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Williams Moving & Storage (B.C.) Ltd. v. Canada (Minister of National Revenue), 2024 BCCA 160-- summary under Rectification & Rescission Summary Under Tax Topics- General Concepts- Rectification & Rescission bankruptcy proposal which CRA had misinterpreted is corrected pursuant to discretion under the BIA A drafting error (involving an inappropriate duplication of text) in the proposal which was approved by the creditors of an insolvent company (Williams Moving) and by the B.C. ... In finding that the chambers judge had not erred in denying rectification of the written terms of the proposal, Wilcock JA noted (at para. 68) the finding in Fairmont that “rectification requires the parties to show an antecedent agreement with respect to the term or terms for which rectification is sought” and stated (at paras. 69): [I]t is difficult to see how it can be said that the creditors would have understood the Proposal to be anything other than what was presented to them. … There was insufficient evidence of a common understanding amongst the appellant and its creditors on the matter in dispute …. ...

David Richards LJ stated (at paras. 111-112): The clear conclusion to which the FTT came … was put by the FTT at [422], "the Jersey directors were acting under what they considered was an 'instruction' or 'order' from the parent". The inevitable conclusion from that finding was … that the decision to enter into the relevant transactions was taken by the parent in the UK, not by the directors in Jersey. They were, of course, concerned to ensure that what they were being instructed to do was lawful. … Likewise, the directors were concerned to ensure that there were no unexpected liabilities for the Jersey companies, such as stamp duty, and to ensure that the documents were in proper order. ...

Derrin Brothers Properties Ltd & Ors, R (on the application of) v A Judge of the First Tier Tribunal (Tax Chamber) & Ors, [2016] BTC 10, [2016] EWCA Civ 15-- summary under Article 27 Summary Under Tax Topics- Treaties- Income Tax Conventions- Article 27 documentary demands made by HMRC pursuant to Art. 27 on UK companies being investigated by Australia were valid The Australian Tax Office, which suspected that a UK accounting firm was providing nominee directors and shareholders to UK-incorporated companies to make them look like they were factually resident outside Australia, made a request to the UK Revenue (HMRC) pursuant to Art. 27 of the UK-Australia Treaty (somewhat similar to Art. 24 of the Canada-U.K. ...

Derrin Brothers Properties Ltd & Ors, R (on the application of) v A Judge of the First Tier Tribunal (Tax Chamber) & Ors, [2016] BTC 10, [2016] EWCA Civ 15-- summary under Subsection 231.2(3) Summary Under Tax Topics- Income Tax Act- Section 231.2- Subsection 231.2(3) third party notices to UK accounting firm and banks did not require them to be given explanation why information required The Australian Tax Office ("ATO") made a request under Art. 27 of the UK-Australia Treaty of HMRC relating to its investigations of an Australian resident ("Gould") and his associates and clients, which suggested to it that a UK accounting firm ("Lubbock Fine") was providing nominee directors and shareholders to UK-incorporated companies to make it appear that their factual residence was outside Australia. ...

G E Financial Investments v.The Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs, [2021] UKFTT 0210 (Tax Chamber), ultimately aff'd [2024] EWCA Civ 797-- summary under Article 4 Summary Under Tax Topics- Treaties- Income Tax Conventions- Article 4 a deemed US resident was not a US treaty resident A US company (“GEFI Inc.”) and UK company (“GEFI”) in the GE group formed a Delaware LP (“LP”) with GEFI Inc. as the 1% general partner and GEFI as the 99% limited partner. ... In my judgment, this is the correct approach as it takes into account the common feature or similarity of domicile, residence, citizenship etc, in the context of the Convention, ie that they are all criteria providing, in addition to the imposition of a worldwide liability to tax, a “ connection ” or “ attachment ” of a person to the contracting state concerned. Such an interpretation is consistent with Widrig … and Vogel … and Crown Forest which, as [HMRC counsel] submits, when properly understood in context is authority for the proposition that full or worldwide taxation is a necessary feature of the connecting criterion but is not sufficient of itself. ...

