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In reversing the Tax Court’s finding that s. 26 of the I nterpretation Act had not extended the time for the receipt by CRA of the waiver to that Monday, Biringer JA stated (at paras. 42 – 44, 47): There is nothing in the text to suggest a limitation on the type of thing (acte ou formalité) to which the provision applies or that there be the loss of a right. … Section 26 is a remedial provision. It provides relief when the time limit for doing a thing expires on a holiday, allowing the thing to be done on the next day that is not a holiday. … I am satisfied that the filing of a waiver is the “doing of a thing” for the purposes of section 26 …. … I do not view the time limited for filing a waiver as conceptually different for this purpose from the deadlines for filing a notice of objection or notice of appeal …. The Tax Court has applied section 26 … to extend the time for filing both …. ...

In reversing the Tax Court’s finding that s. 26 of the I nterpretation Act had not extended the time for the receipt by CRA of the waiver to that Monday, Biringer JA stated (at paras. 42 – 44, 47): There is nothing in the text to suggest a limitation on the type of thing (acte ou formalité) to which the provision applies or that there be the loss of a right. … Section 26 is a remedial provision. It provides relief when the time limit for doing a thing expires on a holiday, allowing the thing to be done on the next day that is not a holiday. … I am satisfied that the filing of a waiver is the “doing of a thing” for the purposes of section 26 …. … I do not view the time limited for filing a waiver as conceptually different for this purpose from the deadlines for filing a notice of objection or notice of appeal …. The Tax Court has applied section 26 … to extend the time for filing both …. ...

Canada, 2025 FCA 77-- summary under Subsection 111(5) Summary Under Tax Topics- Income Tax Act- Section 111- Subsection 111(5) Deans Knight applied to the acquisition of a public lossco by a SIFT trust In September 2007, a company (“Nexia”), which traded in loss companies, acquired all of non-voting common shares of an insolvent public corporation (“Biomerge”) (representing 80% of its equity) and 45% of its voting common shares. ... (para. 4) It was also immaterial that s. 256(7)(c)(i) (dealing specifically with a transaction of this type) was added only subsequently (“ Deans Knight … did not look at other provisions enacted after s. 111(5) in order to determine the object, spirit, and purpose of s. 111(5).” ...

., 2025 FCA 37-- summary under Rule 109 Summary Under Tax Topics- Other Legislation/Constitution- Federal- Federal Courts Rules- Rule 109 proposed intervention would impermissibly introduce a new issue The moving party (“QPG”) sought an order pursuant to Rule 109 of the Federal Courts Rules permitting it to intervene in this appeal by the Crown of the DAC decision, which found that there was no GAAR abuse in the taxpayer (DAC) avoiding the s. 123.3 refundable tax and accessing the s. 123.4 general rate reduction through continuing to the British Virgin Islands, thereby ceasing to be a Canadian-controlled private corporation (CCPC). ... Here, the parties had not put in issue the Minister’s designation of DAC as a CCPC in its notice of reassessment (presumably a designation pursuant to s. 89(1) – public corporation – (c)(ii)), whereas QPG wished to intervene on the issue of whether such a designation overrode the legislative criteria imposed by the Act for determining CCPC status. ... Before dismissing the motion to intervene, Stratas JA stated (at paras. 25-27): The issue raised by QPQ … seeks to reinvent the theory of the case. ...

Canada (Attorney General), 2025 FCA 9-- summary under Subparagraph 141.02(19)(b)(ii) Summary Under Tax Topics- Excise Tax Act- Section 141.02- Subsection 141.02(19)- Paragraph 141.02(19)(b)- Subparagraph 141.02(19)(b)(ii) it was reasonable to not extend under s. 141.02(19)(b)(ii) where the taxpayer failed to show due diligence The Bank, which had decided to outsource all its Canadian tax department to EY, was told by the last departing tax employee that its relevant tax credit amounts had not been at a level sufficient to be a qualifying institution. ... She stated (at para. 11) that “this Court has already determined that it is reasonable for the Minister to have regard to the diligence of a taxpayer in circumstances such as this: Denso Manufacturing … 2021 FCA 236 ” and that “even if … the Minister applied the wrong test in denying its applications for late filing, [the Bank] was still required to provide a reasonable explanation for its delay under the Hennelly test, which it failed to do.” ...

