CRA debt recovery activities may impact upcoming benefit, credit, and refund payments
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has resumed efforts to recover taxpayers' debt. One of the tools the CRA uses to recover debt is called offsetting. Offsetting proactively applies tax refunds and benefit payments (such as the GST/HST credit) to tax debts and other government debts. To learn more about how government payments can be applied to specific debts, go to canada.ca/balance-owing.
Debt recovery is ongoing and will impact upcoming benefit and credit payments, including:
the goods and services tax / harmonized sales tax credit (GST/HST credit) issued on April 5
the Ontario trillium benefit issued on April 6.
The CRA would like to remind you that it has resumed debt recovery activities; here’s how it may impact your benefit, credit, and refund payments
The Canada Revenue Agency would like to remind you that it resumed its activities aimed at offsetting taxpayers' debt last October. Offsetting involves proactively applying tax refunds and benefit payments (such as the GST/HST credit) to tax and other government debts.