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Amos-Yeo, [2015] EWHC 2480 (Ch)-- summary under Rectification & Rescission Summary Under Tax Topics- General Concepts- Rectification & Rescission number of transferred shares rectified to access capital gains incentive In order that the life tenants of two trusts (the 1968 and 1987 settlements) could access a reduced rate of U.K. capital gains tax on a sale of shares of a company held by the two trusts, it was necessary that they have held 5% of the nominal capital and of the voting rights for one year prior to closing the sale. ... In granting an application to rectify the agreements for the sales to the life tenants to increase the number of shares sold, the Court stated (at paras. 29, 36, 38): As Barling J in Giles, [2014] EWHC 1373 points out, the distinction drawn in this criterion is between a mistake as to the effect of a document and a misapprehension of what the fiscal or other consequences are of a document which does not in fact misimplement the parties' or donor's intention. … [T]he parties' intention was that the defendants should receive…enough shares…to satisfy the ER requirements. ... …[T] herefore the claimants have shown a sufficient mistake to found the jurisdiction to rectify the agreements. … [T]he parties to the agreements had a sufficiently specific intention which was not reflected in the agreements as executed by them. ...

Attorney General of Canada, 2024 ONSC 1955-- summary under Rectification & Rescission Summary Under Tax Topics- General Concepts- Rectification & Rescission trust allocation resolution rectified so as to set out specific amounts After a discretionary family trust realized a capital gain from a share sale, the sole trustee passed a resolution in that year providing that “[t]he income of the Trust be allocated to the [three stated] Beneficiaries of the Trust payable by way of demand Promissory Note in such amounts to be determined when the income of the Trust is ascertained ….” ... Rady J found that the evidence established that there was an agreement to allocate at least $375,000 (i.e., ½ of the capital gains amount eligible for the capital gains deduction) to each of the three beneficiaries, although there was insufficient evidence to establish that the entire taxable capital gain was agreed to be so allocated. ...

Graymar Equipment (2008) Inc v Canada (Attorney General), 2014 DTC 5051 [at at 6802], 2014 ABQB 154-- summary under Rectification & Rescission Summary Under Tax Topics- General Concepts- Rectification & Rescission no judicial notice that tax avoidance is the intention of a commercial transaction The applicants were a limited partnership ("FRPDI") and the partnership's wholly owned corporation ("Graymar"). ... And at para. 72: [T]o skate over the requirement, as Juliar does, of showing the intention underlying the original transaction – would effectively render CRA (and, by extension, Canadian taxpayers) the insurer of tax advice providers. ...

The Queen, 2015 DTC 5084 [at at 6035], 2015 BCSC 1256-- summary under Rectification & Rescission Summary Under Tax Topics- General Concepts- Rectification & Rescission true agreement was to access s. 113(1)(a) deduction rather than avoid capital gains tax The taxpayer (Mr. ... Zhang incorporated a B.C. company ("Beamtech") and secured approval from a Chinese authority for the transfer of his shares of LABest to Beamtech for cash consideration of U.S.$150,000 – which was effected without further specific advice from Bob. ...

Commissioner of Taxation, [2015] FCAFC 154, aff'd [2016] HCA 42-- summary under Payment & Receipt Summary Under Tax Topics- General Concepts- Payment & Receipt payments under phantom units not received when they vested In 1994, a non-resident executive was granted units which entitled him, on retirement, to receive payments calculated by reference to the consolidated profits of Glencore International AG, a Swiss corporation ("GI"). ... There was therefore no derivation of income in the 2007 income year when the first two instalments, though due, were merely withheld from payment to the appellant. … The applicant derived the first two instalments as income when, in January 2008, they were paid, with his agreement, to the FTA by GI on his behalf. ...

Baytex Energy Ltd v Canada (Attorney General), 2015 DTC 5057 [at 5807], 2015 ABQB 278 (CanLII)-- summary under Rectification & Rescission Summary Under Tax Topics- General Concepts- Rectification & Rescission rectification allowed retroactive to 1 January 2007 despite inconsistency with 2008 amendments The applicant (“BEL”) owned and operated oil and gas properties. ... CRA determined that the trust had additional income of $528 million for the 2007 – 2010 period. ...

Canada (Attorney General), 2017 BCSC 209-- summary under Rectification & Rescission Summary Under Tax Topics- General Concepts- Rectification & Rescission no rectification of considered decision not to distribute trust income The petitioner was a personal trust, with another trust (“Alta Trust”) as its sole income and capital beneficiary. ... In finding that the rectification doctrine did not assist the petitioner, Weatherill J stated (at paras 29 and 30): Fairmont Hotel …made clear that rectification is limited to cases where a written instrument has incorrectly recorded the parties’ antecedent agreement. … There is no written agreement or other document, including the petitioner’s 2012 T3 tax return, which incorrectly records the petitioner’s intentions at the time that the document was prepared. ...

Crean v Canada (Attorney General), 2019 BCSC 146-- summary under Rectification & Rescission Summary Under Tax Topics- General Concepts- Rectification & Rescission a sale agreement rectified to turn it into a 2-step sale that no longer generated a s. 84.1 dividend Two of the petitioners were two brothers (Thomas and Michael) who each owned 50 of the 100 issued and outstanding common shares of a holding company (Crean Holdings). ... I disagree. … Thomas Crean and Michael Crean had a prior definite and ascertainable agreement. ...

Collins Family Trust, 2022 SCC 26-- summary under Rectification & Rescission Summary Under Tax Topics- General Concepts- Rectification & Rescission courts cannot exercise their equitable jurisdiction to reverse or alter a completed transaction to avoid unintended tax consequences Two operating companies each implemented a plan, suggested by a tax advisor, to protect their assets from creditors. ... Before allowing the appeal and dismissing the trusts’ petition, and in finding that the principle in Fairmont Hotels and Jean Coutu, that a “court may not modify an instrument merely because a party discovered that its operation generates an adverse and unplanned tax liability” (para. 16(d)) was not limited to situations of requested rectification and applied as well to the equitable remedy of rescission, Brown J stated (at para. 22): I agree with the conclusion in Canada Life that Fairmont Hotels and Jean Coutu bar a taxpayer from resorting to equity in order to undo or alter or in any way modify a concluded transaction or its documentation to avoid a tax liability arising from the ordinary operation of a tax statute. … While a court may exercise its equitable jurisdiction to grant relief against mistakes in appropriate cases, it simply cannot do so to achieve the objective of avoiding an unintended tax liability. ...

Attorney General of Canada, 2013 DTC 5058 [at 5824], 2013 ONSC 781-- summary under Rectification & Rescission Summary Under Tax Topics- General Concepts- Rectification & Rescission no evidence of instructions to ensure s. 107(2) rollout from trust The taxpayer settled a family trust in 1992 with $5000, which was used to purchase shares in a business corporation. ...