Your Privacy is at Risk with Canada Revenue Agency

Is your privacy is at risk with CRA?

It depends. CRA has the most confidential personal and financial information about you, sometime even your spouse does not know. With proper authentication these information can be obtained by anyone in the CRA or outside of the CRA. You always risk your privacy, trying to save money by doing your annual income tax return with one of those mushrooms like tax service provider that pops up during tax time. If they have an alternative agenda, your personal information is more valuable to them than your tax service fees.

CRA employees have been accused of accessing unauthorized taxpayer information by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPCC).

Canada’s privacy watchdog Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPCC) Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart in her annual report stated that Canadians complaints over privacy concerns have reached a record-high in 2012. more »