CRA has officially released the 2022 CTF Roundtable

For convenience of reference, here is a table of the CRA Roundtable items from the November 29, 2022 CTF Annual Conference together with links to our summaries of these items (mostly prepared almost eight months ago) and brief descriptors.

Topic Descriptor
29 November 2022 CTF Roundtable Q. 1, 2022-0949781C6 - Loans Made by Limited Partnerships to Limited Partners Income Tax Act - Section 40 - Subsection 40(3.1) purpose of policy re annual reversing loans by an LP to its limited partners is only to address timing mismatches
29 November 2022 CTF Roundtable Q. 2, 2022-0950501C6 - Section 116 and Taxable Canadian Property Income Tax Act - Section 116 - Subsection 116(5) CRA generally will not provide advance guidance on TCP status
29 November 2022 CTF Roundtable Q. 3, 2022-0949771C6 - Post-closing adjustments and the impact to escrow shares Income Tax Act - Section 84 - Subsection 84(3) cancellation of escrow shares triggered a deemed dividend
29 November 2022 CTF Roundtable Q. 4, 2022-0950561C6 - Servers/Data Centres and Location of Services Rendered Treaties - Income Tax Conventions - Article 5 remote customer-support services from the US did not cause a Canadian services PE
Income Tax Regulations - Regulation 105 - Subsection 105(1) remote customer support services were accessory in nature and were not rendered in Canada
29 November 2022 CTF Roundtable Q. 5, 2022-0949751C6 - The New Proposed Critical Mineral Exploration Tax Credit Income Tax Act - Section 127 - Subsection 127(9) - Flow-Through Critical Mineral Mining Expenditure the critical METC certification form will be provided shortly
29 November 2022 CTF Roundtable Q. 6, 2022-0950671C6 - Guidance on Crypto-asset Taxation and Reporting Income Tax Act - Section 150 - Subsection 150(1) - Paragraph 150(1)(d) T1 and related forms to be modified for 2022 to provide further guidance re crypto asset dispositions
29 November 2022 CTF Roundtable Q. 7, 2022-0951051C6 - Permanent Establishment and Mining Activities Treaties - Income Tax Conventions - Article 5 where a UK company remotely operated crypto-mining equipment located on a Canadian host company’s premises, the equipment constituted a Canadian PE
29 November 2022 CTF Roundtable Q. 8, 2022-0951041C6 - CCA class of Crypto-Asset Mining Hardware Income Tax Regulations - Schedules - Schedule II - Class 50 crypto-mining GPUs and ASICS could qualify as Class 50 assets
29 November 2022 CTF Roundtable Q. 9, 2022-0950531C6 - Multiple Wills and T3 Reporting Income Tax Act - 101-110 - Section 104 - Subsection 104(1) there is only one estate (and one T3 return) for a deceased, even if there are multiple wills
Income Tax Act - 101-110 - Section 104 - Subsection 104(2) s. 104(2) cannot apply where there are multiple wills since there is only one trust
29 November 2022 CTF Roundtable Q. 10, 2022-0950581C6 - Common Reporting Standard Income Tax Act - Section 270 - Subsection 270(1) - Controlling Persons indirect distributions include receiving favourable loan terms/ settlor includes a substantive contributor
29 November 2022 CTF Roundtable Q. 11, 2022-0949761C6 - Earnout Agreement Income Tax Act - Section 12 - Subsection 12(1) - Paragraph 12(1)(g) earnout based on subsidiary goodwill/ counting of the 5-year limitation/ when amount becomes payable
29 November 2022 CTF Roundtable Q. 12, 2022-0950591C6 - T1134 Income Tax Act - Section 233.4 - Subsection 233.4(4) questions on T1134 completion, and link to Q&A page
29 November 2022 CTF Roundtable Q. 13, 2022-0950641C6 - Part XIII Tax on Royalties Paid on Broadcasting Income Tax Act - Section 212 - Subsection 212(1) - Paragraph 212(1)(d) - Subparagraph 212(1)(d)(vi) longstanding according of the copyright exemption to broadcasting (and perhaps other performance) royalties is reversed
29 November 2022 CTF Roundtable Q. 14, 2022-0950551C6 - Charity's gift to grantee org Income Tax Act - Section 168 - Subsection 168(1) - Paragraph 168(1)(f) Guidelines on directed donations