Section 251.1

Subsection 251.1(1)

Administrative Policy

18 February 2002 External T.I. 2000-0046075 - Trust Affiliated with a Corporation

Reiteration of CCRA policy that a trust is affiliated with another trust if it has the same trustee, or with a corporation which is controlled by...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - 101-110 - Section 104 - Subsection 104(1) "unless context otherwise requires" 69

Paragraph 251.1(1)(a)

Cases

Miller Estate v. Canada (Attorney General), 2002 DTC 7577, 2002 FCA 445

An estate was unsuccessful in a submission that, by virtue of a court order which restricted the distribution or administration of the estate, the...

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Administrative Policy

4 April 2003 External T.I. 2002-0171635 F - PERTE APPARENTE

The superficial loss rules did not apply where an individual sold his shares of a public corporation at a loss and, within 30 days of that sale,...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 54 - Superficial Loss purchase within 30 days by daughter of share vendor did not engage the superficial loss rules 46
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 40 - Subsection 40(3.3) purchase within 30 days by daughter of share vendor’s controlling shareholder did not engage the superficial loss rules 59
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 251.1 - Subsection 251.1(1) - Paragraph 251.1(1)(b) corporation and daughter of its controlling shareholder not affiliated 59

Paragraph 251.1(1)(b)

Administrative Policy

2009 Ruling 2008-0289771R3 - Loss Consolidation

A corporation ("Lossco") that was controlled by an individual ("X") was accepted as being affiliated with a corporation ("Opco") that was held by...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 111 - Subsection 111(1) - Paragraph 111(1)(a) iteration of loss transactions 74

4 April 2003 External T.I. 2002-0171635 F - PERTE APPARENTE

The suspended loss rules did not apply where a holding company sold its shares of a public corporation at a loss and, within 30 days of that sale,...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 54 - Superficial Loss purchase within 30 days by daughter of share vendor did not engage the superficial loss rules 46
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 40 - Subsection 40(3.3) purchase within 30 days by daughter of share vendor’s controlling shareholder did not engage the superficial loss rules 59
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 251.1 - Subsection 251.1(1) - Paragraph 251.1(1)(a) father and daughter not affiliated 46

6 March 2001 External T.I. 2000-0062505 - Affiliated Persons - Stop Loss Rules

Where an estate has de facto control of a corporation (Holdco) by virtue of control of a corporate trustee which holds all the voting shares of...

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5 March 2001 External T.I. 2000-007079

A trust of which Mr. A is the sole trustee is affiliated with a corporation controlled by Mr. A in his individual capacity.

Subparagraph 251.1(1)(b)(ii)

Administrative Policy

4 August 2010 External T.I. 2009-0330501E5 F - Superficial loss

An inter-vivos trust, whose beneficiaries are X, X's issue and another trust, owns all of the voting and participating shares of Opco, and X owns...

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Paragraph 251.1(1)(c)

Administrative Policy

4 September 1997 External T.I. 9710065 - AFFILIATED PERSONS (LIMITED P-SHIP CONTROLS)

The taxpayer described a structure in which the individual wholly-owning shareholder ("X") of "Xco" held 65% of a corporation ("Zco") which held...

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Subparagraph 251.1(1)(c)(i)

Administrative Policy

9 June 2022 External T.I. 2022-0930081E5 - Application of paragraph 251.1(4)(c)

S. 251.1(4)(c) provides that for the purposes of the definition of affiliated persons in s. 251.1:

notwithstanding subsection 104(1), a reference...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 251.1 - Subsection 251.1(4) - Paragraph 251.1(4)(c) reference to “trust” includes a person that happens to be a trust 198

Paragraph 251.1(1)(d)

Administrative Policy

15 January 2014 External T.I. 2013-0515651E5 F - Affiliated persons

A corporation is controlled by one person who also is a majority-interest partner of a partnership.

The corporation and partnership would not be...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 251.1 - Subsection 251.1(1) - Paragraph 251.1(1)(e) corporation is affiliated with partnership of which its controlling shareholder is a majority-interest partner 82

Paragraph 251.1(1)(e)

Administrative Policy

15 January 2014 External T.I. 2013-0515651E5 F - Affiliated persons

Where a corporation is controlled by one person who also is a majority-interest partner of a partnership, the corporation and partnership would be...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 251.1 - Subsection 251.1(1) - Paragraph 251.1(1)(d) control by a person is not control by a group of persons 107

Paragraph 251.1(1)(g)

Administrative Policy

5 October 2012 Roundtable, 2012-0453181C6 F - Person affiliated with RESP and RDSP

Is it the contributor to an RESP or instead the beneficiary who is affiliated with that plan, or potentially both? What about an RDSP?

