Does the government know how much money you have in the bank?
 

I have a friend who is convinced they dont, but im sure they do
any input?

hehe are you sure this is for a "friend" you seem to be very keen on the Canadian tax laws lately. :winkwink:

If they are even slightly curious then they know.
In the states if its over 9,999.00 they deffinatly know.

its a little of both :P

They now :pimp

I think it's more accurate to say that they can probably know if they feel like it.

you can have like 7 different bank account and then they dont track it by individual unless you're being suspeted of sth probably

ok, I didnt see BRISK's reply, he said basically the same

They don't know as in have a database of everyone's account info. They can get the courts to serve a subpoena for the information though.

I think that's a good comment :)

They don't know everyone's offhand, but if they audit you they find out.

they can request the info from your bank...and your bank will give it to them

If you have enough money for them to care, I would say definitely.

After all, wouldn't you want to know how much someone owes you if you could collect taxes?

In Canada the gov't does track peoples' bank account activities looking for various forms of fraud, including money laundering from crime. They have a computer program that looks for certain indicators and if you pop up on the radar, a fraud specialist checks you out thoroughly. It's all done silently so we don't realize that we are being financially policed until we've been identified as "suspicious".

if you are a citizen of the country where the bank is - surely they know or can get the info pretty fast, tho it depends on the laws -- some countries have laws giving the bank a right to disclose limited information (or nothing at all) about the client if there is no criminal case.

You might be confusing banks monitoring their clients accounts for fraud and money laundering with governments.

It's well known that banks have software that monitors account activity for signs of fraud or money laundering, if it detects anything, they will investigate and report it to the government if necessary.

Myst I left like 3 messages on your ICQ, I suppose you're not getting them, what's your email?

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yes they do... thats why I am treated like royalty when I visit switzerland

don't under estimate the government no matter what country

nothing is secret nowadays, considering the gov't is so paranoid now.

There was a thread posted about banking that said a form is filled out on any deposit over 10k. This was in the US and they said ti was similar in Canada. Wiredguy and kimmykim posted in it.

Fuck, that's something I really hope won't happen.

yes I think she's a little confused. There are certain activities that the banks file reports for, like large bundles of cash, incoming wire transfers over X dollars etc.