Section 159

Subsection 159(1) - Person acting for another

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Re City of Kitchener and Regional Assessment Commissioner for Regional Municipality of Waterloo (1978), 23 OR (2d) 190 (Ont. D. Ct.)

A property that a municipality had sold to a developer, and leased back from the developer under a net lease that provided that the property would...

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Words and Phrases
belong

Subsection 159(2) - Certificate before distribution

Cases

Bougie v. The Queen, 90 DTC 6529 (FCTD)

A clearance certificate issued by the Minister in error to the executrix of an estate did not preclude the Minister from seeking to collect unpaid...

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Parsons v. MNR, 83 DTC 5329, [1983] CTC 321 (FCTD), rev'd 84 DTC 6345, [1983] CTC 352 (FCA)

Directors who declared (and had the corporation pay) a dividend after the corporation had received a "nil" assessment but before a substantial...

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Malka v. The Queen, 78 DTC 6144, [1978] CTC 219 (FCTD)

The taxpayer, who was a shareholder, director and officer of a company, distributed all the assets of the company to its shareholders without...

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Horvath Estate (Re), 2023 ABKB 643

The personal representatives of an insolvent estate proposed to distribute its remaining assets pro rata to all the unsecured creditors in...

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Crown prerogative

Commissioner of Taxation v. Australian Building Systems Pty Ltd (In Liquidation), [2015] HCA 48

On 6 April2011, the creditors of Australian Building Systems Pty Ltd. ("ABS") resolved that it be wound up. On 21 July 2011, the liquidators...

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due

Nguyen v. The Queen, 2011 DTC 1059 [at 324], 2010 TCC 503

The taxpayers deposited the proceeds from two life insurance policies (which were payable to designated beneficiaries rather than to the estate)...

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Sous-Ministre du Revenu c. Morganti, [1997] R.J.Q. 348 (C.A.)

After a corporation had defaulted under a bank loan secured by a commercial pledge, the bank obtained a seizure before judgment on the pledged...

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Pâquet v. MNR, 92 DTC 2151, [1992] 1 CTC 2699 (TCC)

The appellant was the sole director of a corporation which sold its business assets, paid a dividend to the taxpayer and loaned a substantial...

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Dauphin Plains Credit Union Ltd. v. Xyloid Industries Ltd., 80 DTC 6123, [1980] CTC 247, [1980] 1 S.C.R. 1182

Pigeon J found (at p. 6130) that "the word 'liquidation' [has] its wide meaning in usual language," so that it included a dsitribution of all the...

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liquidation

Administrative Policy

30 May 2018 External T.I. 2017-0717981E5 - Clearance certificate for a non-resident

A former resident of Canada (and after her death, her non-resident estate, which had exclusively non-resident beneficiaries) received CPP,...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 116 - Subsection 116(3) non-resident beneficiaries whose capital interests are TCP are required to apply for certificate 95

May 2017 CPA Alberta Roundtable, ITA Q.7

What is the process for multiple representatives (e.g., executors or corporate directors) to each receive a clearance certificate, as required by...

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7 October 2016 APFF Financial Strategies and Instruments Roundtable Q. 7, 2016-0651751C6 F - Recovery Tax of Qualified Disability Trust

A testator created a trust for the benefit of his mentally incapacitated son, with the trustees accorded the discretion to distribute income and...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 122 - Subsection 122(2) recovery tax applies to undistributed income in a QDT at the time of the disabled beneficiary’s death 213
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 122 - Subsection 122(3) - qualified disability trust s. 122(1)(c) liability in year of death of disabled beneficiary 55

3 May 2016 CALU Roundtable Q. 5, 2016-0632641C6 - Clearance certificate & GRE rules

While a graduated rate estate may allocate a charitable donation tax credit within 60 months from the individual’s date of death in cases where...

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8 August 2014 Internal T.I. 2014-0524971I7 - Distributing Estate Property When Estate is Liable

An estate's property consists solely of a registered education savings plan ("RESP"), which had been transferred to the estate for distribution to...

