One of the two inevitable entities that one deals with, according to the saying, is called the "Internal Revenue Service"  here in the United States. I'm not sure what the taxing entity is in our Northern neighbour, but here the IRS as it is known can levy fines against you without due process, seize property, treat you as presumed guilty, and has as its first line of appeal the "Tax Court," special courts presided over by an executive who is an IRS employee. The IRS is the primary contact many of your Southern neighbours have with their Federal government. It is an opaque, deaf entity which feigns friendliness but sees you as a wrongdoer. This is a presumed source of the attitude that this country has a "deep state."