Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) national headquarters in Ottawa on June 28, 2024. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick
The Canada Revenue Agency has been ordered to pay nearly $10,000 in legal costs after a federal court ruled it provided insufficient reasoning for refusing to refund nearly $880,000 in collected GST to a national financial firm.
The order was imposed by Justice Danielle Ferron at the conclusion of a judicial review of a CRA officer’s decision in December 2025. The decision said the CRA would need to pay $9,500 in legal costs to Hillcore Financial, an investment firm with locations in Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton, and Vancouver.
