Grave mistakes: Tax agency cuts number of fatal file errors
OTTAWA — The federal tax collector is less and less seeing dead people where there aren’t any.
Figures recently tabled in Parliament show that 319 people were erroneously declared dead by the Canada Revenue Agency between Jan. 1, 2016 and Dec. 31, 2017, which actually marked a 39 per cent decline from the preceding two-year period.
A spokeswoman for the agency says the agency incorrectly thought 524 people were dead between 2014 and 2015.
The 319 people who were wrongly marked dead in the last two years represented 0.06 per cent of all the deaths reported to the CRA.