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It's an overreach by the CRA, a fishing expedition. They can't just ask for everyone's information like that, and I won't be surprised when they lose in court.
Now, if any of these companies are truly under audit, then the CRA can get that information anyway. So either audit some of them that you suspect of tax evasion or leave shopify alone.
Edit: also if they are more specific like we want the top 1000 earning businesses that might also work. It's the blanket nature of the request that will be a problem.
E.g see this one where a more specific agreement was settled on vs everyone. Only 5-10% ended up being handed over.
https://blog.coinsquare.com/coinsquare-finalizes-agreement-with-cra-protects-majority-of-client-data/
It doesn’t seem like an overreach to me. The CRA can ask for any tax related data they want. I’d think you’d actually want them to do this as it might might reporting taxes easier.
All companies report employee income tax and now most people can just download that information from the CRA instead of having to enter it manually.
If they were asking for non-tax related data that would be a problem.
Except this is shopify's customer's data and not their own so the CRA should have to obtain a warrant before they can do that. If they're allowed have free access to customer data just because it's tax related then there's nothing stopping law enforcement agencies to bypass the court system and obtaining any customer data on a massive scale, since they can always make up bogus reasons like "fighting crimes" or "monitor terrorist activities".