Section 120.4

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Subsection 120.4(1) - Definitions

Arm's Length Capital

Administrative Policy

5 October 2018 APFF Roundtable Q. 13, 2018-0778661C6 F - Tax on Split Income

A family trust (“Trust”) distributed the taxable portion of its gain on the sale of qualified small business corporation shares (of Opco) to...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Shares returns to a spouse and older children from a Holdco in which they reinvested their Opco capital gains exemption could qualify as excluded amounts 317
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Amount - Paragraph (e) - Subparagraph (e)(i) amounts not derived from a business were excluded amounts 153

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Joint Committee, "Legislative Proposals to Address Income Sprinkling Released December 13, 2017", 8 March 2018 Joint Committee Submission

Exclusion for arm’s length borrowing even where no source-individual guarantee (p. 11)

The definition of “arm’s length capital” for adults...

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Paragraph (c)

Administrative Policy

7 October 2021 APFF Roundtable Q. 17, 2021-0901071C6 - Application of section 120.4

Mr. X held all the preferred shares of Opco Inc. representing more than 50% of the voting rights. Opco paid a $10,000 capital dividend on its...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Amount - Paragraph (e) - Subparagraph (e)(i) exclusion where business from which the dividend was derived had ceased in a prior year 640

Excluded Amount

Administrative Policy

26 March 2013 External T.I. 2012-0465001E5 - kiddie tax

The minor child of the owner of a Canadian-controlled private corporation purchased the shares of the CCPC with money received in universal child...

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Joint Committee, "Legislative Proposals to Address Income Sprinkling Released December 13, 2017", 8 March 2018 Joint Committee Submission

Failure of attribution rules to dovetail with excluded amount definition (p. 15)

  • Where s. 75(2) or 56(4.1) deems an amount of taxable capital...

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Paragraph (a)

Administrative Policy

15 February 2006 External T.I. 2005-0126831E5 F - 120.4(1) - définition : montant exclu

In finding that income from shares acquired by a minor child from money received as a consequence of the death of a parent was not excluded under...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(5) phrase “substituted property” must be used to engage s. 248(5) 94

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Joint Committee, "Legislative Proposals to Address Income Sprinkling Released December 13, 2017", 8 March 2018 Joint Committee Submission

No exclusion for transfers from grandparents or perhaps adoptive parents (p. 11)

  • S. (a)(i) of “excluded amount” does not include transfers of...

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Joint Committee, "Legislative Proposals to Address Income Sprinkling Released December 13, 2017", 8 March 2018 Joint Committee Submission

No exclusions for indirect s. 55(3)(a) transfers or extraordinary discretionary dividends on existing shares ((p. 10)

  • Where, following a...

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Joint Committee, "Legislative Proposals to Address Income Sprinkling Released December 13, 2017", 8 March 2018 Joint Committee Submission

Insufficient flow through of attributes under QSBC provisions to beneficiary of trust (p. 16)

  • As the qualified small business corporation...

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Paragraph (e)

Subparagraph (e)(i)

Administrative Policy

7 October 2021 APFF Roundtable Q. 17, 2021-0901071C6 - Application of section 120.4

Situation (a)

The shares (of only one class) of Investco were owned 95% by Mr. X and 5% by his spouse, Ms. Y. Investco wholly owned Opco, and also...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Arm's Length Capital - Paragraph (c) a capital dividend from a related business was not a source of arm’s length capital 245

15 June 2021 STEP Roundtable Q. 4, 2021-0883141C6 - TOSI on Dividends

Many years ago, three Canadian-resident brothers pooled their savings and incorporated TDH, whose only class of shares is owned equally by them...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Shares excluded share, or excluded amount - (e)(i), exclusion would apply re dividend income from equally–owned real estate rental company 154

3 December 2019 CTF Roundtable Q. 9, 2019-0824421C6 - Excluded Amount-Non-related Business exception

The (e)(i) exclusion applied where the corporation in question (which presumably is paying dividends to a specified individual who was never...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Related Business - Paragraph (a) - Subparagraph (a)(ii) source individual status retained after arm's length sale if continued active involvement in business 438

11 June 2019 External T.I. 2019-0795291E5 F - Tax on Split Income - 120.4(1) excluded amount

Mr. A bequeathed all the common shares of Opco to his surviving spouse, Ms. B, who was actively engaged on a regular, continuous and substantial...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Related Business no TOSI tax applied to a dividend received from the surviving step-mother’s company 221

27 November 2018 CTF Roundtable Q. 9, 2018-0779981C6 - TOSI–Excluded Amount - Non-Related Bus. Exception

Mr. and Mrs. A (both over 25) are equal shareholders of ACo, which two years previously sold the Old Business in which Mrs. A had been actively...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Shares investment business a business for excluded share purposes 165

2 November 2018 External T.I. 2018-0771861E5 - TOSI: Second generation income

Mr. and Mrs. A (both over 30) respectively own 100 voting and 100 non-voting common shares of Investco which wholly-owns Opco (with a non-services...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1.1) - Paragraph 120.4(1.1)(d) amounts derived from a related business do not include capital gains from the passive investment of the dividends therefrom 265

5 October 2018 APFF Roundtable Q. 13, 2018-0778661C6 F - Tax on Split Income

A family trust (“Trust”) distributed the taxable portion of its gain on the sale of qualified small business corporation shares (of Opco) to...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Shares returns to a spouse and older children from a Holdco in which they reinvested their Opco capital gains exemption could qualify as excluded amounts 317
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Arm's Length Capital no exclusion for arm’s length capital contribution where contribution derived from capital gain from related business 201

5 October 2018 APFF Roundtable Q. 11, 2018-0768821C6 F - Tax on Split Income

Mr. X holds all the voting shares of Opco, a family trust (“Trust”) holds all the participating shares of Opco, and Child X (age 30 and not...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Related Business - Paragraph (a) - Subparagraph (a)(i) stock market investing business of child's holdco not a related business as father not involved 290

Subparagraph (e)(ii)

