I wrote the following article for the Hamilton Law Association Journal on Ehresman v R, 2025 TCC 78. For another summary of the case, see Colin Bartlett “Are Excess Cash Reserves an Active Business Asset?” 25:4 Tax for the Owner-Manager…
Shares acquired by a trust are QSBCSs
On January 1, 2023, a newly-formed personal trust purchased shares of Opco from Dad, who owned them throughout the preceding two years. The trust sold the shares on June 30, 2023, to an unrelated person. The CRA found that the…
Sale of farmland
The CRA confirmed that or purposes of the farming-use condition in clause 110.6(1.3)(a)(ii)(A), the person or individual that meets this condition need not be the person who owns the property at the determination time or in the 24 months immediately…
Subsection 110.6(8) issues
Subsection 110.6(8) denies the capital gain exemption for a gain on a share if insufficient dividends are paid on it and the share is not a “prescribed share”. An ordinary common share is a prescribed shares under Reg 6205(1). A…
104(21) and 104(21.2) Interaction
Suppose a trust has gains that can be sheltered with the capital gain exemption and gains that cannot. In that case, it will be impossible to allocate all of the eligible gains to one beneficiary because of the formula in…
Trusts and the exemption holding period test
The authors use some examples to illustrate the application of the deeming rules in subparagraph 110.6(14)(c) that apply to trusts. Example 1 Mr X incorporates Opco in 2015. He settles a family for himself and his family on February 23,…
QSBCS gains flow through tiered trusts
taxinterpretations.com notes that the CRA, in technical interpretation 2019-0818301I7F (August 13, 2020), has now accepted that a gain realized on the sale of QSBCSs for which an individual could claim the capital gain exemption can be flowed through two levels…
Otteson and the capital gain exemption
The provisions of the Income Tax Act governing when a taxpayer can claim the capital gain exemption in respect of farm property are complex. Otteson v R, 2014 TCC 250, is an interesting case that navigates the provisions in the context of a rather complex set of facts.