The taxpayer in Gabriel v R, 2024 TCC 166, seems to have had a lucky escape. He was a shareholder of a corporation that did not have its own bank account. Along with another minority shareholder, he paid expenses on…
Purported shareholder loan repayments treated as income
In Kumar v R, 2024 TCC 105 (informal procedure), the Court found that the CRA had properly reassessed the appellant to include in his income payments to him and his son made by a corporation to which the appellant had…
Preparer penalties
I have become aware of a case where the CRA has imposed preparer penalties on an accountant who filed tax returns for corporations and their shareholders where the shareholders did not report income in respect of shareholder loan debit balances…
Back-to-back loans
Bill C-29 (Dec 2016) amended the Income Tax Act (Canada) so that a loan by a corporation to an arm’s length entity could be treated as a loan to a shareholder of the corporation if the entity is required to…
Shareholder loans
I just posted a brief introduction to shareholder loans, which introduction you can find here.