Administrative Policy

7 October 2021 APFF Roundtable Q. 18, 2021-0901091C6 - TOSI continuity rule for inherited property

The will of an individual (Mr. X), who had for many years been actively involved in the business of an Opco, provided for a portion of his Opco...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1.1) - Paragraph 120.4(1.1)(b) - Subparagraph 120.4(1.1)(b)(ii) a dividend on shares that were distributed by an inter vivos trust, as directed in a will 15 years previously, can be excluded by s. 120.4(1.1)(b)(ii) 660

10 January 2020 External T.I. 2019-0819431E5 - TOSI

A professional corporation (PC1), whose voting shares have been held by Dr. A (a physician) and whose non-voting participating shares have been...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Related Business business was related business even if dividends paid after business’ discontinuance 441
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Shares - Paragraph (c) GAAR could be applied where excluded share status is achieved through shifting a professional services business 533

3 December 2019 CTF Roundtable Q. 8, 2019-0824411C6 - TOSI - Excluded Business

ABC Co., which was wholly-owned by a family trust, of which Mr. and Mrs. A (both over 24) are beneficiaries, carried on a trucking business in...

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6 August 2019 External T.I. 2019-0792001E5 F - Tax on split income and excluded business

Mr. X had for more than five years been actively engaged on a regular, continuous and substantial basis in the construction business of a...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1.1) - Paragraph 120.4(1.1)(a) paid but non-worked days do not count 188
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1.1) - Paragraph 120.4(1.1)(d) - Subparagraph 120.4(1.1)(d)(ii) same-year limitation of the exclusion for income derived from the proceeds of an excluded business 230

19 August 2019 External T.I. 2019-0814181E5 - TOSI - interpretation of "excluded business"

Para. (b) of the “excluded business” definition of the tax on split income (TOSI) rules includes in an excluded business of a specified...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Business - Paragraph (b) drop-down of business does not restart the 5-year count 262

25 May 2018 External T.I. 2018-0761601E5 - Correspondence with XXXXXXXXXX re Tax on Split Income

The spouse (Spouse B) of the shareholder of a corporation with a construction and property management business works 25 hours in the property...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Shares - Paragraph (b) no excluded share exception where interposition of family trust or holdco 138
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1.1) - Paragraph 120.4(1.1)(a) keeping time logs will “ensure that businesses are able to comply with the new rules” 189
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Shares - Paragraph (a) - Subparagraph (a)(i) shares of pizzeria but not hair salon were excluded 242

Paragraph (g)

Articles

Govindadeva Bernier, Tim Scholz, "Income Sprinkling Using Private Corporations", Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer (with thanks to “Finance Canada officials for their helpful technical discussions”), 8 March 2018

Overview of 13 December 2017 changes (pp. 6-7)

Specified individuals aged 18 to 24 would be required to provide a greater labour contribution, as...

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Subparagraph (g)(i)

Administrative Policy

5 October 2018 APFF Roundtable Q. 9, 2018-0768801C6 F - Tax on Split

2018 STEP Roundtable Q.7 indicated that the shares of a holding company (or of a company generating no business income) cannot qualify as excluded...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Shares - Paragraph (a) - Subparagraph (a)(i) portfolio investment company might qualify as having a business 540

Subparagraph (g)(ii)

Administrative Policy

7 August 2019 External T.I. 2019-0814161E5 - Application of Reasonable Return - TOSI

An individual (Spouse B) who, quite unlike Spouse A, was not involved in the business of Opco, received distributions of s. 104(19) dividends from...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Reasonable Return shares subscribed for out of a joint bank account should not be treated as having been funded by a passive spouse in applying the reasonable return TOSI exception 250

Excluded Business

Administrative Policy

15 June 2022 STEP Roundtable Q. 8, 2022-0928251C6 - TOSI and multiple businesses

A husband and wife owning a number of corporations, each of which has its own business and full-time staff, work on a full-time basis for the...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1.1) - Paragraph 120.4(1.1)(a) splitting long hours between many companies may oust s. 120.4(1.1)(a) 103

26 November 2020 STEP Roundtable Q. 10, 2020-0837641C6 - TOSI - Excluded Business

After a husband and wife’s corporation (in whose business they had worked full time for 5 years) has sold its business and reinvested the...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Split Income investing carried on with the proceeds of sale of a business in which the spousal shareholders had been engaged full time generally would generate TOSI on resulting dividends 168

26 November 2020 STEP Roundtable Q. 9, 2020-0837631C6 - TOSI - Excluded Business

A husband and wife own shares of various corporations, each with its own business, and both work on a full-time basis (i.e., over 20 hours...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1.1) - Paragraph 120.4(1.1)(a) hours worked for multiple corporations cannot be aggregated for purposes of the 20-hour test 203

7 June 2019 STEP Roundtable Q. 4, 2019-0799911C6 - TOSI & Meaning of Excluded Business

The spouse of a professional works over 20 hours per week as a part-time receptionist in the professional practice of his corporation (XCo). She...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1.1) - Paragraph 120.4(1.1)(a) spouse on achieving 20-hour threshold could receive large dividends as excluded amounts 119

7 June 2019 STEP Roundtable Q. 3, 2019-0799901C6 - TOSI and Hours Worked

A business is carried on through a corporation owned by husband and wife, who each contribute 5 hours per week of time to the business. Is the...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1.1) - Paragraph 120.4(1.1)(a) falling below 20 hours not presumptive 82

3 December 2018 CPA Canada Roundtable, 2018-0773811C6 - Tax on Split Income (TOSI)

Example V: Excluded business based on prior 5 years (pp. 33-34)

Farmco’s shareholders are Father, Mother and a Family Trust for Child 1 and...

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26 September 2018 External T.I. 2018-0770911E5 - Revised income sprinkling rules

Regarding the 20-hour rule in s. 120.4(1.1)(a), the Explanatory Notes state:

An average work commitment of less than 20 hours per week could...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1.1) - Paragraph 120.4(1.1)(a) parental leave need not detract from satisfying the regular, “continuous” and substantial TOSI test 256

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Joint Committee, "Legislative Proposals to Address Income Sprinkling Released December 13, 2017", 8 March 2018 Joint Committee Submission

5 taxation years of the specified individual may be what is referenced (p. 13)

  • It is unclear whether “any five prior taxation years” refers...

