Corporate/Separate Personality

Cases

Meredith v. Canada (Attorney General), 2002 DTC 7190, 2002 FCA 258

The trial judge had lifted the corporate veil by treating the taxpayer and a corporation of which the taxpayer was the sole shareholder and...

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Fourney v. The Queen, 2012 DTC 1019 [at 2575], 2011 TCC 520

Seeking to protect herself from being sued by her brother, the taxpayer transferred title to all her real properties for no consideration to...

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Locations of other summaries Wordcount
Tax Topics - General Concepts - Agency 191
Tax Topics - General Concepts - Ownership presumption of resulting trust where property transfer for no consideration 257
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - 101-110 - Section 104 - Subsection 104(1) bare trust arising on creditor-proofing transfer 257
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 163 - Subsection 163(2) line codes in electronic filings were incomprehensible to taxpayer 300
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(1) - Disposition rebuttable presumption of resulting trust on transfer for no consideration 257

Martel v. The Queen, 2003 DTC 1187 (TCC)

In rejecting a submission that, in determining whether a corporation was carrying on an active business, account could be taken of the activities...

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K.J. Beamish Construction Co. Ltd. v. MNR, 90 DTC 1584, [1990] 2 CTC 2199 (TCC)

The taxpayer, which was a shareholder of a private corporation engaged in land development and to which it made advances, was unable to deduct...

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Articles

Perry, "Capitalization and Asset Acquisitions for New Private Corporations", 1993 Conference Report, C. 22

Discussion (at pp. 7-11) of the corporate veil.

Locations of other summaries Wordcount
Tax Topics - General Concepts - Personality 8

separate existence

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Barnwell v. The Queen, 2015 DTC 1115 [at 724], 2015 TCC 98 (Informal Procedure), aff'd 2016 FCA 150

Before finding that a loan made by the taxpayer to an individual, who was the sole director and shareholder of a business corporation...

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Locations of other summaries Wordcount
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 39 - Subsection 39(1) - Paragraph 39(1)(c) loan made to the principal of a business corporation could not be construed as a corporate loan 79