Shopify CEO calls CRA request for Canadian stores’ records ‘overreach’
I don't particularly want a fight with the CRA - but we got asked to backchannel them 6 years of records for all Canadian Shopify stores. This feels like low-key overreach to me. We will fight this.
Branch wrote that due to confidentiality provisions “of the Acts we administer,” the CRA cannot comment or disclose taxpayer information. It also did not specify Ottawa-based Shopify’s name in its response. This would not be the first time the CRA has requested an e-commerce company to provide information to the agency.
to turn over information about its account holders and the amount and number of payments they paid or received between January 2014 and November 2017.Global News reached out to Shopify for more information on the request by the CRA but did not hear back by publication time.Federal Court documents show the minister of national revenue began seeking the records from Shopify in April.
The government said the records were being sought in order to verify that Canadian merchants were obeying the Income Tax Act and the Excise Tax Act.
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