Cases
Fiducie financière Satoma v. Canada, 2018 FCA 74
A tax plan turned upon a dividend that in fact was paid to a trust (Satoma Trust) being attributed under s. 75(2) to a corporation (“9134”)...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 245 - Subsection 245(1) - Tax Benefit | tax benefit to trust from tax-free dividend even though not distributed to a beneficiary | 277 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 245 - Subsection 245(4) | using ss. 75(2) and 112(1) for tax-free dividends to trust thwarted s. 112(1) object to tax earnings when ultimately distributed | 319 |
| Tax Topics - Statutory Interpretation - Double Taxation/Deduction (Presumption Against) | inclusion of income in more than one taxpayer’s hands is contrary to s. 3 | 294 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 112 - Subsection 112(1) | abusive to use s. 112(1) so as to avoid ultimate taxation of individuals | 180 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 75 - Subsection 75(2) | use of s. 75(2) to access s. 112(1) deduction for dividend in fact received by family trust, was abusive | 286 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 82 - Subsection 82(2) | s. 82(2) supports the primacy of s. 75(2) over the actual dividend recipient | 60 |
Bellingham v. The Queen, 96 DTC 6075, [1996] 1 CTC 187 (FCA)
An award of "additional interest" received by taxpayer pursuant to s. 66(4) of the Expropriation Act (Alberta) (a provision which required...
The Queen v. McLaren, 90 DTC 6566, [1990] 2 CTC 429 (FCTD)
Before dealing specifically with the interpretation of s. 63(2), MacKay J. found (p. 6572) "that the word 'income', both in its ordinary usage and...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 63 - Subsection 63(2) | "income" imports positive income | 26 |
| Tax Topics - Statutory Interpretation - Resolving Ambiguity | 41 |
Laxton v. The Queen, 89 DTC 5327, [1989] 2 CTC 85 (FCA)
In a joint venture agreement it was agreed that an individual member of the joint venture ("Laxton") would be paid an annual management fee equal...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 96 | real estate JV not a partnership | 72 |
The Queen v. Atkins, 76 DTC 6258, [1976] CTC 497 (FCA)
Damages for wrongful dismissal were not income.
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 5 - Subsection 5(1) | damages for termination of employment contract were not received under the contract | 56 |
Curran v. Minister of National Revenue, 59 DTC 1247, [1959] S.C.R. 850
The taxpayer, who was a highly-regarded senior geologist at Imperial Oil, received a lump sum from an indirect major shareholder of Home Oil upon...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 6 - Subsection 6(3) | 59 |
See Also
Robinson v. The Queen, 2019 TCC 181 (Informal Procedure)
The taxpayer (with modest success) sought to follow a pattern of first investigating and developing opportunities and then dropping any resulting...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(b) - Capital Expenditure v. Expense - Start-Up and Close-Down Expenditures | pre-incorporation expenses incurred in developing e.g., a patent portfolio for drop down to a corporation were capital expenditures | 237 |
Smith v. The Queen, 2018 TCC 61 (Informal Procedure)
Graham J found that a status Indian, who earned exempt income from employment and non-exempt investment income, could only deduct a registered...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 147.2 - Subsection 147.2(4) | RPP contribution deductible only from employment income rather than income generally | 306 |
| Tax Topics - Statutory Interpretation - Headings | heading provided guidance on the overall framework | 236 |
Henco Industries Limited v. The Queen, 2014 DTC 1161 [at at 3528], 2014 TCC 192
A subdivision property of the taxpayer, a developer, was blockaded by Six Nations protesters. To diffuse the conflict, the Ontario government...
