Brian's about to lose his house!
Brian Alexander
November 15 at 3:30pm
class action law suit against CRA.
got a nasty notice of judgement against my house today.
just what i need to inspire me to get active
Tax Audit Solutions :: Class Action Suit Against CRA
The following is an article published was in the Vancouver Sun about a proposed class action law suit against the Canada Revenue Agency.
taxauditsolutions.ca
https://www.facebook.com/login/?next=ht ... 4257496%2F
Now if this reads as I interpret it, that Brian plans to join the class action against the CRA linked in his post, I have a phrenological comment to make about Brian. Look at Brian's magnificent cranium;
You'd think a dome like that would contain a massive intellect. However, if he plans to try and save his house against a CRA judgment by joining this lawsuit, the interior of that forehead is obviously where he stores his bubble-wrap.
The supposed proposed lawsuit is complete bullshit, a scam that died years ago. Check the link. What do you see? An article written by some entity called Tax Audit Solutions. Who the fuck are they? Who knows? They aren't telling us. They claim to be Canada's most respected and trusted tax audit representation company" but they have a website that would have been considered leading edge in 1995;
http://taxauditsolutions.ca/
Click on it and see what you get for information on the firm. Nothing. Unless you consider gibberish like this to be actual information;
We practice Holistic Business Management. We look at problems versus symptoms. What we do must be legal, correct for the greater good of all people, socially correct and be in alignment with Spiritual Laws.
We believe in ethical business. All things must be fair, honest and reasonable. We only support helping clients achieve objectives that are truly in their best interests. If a client wants to engage in bad risk management or tactics that are socially wrong and we don’t support the clients objectives, we will decline to accept their business.
What ever we do for clients must be good for them first and then, and only then, it must also be good for our business.
They are extremely reticent about telling the world who their team of Canadian tax experts are. Generally when I check out an accounting or law firm the first place I go to is the "about Us" section and review the credentials and experience of the staff and partners. However their "about us" link didn't work, at least not for me, so I had to go searching on the web for another way in. I got this;
http://taxauditsolutions.ca/about-us/who-we-are
Which gives a few names and positions but absolutely nothing whatever about the named individuals background, experience, education, or credentials. Just job titles. So lets check out the President, Dan White. I found this firm which promotes speaker services;
http://www.kmprod.com/dan-white
Dan White is often referred to by the media as Canada's "Tax Cowboy." He is also the CEO of Tax Audit Solutions - Canada's most trusted and respected tax audit representation company. Widely regarded as one of Canada's best companies at fighting and successfully resolving tax problems with the CRA (Canada Revenue Agency) Dan has assisted numerous companies, corporations, small businesses and individuals with compassionate as well as astute tax audit representation along with tax and financial planning strategies and solutions.
But never mind paid hacks, Dan has his own website which is a lot more forthcoming about him that the firm he purportedly presidents;
http://www.danwhite.ca/
Although somehow he neglects to provide his credentials, qualifications, background, details on any cases he's won, or anything really. He's not as specific as I'd like if it was my money at risk in a fight with the CRA.
Dan has a strong business background in management, taxes, sales and marketing. He has held a number of senior positions in various Canadian and International companies.
Dan has traveled on business through many countries which has allowed him to grow as an international business consultant.
Dan is well known in the business world for his many endeavours, not only for his tax and business advice but was also known to the media as “The Master of the Mess” or “The King of Clutter”. He has been a frequent guest on radio and TV. He has been written about and quoted frequently in various publications across the country. He was the co-producer and host of the TV show “Time For Business”, a talk show about business issues. Dan produced an internet show called “Talking about Business where he interviewed various industry experts. Dan founded and ran a successful business club before retiring to be able to focus on helping Canadians with tax problems.
But he does give us this relevant information;
An interesting insight into what made Dan who he is; is that he was raised in the country and spent his youth in the wilderness of northern Alberta…near the North West Territories. Dan White was raised off the land in Northern Alberta in the style of early Canadian Pioneers, surround by aboriginal peoples reservations. His early years were primitive, tough, and character building.
