Federal elections provide an opportunity for Canadians to review where
the candidates and their parties stand on the issues. As a guide, UTE has
prepared some sample questions on issues that are important to our members. You
can ask these questions of your candidates when they come to your door
looking for your vote, in meetings, and in all-candidates town hall sessions.
Will you and your party commit to maintaining full person-to-person counter
service available at all Tax Services Offices?
Will you and your party commit to providing the same high level of quality,
specialized, secure, and prompt service to Canadians that the CRA has provided
in the past?
Is, or will, your constituency office be prepared to handle the flood
of tax related enquiries they will receive once the in-person service offered
at TSOs changes?
Do you believe that sensitive, confidential taxpayer information should
remain in the exclusive care and control of the CRA, or be shared by all
partners at Service Canada Centres?
Will you and your party commit to no new closures of tax operations offices
anywhere in the country?
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) is moving to regionalized models of
operation that will eventually eliminate face to face service for all
of their business lines. This will erode the service that Canadians pay
taxes to have and deserve to have. The government is hiding these reductions
in service under budget cuts when they can not prove there will be any
savings. Will you and your party openly question the way CRA does business
and question the Minister in the House?
