Auditor: province to write off $1.4B in unpaid taxes
Updated In his final report as Ontario’s auditor general, Jim McCarter looked into how Ontario tax collectors are collecting – or neglecting to collect – billions in unpaid taxes.
He’s also poked holes in the costs associated with the Metrolinx Presto system, the Drive Clean program, and he’s worried about ballooning costs for the OPP. With a cash- strapped government McCarter said that his office was paying particular attention to inefficiencies, and found plenty: the most prominent being $2.4 billion dollars in uncollected tax revenue – of which $1.4 billion will be written off. Sean Leathong reports.
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Video: Extended coverage of McCarter’s report and comments:
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