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OTTAWA — The Canada Revenue Agency is planning to cut auditors at the same time it acknowledges difficulty in tracking and collecting billions of dollars in unreported income from domestic and international tax evasion.

[np_storybar title=”How Canada’s taxman has a little-fish fetish” link=”http://business.financialpost.com/2013/11/30/how-canadas-taxman-has-a-little-fish-fetish/”]The CRA comes down hard on the small timers — the low hanging fruit — but when it comes to the wealthy, the agency turns a blind eye.

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Briefing books prepared for new Revenue Minister Kerry-Lynne Findlay, and obtained by Postmedia News under access to information legislation, also suggest Prime Minister Stephen Harper is contemplating a major policy change at the CRA in 2015 that poses a “risk area” to the agency.

The briefing materials also explain a handful of “systemic issues” were being reviewed by the CRA, including “taxpayers wrongfully declared deceased.”