In White v R, 2020 TCC 22, the taxpayer’s husband owed tax debts under the Excise Tax Act at a time when he made deposits to their joint bank account. The issue was whether the taxpayer was liable under section…
Section 160 and Director Liability
In R v Colitto, 2020 FCA 70, rev’g 2019 TCC 88, the Court considered when the liability of a director arises under section 227.1 of the Income Tax Act (Canada) (the “Act”) for the purposes of section 160 of the…
Section 160 butterflies
In Eyeball Networks Inc. v R, 2019 TCC 150, the court held that section 160 applied to a transferee corporation (the new operating company or “TC”) that had received property from a distributing corporation (the old operating company or “DC”)…
Burden shifting
In Monsell v R, 2019 TCC 5, the taxpayer received payments for no consideration from a corporation to which she was related. The CRA subsequently reassessed the corporation for additional taxes for a number of years and then assessed the…
Section 160 and stock dividends
In R v 594710 British Columbia Ltd., 2018 FCA 166, the Court held that GAAR applied to a complicated series of transactions in which profits of a limited partnership were allocated to a corporation with tax shelter where the economic…
The S 160 Family Law Exception
Subsection 160(4) of the Income Tax Act (Canada) in effect provides an exception to the “long arm” of section 160 where at any time a taxpayer has transferred property to the taxpayer’s spouse or common-law partner pursuant to a decree,…
Section 160 and shareholder benefits
Can the Minister assess a taxpayer under section 160 in respect of an amount already included in the taxpayer’s income under subsection 15(1)? From Justice Bocock, in Parihar v R, 2015 TCC 52 at ¶45: shareholder who has been…
Payments on behalf of a corporation avoid 160
In Muir v R, 2020 TCC 8 (informal procedure), a corporation, after selling its dental practice, paid an amount to the controlling shareholder at a time when the corporation owed tax. The Court (Boyle J) found that (1) that the…