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Why Ottawa's reversal on CERB repayments bucks legal precedent


The Globe and Mail
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Ottawa’s about-face to allow self-employed Canadians keep up to $14,000 in wrongly claimed emergency income support payments runs contrary to firmly established legal principles that say an honest mistake, even one based on the government’s own errors, doesn’t erase a tax debt.
Last Tuesday, the federal government said self-employed individuals who had received Canada Emergency Response Benefit payments, but who did not meet the requirement to have at least $5,000 in net income, would no longer be expected to repay their benefits. Those who had made a repayment are to receive refunds. (However, as is the case with all CERB recipients, the funds received are still considered to be taxable i ....

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