Revenue Canada Fraud Reporting

By mail to the national leads centre in scarborough on.

Revenue canada fraud reporting. By telephone at 1 888 495 8501 or. If you re outside canada contact your local police. Using the cra snitch line you ca. If you prefer to send a lead by mail or fax make sure you give as much relevant information as you can to allow the cra to review the file to determine if tax or benefit cheating occurred.

Taxpayers should be vigilant when they receive either by telephone mail text message or email a fraudulent communication that claims to be from the canada revenue agency cra requesting personal information such as a social insurance number credit card number bank account number or passport. In most cases the informant leads program handles tax cases involving individuals. In all cases law enforcement typically has more of a chance of catching the perpetrator if the activity is reported as soon as possible after it occurs. The national cybercrime coordination unit nc3 are working on implementing a new cybercrime and fraud reporting system for canadians and businesses in partnership with the cafc.

Know how to recognize a scam. Complete and send a lead online. Providing tax fraud information. Sending documents to support your lead.

The new update to the cra snitch line is a shift in the revenue service s position after earlier discouraging canadians from reporting covid 19 aid fraud as it processed payments. If you have been the target of a telephone internet mail or other type of scam and unwittingly provided personal or financial information contact the canadian anti fraud centre. Canada revenue agency 200 town centre court scarborough on m1p 4y3. Reporting tax fraud helps keep canada s tax burden distributed evenly and fairly among taxpayers.

You can report someone else or you can report mistakes or incomplete information on your own taxes. The cra informant leads program aka the cra snitch line allows people to report tax fraud in canada. N report deliberate misrepresentations of income and deductions to the canada revenue agency. Find out more about protecting yourself from fraud.

Ways you can report tax fraud. Please continue to report fraud and cybercrime to the cafc until further notice. There are many fraud types including new ones invented daily.