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Fiscal Arbitrators update

Carolyn Hogan, “Escaping Penalties After Admitting False Statements” 6:3 Canadian Tax Focus (August 2016) is a good snapshot of the state of play in the ongoing Fiscal Arbitrators fiasco.

Onus and penalties

In Guindon v R, 2012 TCC 287, Mr Justice Bedard wrote the following about the onus of proof when the Minister seeks to impose gross negligence penalties:

SCC dismisses Guindon appeal

The Supreme Court has dismissed the taxpayer’s appeal in Guindon v R, 2015 SCC 41.

Related siblings under section 55

At the 2025 APFF conference, the CRA stated that the sisters in the following scenario would be related as per subparagraph 55(5)(e)(i): Sister A and Sister B each owned 100 percent of the shares of their respective holding corporations, whose…

Subsection 55(2) can be good actually

If subsection 55(2) applies to a dividend, and the cash related to the dividend needs to be paid to an individual shareholder anyway, the shareholder will likely be better off compared to the situation obtained when the subsection does not…

Loans by a partnership to a partner

The CRA has generally held that a loan from a partnership to a partner will reduce the ACB of the partner’s partnership interest because of the “all-encompassing” language in subparagraph 53(2)(c)(v) of the Income Tax Act (Canada). The CRA has…

Directors of a dissolved corporation

In 2008, I wrote an article for the Hamilton Law Association Journal that, among other things, addressed the status of directors of a corporation that has been dissolved. I referred to Leger v R, 2007 TCC 322, which held that,…

DAC Investment

The authors discuss R v DAC Investment Holdings Inc., 2026 FCA 35, rev’g 2024 TCC 63. They conclude that, in a GAAR analysis, an overly-broad characterization of a provision or a mere description of its effect will not correctly express its object, spirit and purpose…

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