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Wrong T4s accidentally mailed to former staffers of MPs

Posted on March 15, 2010 by Dissent

Mike De Souza reports:

The House of Commons has launched an internal probe in the wake of an “administrative error” that resulted in hundreds of personal income tax forms mailed to the wrong addresses, Canwest News Service has learned.

The glitch affected 697 former staffers of members of Parliament in 2009 who received a T4 tax form last month that belonged to somebody else.

Government House leader Jay Hill said the mix up likely occurred when lists of former employees were incorrectly merged with addresses prior to the mail out by the human resources department.

Read more in the Vancouver Sun.

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