Taking the CRA to court? Make sure you're at the right one

By the time the Tax Court gets around to hearing the taxpayer’s case, and tells them that they are, in fact, in the wrong court, it may actually be too late for them to appeal to the correct court. Photo by Pexels/Postmedia files

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If you’re going to take your tax matter to court , as a first step, you had better be sure you end up in the right court or the judge will have no choice but to dismiss your appeal without even giving you a chance to argue the merits of your case.

For example, last year I wrote about a self-represented taxpayer who appealed his TFSA overcontribution tax to the Tax Court , which may s