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PAM FRAMPTON: My tax dispute with the CRA was finally resolved

So why don’t I feel any sense of satisfaction?

It may be time to close the book on my tussle with the Canada Revenue Agency over 2024 — an annus horribilis of a tax season if there ever was one.

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This spring, I wrote about the stress and consternation of trying to reach someone at CRA about a snafu regarding our 2024 tax assessment.

We had made an initial error by claiming something that we were not entitled to because we were unaware of the finer points of one particular tax regulation. CRA then reassessed us but failed to split our income as had been done in our initial filing. It took another year for our 2024 taxes to be assessed for a third time. In the end, I was slapped with a tax bill that seemed completely out of proportion to my income, including a chunk of interest that had been accumulating without our........

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