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| Tax Topics - General Concepts - Evidence | parol evidence rule not applying to surrounding evidence/press releases admitted | 239 |
| Tax Topics - General Concepts - Fair Market Value - Land | deference to taxpayer's figure within appraiser's range of values | 111 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 12 - Subsection 12(1) - Paragraph 12(1)(x) | compensation received in course of business but not in course of earning income | 192 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 14 - Subsection 14(5) - Cumulative Eligible Capital | payment to withdraw from business was not an eligible capital amount | 146 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 23 - Subsection 23(1) | land ceased to be inventory through sterilization rather than business cessation | 184 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 9 - Compensation Payments | compensation payment for destroyed business was non-taxable | 171 |
Malo v. The Queen, 2012 DTC 1214 [at at 3588], 2012 TCC 75 (Informal Procedure)
The taxpayer bought a stake in his brother-in-law's tree farm, who was in financial trouble and had several judgments against him preventing him...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 237.1 - Subsection 237.1(1) - Tax Shelter | 125 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(1) - Inventory | 102 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 9 - Timing | 102 |
Kelly v. The Queen, 2012 DTC 1109 [at at 3055], 2012 TCC 66
Sheridan J. permitted the taxpayer's rental losses from the studio apartment she had purchased in a condominium near a ski resort. Her personal...
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| Tax Topics - General Concepts - Evidence | 156 | |
| Tax Topics - Statutory Interpretation - Business Judgment | 101 |
Ruff v. The Queen, 2012 TCC 105
The taxpayer, a lawyer, was bilked of $400,000 by scam artists, posing as clients, who induced him to incur "processing " fees in connection with...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 4 - Subsection 4(1) - Paragraph 4(1)(a) | 92 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 67 | 82 |
Lyncorp International Ltd. v. The Queen, 2010 DTC 1351 [at at 4335], 2010 TCC 532, aff'd 2012 DTC 5032 [at 6684], 2011 FCA 352
The taxpayer, owned and operated by Mr. Mullen, invested in shares and made non-interest bearing loans to a number of corporate ventures to which...
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| Tax Topics - Excise Tax Act - Section 169 - Subsection 169(1) | 169 |
Humphrey v. The Queen, 2006 DTC 2730, 2006 TCC 168 (Informal Procedure)
The taxpayer was assessed for amounts that she embezzled from her employer in 2000, declared bankruptcy because of this claim against her and,...
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| Tax Topics - General Concepts - Estoppel | 43 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Start-Up and Liquidation Costs | 188 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 67 | 110 |
Fortino v. R., 97 DTC 55, [1997] 2 CTC 2184 (TCC), briefly aff'd on procedural grounds 2000 DTC 6060 (FCA)
Lump sums received by individual vendors of shares in consideration for their entering into non-competition agreements with the purchaser were...
E. William Abrahamson v. Minister of National Revenue, 91 DTC 213, [1991] 1 CTC 2061 (TCC)
Rip TCJ. applied the principle in the Ansell Estate case (66 DTC 5508) that "when amounts are withdrawn from a trust they are capital except for...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(1) - Superannuation or Pension Benefit | 100 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 254 | 125 |
Bray v. Best, [1989] BTC 102, [1989] UKHL TC (HL)
"It is a well established principle deriving from the nature of income tax as an annual tax, that a receipt or entitlement arising in a year of...
The Queen v. Kuhl, 74 DTC 6024, [1973] CTC 846 (FCTD)
The source of services fees received by two brothers from a company that was controlled by them and engaged in the farming business was farming....
Dorfman v. M.N.R., 72 DTC 6231, [1972] CTC 264 (FCTD)
Collier J. indicated (at p. 6134) that the words "source of income" in s. 13(1) of the pre-1972 Act (now s. 31(1)) "were used in the sense of a...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 31 - Subsection 31(1) | 85 |
Administrative Policy
31 August 2020 Internal T.I. 2020-0851811I7 - US Economic Impact Payment
A permanent resident of Canada receives payments under the U.S. Economic Income Payment Program (US EIP) pursuant to the CARES Act, being a...
