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The King, 2025 TCC 63-- summary under Scientific Research & Experimental Development Summary Under Tax Topics- Income Tax Act- Section 248- Subsection 248(1)- Scientific Research & Experimental Development purported SR&ED was routine engineering conducted by trial and error In confirming the denial of the claim of the taxpayer that it had engaged in experimental development in building mobile direct-contact water heaters for use in fracking, Spiro, J. found that: there was an absence of any expert evidence demonstrating technological risks or uncertainties which could not have been removed by routine engineering or standard procedures, and the work could instead be characterized as routine engineering. the taxpayer could not identify hypotheses that were tested by its work, which could instead be characterized as having been conducted by trial and error; it had not been demonstrated that the work constituted a technological advance; and insufficient records were kept. ...

Canada (Attorney General), 2025 ONCA 65-- summary under Rectification & Rescission Summary Under Tax Topics- General Concepts- Rectification & Rescission capital dividends were agreed to be paid in amounts that overlooked a CDA deficit: no rectification A plan was implemented for successive capital dividends to be paid up a chain of corporations so that the individual who was the ultimate shareholder could have a tax-free receipt of $1.4 million. ... …The corporate resolutions that were signed … accurately reflect the agreement. ...

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.... ...

Canada, 2023 QCCS 3510, rev'd 2025 QCCA 134-- summary under Rectification & Rescission Summary Under Tax Topics- General Concepts- Rectification & Rescission transaction documents rectified because they did not implement the parties' intention to not trigger Part IV tax Four individuals held their indirect holdings of 10%, 10%, 5% and 5% of the common shares of a Canadian-controlled private corporation (Structures) through three holding companies (the "Holdcos"). ...

Galea v The Assessment Review Committee & Anor (Mauritius), [2025] UKPC 17-- summary under Business Summary Under Tax Topics- Income Tax Act- Section 248- Subsection 248(1)- Business deer-hunting activity was a business based on the taxpayer's subjective intention of generating a profit Whether the taxpayer could deduct his 92% share of the losses incurred by a Mauritius partnership (of which he was the dominant partner) from his other sources of income turned on whether the partnership was carrying on a “business,” whose definition in the Mauritian Income Tax Act 1995 relevantly referred to "any trade … or undertaking, or any other income earning activity, carried on with a view to profit. ...