CRA first...

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Subparagraph 251.1(1)(g)(ii)

Articles

Jeffrey T. Love, Kenneth R. Hauser, "How Various Aggregation Rules Apply to Trusts", 2018 Conference Report (Canadian Tax Foundation), 28: 1-79

Example of 2 trusts sharing a majority-interest beneficiary who are not affiliated (p. 28:18)

… Canco, a corporation, is a majority interest...

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Elie Roth, Tim Youdan, Chris Anderson, Kim Brown, "Taxation of Trusts Resident in Canada", Chapter 3 of Canadian Taxation of Trusts, (Canadian Tax Foundation), 2016.

Limited scope of s. 251.1(l)(g)(ii) (p. 134)

Subparagraph 251.1(l)(g)(ii) provides that a trust is affiliated with a person that would be...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - 101-110 - Section 108 - Subsection 108(3) 374
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 251.1 - Subsection 251.1(4) - Paragraph 251.1(4)(d) 437
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 164 - Subsection 164(6) 141
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 112 - Subsection 112(3.2) 331
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - 101-110 - Section 107 - Subsection 107(1) 144
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 251.2 - Subsection 251.2(3) - Paragraph 251.2(3)(b) 112
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 252.2 - Subsection 252.2(2) 115
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 256 - Subsection 256(7) - Paragraph 256(7)(i) 176
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 70 - Subsection 70(6) - Paragraph 70(6)(d.1) 161
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 70 - Subsection 70(6) 1201
Tax Topics - Treaties - Income Tax Conventions - Article 29B 239
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - (2)-(41) 157
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(8) 199
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - 101-110 - Section 104 - Subsection 104(4) - Paragraph 104(4)(a.2) 59
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - 101-110 - Section 104 - Subsection 104(4) - Paragraph 104(4)(a.3) 38
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 118.1 - Subsection 118.1(6) 174
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - 101-110 - Section 104 - Subsection 104(6) 164
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - 101-110 - Section 104 - Subsection 104(24) 163
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - 101-110 - Section 105 - Subsection 105(1) 91
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - 101-110 - Section 104 - Subsection 104(18) 49
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - 101-110 - Section 104 - Subsection 104(7.01) 66
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - 101-110 - Section 104 - Subsection 104(19) 311
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - 101-110 - Section 104 - Subsection 104(13) 125
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 20 - Subsection 20(1) - Paragraph 20(1)(bb) 144
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - 101-110 - Section 104 - Subsection 104(2) 379

Subsection 251.1(3) - Definitions

Contributor

Administrative Policy

25 August 2015 External T.I. 2015-0571271E5 F - Affiliated Trusts under Paragraph 251.1(1)(h)

Mr. X was the settlor and is sole beneficiary of Trust A and is its trustee along with his brother. The trustees of Trust B, which was a...

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10 October 2014 APFF Roundtable Q. 5, 2014-0534851C6 F - 2014 APFF Roundtable, Q. 5 - 251.1(3) Definition of "contributor"

Unlike the s. 94(1) definition, the s. 251.1(3) definition does not specify that a contributor includes a decedent. Is one included? CRA responded...

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Majority-interest beneficiary

Administrative Policy

2 October 2019 Internal T.I. 2019-0803691I7 - 69(11) - majority interest beneficiary

The residue of Father’s estate was divided equally among his children including Son, with each child being entitled to the income from that...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 251.1 - Subsection 251.1(4) - Paragraph 251.1(4)(d) - Subparagraph 251.1(4)(d)(i) deemed advancement was not sufficient to make a child's interest that of majority-interest beneficiary 288

10 October 2014 APFF Roundtable, 2014-0534841C6 F - Majority-interest beneficiary

Where a person is not a beneficiary, but it affiliated with a beneficiary with a majority interest in a trust, is that person also included in the...

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Articles

Jeffrey T. Love, Kenneth R. Hauser, "How Various Aggregation Rules Apply to Trusts", 2018 Conference Report (Canadian Tax Foundation), 28: 1-79

Inclusion in “majority-interest beneficiary” of affiliated persons who are not beneficiaries (p. 28:20)

[T]he definition does not appear to...

