This website is based on the premise that there is a link between the CVITP and poverty reduction.  This is not controversial as the federal government’s 2018 poverty reduction strategy said that the CVITP is the CRA’s contribution to meeting the federal government’s target for reducing poverty in Canada.

In a recent article looking at CVITP coverage in 2025 of people living in poverty, I indicated that I would follow up with three articles to provide a comprehensive picture of what the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) is currently doing and plans to do to support poverty reduction.

Readers may not know that the CRA elaborated a plan with five actions intended to contribute to poverty reduction.  This plan was set out in the CRA’s sustainable development strategy for 2023-2027.  What does it say?

In the first article of this series, I reviewed the three other CRA programs designed to help low-income Canadians file their returns to get the benefits to which they are entitled.  I concluded that they were nowhere near as impactful as the CVITP.

In the second article of this series, I look at what the CRA says it is doing to reduce poverty, and the results of the Auditor General’s review of this plan.  Then, I provide some suggestions for improving the credibility of the CRA’s claim to be supporting the government’s efforts to reduce poverty.