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Paragraph (a)

Administrative Policy

11 October 2019 APFF Roundtable Q. 18, 2019-0812771C6 F - TOSI Actively Engaged

Individual B is a source individual in respect of Individual A. Individual A holds only 5% of the shares of Aco but is “actively engaged on a...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Reasonable Return potential application of reasonable return exception where on mat leave or disability 211

Paragraph (b)

Administrative Policy

19 August 2019 External T.I. 2019-0814181E5 - TOSI - interpretation of "excluded business"

A source individual (“Mr. A”) transferred his catering business to a newly incorporated corporation (“Opco”) in consideration for Opco...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Amount - Paragraph (e) - Subparagraph (e)(ii) 5-year excluded business exception can take into account involvement while business held by predecessor 154

27 February 2019 External T.I. 2018-0783741E5 - TOSI and the meaning of "Excluded Business"

From 2001 to 2006 inclusive, Ms. B was employed 40 hours per week in the active business of Opco (wholly owned by Mr. A), then ceased working. In...

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Excluded Shares

Administrative Policy

15 June 2021 STEP Roundtable Q. 4, 2021-0883141C6 - TOSI on Dividends

Many years ago, three Canadian-resident brothers pooled their savings and incorporated a corporation, whose only class of shares is owned equally...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Amount - Paragraph (e) - Subparagraph (e)(i) a passive real estate company would not generate TOSI to its equal significant shareholders 219

7 November 2018 External T.I. 2018-0777361E5 - TOSI and dividend income, including from a trust

In 2018, the estate of the Deceased (the “Estate”) acquired all the voting preferred shares of “Investco” (a taxable Canadian corporation...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1.1) - Paragraph 120.4(1.1)(b) general discussion of s. 120.4(1.1)(b) 340

27 November 2018 CTF Roundtable Q. 10, 2018-0780081C6 - TOSI – Excluded Shares & Related Business

29 May 2018 STEP Roundtable Q.7, 2018-0744031C6 indicated that the shares of a corporation that did not generate business income (e.g., a...

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27 November 2018 CTF Roundtable Q. 9, 2018-0779981C6 - TOSI–Excluded Amount - Non-Related Bus. Exception

Mr. and Mrs. A (both over 25) are equal shareholders of ACo, which two years previously sold the Old Business in which Mrs. A had been actively...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Amount - Paragraph (e) - Subparagraph (e)(i) “derivation” for TOSI purposes of dividends from previously earned income from a related business 285

5 October 2018 APFF Roundtable Q. 13, 2018-0778661C6 F - Tax on Split Income

A family trust (“Trust”) distributed the taxable portion of its gain on the sale of qualified small business corporation shares (of Opco) to...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Arm's Length Capital no exclusion for arm’s length capital contribution where contribution derived from capital gain from related business 201
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Amount - Paragraph (e) - Subparagraph (e)(i) amounts not derived from a business were excluded amounts 153

29 May 2018 STEP Roundtable Q. 7, 2018-0744031C6 - Excluded Shares

Assume that a corporation has no business income because it derives income from property (possibly rental income from real property where the...

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29 May 2018 STEP Roundtable Q. 6, 2018-0743971C6 - Excluded Shares – Holding Company

In general terms, is it possible for shares of a holding company to qualify as "excluded shares"?

CRA indicated that the definition of excluded...

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29 May 2018 STEP Roundtable Q. 5, 2018-0743961C6 - Tax on Split Income

In the definition of excluded shares, subpara. (a)(i) refers to 90% of the corporation’s "business income" whereas para. (c) uses "all or...

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Joint Committee, "Legislative Proposals to Address Income Sprinkling Released December 13, 2017", 8 March 2018 Joint Committee Submission

Para. (c) exclusion for income form a related business taints a holding company receiving dividends from a wholly-owned Opco with an active...

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Paragraph (a)

Subparagraph (a)(i)

Administrative Policy

2021 Alberta CPA Roundtable under “Tax on Split Income – Services Restriction to Excluded Shares”

The CRA website provides examples of the calculation of the 90% services exclusion in s. (a)(i) of the "excluded share" definition, which...

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13 March 2020 External T.I. 2019-0833181E5 - TOSI - Excluded Shares

Is the income of a corporation that produces and “sells” training videos as digital downloads from its website to be considered as income from...

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2 December 2019 CTF Conference - Paul Wilson in "New Taxation Rules for Private Corporations: So far, so reasonable?" under “Scenario 2”

Paul Wilson (Director, Medium Business Audit Division, Small and Medium Enterprises Directorate) provided comments noted below on the following...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Related Business low threshold for determining whether there is a business for TOSI purposes 303

Tax on split income – Excluded shares (CRA webpage) 10 July 2019

Example 3 (plumbing business with changing mix)

A corporation generates 95% and 5% of its revenues in 2017 from repair and maintenance services...

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3 December 2018 CPA Canada Roundtable, 2018-0773811C6 - Tax on Split Income (TOSI)

Gross income from services v. goods

Where goods are provided in combination with a service and the goods are not incidental (e.g., auto repairs...

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5 October 2018 APFF Financial Strategies and Instruments Roundtable Q. 2, 2018-0765791C6 F - Tax on Split Income

2018 STEP Roundtable Q.7 indicated that the shares of a corporation that did not generate business income (e.g., a corporation that generated...

