CRA ‘confident’ a compromise is possible as tax season strike fears grow – National | 24CA News
As the deadline for submitting taxes approaches, Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) says will probably be clear about any impression to its companies if employees go on strike — doubtlessly as quickly as this week.
At the identical time, the company says it’s “confident” a compromise may be reached.
“The CRA is committed to being transparent with Canadians about impacts to services, should they happen,” the company stated in an announcement launched Friday.
The deadline for submitting revenue tax and profit returns for 2022 is April 30.
An ongoing labour dispute over contracts and wages resulted in CRA employees voting Friday in favour of strike motion.
The CRA stated it is going to resume negotiations later this month with the Public Service Alliance of Canada and the Union of Taxation Employees to attempt to attain a brand new collective settlement that’s each honest to employees and cheap for taxpayers.
A closing spherical of negotiations is about to happen April 17-20, with CRA employees in a authorized strike place beginning April 14.
“We are confident that the parties will find many areas of potential compromise and trade-off, through honest discussions and concessions by both sides, during the upcoming negotiations,” the CRA stated.
According to the unions, greater than 35,000 CRA employees have been and not using a contract for greater than a yr and the federal government has but to reply to their wage proposals.
“Our members are falling further behind as inflation soars and wages are stuck in neutral,” Marc Brière, nationwide president of the Union of Taxation Employees, a part of PSAC, stated in an announcement Friday.
“We’ve negotiated in good faith, but our members have had enough. Our bills are mounting and our families are feeling the pinch. And now, we’re going to show the government that workers won’t wait.”
Voting for the strike began Jan. 31 and ended Friday.
— with recordsdata from Global News’ Eric Stober.
© 2023 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.
