Cases
Thomson v. Minister of National Revenue, 2 DTC 812, [1946] S.C.R. 209
For a number of years the taxpayer spent between 81 and 159 days in Canada each year, with most of the balance spent in the United States. The...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 2 - Subsection 2(1) | 262 | |
| Tax Topics - Statutory Interpretation - Interpretation Act - Subsection 34(2) | 80 |
Subsection 250(1) - Person deemed resident
Paragraph 250(1)(a)
See Also
Dysert v. The Queen, 2013 DTC 1070 [at 373], 2013 TCC 57
The taxpayers were middle-aged "all American" certified cost estimate professionals, with no significant previous exposure to Canada, who came to...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 2 - Subsection 2(1) | 169 | |
| Tax Topics - Treaties - Income Tax Conventions - Article 4 | 283 |
Administrative Policy
S5-F1-C1 - Determining an Individual’s Residence Status
To sojourn means to make a temporary stay in the sense of establishing a temporary residence, although the stay may be of very short duration....
22 March 1995 External T.I. 9504635 - WITHHOLDING TAX FOR NON-RESIDENT COMMUTERS (HAA 8019-1)
"Generally if a taxpayer commutes to work in Canada for more than 182 days in a year and returns to his home daily to a country outside Canada,...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Regulations - Regulation 105 - Subsection 105(1) | 69 |
17 February 1995 External T.I. 9400545 - RESIDENCE & SOURCE DEDUCTIONS (HAA7576-1)
"It is a question of fact whether a taxpayer, who is a resident of a foreign country and who is present in Canada for more 182 days in a year,...
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| Tax Topics - Treaties - Income Tax Conventions - Article 15 | 114 |
1 June 1990 T.I. (November 1990 Access Letter, ¶1517)
Comments on the meaning of the word "sojourn" in the context of the application of s. 56(1)(o).
87 C.R. - Q.4
A U.S. resident who sojourns in Canada for 183 days or more will be required to report his world income, will be entitled to deduct amounts...
Articles
Brian Kearl, Carl Deeprose, "Leaving Canada's New High Tax Rate Regime: Considerations, Tips and Traps", 2016 Conference Report (Canadian Tax Foundation),32:1-24
Meaning of “sojourn” (pp. 32:5)
In Thomson, the Supreme Court of Canada touched on the meaning of the word "sojourn" in obiter dictum, stating...
Paragraph 250(1)(c)
See Also
Messar-Splinter v. The Queen, 2012 DTC 1236 [at 3659], 2012 TCC 72
The taxpayer moved to Geneva in 1994 with her husband, who took a position described in s. 250(1)(c)(i), working as a public servant for the...
Administrative Policy
S5-F1-C1 - Determining an Individual’s Residence Status
b) [I]ndividuals who were officers or servants of Canada or a province, at any time in the year, who received representation allowances or who...
26 May 1994 Internal T.I. 9333317 F - Crown Corp. Employees Working Outside Canada (T2 File)
An individual working in Japan for a provincial government supposedly as an independent contractor likely would in fact be an employee in light of...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 5 - Subsection 5(1) | 33 |
Subsection 250(3) - Ordinarily resident
Cases
Midyette v. The Queen, 85 DTC 5565, [1985] 2 CTC 362 (FCTD)
S.250(3) is not a deeming provision because it does not impose a meaning on "residence" that that term would have in the absence of the provision....
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 63.1 | 68 | |
| Tax Topics - Statutory Interpretation - Interpretation/Definition Provisions | Verrette rule | 36 |
See Also
Laurin v. The Queen, 2007 DTC 236, 2006 TCC 634
Before going on to find that the taxpayer was not ordinarily resident in Canada, Bowman C.J. stated (at p. 237):
"The use of the word 'includes'...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 2 - Subsection 2(1) | 92 |
Subsection 250(4) - Corporation deemed resident
Cases
The Queen v. Gurd's Products Co. Ltd., 85 DTC 5314, [1985] 2 CTC 85 (FCA)
The Court accepted the Crown's contention that the following elements were sufficient indication that the appellant carried on business in Canada:...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 180 - Subsection 180(3) | 54 |
Birmount Holdings Ltd. v. The Queen, 78 DTC 6254, [1978] CTC 358 (FCA)
A corporation which was owned by a non-resident individual ("Mentzelopoulos") and whose business was found to be the acquisition, supervision,...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 180 - Subsection 180(3) | 88 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 9 - Capital Gain vs. Profit - Real Estate | farmland acquired with a view to development potential, and sold 11 years later on income account | 149 |
Deltona Corp. v. MNR, 71 DTC 5186, [1971] CTC 297 (Ex Ct), briefly aff'd 73 DTC 5180, [1973] CTC 215 (SCC)
A corporation which in 1966 was "continued" under the Canada Corporations Act from its predecessors pursuant to their amalgamation, was...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 133 - Subsection 133(8) - Non-Resident-Owned Investment Corporation | 143 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 85 - Subsection 85(1) | 76 |
Administrative Policy
14 December 1990 T.I. (Tax Window, Prelim. No. 2, p. 4, ¶1047)
S.250(4) was enacted to address the situation where a corporation is incorporated in Canada for the purpose of an activity such as a construction...
