The following is based on the text published in Tax Topics 2713 (September 10, 2024). Question 1 – Spousal Trusts A spousal trust that receives a contribution of capital after the death of the spouse-beneficiary remains a spousal trust, but…
Dissolved trust year-end
At the 2024 CALU conference round table (question 12, addressed in 2024-1005851C6), the CRA confirmed that a bare trust has a December 31 year-end and that a trust (other than a GRE) that dissolves during a calendar year still has…
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…
Residence of a trust
In Theodoros Darmos Family Trust v. Minister of Finance et al., 2023 ONSC 6431, the Court was called upon to determine whether two family trusts were resident in Alberta or Ontario. After conducting a detailed review of the relevant facts,…
Reporting the ID of disaster clause beneficiaries
At the STEP Canada 2023 Round Table, in answer to question 4, the CRA stated that a contingent beneficiary is a beneficiary for the purposes of subsection 204.2(2) of the Income Tax Regulations, which now requires trusts to provide identification…
Property of a trust that prevents the prevention of filing
At the STEP Canada 2023 Round Table, in answer to question 3, the CRA stated that a trust settled with a gold or silver bar, or a collectible coin, cannot satisfy the exception in paragraph 150(1.2)(b) of the Income Tax…
Forgotten capital losses
At the STEP Canada 2023 Round Table, in question 2, the CRA addressed a hypothetical question about the executors of an estate finding evidence of a capital loss realized years before that was not claimed. The CRA agreed that the…
Dividends paid to beneficiaryco, again
In Vefghi Holding Corp. v R, 2023 TCC 135, the court provided the following answers to a Rule 58 Question: Where a trust designates a portion of a taxable dividend (the “Amount”) received on a share of the capital stock…
RRSP spousal rollover
An estate cannot transfer property from an RRSP to a former spouse on a rollover basis under 73(1) (which requires that the transferor be an individual other than a trust) or 146(8.1) (if the former spouse is not a beneficiary…
164(6) carry back procedure
An estate that wishes to carry back a loss to the terminal return of the deceased under subsection 164(6) of the Income Tax Act (Canada) must file an amended T1 for the terminal year. A T1ADJ will not suffice. See…