By Anna Malazhavaya ( January 11, 2022, 11:08 AM EST) -- In the past several years, transactions involving new and substantially renovated real estate have become subject to unprecedented HST scrutiny from Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) auditors. The CRA has been quite successful identifying non-compliant house flippers and builders. Unfortunately, sometimes innocent taxpayers get caught in the CRA’s HST audit projects and have to defend themselves from the taxman....