Archive/File: fascism/canada gm.081194 Last-Modified: 1994/08/14 Toronto Globe and Mail August 11, 1994, p. A4 Anti-Semitic pamphlet aids tax-deduction ploy Revenue Canada warns of penalties by Rudy Platiel The Globe and Mail An embarrassed Revenue Canada said yesterday that anyone who received a charitable income-tax deduction for buying kosher food - supported only by an anti-Semitic leaflet - had better get back to the department. Spokesman Michel Cleroux was reacting to reports that some taxpayers got a $300 charitable tax deduction after reading a published article that the Canadian Jewish Congress said is part of an anti-Semitic campaign by white supremacists. He said that the department can't confirm that anyone received such a deduction. But he added: "If such a claim was allowed, all it is, is a non-allowable claim that has not been discovered yet." He also said any taxpayers who made such a claim should contact Revenue Canada to have their returns reassessed. "Otherwise they could find that they could be subject to, at least, interest, if not penalties ... if a person waits until we find that irregularity." Ronald Lewis, an accountant in Winchester, Ont., said in an interview yesterday that two of his clients filed claims for a $300 kosher-food deduction - against his advice - and it was not rejected by Revenue Canada. "It should have been rejected, that's my feeling," Mr. Lewis said. The anti-Semitic articles were stapled to the taxpayer's returns in support of the charitable deduction claim. They name a number of nationally known brand household products and the pamphlets say a deduction is allowed for "contribution to kosher-products tax." They say the manufacturers of these products collect in excess of $100-million a year that is sent to Jewish and Israeli organizations. The CJC says the original story that manufacturers are raising millions with a kosher tax using "a semi-secret letter code" was first made in a 1986 article published by a British Columbia white supremacist group and has periodically been recirculated by other anti-Semitic groups ever since. Irving Arbella, national president of the Canadian Jewish Congress, sent a letter to Revenue Minister David Anderson asking for an investigation. "I am profoundly concerned that the Government of Canada or some minor functionary of the government would take at face value a clearly and patently anti-Semitic tract and apply it as a legal tax deduction," Mr. Arbella said. The CJC contacted federal officials last spring about the claim being circulated in leaflets and Revenue Canada subsequently advised all its field offices to disallow such a claim. Just because something is not caught by the initial cursory check, "does not mean that it's the end of the matter," Mr. Cleroux said. =30=
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