Budget Bill's Proposed Tax Reporting Obligations Violate Charter, Solicitor-Client Privilege: LawyersA new budget bill that would modify the Income Tax Act has lawyers warning that the legislation, if passed, would violate the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and break lawyer-client privilege by requiring lawyers to identify clients to the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA).
Bill C-32, the Fall Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2022, imposes new obligations on a broad group of trusts, requiring them to file annual tax returns to report client information to CRA, including names and addresses.
"In some circumstances, the proposed legislation would require a lawyer to disclose, among other things, the name of the client and the amount received from that client," wrote the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) in a Nov. 22 letter to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance....
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