4 October 2019 External T.I. 2019-0825431E5 - Tenant relocation assistance
The City’s approval of a rezoning application (involving demolition or renovation of various rental units) required the developer to make a...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 56 - Subsection 56(1) - Paragraph 56(1)(u) | non-means-tested compensation received by residential tenants from a developer to compensate them for their dislocation costs was non-taxable | 110 |
19 March 2019 External T.I. 2018-0748731E5 - Taxation of Settlement Amounts
The Labour Board issued an order determining that the Employer had committed an unfair labour practice and ordered the Employer to pay a lump-sum...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 6 - Subsection 6(1) - Paragraph 6(1)(a) | award received by unionized employees based on an unfair labour practice of their employer was not referable to lost remuneration | 80 |
29 July 2015 External T.I. 2015-0575631E5 - social assistance
A social assistance organization may purchase items such as cookware, cutlery, furniture and food cards to assist its clients, and may also assist...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 56 - Subsection 56(1) - Paragraph 56(1)(u) | potential exclusion of payments in kind | 290 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Regulations - Regulation 233 - Subsection 233(2) | potential exclusion of payments in kind | 259 |
18 February 2013 Internal T.I. 2013-0477821I7 F - Montants forfaitaires - XXXXXXXXXX
In discussing the treatment of lump sums paid to federal employees following a finding by the Human Rights Tribunal that a discriminatory practice...
S2-F1-C2 - Retiring Allowances
Harrassment or defamation damages
2.17 General damages relating to personal injuries sustained before or after a loss of employment, may be viewed...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(1) - Retiring Allowance | 760 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 104 - Subsection 104(28) | 100 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 60 - Paragraph 60(j.1) | 195 |
28 November 2014 Internal T.I. 2014-0531221I7 F - Montants forfaitaires accordés aux témoins
A lump sum paid to a witness by the Sureté du Québec (Quebec police) was potentially income to him. CRA stated (TaxInterpretations...
2 October 2014 External T.I. 2013-0491411E5 F - Allocation pour une automobile
What is the tax treatment of amounts paid to taxpayers for using their cars in providing lifts for the organization? CRA stated...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 6 - Subsection 6(1) - Paragraph 6(1)(b) | compensation for providing car rides not received in course of employment | 140 |
S3-F9-C1 - Lottery Winnings, Miscellaneous Receipts, and Income (and Losses) from Crime
1.1 For tax purposes, section 3 brings into income a taxpayer's income from all sources inside or outside of Canada, whether or not the...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Income-Producing Purpose | repayment of embezzlement/losses from theft | 524 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Timing | timing of deduction for loss from theft or embezzlement | 132 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 20 - Subsection 20(1) - Paragraph 20(1)(p) - Subparagraph 20(1)(p)(i) | bad debt from fraudulent investment scheme | 85 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(1) - Business | 314 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(1) - Disposition | 170 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 40 - Subsection 40(2) - Paragraph 40(2)(f) | 306 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 5 - Subsection 5(1) | 220 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 6 - Subsection 6(1) - Paragraph 6(1)(a) | voluntary payments | 88 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 6 - Subsection 6(3) - Paragraph 6(3)(c) | 142 |
2013 Ruling 2012-0464921R3 - Payment in lieu of continued PHSP coverage
Former employees of Canco or of its subsidiaries are creditors of Canco, following Canco going into CCAA proceedings, by virtue of having been...
27 January 2012 External T.I. 2011-0421551E5 F - Pompiers volontaires
Before addressing the volunteer firefighter tax credit, CRA addressed whether amounts received by a part-time firefighter with modest remuneration...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 118.06 - Subsection 118.06(1) | “volunteer” firefighters are not true volunteers | 195 |
18 October 2011 External T.I. 2011-0394041E5 F - Fiducie personnelle- revenu brut
S. 110.6(1.3)(b)(i)(A) referenced a basis for a property being considered to be being used in the course of carrying on a farming business in...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(1) - Gross Revenue | gross revenue from farming business did not include capital gains | 107 |
12 April 2010 Internal T.I. 2009-0342871I7 F - Subvention aux naissances multiples
Respecting the multiple birth subsidy paid by the Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux to the mother of triplets, quadruplets, etc.,...
12 April 2010 External T.I. 2009-0327161E5 F - Revenu de location
Regarding whether a taxpayer who rented her co-ownership interest in a house to her stepfather and mother, CRA stated:
Guide T4036, Rental Income...
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| Tax Topics - General Concepts - Ownership | CRA can be bound by a counter letter rather than the apparent contract | 233 |
IT-232R3 "Losses - Their Deductibility in the Loss Year or in Other Years"
Losses, to the extent they do not reduce income to nil, must be used in the loss year or forfeited.
