Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) Commissioner Michel Dorais announced yesterday the agency’s timeline to bring services back on line.

“We have begun to bring some of our systems into production,” said Dorais, in a news release. “We expect to have all of our taxpayer services, including EFILE, NETFILE, Change My Address and return processing back into full service no later than on Thursday March 15, 2007.”

The CRA is bringing back some of its temporary employees tomorrow morning to begin processing all outstanding files.

The CRA said the security and privacy of taxpayer data was protected and was never at risk during this preventive suspension of online services.

This service interruption was caused by a malfunctioning software patch.