Donald Cherniawsky, in “Are Dividend Refund Claims by Dividend-Paying Corporations Elective?” 17:4 Tax for the Owner-Manager (October 2017), refers to CRA technical interpretation 2016-0649841E5. The TI states that a dividend payer could elect not to claim a dividend refund in…
No refund for you
A corporate payor doesn’t get a refund if it pays a dividend but fails to file its tax return for the year within three years. But at least RDTOH isn’t reduced either. See Dino Infanti, “FCA Agrees: Dividend Refund Timed…
Refund not refunded
What happens when a corporation fails to claim refundable tax in a timely manner? Does the amount not refunded reduce RDTOH anyway (per the CRA)? Not according to the Court in Presidential MSH Corporation v R, 2015 TCC 61. (See…