An accounting colleague has reported to me on a CRA audit involving a price adjustment clause. The CRA challenged the valuation used for a transfer of property. The taxpayer and the CRA eventually agreed on a valuation that was about…
Source of income and the normal reassessment period
In Boles v R, 2024 TCC 167, the taxpayers incurred losses in respect of “Dog Activities” (breeding and selling purebred dogs and attending dog shows) and some rental properties. The Court concluded the CRA could not reassess statute-barred years for…
Shareholder loan account entries
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…
Adventures in trade
In Rudolph v R, 2024 TCC 148, the Court determined that gains and losses realized by the taxpayer on the sale of shares and the expiry of related options were on income account. The Court noted, among other things, that…
Harvard Properties
In Harvard Properties Inc. v R, 2024 TCC 139, the taxpayer, as a co-owner of a shopping mall, rolled its interest in the mall to Newco and then sold the Newco shares for a “premium” over the value of the…
Privilege
Coopers Park Real Estate Development Corporation v. R, 2024 TCC 122, considered the scope of solicitor-client privilege where an accounting firm had been engaged to act as the client’s agent to obtain legal advice. Providing advice to the lawyer, however,…
Enns – section 160 inapplicable
Peter Enns, a tax debtor, designated his wife, Marlene, as the sole beneficiary of his RRSP. Peter died without paying his tax debt, and so the CRA assessed Marlene under section 160 on the basis that she was Peter’s “spouse”…
Acquisition of Control (AOC)
The CRA addressed AOCs in Question 17 of the 2024 APFF Round Table. 50/50 shareholders of Opco (A and B) are presumed to act in concert to control Opco. If they sell one-third of Opco’s shares to a third person…
84(2.31) and De Facto Control
The CRA and the courts will need to adopt a narrower definition of de facto control for the purposes of subsection 84.1(2.31), if its policies objectives are to be met. The subsection, among other things, requires parents to give up…
Trust reporting rules under the August 2024 draft legislation
The following seems to capture the logic of the trust reporting rules, as amended by the August 12, 2024, draft legislation, including the rules that will apply to “bare trusts” for years ending after December 30, 2025. Is the arrangement…