't see how there would be 150,000 more accounts reportable to the IRS in one year. It is something I will look into."

Dusseault said the CRA should notify every Canadian resident whose banking records are shared with the IRS.

Lynne Swanson, of the Alliance for the Defence of Canadian Sovereignty, which is challenging the information sharing agreement in Federal Court, said she has no idea why the number of banking records shared with the IRS doubled.

NDP revenue critic Pierre-Luc Dusseault says the CRA should notify every Canadian resident whose banking records are shared with the IRS. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press)

"It still seems low in comparison to the number of Canadians that are affected by this," she said. "It is estimated that a million Canadians are affected by this."

Hopes for repeal

Swanson hopes that U.S. President Donald Trump, or Congress — which is now controlled by the Republican Party — will scrap FATCA. The Republican platform pledged to do away with the information collecting legislation.

"FATCA not only allows 'unreasonable search and seizures' but also threatens the ability of overseas Americans to lead normal lives," the platform reads. "We call for its repeal and for a change to residency-based taxation for U.S. citizens overseas."

Swanson's group is also hoping the Federal Court of Canada will intervene, although a date has not yet been set for a hearing.

"A foreign government is essentially telling the Canadian government how Canadian citizens and Canadian residents should be treated. It is a violation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms."

Elizabeth Thompson can be reached at elizabeth.thompson@cbc.ca