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5 October 2018 APFF Roundtable Q. 9, 2018-0768801C6 F - Tax on Split

2018 STEP Roundtable Q.6 and Q.7 confirmed that the shares of a holding company (or of a company generating no business income) cannot qualify as...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Amount - Paragraph (g) - Subparagraph (g)(i) inactive spouse could receive excluded amount dividends from Holdco if its income was from an active business of reinvesting Opco dividends 280

25 May 2018 External T.I. 2018-0761601E5 - Correspondence with XXXXXXXXXX re Tax on Split Income

A corporation owned 50-50 by two spouses (Family 1) operates a hair salon which derives more than 90% of its income from the provision of...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Shares - Paragraph (b) no excluded share exception where interposition of family trust or holdco 138
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Amount - Paragraph (e) - Subparagraph (e)(ii) where spouse works in only one of two businesses, excluded amount determination requires “separate accounting for each business and a tracing of funds” 167
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1.1) - Paragraph 120.4(1.1)(a) keeping time logs will “ensure that businesses are able to comply with the new rules” 189

8 May 2018 CALU Roundtable Q. 6, 2018-0745871C6 - Tax on Split Income

Mr. X, age 35 year, owns 15% of the shares of Transportco (representing 15% of the votes and value). Transportco earns all or substantially all of...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Shares - Paragraph (c) shares of a holding company generally do not qualify as excluded shares 175

Paragraph (b)

Administrative Policy

23 August 2021 Internal T.I. 2020-0856081I7 - Interaction of subsection 82(3) and section 120.4

The s. 82(3) election allows a taxpayer (the higher income earner in a couple) to elect to have a taxable dividend from any taxable Canadian...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 82 - Subsection 82(3) s. 82(3) election can convert a TOSI dividend to a dividend on an excluded share 489

21 August 2018 External T.I. 2018-0771811E5 - 120.4 Excluded Shares

Where a shareholder has non-voting common shares with a fair market value (“FMV”) equal to 20% of the total FMV of the corporation and...

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25 May 2018 External T.I. 2018-0761601E5 - Correspondence with XXXXXXXXXX re Tax on Split Income

In confirming that the excluded share exception is available where dividends are paid to a spouse through a holding company (of which the spouse...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Amount - Paragraph (e) - Subparagraph (e)(ii) where spouse works in only one of two businesses, excluded amount determination requires “separate accounting for each business and a tracing of funds” 167
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1.1) - Paragraph 120.4(1.1)(a) keeping time logs will “ensure that businesses are able to comply with the new rules” 189
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Shares - Paragraph (a) - Subparagraph (a)(i) shares of pizzeria but not hair salon were excluded 242

Paragraph (c)

Administrative Policy

5 August 2022 External T.I. 2021-0877051E5 F - TOSI and excluded amount

Each of three resident siblings were the respective beneficiaries, along with their spouses and children, of three trusts each holding an equal...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Related Business 2nd generation income not derived from business/ interest received from company employing sibling a related business/ ownership test in (c) may be satisfied through a family trust 976

8 April 2020 External T.I. 2020-0839581E5 - TOSI - "Excluded Shares"

2019-0819431E5 concerned a medical practice corporation (PC1) (which had reinvested its earnings in a significant investment portfolio) whose...

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10 January 2020 External T.I. 2019-0819431E5 - TOSI

A professional corporation (PC1), whose voting shares have been held by Dr. A (a physician) and whose non-voting participating shares have been...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Related Business business was related business even if dividends paid after business’ discontinuance 441
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Amount - Paragraph (e) - Subparagraph (e)(ii) "derived directly or indirectly" to be construed broadly 220

9 August 2019 External T.I. 2019-0813021E5 - TOSI and excluded shares

Partnership AB, which carries on an active non-services business, is held by two corporate partners (Partnerco A and Partnerco B). The shares of...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 96 - Subsection 96(1) - Paragraph 96(1)(f) partner carries on business of partnership 108

12 June 2019 External T.I. 2019-0792011E5 F - TOSI definition excluded shares

Investco held all the shares of Opco, which was the only related business in respect of the specified individual. In Year X and prior years, Opco...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1.1) - Paragraph 120.4(1.1)(d) income derived from related business included income from reinvesting sales proceeds from sale thereof in preceding year 119

24 May 2019 External T.I. 2019-0802331E5 - TOSI and excluded shares

Are capital gains “income” under para. (c) “excluded shares,” and are allowable capital losses incurred the year deducted under para....

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8 May 2018 CALU Roundtable Q. 6, 2018-0745871C6 - Tax on Split Income

Can shares of a holding corporation qualify as “excluded shares”? CRA responded:

The definition of excluded shares should generally not...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Shares - Paragraph (a) - Subparagraph (a)(i) services/property distinction informed by rationale of the safe harbour exclusions 268

Reasonable Return

Administrative Policy

15 June 2021 STEP Roundtable Q. 3, 2021-0883151C6 - Reasonable Return on Note

Where a family trust distributes its income to a beneficiary by issuing an interest bearing promissory note, if the beneficiary is not a minor and...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Split Income - Paragraph (d) - Subparagraph (d)(i) interest-bearing promissory note distributed to passive beneficiary regarding a related business would be includible under para. (d) subject to reasonable return exclusion 267

2 December 2019 CTF Conference - Paul Wilson in "New Taxation Rules for Private Corporations: So far, so reasonable?" under “Reasonable return”

Paul Wilson (Director, Medium Business Audit Division, Small and Medium Enterprises Directorate) elaborated on the statement in 2018-0771851E5...

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11 October 2019 APFF Roundtable Q. 18, 2019-0812771C6 F - TOSI Actively Engaged

A specified individual, who holds only 5% of the shares of Aco has however been “actively engaged on a regular, continuous and substantial...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Business - Paragraph (a) loss of excluded business exception when specified individual went on extended mat leave or disability 324

7 August 2019 External T.I. 2019-0814161E5 - Application of Reasonable Return - TOSI

Spouses A and B are among the beneficiaries of a discretionary family trust holding Holdco which, in turn, holds Opco in whose business Spouse B...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Amount - Paragraph (g) - Subparagraph (g)(ii) broad construction of reasonable return exception would violate TOSI policy 229

2 November 2018 External T.I. 2018-0771851E5 - TOSI: Meaning of Reasonable Return

Mr. and Mrs. X (both over 25) incorporate XCo, subscribe a nominal amount for non-voting and voting common shares, respectively and lend the...

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Paragraph (b)

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Govindadeva Bernier, Tim Scholz, "Income Sprinkling Using Private Corporations", Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer (with thanks to “Finance Canada officials for their helpful technical discussions”), 8 March 2018

Preferred scenario assumes that all spouses aged over 24 are earning a reasonable return (pp. 1-2)

The Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) …...