24 June 1992 External T.I. 5-920948
"For the purpose of paragraph 3(a) a flow-through share is a source of property income. However, when the share is held in conjunction with the...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 111 - Subsection 111(8) - Non-Capital Loss | 212 |
91 C.R. - Q.44
Strike pay is non-taxable even if the member performs picketing duties as a requirement of membership in the union.
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 149 - Subsection 149(1) - Paragraph 149(1)(k) | 22 |
2 October 1991 T.I. (Tax Window, No. 10, p. 20, ¶1493)
Union members who recieve a portion of the strike fund when they lose their jobs as the result of automation or a plant closure will not be...
20 April 1990 T.I. (September 1990 Access Letter, ¶1404)
A flow-through share is a source of income for purposes of s. 3(a) and, accordingly, the deductions of CEE under s. 66.1(3) and CDE under s....
20 April 1990 TI 5-9269
A taxpayer (which is not a principal business corporation) may deduct CEE or CDE without restriction to its income so as to create a non-capital...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 111 - Subsection 111(8) - Non-Capital Loss | 77 |
1989 Canadian Petroleum Taxes Society Roundtable, Q. 4
Where CEE is renounced under a flow-through share structure (either directly or where CEE renounced to a limited partnership is allocated to its...
89 CPTJ - Q4
Where a JEC renounces CEE to its parent corporation, which is not a principal business corporation and has no resource property or resource...
ATR-40 (18 March 1991) "Structured Settlements"
Description of the non-taxable receipt of periodic payments for damages in a personal injury case.
IT-334R2 "Miscellaneous Receipts"
"In order for any activity or pursuit to be regarded as a source of income, there must be a reasonable expectation of profit."
Forms
Articles
Joel A. Nitikman, "Reasonable Expectation of Profit - Where Are We Now?", Business Vehicle, Vol IV, No. 3, 1998, p. 204.
Paragraph 3(a)
Cases
Schwartz v. Canada, 96 DTC 6103, [1996] 1 SCR 254
The majority and the minority, both in obiter dicta, disagreed on whether income that was not from a source specifically identified in s. 3 could...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 180 - Subsection 180(3) | no deference to FCA factual findings | 95 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(1) - Employment | 46 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(1) - Retiring Allowance | pre-employment termination damages were not a retiring allowance | 62 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 3 - Paragraph 3(a) - Business Source/Reasonable Expectation of Profit | 53 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 5 - Subsection 5(1) | 83 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 68 | 95 | |
| Tax Topics - Statutory Interpretation - Comparison of Provisions | presumption of consistent expression within same statute | 73 |
| Tax Topics - Statutory Interpretation - Specific v. General Provisions | specific statutory rule should not be undercut by a more general rule | 76 |
R. v. Fogazzi, 92 DTC 6421, [1992] 2 CTC 321 (Ont. C.J. (G.D.)), rev'd 93 DTC 5183 (Ont. CA)
In finding that an amount misappropriated by the accused was not income under section 3, Sheppard J. stated (p. 6430):
"So not only must the word...
Canada v. Fries, 90 DTC 6662, [1990] 2 S.C.R. 1322, [1990] 2 CTC 439
Amounts received by an employee of the Saskatchewan Liquor Board from the Saskatchewan Government Employees' Union (the "SGEU") in consideration...
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| Tax Topics - Statutory Interpretation - Resolving Ambiguity | doubt went to the taxpayer | 38 |
The Queen v. Cranswick, 82 DTC 6073, [1982] CTC 69 (FCA)
After a sale of the household appliance business of a Canadian corporation ("Westinghouse Canada") fell through due to failure to obtain approval...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(1) - Dividend | 58 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 9 - Exempt Receipts/Business | damages received by shareholders as a windfall were not income | 98 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 9 - Expense Reimbursement | 103 |
See Also
Cheung v Commissioner of Taxation, [2024] FCA 1370
Before accepting the applicant’s evidence that the receipts at issue were capital transfers in the nature of family gifts from Vanuatu and did...
