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Also far too many CRA employees are working from home. We all know that few 'work from home' employees put in a full day's work. I truly believe productivity has declined almost an order of magnitude since the start of the pandemic.

Government at Federal , Provincial and Municipal levels, there are numbers of employees, they work and do nothing for Canadians but earn salary paid by taxpayers. This is a kind of thing, steal money from taxpayers.

I can always count on NorthernRaven to be the eloquent voice of reason.

NorthernRaven said

As a "work from home" person who certainly does put in a full day, I should probably resent that...

I'm pretty sure we would have noticed if productivity (in whatever sense, over any reasonable subset of the economy) had been decimated to anything even close to a tenth of what it was a few years ago!  

Perhaps but we have seen what appears to be an increasing volume of poor outcomes come out of Ottawa overall since the significant expansion of the civil service over the past 10 years. Our public service cannot seem to manage any IT development such as ArriveCan, Phoenix or CRA programs, nor can they seem to be able to contract anything on time and budget. Productivity has gone downhill and there is no accountability.

There is a correlation somewhere. I know someone personally who is a relatively senior person within CBSA that WFH and she does not put in a full day's work most of the time. It seems to be a pervasive problem that a number of employers are loathe to hit dead on. This problem is where I hate to say I agree with likes of Elon Musk and Jamie Dimon where employees need to get back into the office or find other jobs.

I think CRA is contaminated with a lot of under performing employees, notwithstanding I agree that a number of recent problems have been 23rd hour changes from Finance itself. I don't know what it is going to take to fix the federal civil service except to do a DOGE on it and re-assemble it.

If you find a job at the government, your life will be so easy, your pay will be very good, plus pensions benefits...
Should fire more than 50% of them.
Most of government divisions or organizations should be shut down, let all of them go.

BlueSky said
The CRA productivity issue is but a symptom of the last 10 years. We all know who has been in power. This country needs a major, government policy structural reset. It is very hard to find even one success story that was beneficial to Canadians. I would refer to the last decade, as a decade lost. And yes, we hear a lot about: but, Covid hit us. Not before, and not after Covid, did Canada fared well. It is beyond amazement that the government thought the economy was doing so great, when imposing the carbon tax that killed any economic growth, coming out of a pandemic.  

2025 Federal election Conservative campaign?

A great many employers did studies or reviews of their experiences with work-from-home systems. Those that found poor outcomes mostly discontinued the practice. Any others happily continue to allow remote working.

And many employers - including our federal government - saves a fortune in reductions in buying and leasing work space!

Air conditioning at work would in itself be enough to make me go into the office (if I had one). And I know many people who would regret having to stay home with their family.

Is that a top marginal tax rate or a net effective rate?

Do they only have ONE federal tax and no other income tax? Singapore does not have states or provinces, only administrative regions. Do those collect separate taxes? If not, that is one advantage.