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Kevyn Nightingale, "Private Company Income-Splitting Proposal Part 3: The Government Responds", Tax Topics (Wolters Kluwer), No. 2389-90, December 21, 2017, p. 1

Intractability of linking business income/gains to individual contribution (p. 3)

Business income and gains are inherently different from...

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Preferred scenario assumes that all spouses aged over 24 are earning a reasonable return (pp. 1-2)

The Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) …...

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Related Business

Administrative Policy

5 August 2022 External T.I. 2021-0877051E5 F - TOSI and excluded amount

Each of three resident siblings (C-1, C-2 and C-3, all over 25) held an equal number of non-voting preferred shares of Investco, their father...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Shares - Paragraph (c) test not satisfied due to interest from company employing a sibling 440

10 January 2020 External T.I. 2019-0819431E5 - TOSI

A professional corporation (PC1), whose voting shares have been held by Dr. A (a physician) and whose non-voting participating shares have been...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Shares - Paragraph (c) GAAR could be applied where excluded share status is achieved through shifting a professional services business 533
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Amount - Paragraph (e) - Subparagraph (e)(ii) "derived directly or indirectly" to be construed broadly 220

2 December 2019 CTF Conference - Paul Wilson in "New Taxation Rules for Private Corporations: So far, so reasonable?" under “Scenario 2”

Paul Wilson (Director, Medium Business Audit Division, Small and Medium Enterprises Directorate) provided comments noted below on the following...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Shares - Paragraph (a) - Subparagraph (a)(i) quaere whether low-service hotel business is a services business 392

11 June 2019 External T.I. 2019-0795291E5 F - Tax on Split Income - 120.4(1) excluded amount

In 2018, following his marriage to Ms. B, who was not the mother of his 33-year old son (Son A), Mr. A died. Mr. A bequeathed all of the common...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Amount - Paragraph (e) - Subparagraph (e)(i) dividend received from widowed step-mother's company was not re a related business 134

Paragraph (a)

Subparagraph (a)(i)

Administrative Policy

5 October 2018 APFF Roundtable Q. 11, 2018-0768821C6 F - Tax on Split Income

All the voting shares of Opco are held by Mr. X and all its participating shares are held by a family trust (“Trust”). In the prior year,...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Amount - Paragraph (e) - Subparagraph (e)(i) dividends derived from stock portfolio of Holdco excluded because stock portfolio not a related business or not a business 449

Subparagraph (a)(ii)

Administrative Policy

3 December 2019 CTF Roundtable Q. 9, 2019-0824421C6 - Excluded Amount-Non-related Business exception

A specified individual (the “Individual”) receives a dividend paid out of corporate income that is derived, directly or indirectly, from a...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Amount - Paragraph (e) - Subparagraph (e)(i) a transitional services agreement with an arm’s length purchaser can engage the TOSI rules 86

3 December 2018 CPA Canada Roundtable, 2018-0773811C6 - Tax on Split Income (TOSI)

Example III: Income not from a related business (pp. 23-24)

B, aged 20, was issued 20% of the shares of Opco (a CCPC) as part of his compensation...

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5 October 2018 APFF Financial Strategies and Instruments Roundtable Q. 3, 2018-0765801C6 F - Tax on Split Income

Jean on his decease left proceeds of an insurance policy and non-registered investments (which had been acquired by him out of accumulated...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Split Income - Paragraph (e) - Subparagraph (e)(ii) deemed s. 104(21) capital gains retained their character as stock market gains 185
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1.1) - Paragraph 120.4(1.1)(c) - Subparagraph 120.4(1.1)(c)(ii) s. 120.4(1.1)(c)(ii) exclusion where investment portfolio business of spousal trust had been carried on directly by deceased husband 342

Paragraph (c)

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Joint Committee, "Legislative Proposals to Address Income Sprinkling Released December 13, 2017", 8 March 2018 Joint Committee Submission

Valuation difficulties where shares of Opco are held through a trust (p. 13)

  • Para. (c) of “related business” looks at whether a specified...

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Subparagraph (c)(i)

Clause (c)(i)(B)

Administrative Policy

5 October 2018 APFF Roundtable Q. 10, 2018-0768811C6 F - Related business and subsection 120.4(1)

The definition of “related business” – (c)(i)(B) references a business of a corporation where a source individual owns property “that...

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Split Income

Administrative Policy

7 October 2021 APFF Roundtable Q. 2, 2021-0900901C6 F - TOSI and scenarios to recuperate the AMT

An operating company (Zco) employs the spouse (Ms. Z) of its sole shareholder (Mr. Z). As the salary amount ($100,000) might be unreasonable in...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Split Income - Paragraph (g) - Subparagraph (g)(ii) only amount in excess of reasonable return is not an excluded amount 278
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Split Income - Paragraph (d) TOSI rules inapplicable to loans to an individual 220

26 November 2020 STEP Roundtable Q. 10, 2020-0837641C6 - TOSI - Excluded Business

A husband and wife both worked in the business of a corporation for at least 20 hours a week for 5 years. Subsequently, the business was sold,...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Business questioned availability of excluded business exception where investing activity 163

26 November 2020 STEP Roundtable Q. 7, 2020-0837611C6 - TOSI and Rental Property

Related individuals hold a rental property in co-tenancy. Is the rental income, or any taxable capital gains from a disposition, split income? ...