At the age of 12 he had his own trap line where he trapped, skinned and stretched the hides of wild animals for sale to the Hudson’s Bay Company in Fort Vermilion Alberta. His weapons arsenal included a 22 Ga. rifle, a 12 Ga. shot gun and a 38-55 Ga. Winchester lever action rifle.
Dan’s family moved into a log cabin in Alberta’s far north in 1953 to a little hamlet called High Level Alberta, where his parents took up homesteading. There were hard times when what they ate was either shot or picked from bushes. They lived without any modern conveniences like electricity, cars or telephones.
Experiencing the hardships of the North gave Dan an insightful perspective on life.
Vital stuff to know when you're looking for a tax expert. And he does have testimonials.
http://www.danwhite.ca/testimonials/
Great ones! The Best! YUGE! From Julie, and Chris, and RR and DN. You can take those to the bank! And he certainly looks like a guy who could stomp on those CRA clowns, including yours truly! I never had a suit and tie like that!
I would never have had the balls to wear that purple tie!
So let's check out somebody else. What about Anand Dhurjati, their VP International Business, Legal Relations & Litigation Support. About all I could find relevant under that name was this pathetic excuse for a Face Book page.
https://www.facebook.com/anand.dhurjati
Which might be him since he claims to have studied international law at the University of Geneva. Note that he doesn't say he actually got a degree out of it. I found another site that might indicate he got something or other for his troubles but I'm not linking to it because it seems to be infested with adware.
And also this absolute bullshit;
http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Anand-Dhurjati/-2091985013
It says that he is Vice President International Business, Legal Relations and Litigation Support of the Canada Revenue Agency!
And provides this;
http://www.zoominfo.com/s/#!search/prof ... id=profile
Canada Revenue Agency
1751 Wentworth Street Unit 1
Whitby, Ontario l1n 8v5
Which address, not coincidentally, is the address of Tax Audit Solutions. What are their offices like? They offer us a glimpse of what they say are their very extensive premises.
http://www.taxauditsolutions.ca/about-u ... -gallery-1
Looks like their signage is printed paper taped to the inside of the windows and their offices, while apparently huge, seem to have no staff. No doubt out battling the CRA on Brian's behalf.
I drew a blank on Nick Iliopoulos VP Technology, Marketing, and Julie Gil, VP Operations. And that's about it for the talent roster of Canada's most respected audit representation firm. Seems a little light on the lawyers and accountants that you might expect to represent you in a major class action lawsuit.
But enough quibbling. Tax Audit solutions must be legit, they claim to be a member of The Society of Professional Tax Representatives. Never heard of them so I thought I should check this respected authoritative institution out.
Whoops!
This site is sponsored by Tax Audit Solutions . It is provided at no charge and as part of they commitment to the Society and to the work they do helping other Tax Representatives assist Canadians who have tax problems.
If you are needing help with serious tax problems, go to Tax Audit Solutions (sic) (
http://www.taxauditsolutions.ca) and request help. If you need referral to a lawyer, we can also assist with that. First we will advise you if your problem really needs a lawyer to resolve the tax problem that you need help with. (that last sentence reads like it was written by a Nigerian scammer)
http://societyofprofessionaltaxrepresentatives.org/
So, to prove their credibility, they set up a fake accounting organization and voted themselves in as members. But, then again, maybe I'm being too picky. It's not my home at risk here. I'm sure that Brian did these extremely basic web searches before he decided to join this defunct lawsuit. So let's get back to that lawsuit.
For all my skepticism it has to be legit because an article about it was posted in The Vancouver Sun, my local paper. I've subscribed to the Sun for over forty years but, strangely, I've not read the cited article. Probably because it's fake. Check out the fake link supposedly taking you to the article;
http://www.vancouversun.com/story_print ... 89&sponsor =
And have you ever read a newspaper article with purple prose (purple seems to be a theme) like this;
Pervasive discrimination against targeted individuals and businesses calls into question whether Canada is a democracy in name only and not in fact, for some and not for all. The Minister of Revenue orders garnishments at the highest rate, in order that the income of taxpayers is seized as quickly as possible with blatant disregard for the resulting human suffering and destroyed businesses. The CRA garnishes income from any source including family benefits, disability allowances, pensions, business income, investments. The injustice is obvious when the Canadian Minister of National Revenue and the CRA are routinely and arbitrarily targeting individual citizens and businesses in all regions of Canada, allegedly violating the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Canadian Human Rights Act, the Canadian Bill of Rights, the Statute of Limitations, Contract Law and the Income Tax Act itself including the Taxpayers Bill of Rights.
