In an email spoofing attack, an employee of a business might share important financial information with, or send money to a, a fraudster because the employee has received an email from the fraudster masquerading as the employee’s boss. In a…
Stock options issued to a corporation
Section 7 of the Income Tax Act (Canada) does not apply to stock options granted to a CCPC for consulting services rendered. Instead, “general tax principles” apply to determine when the CCPC must include an amount in income in respect…
Happy Valley applied
Happy Valley Farms Ltd. v MNR, 2 CTC 259, provides a handy list of the factors a court will generally consider in deciding whether a gain realized on the sale of a home was on income account. The Court…
Inventory adjustment disallowed
In Yorkwest Plumbing Supply Inc. v R, 2020 TCC 122, the Court considered an adjustment of $1.2 million that the taxpayer had made to its 2012 net income in respect of inventory that had been purchased and sold before the…
TIP case
Motter c Agence du revenue du Québec, 2021 QCCA 72, aff’g 2018 QCCQ 3483, found that tenant inducement payments “are not an expense category for the purpose of calculating income from a business or property, nor are they a subcategory…
Bitcoin mining
The CRA, in technical interpretation 2018-0776661I7 (August 8, 2019), takes the position that a Bitcoin miner receives Bitcoin as barter for services rendered. The transaction is a barter transaction because Bitcoin isn’t legal tender (see IT-490 “Barter Transactions”). The receipt…