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Paragraph (a)

Subparagraph (a)(i)

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7 June 2019 STEP Roundtable Q. 14, 2019-0798511C6 - TOSI and PBE

The Summary portion of 2018-0759521E5 indicated that if a s. 104(19) designation is made respecting a preferred beneficiary income amount...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - 101-110 - Section 104 - Subsection 104(19) designation can be avoided by including dividend in "other income" box 110

7 June 2019 STEP Roundtable Q. 13, 2019-0798501C6 - TOSI and PBE

Para. (c) of the “split income” definition refers to amounts included in a beneficiary’s income under s. 104(13), but not under s. 104(14)...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Split Income - Paragraph (c) exclusion inapplicable to dividend income flowed through to a preferred beneficiary 168

5 October 2018 APFF Roundtable Q. 12, 2018-0768831C6 F - Tax on Split Income and Partnership

The five partners of a family partnership that generates and distributes passive income from stock market investments are Mr. and Mrs. X and their...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - 101-110 - Section 103 - Subsection 103(1.1) having non-contributing children as members of a family stock market partnership is subject to challenge under s. 103 85
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 96 - Subsection 96(1.8) having non-contributing children in a family portfolio investment partnership subject to potential challenge under ss. 74.1 and 96(1.8) 93

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Tim Barrett, Kevin Duxbury, "Corporate Integration: Outbound Structuring in the United States After Tax Reform", 2018 Conference Report (Canadian Tax Foundation), 18:1-76

Double-taxation of FAPI where TOSI rules apply (p. 18:31)

[T]he TOSI rules do not interact well with FAPI. On the one hand, FAPI included in a...

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Stan Shadrin, Manu Kakkar, Alex Ghani, "FAPI and TOSI Overlap: 107 Percent Tax is Not Fair", Tax for the Owner-Manager, Vol. 20, No. 1, January 2020, p.5

Example of dual (s. 95(2)(b)) FAPI and TOSI

Mr. A and Ms. B own 50% each of the shares of Passive Foreignco and of the shares (having a nominal...

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Paragraph (c)

Administrative Policy

7 June 2019 STEP Roundtable Q. 13, 2019-0798501C6 - TOSI and PBE

Is an amount, included in a beneficiary’s income under a preferred beneficiary election, split income under para. (c) of the “split income”...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Split Income - Paragraph (a) - Subparagraph (a)(i) no exclusion for dividend income flowed out to preferred beneficiary 108

6 July 2018 External T.I. 2018-0759521E5 - Tax on split income & preferred beneficiary

A trust that is a limited partner of a partnership (“LP”) providing back office support to a general partnership of accounting professionals...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - 101-110 - Section 104 - Subsection 104(14) split income rules do not apply to preferred beneficiary income 89

10 March 2014 Internal T.I. 2013-0493971I7 F - Application of section 120.4

X "split" his professional income with a limited liability partnership (SENCRL) of which one of the partners was a trust for the benefit of...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - 101-110 - Section 103 - Subsection 103(1.1) allocation of income to partner not responsible for expenses 185
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - 101-110 - Section 103 - Subsection 103(1) income-splitting partnership terms 158

11 October 2013 APFF Roundtable, 2013-0495651C6 F - Revenu fractionné

A discretionary family trust with Father, Mother and a 15-year old Child as beneficiaries, holds a building with two premises – the first leased...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - 101-110 - Section 104 - Subsection 104(13) streaming of split and non-split income between trust beneficiaries 98

20 May 2002 External T.I. 2002-0117885 F - Lien de dépendance et application de 120.4

In Situation 1, three trusts (Trusts X, Y and Z, of which each had as its two discretionary beneficiaries, three individuals and their respective...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 251 - Subsection 251(2) - Paragraph 251(2)(a) trustee is related to individual if its trustee is so related 99
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - 101-110 - Section 104 - Subsection 104(1) s. 104(1) indicates that related party status of trust is tested through its trustee 97

Articles

Joseph Frankovic, "Income Splitting and Attribution", Tax Topics, Wolters Kluwer, No. 2250, April 23, 2015

[T]he rules were introduced in 2000 in response to certain tax planning scenarios that circumvented the income attribution rules and were...

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Subparagraph (c)(ii)

Clause (c)(ii)(C)

Administrative Policy

Guidance on the application of the split income rules for adults 15 December 2017 CRA Webpage

Example 1 (trust distribution to inactive under-25 child)

Opco dividend distributed by discretionary family trust to age-23 child who never worked...

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28 March 2012 External T.I. 2011-0422531E5 F - Revenu fractionné

How is "split income" determined where, in a particular taxation year, a portion of the amount included in the income of a beneficiary of a trust...

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Clause (c)(ii)(D)

Administrative Policy

5 October 2018 APFF Financial Strategies and Instruments Roundtable Q. 4, 2018-0765811C6 F - Tax on Split Income

A spousal trust for Jocelyne (“Trust”) holds five commercial rental properties (generating $250,000 in annual rents, which had been managed by...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1.1) - Paragraph 120.4(1.1)(c) - Subparagraph 120.4(1.1)(c)(ii) exclusion where rental portfolio of spousal trust was a directly-conducted business of deceased husband 316

9 October 2015 APFF Roundtable Q. 2, 2015-0595521C6 F - Meaning of "actively engaged"

The reference in (D) of the "split income" definition to "actively engaged on a regular basis" can reasonably be considered to be partly...

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Paragraph (d)

Administrative Policy

7 October 2021 APFF Roundtable Q. 2, 2021-0900901C6 F - TOSI and scenarios to recuperate the AMT

A family trust allocates and distributes to Child Y (the 15 years old child of Mr. Y and Ms. Y) $400,000 of the capital gain realized by it on the...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Split Income - Paragraph (g) - Subparagraph (g)(ii) only amount in excess of reasonable return is not an excluded amount 278
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Split Income TOSI inapplicable to payment of excessive salary by one spouse’s company to the other spouse 163

Subparagraph (d)(i)

Administrative Policy

15 June 2021 STEP Roundtable Q. 3, 2021-0883151C6 - Reasonable Return on Note

Where a family trust distributes its income to an adult beneficiary with no involvement in a related business owned directly or indirectly by the...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Reasonable Return the reasonable return TOSI exclusion can apply to interest-bearing promissory notes issued in satisfaction of family trust distributions 297

11 October 2019 APFF Roundtable Q. 15, 2019-0812741C6 F - TOSI and interest income earned by a trust

S. (d)(i) of the s. 120.4(1) “split income” definition excludes an amount in respect of a debt obligation of a mutual fund corporation or...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - 101-110 - Section 108 - Subsection 108(5) - Paragraph 108(5)(a) source character of trust income maintained in the absence of s. 108(5)(a) appplication 72