Structures GB Ltée, 2025 QCCA 134-- summary under Rectification & Rescission Summary Under Tax Topics- General Concepts- Rectification & Rescission corporate reorganization documents could not be rectified to correct for an unforeseen Pt. ... (Canada), so that the rectification order was reversed, the Court stated (at paras. 25, 29-30, 36, TaxInterpretations translation): If the agreement is consistent with what the parties agreed to but simply produces unforeseen tax consequences, due to an error by the tax planners in the design of the tax planning, rectification cannot be granted. … The parties had not planned any specific entitlement [“prestation”] aimed at ensuring that Structures and the holding companies were connected throughout the 31 stages of the corporate reorganization of Structures. … … Mr. Côté, the tax specialist who conceptualized the reorganization, … affirmed that maintaining connectedness was not the object of the transaction, which was to crystallize as much CGD as possible.... ...

., 2020 ONSC 5343-- summary under Rectification & Rescission Summary Under Tax Topics- General Concepts- Rectification & Rescission jurisdiction declined in a requested shareholding rectification whose raison d’être was a CRA assessment In order to avoid a deemed disposition under the s. 104(4) 21-year deemed realization rule, two family trusts for the children of Mr. ... In declining to assume jurisdiction, Koehnen J stated (at paras 32, 35): … [T]he Tax Court has jurisdiction to interpret s. 23(3) of the OBCA. … Parliament has created a specific court with expertise in tax matters and has created a specific process to address tax issues. ... The corporate records accurately reflect that intention. … [T]he applicants do not require a court order to correct the books and records of the Child Corporations. ...

Revenue & Customs v Burlington Loan Management DAC, [2024] UKUT 152-- summary under Article 12 Summary Under Tax Topics- Treaties- Income Tax Conventions- Article 12 Irishco’s purchasing a UK interest claim from Caymansco at a tax arbitrage price did not have Treaty-reduction as a main purpose BLM was a substantial Irish-resident investment company, which started acquiring proved claims in the administration of Lehman Brothers International (Europe) ("LBIE" – a UK resident) in 2011 and came to own 443 such claims. ... HMRC denied BLM’s refund claim on the basis of Art. 12(5) of that Treaty, which excluded the application of Art. 12 “if it was the main purpose or one of the main purposes of any person concerned with the … assignment … to take advantage of … Article [12].” ... “It was appropriate for the FTT to have had regard to the fact that there were potential purchasers of the SAAD Claim for whom UK WHT would not have been an issue and for whom the UK-Ireland treaty would not have been relevant [e.g., UK purchasers with tax losses] … who were prepared to pay a price higher than 80% of the interest on the SAAD Claim for reasons wholly unconnected to the UK-Ireland treaty” (para. 78). ...

Revenue & Customs v Burlington Loan Management DAC, [2024] UKUT 152-- summary under Article 7(1) Summary Under Tax Topics- Treaties- Multilateral Instrument- Article 7- Article 7(1) accessing Irish-UK treaty dividend-withholding reduction was not abusive given that not a treaty-shopping or conduit transaction BLM was a substantial Irish-resident investment company, which had been acquiring proved claims in the administration of Lehman Brothers International (Europe) ("LBIE" – a UK resident) since 2011. ... HMRC denied BLM’s refund claim on the basis of Art. 12(5) of that Treaty, which excluded the application of Art. 12 “if it was the main purpose or one of the main purposes of any person concerned with the … assignment … to take advantage of … Article [12].” ... “It was appropriate for the FTT to have had regard to the fact that there were potential purchasers of the SAAD Claim for whom UK WHT would not have been an issue and for whom the UK-Ireland treaty would not have been relevant [e.g., UK purchasers with tax losses] … who were prepared to pay a price higher than 80% of the interest on the SAAD Claim for reasons wholly unconnected to the UK-Ireland treaty” (para. 78). ...

The Court stated (at paras 53, 60- 61): …[T]he case-law stemming from the judgment in Halifax does not require it to be established that the accrual of a tax advantage is the only objective of the transactions at issue. … In order to determine the substance and real significance of the leases at issue in the main proceedings, the referring court may, in particular, take account of the purely artificial nature of those transactions and the links of a legal, economic and/or personal nature between the operators at issue …. Such aspects are capable of demonstrating that the accrual of a tax advantage constitutes the essential aim pursued, notwithstanding the possible existence, in addition, of economic objectives …. …[T]he leases … had no commercial reality and were entered into … with the aim of reducing the VAT liability on the sales of immovable property … which they envisaged carrying out subsequently. ...