The Minister of National Revenue ruthlessly seizes Canadian Citizens and businesses bank accounts and issues liens on personal, business property, and insurance policies. These liens are based on improper certificates – RTP- Requirements To Pay instead of proper Court Orders or Judgments of the Court. The democratic rights and freedoms of targeted Canadian Citizens and businesses are effectively canceled since they are denied due process of the law.
Unrelenting intimidation tactics of the Canadian Revenue Agency cause financial hardship, damage to human dignity and psychological suffering to the members of the Proposed Class Action. The intentional arrogance and misconduct of the tax agents in the process of carrying out their duties is unethical and unconscionable. The CRA and their representatives act as if they are not accountable to the law.
In support of the claimed lawsuit they published this;
Demanding the taxpayers financial information ignores Sections 7 and 8 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and effectively cancels the rights to privacy, silence and protection against self-incrimination. On February 11, 2009, Louise Dickson of the Victoria Times Colonist reported on the Charter of Rights Victory in Court against the CRA by Hal Neumann and his wife Maureen Rivers.
This precedent setting case, “Jury awards B.C. man $1.3M for taxman’s raid”, resulted in the Supreme Court Jury of B.C. ruling that the CRA invasion and search of a citizens home violated the privacy protection in Section 7 and the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure in Section 8 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Victoria lawyer Steven Kelliher asked the jury to give a message to the CRA — “The CRA don’t rule us. They have an obligation to respect our fundamental rights. They serve us. They don’t prey on us.” The verdict of the jury substantiates the following statement: “Gestapo tactics of the Revenue Agency Brought to Light”.
Actually quite true, Hal Neumann did get a $1.3 mil jury award for the CRA conducting an entirely legitimate search on the house. Unfortunately the article neglected to include this part;
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-c ... -1.1065238
Somehow the TAS article goes on and on without actually saying on what legal basis they plan to sue the CRA, you know, the actual legal grounds or at least a story about what, specifically, the CRA has been accused of doing. Just that nobody likes the CRA. Don't need to tell me, I spent 35 years there! I read the whole thing and have no idea what they proposed suing the CRA about apart from this helpful narrowing down of the issues;
The grounds for the proposed Class Action against the Canadian Minister of National Revenue include fraud, discrimination, harassment, intentional infliction of emotional distress, abuse of process, breach of trust, breach of privacy, negligence, breech of confidential relationship, invasion of privacy, arbitrary targeting of taxpayers and abuse of power.
A lot of room there to maneuver but not much in the way of ammunition.
Note that they talk about retaining an actual legitimate lawyer and firm, David Thompson of Scarfone Hawkins, a real, and respected, class action legal firm.
http://shlaw.ca/profiles/david-thompson/
However notice the weasel words;
I want you to know that Scarfone Hawkins LLP Barristers and Solicitors Lawfirm has given the following Case No.: Possible Class Action- CRA-09L9 to the Proposed Landmark Class Action Against the CRA. David Thompson, (P.C.), B.A., LL.B.,
Partner is the Lawyer who is handling the Possible Action.
Read some of the comments at the end. A list of suckers whining about the CRA. Tax Audit Solutions comment? Contact us now for help! I'd say that Brian better reconcile himself to losing his house if this is the what he's pinning his hopes on. I think the first comment on this discussion nailed it;
“You’re a freakin’ idiot.”
So spake Mr. Griffiths, tow truck driver, as he observed Brian Arthur Alexander [Brian-arthur: alexander], a Freeman-on-the-Land, after Alexander was stopped by Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers for speeding.