Paragraph (e)

Articles

Martin Lee, Manu Kakkar, Thanusan Raveendran, "Section 48.1: TOSI Trap in Going Public", Tax for the Owner-Manager (Canadian Tax Foundation), Vol. 20, No. 1, January 2020, p. 4

Potential desirability of making s. 48.1 election even where shares are not QSBC shares (p. 4)

Capital gains arising from a disposition of shares...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 48.1 - Subsection 48.1(1) TOSI rules have resulted in the s. 48.1(1) election being less frequently desirable 138

Subparagraph (e)(ii)

Administrative Policy

5 October 2018 APFF Financial Strategies and Instruments Roundtable Q. 3, 2018-0765801C6 F - Tax on Split Income

Jean on his decease left proceeds of an insurance policy and non-registered investments (which had been acquired by him out of accumulated...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Related Business - Paragraph (a) - Subparagraph (a)(ii) related business if children manage investment business of trust whose interest income is distributed to mother 447
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1.1) - Paragraph 120.4(1.1)(c) - Subparagraph 120.4(1.1)(c)(ii) s. 120.4(1.1)(c)(ii) exclusion where investment portfolio business of spousal trust had been carried on directly by deceased husband 342

Paragraph (g)

Subparagraph (g)(ii)

Administrative Policy

7 October 2021 APFF Roundtable Q. 2, 2021-0900901C6 F - TOSI and scenarios to recuperate the AMT

In what was intended to be a strategy for the recovery of alternative minimum tax, Mr. X lent $100,000 to his spouse, Ms. X (also aged 30), at the...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Split Income - Paragraph (d) TOSI rules inapplicable to loans to an individual 220
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Split Income TOSI inapplicable to payment of excessive salary by one spouse’s company to the other spouse 163

Split Portion

Paragraph (b)

Finance

2017 CTF Finance Roundtable, Q.7

If, for example, mother provides start-up capital for her son’s company, Finance accepts that it would be reasonable for her to receive a high...

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Articles

Kevyn Nightingale, "Private Company Income Splitting: Part 2 – Observations", Tax Topics (Wolters Kluwer), No. 2371, 17 August 2017, p. 1

Split income if outputs exceed inputs (p. 2)

The proposals imply that outputs are equal to inputs. …

[A]ssume that in a successful family...

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Subsection 120.4(1.1)

Paragraph 120.4(1.1)(a)

Administrative Policy

15 June 2022 STEP Roundtable Q. 8, 2022-0928251C6 - TOSI and multiple businesses

A resident husband and wife owning a number of corporations, each of which has its own business and full-time staff, work on a full-time basis for...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Business individual’s contributions to a business are considered substantial if they are integral to its success 205

26 November 2020 STEP Roundtable Q. 9, 2020-0837631C6 - TOSI - Excluded Business

A husband and wife collectively work full-time for various of their companies but work no more than an average of 4 hours per week in the business...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Business a specified individual splitting full-time work amongst multiple corporations might meet the excluded business activity test on less than 4 hours per week per corporation 255

6 August 2019 External T.I. 2019-0792001E5 F - Tax on split income and excluded business

If an employee normally works 7 hours per day but in a particular week she has a holiday day (e.g., a statutory holiday) for which she is paid,...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Amount - Paragraph (e) - Subparagraph (e)(ii) no excluded amount where excluded business had ceased in prior year 284
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1.1) - Paragraph 120.4(1.1)(d) - Subparagraph 120.4(1.1)(d)(ii) same-year limitation of the exclusion for income derived from the proceeds of an excluded business 230

7 June 2019 STEP Roundtable Q. 4, 2019-0799911C6 - TOSI & Meaning of Excluded Business

The spouse (the “Spouse”) of a professional (the “Individual”) owns non-voting preferred shares of his professional corporation...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Business an excluded amount can exceed arm’s length remuneration for the services rendered 93

7 June 2019 STEP Roundtable Q. 3, 2019-0799901C6 - TOSI and Hours Worked

A business is carried on through a corporation owned by husband and wife, who each contribute 5 hours per week of time to the business. This did...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Business husband and wife each contributing 5 hours per week to business could have an excluded business 236

26 September 2018 External T.I. 2018-0770911E5 - Revised income sprinkling rules

Would the correspondent’s spouse, who normally works, on average, more than 20 hours per week in the business of the correspondent’s...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Business parental leave did not detract from satisfying activity level test 190

25 May 2018 External T.I. 2018-0761601E5 - Correspondence with XXXXXXXXXX re Tax on Split Income

How must a business owner show that a spouse or child worked at least 20 hours in the business in the past five years if no formal records were...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Shares - Paragraph (b) no excluded share exception where interposition of family trust or holdco 138
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Amount - Paragraph (e) - Subparagraph (e)(ii) where spouse works in only one of two businesses, excluded amount determination requires “separate accounting for each business and a tracing of funds” 167
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Shares - Paragraph (a) - Subparagraph (a)(i) shares of pizzeria but not hair salon were excluded 242

Paragraph 120.4(1.1)(b)

Administrative Policy

7 June 2019 STEP Roundtable Q. 6, 2019-0799941C6 - TOSI tracing of attributes

Mr. A (who had a passive role in Opco’s business) died one year before Mrs. A (who had been actively involved for more than five years), and...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1.1) - Paragraph 120.4(1.1)(b) - Subparagraph 120.4(1.1)(b)(ii) successive legatees can rely on the same activity-level of the original testator under s. 120.4(1.1)(b)(ii) 231

7 November 2018 External T.I. 2018-0777361E5 - TOSI and dividend income, including from a trust

CRA found that where an estate received a deemed dividend on the redemption of preferred shares of a corporation carrying on an investment...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Shares an estate is a blocker for accessing the TOSI excluded share exemption 369

Articles

Joint Committee, "Legislative Proposals to Address Income Sprinkling Released December 13, 2017", 8 March 2018 Joint Committee Submission

Flow-through of attributes on 3rd generation transfers, inheritance from active and inactive parents or as a result of single property...

