
A phone call. A "trust accounts examination" letter. A questionnaire about your workers. It looks routine… but it isn't.
If the CRA decides your contractors were actually employees, you could owe years of back payroll taxes, penalties, and interest.
And that bill doesn't stop at your company. Directors can be held personally liable.

The CRA won't tell you what's at stake. That first letter never mentions a number. By the time the notice of reassessment arrives, the amount can be staggering — calculated across every year and every worker in question.
This is a legal fight, not an accounting one. Whether your workers are contractors or employees is decided by case law applied to your facts. Your accountant can't argue that. We can — it's what we do.
Finding out where you stand takes one minute. Four quick questions. No documents, no digging through your books, no obligation.