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Majority-interest group of beneficiaries

Articles

Jeffrey T. Love, Kenneth R. Hauser, "How Various Aggregation Rules Apply to Trusts", 2018 Conference Report (Canadian Tax Foundation), 28: 1-79

Determination of whether beneficiaries constitute a “group” (pp. 28:33-34)

We suggest that the above case-law principles should be applied to...

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Subsection 251.1(4)

Paragraph 251.1(4)(a)

Administrative Policy

4 October 2023 Internal T.I. 2020-0837811I7 F - Suspended loss

Aco disposed of its shares of Cco (the “Subject Shares”) at a loss to a wholly-owned subsidiary of Aco (Bco). On a triangular amalgamation of...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 40 - Subsection 40(3.5) - Paragraph 40(3.5)(c) - Subparagraph 40(3.5)(c)(i) suspended loss rule continued to apply when the transferee was amalgamated, then wound-up into the transferor 196

Paragraph 251.1(4)(c)

Administrative Policy

9 June 2022 External T.I. 2022-0930081E5 - Application of paragraph 251.1(4)(c)

In applying s. 251.1(4)(c) to s. 251.1(1), does it apply only when dealing with the word “trust”, i.e., does it apply only to ss. 251.1(1)(g)...

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Words and Phrases
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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 251.1 - Subsection 251.1(1) - Paragraph 251.1(1)(c) - Subparagraph 251.1(1)(c)(i) common or affiliated trustees do not by themselves cause entities to be affiliated 186

Paragraph 251.1(4)(d)

Articles

Elie Roth, Tim Youdan, Chris Anderson, Kim Brown, "Taxation of Trusts Resident in Canada", Chapter 3 of Canadian Taxation of Trusts, (Canadian Tax Foundation), 2016.

Affiliation of discretionary beneficiary with trust (p. 133)

[W]hen the person has a discretionary interest in the income or capital or a trust,...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - 101-110 - Section 108 - Subsection 108(3) 374
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 251.1 - Subsection 251.1(1) - Paragraph 251.1(1)(g) - Subparagraph 251.1(1)(g)(ii) 115
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 164 - Subsection 164(6) 141
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 112 - Subsection 112(3.2) 331
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - 101-110 - Section 107 - Subsection 107(1) 144
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 251.2 - Subsection 251.2(3) - Paragraph 251.2(3)(b) 112
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 252.2 - Subsection 252.2(2) 115
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 256 - Subsection 256(7) - Paragraph 256(7)(i) 176
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 70 - Subsection 70(6) - Paragraph 70(6)(d.1) 161
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 70 - Subsection 70(6) 1201
Tax Topics - Treaties - Income Tax Conventions - Article 29B 239
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - (2)-(41) 157
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(8) 199
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - 101-110 - Section 104 - Subsection 104(4) - Paragraph 104(4)(a.2) 59
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - 101-110 - Section 104 - Subsection 104(4) - Paragraph 104(4)(a.3) 38
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 118.1 - Subsection 118.1(6) 174
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - 101-110 - Section 104 - Subsection 104(6) 164
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - 101-110 - Section 104 - Subsection 104(24) 163
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - 101-110 - Section 105 - Subsection 105(1) 91
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - 101-110 - Section 104 - Subsection 104(18) 49
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - 101-110 - Section 104 - Subsection 104(7.01) 66
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - 101-110 - Section 104 - Subsection 104(19) 311
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - 101-110 - Section 104 - Subsection 104(13) 125
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 20 - Subsection 20(1) - Paragraph 20(1)(bb) 144
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - 101-110 - Section 104 - Subsection 104(2) 379

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Subparagraph 251.1(4)(d)(i)

Administrative Policy

2 October 2019 Internal T.I. 2019-0803691I7 - 69(11) - majority interest beneficiary

The residue of Father’s estate was divided equally among his children including Son, with each child being entitled to the income from that...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 251.1 - Subsection 251.1(3) - Majority-interest beneficiary suggests that a child likely was not a majority-interest beneficiary as a valuation matter 250

Articles

Jeffrey T. Love, Kenneth R. Hauser, "How Various Aggregation Rules Apply to Trusts", 2018 Conference Report (Canadian Tax Foundation), 28: 1-79

Two alternative interpretations of s. 251.1(4)(d)(i) (pp. 28:22-23)

[I]f under the terms of the trust the income that a beneficiary may receive...

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