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| Tax Topics - Treaties - Income Tax Conventions - Article 4 | 46 |
Articles
Talakshi, "Corporate Migration", 1991 Canadian Petroleum Tax Journal, Spring 1991, p. 53.
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 219.1 | 0 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 48 - Subsection 48(5) | 0 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 88.1 | 0 |
Subsection 250(5) - Deemed non-resident
See Also
Antle v. The Queen, 2009 DTC 1305, 2009 TCC 465, aff'd 2010 DTC 5172 [at 7304], 2010 FCA 280
After finding against the taxpayer on other grounds, Campbell Miller, J. found that s. 250(5) would not cause a Barbados trust, that was intended...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 245 - Subsection 245(4) | interjection of Barbados trust defeated policy | 179 |
Administrative Policy
24 May 2018 External T.I. 2017-0710641E5 - Interest Charge Domestic International Sales Corp
In the course of confirming that an “Interest Charge Domestic International Sales Corporation, would qualify as a resident of the U.S. for...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Regulations - Regulation 5907 - Subsection 5907(11.2) | U.S. IC-DISC is “resident” of the U.S. for Treaty purposes as the U.S. asserts its jurisdiction to tax and grants benefits only on continued meeting of conditions | 395 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Regulations - Regulation 5907 - Subsection 5907(1) - Exempt Earnings - Paragraph (d) | CMC of FA must be in the DTC and it must be liable to tax therein (albeit, may be conditionally exempted) | 233 |
S5-F1-C1 - Determining an Individual’s Residence Status
Where subsection 250(5) applies, an individual will be deemed to be a non-resident of Canada for all purposes of the Act (that is, the individual...
3 November 2008 External T.I. 2008-0278431E5 F - Déménagement hors Canada du siège soc. de société
In the context of a general discussion of consequences where there was an acquisition of control of a corporation incorporated in Canada in 2005,...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 115 - Subsection 115(1) - Paragraph 115(1)(a) - Subparagraph 115(1)(a)(ii) | OECD Commentary informs allocation of sales through non-resident office to Cdn manufacturing operation | 172 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 127 - Subsection 127(9) - Investment Tax Credit - Paragraph (a.1) | ITC potentially available to a non-resident corporation carrying on business in Canada | 97 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 4 - Subsection 4(1) - Paragraph 4(1)(b) | s. 4(1)(b) requires allocation between Canada and another country on basis of relative profit contribution | 172 |
8 July 2002 External T.I. 2002-0136615 F - Par. 250(5) - Déclaration de revenus
CCRA indicated that an individual who is deemed to be a non-resident of Canada by s. 250(5) is not required to declare world income in the...
27 June 1994 External T.I. 9406005 - CORPORATE STATUS OF A DELAWARE LLC (4093-U5-100-4)
If a Delaware limited liability company having its central management and central in Canada is treated as a partnership rather than a corporation...
Subsection 250(5.1) - Continued corporation
Administrative Policy
4 April 2011 External T.I. 2010-0388741E5 F - Société quittant le Canada
In the course of a general discussion of the continuance of a corporation from Canada to Europe, CRA stated:
A corporation that is continued may,...
Articles
Lanthier, "Corporate Immigration, Emigration, and Continuance", 1993 Corporate Management Tax Conference Report, c. 4.
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 128.1 - Subsection 128.1(1) | 0 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 128.2 - Subsection 128.2(1) | 0 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 219.1 | 0 |
Subsection 250(6) - Residence of international shipping corporation
Administrative Policy
23 June 1992 T.I. 912669 (December 1992 Access Letter, p. 39, ¶C248-121)
Detailed discussion.
2 July 1991 T.I. (Tax Window, No. 5, p. 15, ¶1326)
General discussion.
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 81 - Subsection 81(1) - Paragraph 81(1)(c) | 72 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Regulations - Regulation 5901 - Subsection 5901(1) | 51 |
Articles
Michael Shields, "Taxation of International Shipping Companies in Canada", International Tax (Wolters Kluwer CCH), No. 88, June 2016, p. 1
Assimilation of connected income (p. 4)
[G]ross revenue from international shipping can only be earned from activities associated with vessels...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 81 - Subsection 81(1) - Paragraph 81(1)(c) | 178 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(1) - International Shipping | 82 |
Owen, "Tax Issues in International Shipping", 1993 Canadian Tax Journal, Vol. 41, No. 4, p. 724.
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 81 - Subsection 81(1) - Paragraph 81(1)(c) | 0 |
Subsection 250(6.1) - Residence of inter vivos trusts
Administrative Policy
S6-F1-C1 - Residence of a Trust or Estate
1.12 Subsection 250(6.1) operates to avoid unintended tax consequences that may arise under a number of provisions of the Income Tax Act that...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 2 - Subsection 2(1) | 237 |