Canada:
Tax Remission Orders Can Cancel Taxes & Interest Owing
15 August 2017
Rotfleisch & Samulovitch P.C.
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Tax Remission Orders
If all other tax appeal recourses have been exhausted, taxpayers
faced with wrong tax assessments or large tax balances owing that
consist largely of penalties and interest, have one last chance
procedure available – the tax remission order. However
requests for the remission of taxes, penalties and interest is not
a matter of filling out a simple form, rather it is a drawn-out
administrative process with the final decision being made by the
Federal Cabinet.
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