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Ombudsman comes down hard on Revenue Quebec

A blistering report by Quebec ombudsman recently accused Revenue Quebec of becoming more intransigent and less respectful report towards taxpayers, prompting an immediate reaction from the provincial finance minister who ordered the tax department to come up with a “concrete action plan” to remedy the “unacceptable” situation.

Revenue Quebec “frequently failed” to apply the principles of natural justice or the fundamental rules of procedural fairness while recovering tax dollars, rigidly interpreted fiscal laws which often resulted in needless court action to resolve tax disputes with taxpayers, and “employed inadequate, and even abusive,” auditing methods, according to the latest report by the Protecteur du citoyen, the second year in a row that the taxman was castigated by the ombudsman.

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