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CRA considered that the substantial completion date was January 13, 2020, being the date that the local town conducted its final inspection of the property. ...

In determining whether there was substantial renovation of the Craven Road property and of the second property (the “Fourth Street” property) both parties accepted the use of the second of the three methods referred to in GST/HST Technical Information Bulletin B-092 for measuring whether a renovation had been “substantial” (with 90% appearing in B-092 as the minimum percentage for a property to be considered as having been “substantially renovated”). ...

In Montour, Bourque, J. had found that s. 42 was constitutionally inapplicable to the Mohawks in that case, who had also failed to pay duty on tobacco products: by reason of the circumstances of the case before her warranting a departure from the framework developed in Van der Peet ([1996] 2 S.C.R. 507) in respect of Aboriginal rights- so that the applicants' participation in the tobacco trade should be considered protected by an Aboriginal right to freely trade; and by reason of an inferred meta-treaty (the Covenant Chain) having been unjustifiably breached by s. 42 because the Crown had not discussed tobacco-related issues with the Mohawks prior to the passage of the Excise Act. ...

Wagner and Gason JJ. stated (at paras 17, 19 & 20): Solicitor-client privilege has evolved from being treated as a mere evidentiary rule to being considered a rule of substance and, now, a principle of fundamental justice… …[F]acts connected with that relationship (such as the bills of account at issue in Maranda [2003 SCC 67, [2003] 3 S.C.R. 193 at paras. 33-34]) must be presumed to be privileged absent evidence to the contrary…. ...

However, he considered that if he were wrong on this mechanical valuation point, the transactions would have entailed an abuse of s. 160, stating (at para. 167): I find that the Respondent has sufficiently demonstrated the existence of an underlying policy against allowing those who incur liability for income tax from reducing, through transfers to non-arm’s length parties at a time where the transferor is so liable or reasonably likely to anticipate incurring such liability, the pool of assets with which they may satisfy that tax debt. ...

The taxpayer’s expert considered that the FMV of the shares of Holdco should take into account income taxes payable by the shareholder of Holdco on its own account (discounted to 50%) in the event of a redemption of the shares. ...

The Crown considered that the PSLP business losses were deemed to be limited partnership losses of MLP – which meant that they were effectively trapped in MLP given that s. 111 (and, thus, the ability to deduct limited partnership losses under s. 111(1)(e)) was only available to a taxpayer and not to a partnership. ...

However, in my view, that remote a connection is not sufficient for one to conclude that the Unit Loans can reasonably be considered to relate to the gifts made by the Appellants to TGTFC. ...

. … In finding that the Jersey companies had their central management and control in the U.K. at all relevant times, so that the appeal was dismissed, she concluded (at paras 426 and 430): Unlike Wood v Holden … this was not a case where the board considered a proposal and, having taken appropriate advice, decided that it was in the best interests of the companies to enter into it. ...

It is true that the judge assimilated this concept to the fact that the Kiena mine was “in practice … considered as closed.” ...