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Samarkand Film Partnership No. 3 & Ors v Revenue and Customs, [2017] EWCA Civ 77-- summary under Business Summary Under Tax Topics- Income Tax Act- Section 248- Subsection 248(1)- Business non-trading business At issue was whether two partnerships which acquired interests in films and immediately leased their acquired interest for fixed, increasing, secured and guaranteed rental payments for a 15 year period, and were acknowledged to have a business, were carrying on a trade. ... " In affirming the finding below (initially made by the First-Tier Tribunal) that the partnerships were not carrying on a trade, Arden LJ stated (at paras 59, 61, 66): … [I]t is now clear from Eclipse … that the question whether what the taxpayer actually did constitutes a trade has to be answered by standing back and looking at the whole picture…. … The [FTT’s] overall assessment of the commercial nature of the agreements as the payment of a lump sum in return for a series of fixed payments over 15 years…was not a crude conclusion based on an impermissible transformation of the taxpayers' activities into an economic equivalent, but rather a way of expressing the ultimate inference of fact which they drew from the totality of the primary facts which they had found. ...

In finding that the early-termination amounts so received by MEO were “for consideration” and, thus, subject to VAT, the Court stated (at paras. 39-40, 45): [A] supply of services is carried out ‘for consideration’, within the meaning of that provision, only if there is a legal relationship between the provider of the service and the recipient pursuant to which there is reciprocal performance, the remuneration received by the provider of the service constituting the actual consideration for the service supplied to the recipient …. This is the case if there is a direct link between the service supplied and the consideration received …. ... Thus, that supply is made by the supplier of services when it places the customer in a position to benefit from the supply, so that the existence of the abovementioned direct link is not affected by the fact that the customer does not avail himself of that right …. ...

Bishop (1902), 4 TC 464 (HL)-- summary under Payment & Receipt Summary Under Tax Topics- General Concepts- Payment & Receipt no constructive receipt The taxpayer, a UK life insurance company which was managed in London and had foreign branch businesses, was assessed for interest and dividends which it received on foreign securities held in the hands of agents abroad, and which were reinvested abroad, on the basis that it received such income in the U.K. ... …If it means something differing from or short of an actual receipt, then it seems to me that a constructive receipt is not recognised by the Statute, which in using the word "received" alone, must be taken to have used it having regard to its ordinary acceptation. … I am not myself prepared to say that what amongst business men is equivalent to a receipt of a sum of money is not a receipt within the meaning of the Statute…. ...

Canada (AG), 2014 DTC 5080 [at at 7056], 2014 MBQB 59-- summary under Rectification & Rescission Summary Under Tax Topics- General Concepts- Rectification & Rescission attempt to rescind employment contracts, on the basis that employees had not satisfied scientific research & experimental development requirements, was retroactive tax-planning CRA had found that the applicant's research into solutions for Sick Building Syndrome based on air treatment qualified for scientific research and experimental development credits. ...

Coopers & Lybrand Ltd. v. Bank of Montreal, [1993] GSTC 36 (Nfld. S.C.T.D.)-- summary under Subsection 299(2) Summary Under Tax Topics- Excise Tax Act- Section 299- Subsection 299(2) assessment not a proceeding In its 3 June 1992 order appointing Coopers & Lybrand as the receiver-manager of an insolvent company (“Lundrigans”), the Newfoundland Supreme Court order “that no action, application or other proceedings…shall be taken against the Debtor…without the prior consent of the Receiver and Manager.” ... If nothing follows the assessment, it is of no legal consequence. … In my view, the issuance of an assessment for GST is not an "action, application or other proceeding" within the contemplation of paragraph 8 of the Order. ...

Brodie & Anor, [1998] BTC 141 (Ch. D)-- summary under Subsection 102(2) Summary Under Tax Topics- Income Tax Act- 101-110- Section 102- Subsection 102(2) top tier partners are lower tier partnership members The taxpayers used borrowed money to make a contribution of capital to a partnership (Skeldon Estates) which was a member of a second partnership (Murdoch) which carried on a farming business utilizing farms owned by Skeldon Estate and the second partner of Murdoch. ... Murdoch & Son", it followed "that the money [was] thereby used wholly for the purposes of the trade carried on by the partners in W. Murdoch & Son." He went on to indicate (at p. 153) that under English law, where A and B are the partners in partnership X, and X and another person (C) form another partnership, partnership Y, A and B are considered to be partners in partnership Y in their capacity as members of partnership X. ...

Brodie & Anor, [1998] BTC 141 (Ch. D)-- summary under Section 253.1 Summary Under Tax Topics- Income Tax Act- Section 253.1 top tier partners are lower tier partnership members The taxpayers used borrowed money to make a contribution of capital to a partnership (Skeldon Estates) which was a member of a second partnership (Murdoch) which carried on a farming business utilizing farms owned by Skeldon Estate and the second partner of Murdoch. ... Murdoch & Son", it followed "that the money [was] thereby used wholly for the purposes of the trade carried on by the partners in W. Murdoch & Son." He went on to indicate (at p. 153) that under English law, where A and B are the partners in partnership X, and X and another person (C) form another partnership, partnership Y, A and B are considered to be partners in partnership Y in their capacity as members of partnership X. ...

Brodie & Anor, [1998] BTC 141 (Ch. D)-- summary under Paragraph 96(1)(f) Summary Under Tax Topics- Income Tax Act- Section 96- Subsection 96(1)- Paragraph 96(1)(f) The taxpayers used borrowed money to make a contribution of capital to a partnership (Skeldon Estates) which was a member of a second partnership (Murdoch) which carried on a farming business utilizing farms owned by Skeldon Estate and the second partner of Murdoch. ... Murdoch & Son", it followed "that the money [was] thereby used wholly for the purposes of the trade carried on by the partners in W. Murdoch & Son." He went on to indicate (at p. 153) that under English law, where A and B are the partners in partnership X, and X and another person (C) form another partnership, partnership Y, A and B are considered to be partners in partnership Y in their capacity as members of partnership X. ...

Deloitte & Touche, 128 OR (3d) 225, 2016 ONCA 11, rev'd in part 2017 SCC 63-- summary under Negligence, Fiduciary Duty and Fault Summary Under Tax Topics- General Concepts- Negligence, Fiduciary Duty and Fault auditors liable for failure to detect the company’s own fraud effected through its senior management A negligent audit by an auditing firm (“Deloitte”) of a Canadian public corporation (“Livent”), in which Deloitte failed to discover that senior management was fraudulently misstating the financial statements, was found by the trial judge to have resulted in damages to Livent, so that Deloittte was liable to the receiver-manager for Livent. ... In rejecting this submission, Blair JA noted (at para. 113) that the rationale for such an illegality (or “ ex turpi causa ”) defence “was to avoid “damage to the integrity of the legal system,” whereas this concern did not arise here as “the actual fraudsters will not profit from their wrongdoing and have not evaded criminal sanction…[n]or will Livent profit from the wrongdoing” (para. 156). ...

Slate Management Corporation v Canada (Attorney General), 2016 ONSC 4216-- summary under Rectification & Rescission Summary Under Tax Topics- General Concepts- Rectification & Rescission a generalized intent to achieve a s. 88(1)(d) bump was a sufficient basis to rectify in order to redo an amalgamation A purchaser (“SCC”) used a newly-formed AcquisitionCo (“GTA”) to acquire a Target (“HCC”). ... Hainey J noted (at para 13): … [T]his is not a case in which tax planning has been done on a retroactive basis. ...