Restaurant Tax Fraud – Then and Now

Recently, we’ve begun to hear a lot more about tax evasion in the restaurant industry.  More specifically, we’re talking about technologically-assisted tax fraud, using zappers or phantom-ware.  It made the news, again this past week, when it was disclosed that the Canada Revenue Agency had found more than $40M of unreported tax in the restaurant [...]

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Revenu Quebec Targets Restaurants

According to the Revenu Quebec website, there were approximately 17,600 restaurants selling $9.5 billion of food and alcoholic beverages in 2007.  As in most other provinces, the restaurant industry is a significant and vital sector of the economy.  While the industry may not be particularly profitable, it does play a significant role in the collection [...]

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