Subsection 90(2) - Dividend from foreign affiliate

Administrative Policy

17 May 2023 IFA Roundtable Q. 3, 2023-0964551C6 - T1134 Supplement

Finance indicated that given that (as stated in the Explanatory Notes) ss. 90(2) and (5) provided a comprehensive definition of what constituted a...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 233.5 T1134 should be timely-filed with missing information noted 162

2016 Ruling 2015-0617351R3 - payments under a German profit transfer agrmt “PTA"

Current structure

XX2, an indirect controlled foreign affiliate of a Canadian public corporation, is the sole limited partner of a German KG, and...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 87 - Subsection 87(8.1) survivor merger of two German CFAs 44

11 April 2017 Internal T.I. 2016-0670541I7 - Foreign affiliate share redemption

Canco owned 100% of the preferred shares of a Barbados International Business Company (“FA”), all of whose common shares are held by a...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(1) - Dividend redemption proceeds might in part be a dividend under Barbados law 147
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 95 - Subsection 95(6) - Paragraph 95(6)(b) skewing exempt surplus to Canco could engage s. 95(6) 137

2015 Ruling 2014-0541951R3 - Foreign Affiliate Debt Dumping

A limited liability partnership (FA1) will pay a distribution proportionately to its partners who directly comprise (i) a limited partner...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 212.3 - Subsection 212.3(9) - Paragraph 212.3(9)(b) - Subparagraph 212.3(9)(b)(ii) s. 212.3(9)(b)(ii) PUC restoration for upper-tier QSCs on the payment by a U.S. LLP of a proportionate “dividend” to lower tier CRIC partners 349
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(1) - Corporation proportionate distribution by LLP treated as dividend 128
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 212.3 - Subsection 212.3(3) two Canadian corporate partners immediately beneath the U.S. border are QSCs respecting investments made by lower-tier CRICs in a U.S. LLP 238

26 May 2016 IFA Roundtable Q. 6, 2016-0642081C6 - German Organschafts

Under an “Organschaft,” a German corporation (“Parentco”) and another corporation resident in Germany (“Subco”) enter into a Profit...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 95 - Subsection 95(2) - Paragraph 95(2)(a) - Subparagraph 95(2)(a)(ii) - Clause 95(2)(a)(ii)(B) profit transfer payments made by a German sub to German parent are s. 90(2) dividends not within s. 95(2)(a)(ii)(B) after 2016 153
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 53 - Subsection 53(1) - Paragraph 53(1)(c) German profit transfer payment to loss subsidiary is contribution of capital 158
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 12 - Subsection 12(1) - Paragraph 12(1)(x) loss compensation payment under Organschaft 123

8 January 2016 Internal T.I. 2015-0604491I7 - mandatory redeemable preferred shares

CRA applied the two-step approach to entity classification to find that MRPS (Luxembourg hybrid instruments which were “very similar to...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(1) - Share MRPS (Luxembourg hybrid instruments which were “very similar to traditional shares under Canadian business corporations statutes”) were equity 731

2015 Ruling 2014-0527961R3 - Deemed dividend under subsection 90(2)

underline;">: €/US$ share structure. The constating documents of FA (which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Canco that was incorporated and is...

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17 June 2014 External T.I. 2013-0506731E5 - Immigration

An individual shareholder immigrates to Canada, thereby becoming a Canadian resident, and then receives $1,000 from a wholly-owned non-resident...

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Tax Topics - General Concepts - Payment & Receipt note satisfied dividend 83
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 128.1 - Subsection 128.1(1) dividend receivable acquired on immigration 141

2013 Ruling 2012-0463611R3 - Foreign Divisive Reorganization

Structure

Canco, a Canadian public company, directly owns a portion of the shares of FA1. FA1 is a controlled foreign affiliate of Canco...

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23 May 2013 IFA Round Table, Q. 2

Canco owns 100% of the shares of FA1 and FA1 owns 100% of the shares of FA2. FA3 is either formed with nominal assets by FA1 or comes into...

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Articles

Melanie Huynh, Paul Barnicke, "German Organschafts", Canadian Tax Highlights, Vol. 24, No. 6, June 2016, p. 5

Unclear whether CRA view on application of s. 90(2) to Organschaft profit transfers applies where s. 90(2) applies retroactively (p. 6)

Referring...

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Michael Gemmiti, "FA Dividends Must be Pro Rata", Vol. 3, No. 3, August 2013, p. 7

The new pro rata rule can present problems. For example, a US LLC (which qualifies as an FA of a taxpayer) may have only one class of units but...

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Patrick W. Marley, Kim Brown, "Foreign Mergers and 'Demergers' Under Recent Canadian Proposals", Tax Management International Journal, 10 February 2012, Vol 41, No. 2, p. 86

A demerger, which under the foreign corporate law, might be viewed as one stream splitting into two, might not qualify under draft s. 90(2) as a...

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Geoffrey S. Turner, "Upending the Surplus Ordering Rules: Implications of the New Regulation 5901(2)(b) Election", CCH Tax Topics, No. 2079, p. 1, 12 January 2012

Elaine Buzzell, "Distributions of Share Premium by Foreign Affiliates", Corporate Finance, Vol. XVII, No. 2, 2011, p. 1962

Includes discussion of the treatment under the previous version of s. 90 of payments out of a share premium account as a dividend or shareholder...

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