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Program directory · Canada Revenue Agency

Assessment of Returns and Payment Processing

Program code
ABX00 (CCRA)
Core responsibility
Taxpayers meet their obligations and Canada's revenue base is protected.
In Departmental Plans
Not in a Departmental Plan · actual spending 2010-11 – 2016-17

What it does

GC InfoBase has no Program Inventory description for this program.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2010-11. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

2010-112011-122012-132013-142014-152015-162016-17Assessment of Returns and Payment Processing 2010-11: $683MAssessment of Returns and Payment Processing 2011-12: $642MAssessment of Returns and Payment Processing 2012-13: $644MAssessment of Returns and Payment Processing 2013-14: $649MAssessment of Returns and Payment Processing 2014-15: $640MAssessment of Returns and Payment Processing 2015-16: $606MAssessment of Returns and Payment Processing 2016-17: $547MAssessment of Returns and Payment Processing
Bars: spending by fiscal year (dark: actual; light: actual restated on the 2017-18 program structure; outlined: the latest plan's forecast; grey: related programs). Bands: each program in the lineage over the years it has data.
ProgramRelationYears with dataActual spending over those years
Assessment of Returns and Payment ProcessingThis program2010-11 – 2016-17$4.41B

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.

YearWhat changedSource
2016-17Employees (FTEs) 4,330, against 5,967 in 2015-16 (−27%).FTEs (GC InfoBase)

Success criteria

Neither this program nor its core responsibility has results indicators in GC InfoBase (internal services, for example, have none).

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

2013-14: $649M2013-142014-15: $640M2014-152015-16: $606M2015-162016-17: $547M2016-17
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
Show the numbers
Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2013-14—$649M
2014-15—$640M
2015-16—$606M
2016-17—$547M

Employees (FTEs)

2013-14: 6,5472013-14: 6,4882013-142014-15: 6,6712014-15: 6,2092014-152015-16: 6,4152015-16: 5,9672015-162016-17: 4,5192016-17: 4,3302016-17
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
Show the numbers
Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2013-146,5476,488
2014-156,6716,209
2015-166,4155,967
2016-174,5194,330

Planned spending, plan by plan

Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans

Plan
Actual

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.