National Benefit: Benefit Employees

Toronto Star Dept: The minister s comments came after a Toronto Star/CBC investigation found that Toronto firm National Benefit Authority, which pays doctors to certify clients disabilities, has used one doctor who is not licensed to practice in Canada and another found incompetent by Ontario s physician regulator. Though both certified clients as disabled, neither was qualified to do so, according to The Star. National Benefit president Akiva Medjuck, whose company aggressively markets its services and takes a 30 per cent commission of all successful claims, said in an email: We respect the importance of CRA and the government s vigilance in protecting Canadians. We hope they will continue to educate the population about tax credits, and we will continue to champion the Disability Tax Credit for deserving disabled Canadians and the Canada Revenue Agency will aggressively go after companies that encourage exaggerated or false disability tax credit claims and shut them down, says National Revenue Minister Keith Ashfield. The investigation also found several former National Benefit employees who say the company helps clients file dubious claims to the Canada Revenue Agency. Neither Ashfield nor the CRA commented specifically on National Benefit, nor would they say if the taxman is currently investigating or will investigate the firm. As reported in the news.
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