Canada, 2025 FCA 20-- summary under Subsection 248(10) Summary Under Tax Topics- Income Tax Act- Section 248- Subsection 248(10) series of transactions included the subsequent loss utilization which motivated corporate restart transactions Under a “restart” plan, the appellant changed its name, spun out its existing mining assets so that it was a shell with only tax losses, and B.C. real estate companies of two individuals (Grippo and Heung) transferred various real estate assets, including jointly owned properties, to the appellant for consideration that included shares of the appellant. ... [Thus] … there was an avoidance transaction since the series of transactions would, but for the GAAR, result in a tax benefit – a reductio ...

Canada, 2025 FCA 25-- summary under Subsection 180(3) Summary Under Tax Topics- Income Tax Act- Section 180- Subsection 180(3) a breach of procedural fairness by the Tax Court did not require allowing the taxpayer’s appeal The taxpayer, who was cognitively disabled from a brain injury and had limited ability to represent himself, used an agent to dispute assessments that treated (consistently with judgments on GST appeals by him for much of the same period) amounts as having been received by him qua employee, so that they were employment income for ITA purposes. ... However, she stated (at para. 32): A finding of a breach of procedural fairness renders a decision liable to be overturned …. However, where the result is inevitable, a court may exercise its discretion to not grant a remedy for the breach …. ...

Canada (the King), 2025 FCA 27-- summary under Supply Summary Under Tax Topics- Excise Tax Act- Section 123- Subsection 123(1)- Supply Ontario electricity suppliers made single supplies of electricity notwithstanding separate regulatory and delivery charges Bell Canada was required as a result of ETA s. 236.01 and the related regulation to recapture 100% of the input tax credits that it claimed in respect of the 8% Ontario HST that it paid on the consideration for the supplies to it in Ontario of electricity. ... In affirming this finding, Boivin JA distinguished Kevin Davis Dentistry, which gave effect to the expressed Parliamentary intent to “provide for different tax treatment of supplies of orthodontic appliances and orthodontic service” (para. 25) whereas, here, the Ontario regulations did “not amount to as clear an indicator of Parliament’s intent as the GST Act did in Kevin Davis Dentistry ” and “the intended tax treatment of what would constitute separate supplies in the present circumstances is not outlined in any statute as it was in the GST Act in Kevin Davis Dentistry ” (para. 28). ...

Canada (the King), 2025 FCA 83-- summary under Direct Input Summary Under Tax Topics- Excise Tax Act- Section 141.02- Subsection 141.02(1)- Direct Input whether head office rent was a direct input or non-attributable input was under dispute/ classification of inputs in hands of Tax Court Northbridge issued around 5,000 insurance policies each year to trucking companies operating in Canada and the US and claimed ITCs for 1/3 of the GST/HST paid by it on its general head office and overhead costs on the basis that a portion of its insurance supplies were zero-rated under s. ... There are four types of inputs for the purposes of section 141.02 — direct inputs, excluded inputs, exclusive inputs and non-attributable inputs — informing the appropriate allocation method that is to be used by a financial institution in calculating its ITCs. ...

Canada (the King), 2025 FCA 27-- summary under Specified Provincial Input Tax Credit Summary Under Tax Topics- Excise Tax Act- Section 236.01- Subsection 236.01(1)- Specified Provincial Input Tax Credit Ontario electricity suppliers made single supplies of electricity notwithstanding separate regulatory and delivery charges, so that there were full RITCs Bell Canada was required as a result of ETA s. 236.01 and the related regulation to recapture 100% of the input tax credits that it claimed in respect of the 8% Ontario HST that it paid on the consideration for the supplies to it in Ontario of electricity. ... In affirming this finding, Boivin JA distinguished Kevin Davis Dentistry, which gave effect to the expressed Parliamentary intent to “provide for different tax treatment of supplies of orthodontic appliances and orthodontic service” (para. 25) whereas, here, the Ontario regulations did “not amount to as clear an indicator of Parliament’s intent as the GST Act did in Kevin Davis Dentistry ” (para. 28). ...