Feds Begin Payouts to Informants for Offshore Tax Intelligence

The Canada Revenue Agency headquarters in Ottawa is shown on Nov. 4, 2011. A recent rise in scam callers pretending to be employees of the agency has been troubling Canadians across the country. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press

OTTAWA—The federal government has begun making payments to secret informants for intelligence that has so far brought in more than $19 million from offshore tax evaders.

Newly released documents say the Canada Revenue Agency issued the first payments under its offshore tax informant program between April 2018 and the end of March this year.