The Canada Revenue Agency recorded 370 cases of employee misconduct last year that included insubordination, time theft, inappropriate workplace behaviour and the unauthorized access of taxpayer information.
According to the CRA, 266 of these misconduct cases resulted in employee discipline, including 25 terminations and more than 150 suspensions without pay.
An additional 78 CRA employees were also terminated for fraudulently applying for and receiving Canada Emergency Response Benefits (CERB) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the CRA began investigating inappropriate CERB payments in June 2023, more than 300 of its employees have been fired.
The disciplinary measures were revealed in the CRA’s second Annual Report on Employee Misconduct and Wrongdoing, which was released on Wednesday. The report covers the 2024-25 fiscal year, which runs from April 2024 to the end of March 2025. The 266 disciplinary measures rendered were a 20 per cent increase over the previous fiscal year.
OptiPath on
—-> An additional 78 CRA employees were also terminated for fraudulently applying for and receiving Canada Emergency Response Benefits (CERB) during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cheat from within..
Digitking003 on
They should all be tried and (if found guilty) thrown in jail.
Theft is theft. You do the crime, you do the time (I know very old fashioned)
ElectricalWeather630 on
Stealing from your employer should have significant consequences! I am sick and tired as a taxpayer of constantly being ripped off!
HotBreakfast2205 on
Hypocritical of CRA to throw the book at the tax payers to get the money back, but when their own were stealing as insiders they only lose a job ?
They should be out in jail for theft.
251325132000 on
This is great news. We need more enforcement of the law in this country. Now go after all of the truckers who commit fraud and all of the people who entered the country using forged IELTS and fake degrees.
ls40098 on
Fantastic.
Crimes against fellow Canadians should have harsh penalties.
Decathlon5891 on
If they don’t return the money, I hope the govnt takes their assets
Is that what happens in real life?
Beaglefart on
Great, now throw the book at organized fraud and corporate fraud. The CRA cherry picks small time losers instead of going after the big fish. Fraud is acceptable so long as you are not an individual.
Weekly-Mountain9009 on
I feel less robbed by these employees than I do the developers using tax payer funded CMHC MLI Select programs to subsidize financing the build of corporate rental housing. Funny what we consider legal these days. Government decides to enrich their lobbyist corporation friends…totally legal.
modermanehh on
I was on the call with CRA yesterday got passed to a fifth Agent, who could answer my question. And even he was giving me the wrong information. A bunch of incompetent people that our taxpayers are paying for
Eternal-enthusiasm on
So, they’re hiring?
Bananasaur_ on
This should result in better firing policies. Government jobs are known to be guaranteed income and often people become lazy and start performing poorly with no perceived consequence of being fired. This results in poorly run government organizations, as would any company with a lazy workforce.
HausSaphiophile on
I guess this will put another delay onto my already too long 2024 reassessment.
erictho on
wonder how all thats possible since I had to wait 6 weeks for my employer to submit an roe for my layoff.
motor-tap on
Wait times on the phone will now go from 9 hours on hold to 72 hours on hold
Impossible-Place-365 on
I’m a substitute teacher who had no income for a year and even I didn’t apply for CERB!
evonebo on
You got to be next level stupid to do shit like this to get fired from a nice government job.
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The Canada Revenue Agency recorded 370 cases of employee misconduct last year that included insubordination, time theft, inappropriate workplace behaviour and the unauthorized access of taxpayer information.
According to the CRA, 266 of these misconduct cases resulted in employee discipline, including 25 terminations and more than 150 suspensions without pay.
An additional 78 CRA employees were also terminated for fraudulently applying for and receiving Canada Emergency Response Benefits (CERB) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the CRA began investigating inappropriate CERB payments in June 2023, more than 300 of its employees have been fired.
The disciplinary measures were revealed in the CRA’s second Annual Report on Employee Misconduct and Wrongdoing, which was released on Wednesday. The report covers the 2024-25 fiscal year, which runs from April 2024 to the end of March 2025. The 266 disciplinary measures rendered were a 20 per cent increase over the previous fiscal year.
—-> An additional 78 CRA employees were also terminated for fraudulently applying for and receiving Canada Emergency Response Benefits (CERB) during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cheat from within..
They should all be tried and (if found guilty) thrown in jail.
Theft is theft. You do the crime, you do the time (I know very old fashioned)
Stealing from your employer should have significant consequences! I am sick and tired as a taxpayer of constantly being ripped off!
Hypocritical of CRA to throw the book at the tax payers to get the money back, but when their own were stealing as insiders they only lose a job ?
They should be out in jail for theft.
This is great news. We need more enforcement of the law in this country. Now go after all of the truckers who commit fraud and all of the people who entered the country using forged IELTS and fake degrees.
Fantastic.
Crimes against fellow Canadians should have harsh penalties.
If they don’t return the money, I hope the govnt takes their assets
Is that what happens in real life?
Great, now throw the book at organized fraud and corporate fraud. The CRA cherry picks small time losers instead of going after the big fish. Fraud is acceptable so long as you are not an individual.
I feel less robbed by these employees than I do the developers using tax payer funded CMHC MLI Select programs to subsidize financing the build of corporate rental housing. Funny what we consider legal these days. Government decides to enrich their lobbyist corporation friends…totally legal.
I was on the call with CRA yesterday got passed to a fifth Agent, who could answer my question. And even he was giving me the wrong information. A bunch of incompetent people that our taxpayers are paying for
So, they’re hiring?
This should result in better firing policies. Government jobs are known to be guaranteed income and often people become lazy and start performing poorly with no perceived consequence of being fired. This results in poorly run government organizations, as would any company with a lazy workforce.
I guess this will put another delay onto my already too long 2024 reassessment.
wonder how all thats possible since I had to wait 6 weeks for my employer to submit an roe for my layoff.
Wait times on the phone will now go from 9 hours on hold to 72 hours on hold
I’m a substitute teacher who had no income for a year and even I didn’t apply for CERB!
You got to be next level stupid to do shit like this to get fired from a nice government job.
Should do other departments as well.