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The following is now available on the CRA Web site:

Alert: Don’t be fooled by unsolicited e-mails or phone calls!
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) is warning the public to beware of a number of e-mail and telephone scams in which individuals falsely identify themselves as officials from the CRA or the Department of Finance Canada.

There are many versions of the scam, but the general concept remains the same: the victim receives an unsolicited phone call from an individual claiming to be a government official or an e-mail from a legitimate-sounding generic e-mail account that appears to come from a government organization.

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Here’s a good site to check the validity of Canadian charitable donations made during the year, directly on the Canada Revenue Agency website …

https://apps.cra-arc.gc.ca/ebci/haip/srch/sec/SrchLogin-e?login=true

This site is handy for me checking to see if charities are legit or not. A client insisted that a charitable contribution was made during 2005. After looking at the receipt, I informed my client that it was not an official charitible donation, that although in the good of their hearts the receipt does show a generous contribution made to a company, and it was described as a “donation” .. there was no registered charity number on the receipt. That’s the first giveaway.

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As an employer, you have to remit employer payroll deductions (usually) every month by the 15th of the following month.

Payroll deductions include the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) contributions, the Employment Insurance (EI) Premiums, and the Income Tax deduction for the employee, plus the employer’s share of the CPP Contributions (employee’s CPP x 1) plus the employer’s share of the EI premimums (employee’s EI x 1.4).

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