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According to the evidence, the period that can be considered as a building construction period within the meaning of TA section 135.4 LI is a four-month period, from April 12, 2013 to July 17, 2013.... [E]xpenses incurred before and after this period must be considered current and non-capitalizable. ...

CRA considered that there was a requirement to recognize deemed interest income on the notes under Reg. 7000(2)(d) given that, in contrast to the usual equity-linked notes that were available to investors at the time, these notes had “internal puts,” i.e., SLT had the right to terminate the notes at any time, on 367 days’ notice, at the market value of the reference assets. On this basis, it considered that the “the maximum amount of interest thereon that could be payable thereunder in respect of that year” was the difference between the maximum value of the reference assets at the end of the year and the maximum value in the prior years, and assessed accordingly, to treat such annual increase as foreign accrual property income of SLT under element C of the s. 95(1) FAPI definition. ...

White, there is real doubt, for reasons unrelated to a desire to escape the Ramsay approach, as to whether a tax-saving scheme will be put into effect, it is easy to understand why the requisite "pre-ordained series of transactions" or "single composite transaction" should not be considered to exist. ... It by no means follows that the Ramsay approach should be incapable of applying wherever the ultimate purchaser and price cannot be identified. … The FTT considered that the sale to Merrill Lynch "sufficiently corresponded to the scheme as planned" and commented that it "would be extraordinary if the application of the Ramsay approach could be defeated by the sale being to brokers rather than to the market by brokers on behalf of the Irish Trustees" …. ...

He went on to indicate (at para. 49) that in any event, the daughter could be considered to be “subject to tax” (or “liable for tax” to use his preferred translation, and also essentially the phrase considered in Crown Forest): … The income tax legislation … applies to all Canadian residents … because they may, in one year or another, earn business income in Quebec…. ...

CRA considered that there was a requirement to recognize deemed interest income on the notes under Reg. 7000(2)(d) given that, in contrast to the usual equity-linked notes that were available to investors at the time, these notes had “internal puts,” i.e., SLT had the right to terminate the notes at any time, on 367 days’ notice, at the market value of the reference assets. On this basis, it considered that the “the maximum amount of interest thereon that could be payable thereunder in respect of that year” was the difference between the maximum value of the reference assets at the end of the year and the maximum value in the prior years, and assessed accordingly, to treat such annual increase as foreign accrual property income of SLT under element A of the s. 95(1) FAPI definition. ...

The statutory language (quoting for convenience from s. 120.4(5)) relevantly required that an “amount can reasonably be considered to be attributable to a taxable capital gain … of a trust from a disposition of shares … that are transferred, either directly or indirectly, in any manner whatever, to a person with whom the specified individual does not deal at arm's length….” ... [S]ection 766.7.2 can only be interpreted and have meaning when there are two legal transactions related to the shares, namely, first, the disposition of the shares that will subsequently be transferred to generate an amount that could reasonably be considered to be attributable to a taxable capital gain …. ...

This amount can reasonably be considered to be part of the consideration for the disposition of property (the Building) of the taxpayers (the Appellants), and the remainder of this amount can reasonably be considered to be part of the consideration for the disposition of the property of 9118, namely the goodwill and other moveable property of the SR. ...

This term referred inter alia to a transaction that “is not one that may reasonably be considered to have been undertaken or arranged primarily for a bona fide purpose other than for the purpose of obtaining the tax benefit.” ... To use the language of the provisions, the RVO is a transaction that may reasonably be considered to have been undertaken or arranged primarily for a bona fide purpose other than for the purpose of obtaining the tax benefit. ...

Furthermore, in TD Securities, the taxpayer was able to demonstrate that it was being treated differently from other fiscally transparent entities, which was considered by Boyle J to be an unreasonable result, whereas here, no unreasonable consequences had been established. ... Allen J stated (at para. 76): As to Boyle J.'s conclusion that TD LLC must be considered to be liable to tax by virtue of all of its income being fully and comprehensively taxed under the U.S. ...

Executors of Karmel, [1984] BTC 330 (HC)-- summary under Land Summary Under Tax Topics- General Concepts- Fair Market Value- Land In determining the open market value of the assets of an estate, the assets must be considered as they were when the deceased died. ...