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May 2013 ICAA Roundtable, Q. 6 (reported in April 2014 Member Advisory)

CRA was referred to the huge variability in the times for dealing with and processing clearance certificate "including one file which has been...

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27 March 2013 Internal T.I. 2012-0457251I7 - Appn of 159 to executor who distributes property

Respecting whether ss. 159(2) and (3) apply to an executor who distributes property in order to satisfy (a) a debt owed to a credit card company;...

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11 October 2012 External T.I. 2012-0432861E5 - Clearance certificate under 159(2)

A partnership "could" be a "taxpayer" for the purpose of s. 159(2) so that a general partner of a limited partnership, viewed as a legal...

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14 March 2011 External T.I. 2010-0390311E5 - Section 159 of the Income Tax Act

Where a taxpayer dies with a tax debt larger than the value of his estate, the administrator would be at risk of an assessment under s. 159(3) if...

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4 July 2002 External T.I. 2002-0130675 F - Sec. 159 - Payments on Behalf of Others

CCRA indicated that a lawyer acting for the purchaser in an asset purchase was not a legal representative of the vendor for s. 159(2) purposes...

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10 January 1996 External T.I. 9600885 - CERTIFICATE BEFORE DISTRIBUTION

"A person may be found to be a de facto liquidator, notwithstanding the fact that the formalities of a liquidation under corporate law have not...

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8 October 2010 Roundtable, 2010-0373611C6 F - Certificat avant distribution

A trust, whose sole trustee is a corporation, acquired, as its only asset, a property valued at $50 million (the "Property") in consideration for...

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distribute
Locations of other summaries Wordcount
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 159 - Subsection 159(3) directors of corporate trustee generally are generally not liable under s. 159(3) 151

5 November 2003 External T.I. 2003-0045085 F - Section 159-Payments on Behalf of Others159(2)

CCRA agreed with the “position that the trustee in bankruptcy exemption in subsections 159(2) and 159(3) would apply only to a person acting in...

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7 May 1991 Memorandum (Tax Window, No. 3, p. 29, ¶1249)

Although there is no authority under the Act for RC to assess a dissolved corporation, the governing corporate law may permit action to be taken...

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28 March 1991 Memorandum (Tax Window, No. 2, p. 2, ¶1222)

A general partner is a "like person", and will be liable for the payment of income taxes owing by any partner if he distributes property of the...

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IT-368 "Corporate Distributions - Clearance Certificates"

Articles

Sklar, "Clearance Certificates Required Before Paying Off Creditors?", Willpower No. 32, 28 August 1997, p. 1.

Wertschek, "The Tax Advisor and Commercial Law: Some Issues", 1993 Conference Report, pp. 22-24: Discussion of potential shareholder liability following a dissolution.

Subsection 159(3) - Personal liability

Cases

Muth Estate, 2019 ABQB 922

After litigation as to whether the separated spouse (Ms. Muth) of the deceased was entitled to receive under his estate, a mediated settlement was...

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Canada v. Wesbrook Management Ltd., [1997] 1 CTC 124, 96 DTC 6590

A subsidiary of the taxpayer, which had received a nil assessment and nil reassessment by the Minister for the taxation year in question, was...

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Boger Estate v. MNR, 91 DTC 5506, [1991] 2 CTC 168 (FCTD)

After finding against the Minister on other grounds, Joyal J. accepted the Crown's submission that the fact that a clearance certificate has been...

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Tax Topics - Statutory Interpretation - Provincial Law 27

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Mingle v. The Queen, 2022 TCC 34

The taxpayer, and his brother, James, became executors of their father’s estate in 1994. Most of the estate was left to James, and a portion was...