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Subparagraph 120.4(1.1)(b)(ii)

Administrative Policy

7 October 2021 APFF Roundtable Q. 18, 2021-0901091C6 - TOSI continuity rule for inherited property

A discretionary family trust (the "Trust") held all the Class C non-voting common shares of Opco having an FMV of $1,500,000, and Mr. X held all...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Amount - Paragraph (e) - Subparagraph (e)(ii) s. 120.4(1.1)(b)(ii) can apply to shares distributed by inter vivos trust but as directed in will, so that (e)(ii) exclusion can apply 286

3 December 2019 CTF Roundtable Q. 7, 2019-0824401C6 - TOSI and Inherited Property

Mr. X owns 100,000 voting preference shares of a corporation (“Investco”), whose non-voting common shares had been acquired on an estate...

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7 June 2019 STEP Roundtable Q. 6, 2019-0799941C6 - TOSI tracing of attributes

Mrs. A has been actively engaged in the (services) business of Opco for at least five years, whereas Mr. A, the other shareholder, had not been so...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1.1) - Paragraph 120.4(1.1)(b) a subsequent bequest of Opco shares from the active mother converts previous bequest of shares from the inactive father into good shares for TOSI purposes 205

Paragraph 120.4(1.1)(c)

Administrative Policy

Subparagraph 120.4(1.1)(c)(ii)

Administrative Policy

7 June 2019 STEP Roundtable Q. 5, 2019-0799961C6 - TOSI and Spouse Age 65+

Will the s. 120.4(1.1)(c) exclusion apply where the deceased spouse qualified under the “excluded shares” exception based on direct ownership...

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5 October 2018 APFF Financial Strategies and Instruments Roundtable Q. 4, 2018-0765811C6 F - Tax on Split Income

A spousal trust for Jocelyne (“Trust”) holds five commercial rental properties (generating $250,000 in annual rents, which had been managed by...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Split Income - Paragraph (c) - Subparagraph (c)(ii) - Clause (c)(ii)(D) no TOSI on net rental income of spousal trust on properties managed by son if excluded amounts 193

5 October 2018 APFF Financial Strategies and Instruments Roundtable Q. 3, 2018-0765801C6 F - Tax on Split Income

Jean on his decease left proceeds of an insurance policy and non-registered investments (which had been acquired by him out of accumulated...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Split Income - Paragraph (e) - Subparagraph (e)(ii) deemed s. 104(21) capital gains retained their character as stock market gains 185
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Related Business - Paragraph (a) - Subparagraph (a)(ii) related business if children manage investment business of trust whose interest income is distributed to mother 447

Paragraph 120.4(1.1)(d)

Administrative Policy

12 June 2019 External T.I. 2019-0792011E5 F - TOSI definition excluded shares

In Year X3, Investco sells all the shares of Opco, which was the only related business respecting the specified individual (Investco’s...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Shares - Paragraph (c) two years were required to pass before proceeds from the sale of a related business could generate excluded share income for TOSI purposes 280

2 November 2018 External T.I. 2018-0771861E5 - TOSI: Second generation income

Mr. and Mrs. A (both over 30) respectively own 100 voting and 100 non-voting common shares of Investco which wholly-owns Opco (with a non-services...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Amount - Paragraph (e) - Subparagraph (e)(i) dividends generated from the investment of dividends received from a related business (or gains from such investments) are not themselves derived from that business 391

Subparagraph 120.4(1.1)(d)(ii)

Administrative Policy

6 August 2019 External T.I. 2019-0792001E5 F - Tax on split income and excluded business

CRA acknowledged that the “derived directly or indirectly” phrase in s. (e)(ii) of the definition of “excluded amount” was quite broad,...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1) - Excluded Amount - Paragraph (e) - Subparagraph (e)(ii) no excluded amount where excluded business had ceased in prior year 284
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 120.4 - Subsection 120.4(1.1) - Paragraph 120.4(1.1)(a) paid but non-worked days do not count 188

Articles

Joint Committee, "Legislative Proposals to Address Income Sprinkling Released December 13, 2017", 8 March 2018 Joint Committee Submission

Broad scope including potential iterative derivation (pp. 11-12)

Would the following amounts be considered as derived directly or indirectly from...

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Subsection 120.4(3)

Administrative Policy

26 November 2020 STEP Roundtable Q. 8, 2020-0837621C6 - TOSI and Donations

An individual has a large taxable capital gain that is split income. Can a donation of the sales proceeds generate a credit that reduces the tax...

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Joint Committee, "Legislative Proposals to Address Income Sprinkling Released December 13, 2017", 8 March 2018 Joint Committee Submission

Failure of attribution rules to generate FTCs (p. 15)

Attributed income will not be entitled to foreign tax credits under subsection 120.4(3)...

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Govindadeva Bernier, Tim Scholz, "Income Sprinkling Using Private Corporations", Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer (with thanks to “Finance Canada officials for their helpful technical discussions”), 8 March 2018

95% of additional federal tax to be collected from families with taxable income over $150,000

The Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) … computed...

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Subsection 120.4(4) - Taxable capital gain

Administrative Policy

10 June 2013 STEP Roundtable, 2013-0480261C6 - 2013 STEP Roundtable Question 1

Crystallization transaction

A child of parent seeks to crystallize an accrued gain on shares of Opco, which is controlled by parent, by...

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22 October 2012 External T.I. 2012-0432241E5 F - Impôt des enfants mineurs - gain en capital

A minor child holding shares of a corporation equally with the child’s parent and who wishes to "crystallize" the capital gains deduction...

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Subsection 120.4(5)

Cases

Brent Carlson Family Trust v. Canada (National Revenue), 2021 FC 506

In implementing a plan to maximize the utilization by family members of the capital gains exemption (“CGE”) on the sale to an arm’s length...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 85 - Subsection 85(7.1) CRA had been confused by the rectification jurisprudence in rejecting an amended s. 85(1) election 623

See Also

Ménard v. Agence du revenu du Québec, 2021 QCCQ 3891

In 2012, a discretionary family trust engaged in a capital gains crystallization transaction in which it disposed of shares, having a modest ACB,...

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