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Category: Directors

50-50 shareholders and s 160; directors and independent contractors

Posted on: June 13, 2025 Last updated on: June 5, 2025 Written by: John Loukidelis
McCague v R, 2025 TCC 59, is another section 160 case where 50/50 shareholders caused their corporation to pay them dividends at a time when it owed taxes. The Court held that section 160 applied and summarized the law in…
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Resignation of a director

Posted on: June 17, 2024 Last updated on: June 5, 2024 Written by: John Loukidelis
The result in Ferri v R, 2024 TCC 255, is fact-driven: the court found (at para 25) In these circumstances, there is simply insufficient credible, consistent, reliable evidence to allow the Court to conclude on a balance of probabilities that…
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Director due diligence

Posted on: March 21, 2024 Last updated on: March 21, 2024 Written by: John Loukidelis
Jafarnia v R, 2023 TCC 171, restates a hard truth for directors of private corporations: you will not avoid liability for unremitted source deductions if you fail to remit them because you believe the business will turn around and money…
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Challenging the underlying assessment

Posted on: October 6, 2023 Last updated on: October 6, 2023 Written by: John Loukidelis
Yesterday, Amit Ummat gave an excellent short presentation about director liability under the Income Tax Act and Excise Tax Act at the HLA’s 16th Corporate-Commercial seminar. He referred to Duque v R, 2020 FCA 73, in which Webb JA said…
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Directors must prevent, not correct

Posted on: December 29, 2022 Last updated on: December 23, 2022 Written by: John Loukidelis
In Donaldson v R, 2022 TCC 159, the former director of an invsolvent corporation argued that he had been duly diligent and was not liable for the unremitted source deductions of the corporation. He had met regularly with the CRA…
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Director’s resignation

Posted on: November 11, 2022 Last updated on: November 7, 2022 Written by: John Loukidelis
In Zvilna v R, 2022 TCC 50 (informal procedure), the Court accepted the taxpayer’s oral testimony that he had resigned from a corporation in writing even though the document in question was never entered into evidence. The taxpayer and his…
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Director liability defence fails

Posted on: October 7, 2022 Last updated on: September 29, 2022 Written by: John Loukidelis
In Burnett v R, 2022 TCC 99, the Court rejected the taxpayer’s due diligence defence of a director liability assessment. It did not matter that the taxpayer was an “outside director” (which the evidence tended to contradict in any case).…
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First director resignation ineffective

Posted on: August 31, 2022 Last updated on: August 31, 2022 Written by: John Loukidelis
In Soulliere v R, 2022 FCA 126, the appellant taxpayer had been assessed as a director of a corporation. The appellant was the incorporating director of the corporation, but he purported to resign a few weeks after its incorporation and…
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Written Resignation of a Director

Posted on: March 21, 2022 Last updated on: March 21, 2022 Written by: John Loukidelis
In Cliff v Canada, 2022 FCA 16, aff’g an unreported decision of Rossiter, CJ, on other grounds, the appellant argued that she was not liable for the unremitted HST of a corporation as one of its directors because she had…
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Section 160 and Director Liability

Posted on: August 5, 2020 Last updated on: October 2, 2020 Written by: John Loukidelis
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…
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Canada Child Benefit and Shared Custody

In Wong v R, 2025 TCC 24 (informal procedure), Mr Justice Bocock provided a helpful road map of the surprisingly complicated rules relating to shared custody and entitlement to the Canada Child Benefit.
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Misdirected assessment

Poor Mr Lam trusted his tenant to forward important mail while Mr Lam was out of the country, but the tenant left a 2016 HST assessment in a pile of junk mail. Mr Lam didn’t become aware of the assessment…
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50-50 shareholders and s 160; directors and independent contractors

McCague v R, 2025 TCC 59, is another section 160 case where 50/50 shareholders caused their corporation to pay them dividends at a time when it owed taxes. The Court held that section 160 applied and summarized the law in…
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Preliminary vs preparatory expenses

In Lienaux v R, 2025 TCC 67 (informal procedure), the Court referred to Vesuna v R, 2022 FCA 58, and Gartry v R, 1994 CanLII 19352 (TCC), in denying expenses incurred where the taxpayer had not actually started to carry…
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Negligence for not reviewing return

In 994552 N.W.T. Ltd. v R, 2025 TCC 55, Mr Justice Bocock considered whether the taxpayer corporation was liable to be reassessed beyond the normal reassessment period for two taxation years and for gross negligence penalties for overclaimed capital cost…
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Canada Child Benefit and Shared Custody

In Wong v R, 2025 TCC 24 (informal procedure), Mr Justice Bocock provided a helpful road map of the surprisingly complicated rules relating to shared custody and entitlement to the Canada Child Benefit.
Continue reading “Canada Child Benefit and Shared Custody”…

Misdirected assessment

Poor Mr Lam trusted his tenant to forward important mail while Mr Lam was out of the country, but the tenant left a 2016 HST assessment in a pile of junk mail. Mr Lam didn’t become aware of the assessment…
Continue reading “Misdirected assessment”…

50-50 shareholders and s 160; directors and independent contractors

McCague v R, 2025 TCC 59, is another section 160 case where 50/50 shareholders caused their corporation to pay them dividends at a time when it owed taxes. The Court held that section 160 applied and summarized the law in…
Continue reading “50-50 shareholders and s 160; directors and independent contractors”…

Preliminary vs preparatory expenses

In Lienaux v R, 2025 TCC 67 (informal procedure), the Court referred to Vesuna v R, 2022 FCA 58, and Gartry v R, 1994 CanLII 19352 (TCC), in denying expenses incurred where the taxpayer had not actually started to carry…
Continue reading “Preliminary vs preparatory expenses”…

Negligence for not reviewing return

In 994552 N.W.T. Ltd. v R, 2025 TCC 55, Mr Justice Bocock considered whether the taxpayer corporation was liable to be reassessed beyond the normal reassessment period for two taxation years and for gross negligence penalties for overclaimed capital cost…
Continue reading “Negligence for not reviewing return”…

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Canada Child Benefit and Shared Custody

In Wong v R, 2025 TCC 24 (informal procedure), Mr Justice Bocock provided a helpful road map of the surprisingly complicated rules relating to shared custody and entitlement to the Canada Child Benefit.
Continue reading “Canada Child Benefit and Shared Custody”…

Misdirected assessment

Poor Mr Lam trusted his tenant to forward important mail while Mr Lam was out of the country, but the tenant left a 2016 HST assessment in a pile of junk mail. Mr Lam didn’t become aware of the assessment…
Continue reading “Misdirected assessment”…

50-50 shareholders and s 160; directors and independent contractors

McCague v R, 2025 TCC 59, is another section 160 case where 50/50 shareholders caused their corporation to pay them dividends at a time when it owed taxes. The Court held that section 160 applied and summarized the law in…
Continue reading “50-50 shareholders and s 160; directors and independent contractors”…

Preliminary vs preparatory expenses

In Lienaux v R, 2025 TCC 67 (informal procedure), the Court referred to Vesuna v R, 2022 FCA 58, and Gartry v R, 1994 CanLII 19352 (TCC), in denying expenses incurred where the taxpayer had not actually started to carry…
Continue reading “Preliminary vs preparatory expenses”…

Negligence for not reviewing return

In 994552 N.W.T. Ltd. v R, 2025 TCC 55, Mr Justice Bocock considered whether the taxpayer corporation was liable to be reassessed beyond the normal reassessment period for two taxation years and for gross negligence penalties for overclaimed capital cost…
Continue reading “Negligence for not reviewing return”…

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