unfiled income tax years = stop at border?

[Jimmie002]

I'm wondering if your friend got confused about people being stopped because of not filing U.S. taxes.

There's a huge problem looming for Canadians who just happen to be dual citizens, US and Canada, because they were born in the US. US citizens have to file US tax returns no matter where they live. This is not new, but in the old days before required passports and careful scrutiny at the border, nobody inquired too closely. But now, they're checking place of birth in your passport. If you have a Canadian passport with a US place of birth, the border guards on the US side may give you a hard time... because you're supposed to be entering the US on a US passport. And you are also supposed to file a US tax return every single year.

So I have actually heard of people having trouble at the border because of unfiled tax returns, but it was US tax returns.

I have a Canadian passport, dual citizen us and Canada I go to the USA with my Canadian passport with my usa birthplace never a question

 

[Mickey&JoshNut]

I think the OP's friend is referring to the CRA's new fingerprinting policy with respect to people charged with tax evasion.

From CBC.ca website

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/can...on-offshore-criminal-charges-border-1.3992715

The Canada Revenue Agency has begun to record the fingerprints of every person charged with tax evasion, a move that could severely restrict foreign travel for anyone accused but not necessarily convicted of a criminal tax offence.

"Introducing a mandatory fingerprinting policy would serve as a powerful deterrent to those considering committing a serious tax offence or those who may contemplate reoffending," says an internal memorandum justifying the new measure.

"The mobility restriction is an important deterrent, especially for people engaged in offshore tax evasion."

The agency changed its policy manuals last fall to implement mandatory fingerprinting following years of inconsistent fingerprint collection based on the varying advice of local prosecutors.

The new policy means the fingerprints of all accused tax evaders will be recorded in the Canadian Police Information Centre (CPIC) database, accessible by almost 70,000 Canadian police officers but also by some foreign agencies such as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and its border officers.

As the memo notes, U.S. officials checking the CPIC database "may view a taxpayer charged and/or convicted for tax evasion as inadmissible to their country."

CBC News obtained a copy of the memo, and the July 7 order authorizing the new policy, under the Access to Information Act, with several sections blacked out under security and advice exemptions.

Tracking begins April 1
"Without a national policy on fingerprinting, CRA's convictions were not always recorded in CPIC," CRA spokesman David Walters said in an email. "Therefore, some persons convicted of tax evasion were unknown to law enforcement agencies."

Walters said the agency will rely on qualified police officers to collect the prints. He said there are no statistics to date on how many fingerprints have been collected since the change in policy but formal tracking is to begin April 1.

 

[Donald - my hero]

OH no ....