page_title: Canada Revenue Agency
section_title: Headquarters
hierarchical_section_title: Canada Revenue Agency / Structure / Headquarters
caption_attribution_description: The Connaught Building is a historic office building in Ottawa, Canada, owned by Public Works and Government Services Canada. It is located at 555 MacKenzie Avenue just south of the American Embassy. To the east the building looks out on the Byward Market and to the west is MacKenzie Avenue and Major's Hill Park. Today it houses the headquarters of the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). The Minister and Commissioner of the CRA have offices in the building. &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connaught_Building" rel="nofollow"&gt;en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connaught_Building&lt;/a&gt;
context_page_description: The Canada Revenue Agency is the revenue service of the Government of Canada. The CRA collects taxes, administers tax law and policy, and delivers benefit programs and tax credits for the federal government and most provincial and territorial governments. It also oversees the registration of charities in Canada.
  The CRA is the largest organization in the Canadian federal public service by number of personnel. It employs 43,908 people and has an operating budget of $5.1 billion as of the 2018-19 fiscal year.
  During the 2017 tax year, the CRA collected approximately $430 billion in revenue on behalf of federal and provincial governments, and administered nearly $34 billion in benefits to Canadians.
  Before 2003, the Agency was known as the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency, and prior to 1999, was organized as a department under the title Revenue Canada.
context_section_description: The CRA's headquarters are located in Ottawa, and is responsible for several Agency-wide functions, including ministerial reporting, corporate planning, human resources, information technology, communications, and interpreting tax legislation. Headquarters is divided into five program branches, which help deliver the Agency's core mandate around tax and benefits administration, and seven corporate branches, which deliver services that support the day-to-day operations of the CRA.
caption: Connaught Building, headquarters of the Canada Revenue Agency
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