CanadaPublic sector2022 – ongoingCanada Revenue Agency
SARA machine-learning assessment of research tax claims
CRA reported 37% higher positive-case classification accuracy with SARA
Problem
CRA needed to identify ineligible research tax claims.
Approach
SARA added machine learning to rules-based risk assessment. It launched in December 2022.
Results
37%higher positive-case classification accuracy than the previous methodology, per CRA
Takeaway
The comparison concerned positive-case classification, without a published absolute accuracy rate.
Categories
- Size
- Large enterprise
- Industry
- Public sector
- Business function
- Finance, risk and legal
- Innovation type
- Process innovation
- AI technology
- Predictive analytics and ML
- Adoption
- Built in-house
- Goal
- Quality and risk
- Evidence
- Company's own claim
Sources
Source summaries
[1]Canada Revenue Agency30 Oct 2026
CRA reported SARA's classification improvement. It said processing exceeded 37,000 claims.
Full details are in the original sources.
Added 1 Nov 2026 · Updated 1 Nov 2026
