A simple question lies behind Patrick de Kruyff's Tax Court of Canada victory last month over the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA): Who on earth would suggest taking Toronto's Don Valley Parkway at rush hour?

An auditor in Vancouver, that's who.

The Toronto-based financial advisor reluctantly uses the words "smoking gun" when describing the key discovery that helped him win a five-year battle to get the CRA to accept his application to deduct relocation expenses after he moved to live closer to work in 2020.

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The basic rule for the deduction is that the move has to cut at least 40 kilometres off the daily commute.

But for some reason Google Maps kept giving the CRA a much shorter route than it did de Kryuff, despite the fact they bo

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