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Richter & Associates Inc v. The Queen, 2005 TCC 92-- summary under Paragraph 141.1(3)(b) Summary Under Tax Topics- Excise Tax Act- Section 141.1- Subsection 141.1(3)- Paragraph 141.1(3)(b) action brought by trustee for bankrupt financial institution deemed to be not in course of commercial activity The trustee in bankruptcy for a company ("Castor") which had essentially only engaged in investing in high-yield loans brought an action in its capacity of trustee for the Castor estate against the former auditors ("C&L") for $40 million in damages for breach of contract, and also began a "litigation support business" of providing assistance to most of the creditors (the "Participating Creditors"), including hiring professionals and experts, in connection with their action sounding in negligence against C&L for $800 million in damages. ... Therefore, the costs of the litigation support services that the Estate enjoyed in prosecuting its own claim against C&L would not qualify for ITCs. … However, the portion of the services and properties in question that was acquired for the purpose of prosecuting the claims of the Participating Creditors would be considered to have been acquired in the course of commercial activities. ...

G & J Muirhead Holdings Ltd. v. The Queen, 2014 DTC 1067 [at at 3009], 2014 TCC 49 (Informal Procedure)-- summary under Personal Services Business Summary Under Tax Topics- Income Tax Act- Section 125- Subsection 125(7)- Personal Services Business intentions in services contract are irrelevant; overtime rates The taxpayer was owned by its sole employee ("Muirhead") and his wife, and provided well inspection services to an arm's length corporation ("Harvest") under a services contract with it. The taxpayer had a personal services business – but for the services contract, Muirhead would have been a Harvest employee. ...

Customs & Excise Commissioners, [1997] BTC 5355 (C.A.)-- summary under Business Summary Under Tax Topics- Excise Tax Act- Section 123- Subsection 123(1)- Business In finding that the taxpayer, which exercised delegated powers to issue licenses and certificates to its members and exercised public control over those engaged in financial services, auditing and insolvency practice, was not engaged in a "business", Beldam L.J. referred to community jurisprudence that rested on the touchstone of "economic activities" and then stated (at p. 5365): "... ...

Ernst & Young LLP, 2015 BCCA 445-- summary under Negligence, Fiduciary Duty and Fault Summary Under Tax Topics- General Concepts- Negligence, Fiduciary Duty and Fault accounting firm exclusion clause was binding The appellant’s B.C. law firm retained Ernst & Young to provide her with U.S. tax advice in connection with negotiating a separation agreement with her husband. ...

Associated Newspapers Ltd v HM Revenue & Customs, [2017] EWCA Civ 54, [2017] BVC 10-- summary under Subsection 141.01(2) Summary Under Tax Topics- Excise Tax Act- Section 141.01- Subsection 141.01(2) acquisition made for free on-supply was part of overhead of a commercial activity A UK newspaper (ANL) paid VAT on its purchase of vouchers from Marks & Spencer and an intermediary ("Hut"), which it then provided free to those readers subscribing to its Sunday editions for the promotional period. ...

Leekes Ltd v HM Revenue & Customs, [2018] EWCA Civ 1185-- summary under Paragraph 4(1)(a) Summary Under Tax Topics- Income Tax Act- Section 4- Subsection 4(1)- Paragraph 4(1)(a) acquired business was segregated from its expanded component A British taxpayer (Leekes) carrying on a retail trade through four stores acquired, for nominal consideration, all the shares of another company (Coles) carrying on a similar retail trade through three stores, and then effectively wound-up Coles so as to carry on the operations of the three former Coles’ stores directly. ... They cannot refer to the enlarged trade carried on by Leekes, because that trade had never been carried on by Coles, and Coles cannot therefore be deemed to have continued to carry it on. … [I]t is necessary to ascribe a deemed continuity to the former trade of Coles, although it now forms part of the merged business carried on by Leekes, and relief may only be obtained if and to the extent that Leekes then derives trading income from the former Coles trade. ...

Richter & Associates Inc v. The Queen, 2005 TCC 92-- summary under Paragraph 265(1)(f) Summary Under Tax Topics- Excise Tax Act- Section 265- Subsection 265(1)- Paragraph 265(1)(f) trustee's own suit and litigation support activity were related The trustee in bankruptcy for a company ("Castor") which had essentially only engaged in investing in high-yield loans brought an action in its capacity of trustee for the Castor estate against the former auditors ("C&L") for $40 million in damages for breach of contract, and also began a "litigation support business" of providing assistance to most of the creditors (the "Participating Creditors"), including hiring professionals and experts, in connection with their action sounding in negligence against C&L for $800 million in damages. ... It is clear that the services and properties related to litigation support services and properties acquired by the Estate in order to carry on the Litigation Support Business are also benefiting the Estate in the pursuit of its own legal action against C&L. … In any event…[r]egardless of whether the Estate should have filed its GST return as the Estate or as a separate person, the respondent's liability to pay the ITCs to the Estate would not change. ...

Ingenious Media Holdings plc & Anor, R (on the application of) v Commissioners for HMRC, [2016] UKSC 54-- summary under Principle of Legality Summary Under Tax Topics- Statutory Interpretation- Principle of Legality common law of confidentiality not overridden by general words A senior British tax official disclosed, in an “off the record” interview with some journalists, that the schemes of a particular promoter of film tax shelters had been generating large losses to the fisc, and they published this and other confidential information. HMRC argued that this disclosure was justified by a statutory provision which authorized a “disclosure … made for the purposes of a function” of HMRC, noting their “general desire to foster good relations with the media or to publicise HMRC’s views about elaborate tax avoidance schemes,” as well as to the possibility of getting tips from the journalists. ...

A-Supreme Nursing & Home Care Services Inc. v. The King, 2023 TCC 39-- summary under Section 6 Summary Under Tax Topics- Excise Tax Act- Schedules- Schedule V- Part II- Section 6 the provision of agency nurses to seniors’ homes qualified as exempt nursing services The appellant, in addition to providing nurses directly to individuals, placed nurses in the long-term care facilities and nursing homes of its Ontario clients and did not charge GST/HST on the related fees in reliance on the exemption for nursing services in Sched. ... Furthermore, although such Act “clearly puts the general responsibility of health care services on the operators of care homes” (para. 44), he considered (at para. 46) that: [T]he FCA’s decision [in HSC] should not be read to suggest that having general responsibility over the provision of health care services is a necessary condition to providing an exempt nursing services supply. … Finding otherwise would lead one to conclude that any service provided by a contractor is a supply of personnel rather than the service actually provided for. ...

Skatteforvaltningen (the Danish Customs and Tax Administration) v Solo Capital Partners LLP & Ors, [2023] UKSC 40-- summary under Revenue Rule Summary Under Tax Topics- Statutory Interpretation- Revenue Rule revenue rule and sovereign authority rule did not apply where the foreign authority was suing to recover stolen money rather than to recover taxes The respondent, which was the Danish Customs and Tax Divisions (“SKAT”) brought claims in an English civil court seeking to recover £1.44 billion which it had paid based on allegedly fraudulent claims for refunds of Danish dividend withholding tax – SKAT alleged that most of the appellants (“Solo Capital”) had fraudulently misrepresented that they, as shareholders of Danish companies, had been subject to withholding at a rate in excess of the Treaty-reduced rate on dividends when, in fact, they never had held any shares in any of the relevant Danish companies. ...