Facing the CRA? Get Licensed Representation and a Clear Way Forward
Audits, unfiled returns, tax debt, liens, frozen accounts and garnishments — Trim Tax's CPAs take over the CRA file, respond on your behalf and resolve the problem at its root.
You do not have to deal with the CRA alone
CRA problems rarely fix themselves. Interest compounds daily, review letters escalate to demands, demands escalate to arbitrary assessments, and assessments escalate to liens, requirements to pay and frozen accounts. By the time enforcement starts, most people have stopped opening the envelopes.
Trim Tax specialises in Canadian tax resolution: we become your authorized representative, review your entire CRA account, correct the filings that caused the problem, and negotiate a compliant path forward. Everything is handled confidentially and without judgment — most of our clients are ordinary people and business owners who fell behind.
We are not affiliated with the Canada Revenue Agency. We are independent licensed professionals who represent you, and we will tell you plainly when a lawyer or licensed insolvency trustee is the better option.
Fixing the cause, not just the symptom
A CRA balance is almost always a symptom of something else: returns that were never filed (so the CRA estimated your income), an audit that disallowed expenses you could not document, HST or payroll that was collected but not remitted, or a reassessment nobody responded to within the 90-day objection window.
Reducing a balance sustainably means fixing that underlying filing. When actual returns replace arbitrary assessments, when documented expenses replace disallowed ones, and when relief applications remove penalties and interest that the rules allow, the balance changes — and a payment plan on the corrected amount is one the CRA will accept.
We provide relief and resolution for
- Personal, corporate, GST/HST and payroll audits
- CRA review letters, processing reviews and Notices of Reassessment
- Unfiled returns — one year or ten, personal or corporate
- Tax debt, CRA collections calls and demands for payment
- CRA liens on property, Requirements to Pay, frozen bank accounts and asset seizures
- Wage garnishments and third-party demands to employers or customers
- Arbitrary (notional) assessments issued because returns were not filed
- Director's liability assessments for unremitted HST or payroll
- Net worth audits and unreported income
- Late or improper filings that need to be corrected
- Missed objection deadlines and applications for extension of time
- Bankruptcy and consumer-proposal tax returns, coordinated with the trustee
How we resolve CRA problems
Authorization
Full account review
Root-cause fix
Dispute where warranted
Relief applications
Payment arrangement
Audit defence
Prevention
Help for your specific situation
Every CRA problem is different. Choose the page that matches yours for detail on what the CRA reviews, how we respond and what to expect.
Personal tax audit
CRA review letters, pre-assessment and processing reviews, reassessments and full personal audits of deductions, credits and income.
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HST audit
input tax credit verifications, sales and place-of-supply reviews, rebate audits and held HST refunds.
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Corporate tax audit
T2 audits, shareholder benefits and loans, expense reviews and integrated income tax, HST and payroll audits.
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Self-employed audit
T2125 audits of revenue, bank deposits, home office, vehicle and business expenses.
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Haven't filed in years
catching up on unfiled personal or corporate returns, arbitrary assessments and the Voluntary Disclosures Program.
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- Individuals who stopped filing and are afraid to start
- Self-employed people with unreported or under-reported income
- Corporations with unfiled T2s, HST arrears or payroll remittance arrears
- Business owners facing an HST, payroll or net worth audit
- Taxpayers with a lien, a frozen account or a garnishment already in place
- Directors assessed personally for corporate HST or payroll
- Anyone who received a CRA letter they do not understand
Why choose Trim Tax for CRA matters
- Licensed CPAs with 15+ years of audit and resolution experience — not a call centre or a lead-generation service that passes your file to someone else.
- Authorized to represent you directly with CRA auditors, appeals officers and collections agents.
- We fix the underlying filings, which is the only durable way to reduce a balance and stop enforcement.
- Flat-rate engagements priced by phase and quoted after a free, confidential review — you control the commitment.
- Honest scope: if a tax lawyer (solicitor-client privilege, Tax Court) or a licensed insolvency trustee (proposal or bankruptcy) is the better route, we say so and refer you.
- Bookkeeping, HST, payroll and tax under one roof, so the rebuild and the resolution happen together.
Frequently asked questions
Stop the letters. Start the fix.
Book a free, confidential CRA review with a Trim Tax CPA — call 647 243-5076 or email info@trimtax.ca.
Disclaimer: Trim Tax is an independent accounting firm and is not affiliated with the Canada Revenue Agency. Results depend on your individual facts and CRA eligibility criteria; no outcome is guaranteed.