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trustee de son tort
Locations of other summaries Wordcount
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 222 - Subsection 222(5) - Paragraph 222(5)(c) assessment of executor under s. 159(3) within the s. 222(4) 10-year period restarted the limitation period pursuant to s. 222(5)(c) 63
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(1) - Legal Representative a de facto executor was a legal representative 157

Goldman v. The Queen, 2021 TCC 13

The taxpayer was designated as the beneficiary of her mother’s RRSP, but was orally told by her mother that this was occurring on the condition...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 160 - Subsection 160(1) s. 160(1) did not apply to a transfer to an individual qua trustee of a valid oral trust 483
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - 101-110 - Section 104 - Subsection 104(2) trustee had no liability for application of s. 160(1) to transfer to the trust, absent s. 159(3) 215
Tax Topics - Other Legislation/Constitution - Federal - Tax Court of Canada Rules (General Procedure) - Section 49 - Subsection 49(1) “taking note” of a fact pleaded by the taxpayer is not a permitted Crown response 131
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - 101-110 - Section 104 - Subsection 104(1) oral instructions, before her death, by mother to daughter re application of the proceeds of her RRSP gave rise to a trust 208

Groscki v. The Queen, 2017 TCC 249 (Informal Procedure)

The appellant was the director of a Macao corporation (EMI Macao) that following an adverse ITA amendment disposed of all its inventory, that had...

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liquidator
Locations of other summaries Wordcount
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(1) - Legal Representative director without liquidator authorization was not legal representative 88
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 20 - Subsection 20(1) - Paragraph 20(1)(p) - Subparagraph 20(1)(p)(ii) reporting of bad debt deduction on “net” basis not permitted/specifically-evidenced claims required 316

RMM Canadian Enterprises Inc. v. The Queen, 97 DTC 302, [1998] 1 C.T.C. 2300 (TCC)

A non-resident corporation ("EC") approached a business associate who, along with two other individuals, formed a Canadian corporation ("RMM") to...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 245 - Subsection 245(3) 188
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 245 - Subsection 245(4) 235
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 251 - Subsection 251(1) - Paragraph 251(1)(c) purchaser of cash-rich company without any signifcant separate role did not deal at arm's length 177
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 84 - Subsection 84(2) application of s. 84(2) to sale of cash-rich company to accommodation party who quickly paid cash proceeds therefor 222
Tax Topics - Treaties - Income Tax Conventions 96
Tax Topics - Treaties - Income Tax Conventions - Article 10 116

Administrative Policy

6 November 2019 Internal T.I. 2019-0798021I7 F - Assessment under 159(3)

An Ontario inter vivos trust with two trustees (the "Legal Representatives"), timely filed its returns for the taxation years up to 2013, and...

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14 September 2016 External T.I. 2016-0638171E5 - Liability under section 159

The “Trustee” of a trust holds a portfolio of securities whose fair market value is $125,000 on December 31, 2014. The 2014 return of the sole...

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liable

31 March 2014 External T.I. 2013-0513191E5 - Director/Executor liability

What is the potential liability of the executor of an estate where the deceased was the sole shareholder and director of an inactive corporation...

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8 October 2010 Roundtable, 2010-0373611C6 F - Certificat avant distribution

A trust, whose sole trustee is a corporation, acquired, as its only asset, a property valued at $50 million (the "Property") in consideration for...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 159 - Subsection 159(2) repayment of note to unsecured creditor was a distribution 197

Subsection 159(5)

Administrative Policy

15 June 2022 STEP Roundtable Q. 4, 2022-0929911C6 - Death and Tax Payment over 10 Years

The tax payable by a deceased individual respecting certain income and gains under s. 70(2), 70(5) or 70(5.2)) may, pursuant to s. 159(5), be paid...

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1 March 2004 External T.I. 2003-0017861E5 F - Bien agricole admissible

Mr. B, who inherited farmland from his father, used the land for farming for a number of years before selling part of it. There was a deemed...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - 101-110 - Section 110.6 - Subsection 110.6(1) - Qualified Farm or Fishing Property - Paragraph (a) - Subparagraph (a)(iii) farm satisfied the qualified farm property definition on the death of an individual who, with his father, had used it in farming 149

Subsection 159(6.1) - Election where subsection 104(4) applicable

Administrative Policy

29 July 2015 External T.I. 2015-0594201E5 - Election under 159(6.1)

Is the s. 159(6.1) election available for a tax liability arising from a deemed disposition of resource property under s. 104(5.2)? CRA...

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