In Cheema v R, 2024 TCC 81, the Court held that the CRA was entitled to reassess beyond the normal reassessment period where the taxpayer provided no good explanation for a disposition of real property he did not report or…
Dividends and Section 160 again
In Active Asset Management Inc. v R, 2024 TCC 87, the Court held that neither a deemed dividend arising on a stated capital increase nor a dividend satisfied by a promissory note constituted a transfer of property for the purposes…
160 and discretionary trusts
Neal Armstrong (taxinterpretations.com) reports that, in Barwicz v R, 2024 CCI 93 (French only), the Court held that, for the purposes of section 160, a beneficiary of a discretionary trust had not given consideration for distributions of capital property from…
Making Trust Amounts Payable
The CRA has taken the position that a trust cannot deduct an amount made payable to a beneficiary under ITA subsection 104(6) unless, among other things, the trust was legally entitled to make the payment under the terms of its…
Resignation of a director
The result in Ferri v R, 2024 TCC 255, is fact-driven: the court found (at para 25) In these circumstances, there is simply insufficient credible, consistent, reliable evidence to allow the Court to conclude on a balance of probabilities that…
Section 160 Liability for Indirect Transfers
In Panneton c. R, 2024 CCI 24, the tax debtor husband caused corporations that he owned to pay for renovations on the wife’s residence. The Court held that the payments constituted indirect transfers from the husband to the wife that…
Individual tenants and Part XIII tax
In 3792391 Canada Inc. v R, 2023 TCC 37 (informal procedure), the Canadian tenant of a residential unit paid rent to a resident of Italy for six years without remitting tax under Part XIII of the Income Tax Act (Canada).…
PRE and COVID
The CRA has stated that a residence outside of Canada that was not be used in 2020 and 2021 because of COVID travel restrictions and advisories likely would not be “ordinarily inhabited” in those years for the purposes of the…
Attribution in action
Suppose that A and B are spouses, that they purchase a cottage together for $400,000 and that A contributes $100,000 toward the satisfaction of that purchase price. The balance is financed, with A and B paying the principal and interest…
Charter success
In McCartie v The King, 2024 TCC 16, the Court, in a 158-paragraph judgment, held that the Crown, in the taxpayer’s Tax Court appeal, would not be able to rely on evidence gathered in violation of the taxpayer’s Charter rights,…