Administrative Policy
27 June 2024 External T.I. 2023-1000391E5 - BC Secondary Suite Incentive Program
The BC Secondary Suite Incentive Program (“BC SSIP”) assists qualifying homeowners to create a new secondary suite or accessory dwelling unit...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 54 - Adjusted Cost Base | forgivable loan could be cost reduction based on well-accepted business principles | 218 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 13 - Subsection 13(7.1) | application of s. 13(7.1) or 53(2)(k), and exclusion of s. 12(1)(x), re BC government forgivable loan for construction of secondary suite | 153 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 45 - Subsection 45(1) - Paragraph 45(1)(c) - Subparagraph 45(1)(c)(ii) | conversion of part of home to a secondary suite for rental would engage s. 45(1)(c)(ii) | 135 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 45 - Subsection 45(2) | s. 45(2) would permit claiming principal residence exemption for disposition of secondary suite rather than balance of home | 396 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 54 - Principal Residence | principal residence could be claimed for secondary rental suite subject to s. 45(2) election, or balance of home, but not both | 353 |
10 November 2022 External T.I. 2022-0932331E5 - First-Time Home Buyer Incentive Tax Implications
Under the first-time home buyer incentive (“FTHBI”) program, first-time homebuyers received a payment from the federal government (an...
2021 Ruling 2021-0894621R3 F - Paiement à un membre qui quitte
Members of a religious order that is a registered charity (the “Community”) have taken vows of perpetual poverty and turn over all their...
31 August 2020 Internal T.I. 2020-0851071I7 - Hong Kong Cash Payout Scheme
As an economic response to months’ long protests and COVID-19, the Hong Kong government announced that the Hong Kong Cash Payout Scheme would...
11 March 2009 External T.I. 2009-0306601E5 F - Remboursement de cotisations syndicales
CRA applied Fries in indicating that amounts received from a union that are not a reimbursement of union dues (and, thus, not taxable under s....
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 6 - Subsection 6(1) - Paragraph 6(1)(j) | amounts received from a union that are not a reimbursement of union dues generally are exempt | 142 |
21 August 2008 External T.I. 2008-0286051E5 F - Revenu de location
Two arm's length taxpayers - Ms. X and Ms. Y - are co-owners of a duplex, the lower premises of which are leased to a business. Ms. Y, who lives...
9 May 2008 External T.I. 2008-0271781E5 F - Dédommagement pour perte de revenu de pension
Lump sum payments made by the Quebec government to members of two plans that had deficits were not be taxable given that the amounts were not...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(1) - Superannuation or Pension Benefit | lump sums paid by Quebec government to members of deficit plans were not taxable | 62 |
27 March 2007 External T.I. 2007-0226801E5 F - Orphelin(e)s de Duplessis
Regarding $15,000 each paid to “Duplessis Orphans” (being inter alia orphans who had been designated by an institution as mentally retarded...
27 February 2007 External T.I. 2006-0216481E5 F - Montant payable à des retraités (annul ass. malad)
The employer, which had been paying a portion of the premiums for a private health insurance program for its retirees, will be terminated for...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 6 - Subsection 6(3) | compensation for termination of retirees’ benefit plan not includible under s. 6(3) | 90 |
6 October 2006 Roundtable, 2006-0197161C6 F - Étendu de l'allégement - Bulletin IT-470R
Would the acquisition by a life insurance salesperson of a policy on the life of the salesperson’s spouse or children or parents (father and...
11 July 2006 External T.I. 2006-0182451E5 F - Indemnité versée par un syndicat
In order to encourage members to participate in union activities on their day off, the union compensates them during their attendance at union...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 8 - Subsection 8(5) | payments by union to members to attend union conventions on their days off reduce the union dues deduction | 136 |
28 March 2006 Internal T.I. 2005-0109761I7 F - Commandite reçue par une athlète
A sponsorship received by a student who was incurring significant expenses in connection with training and competitions involving her amateur...
1 April 2005 External T.I. 2004-0097171E5 F - Item gagné lors d'un tirage
Prior to the closure of a company division, the social club of that division decided to use up the funds in the club fund (to which the employer...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 6 - Subsection 6(1) - Paragraph 6(1)(a) | prize won in raffle by employee was includible in employee’s income to the extent of the portion of its value that was funded by the employer rather than fellow employees | 216 |
10 January 2005 External T.I. 2004-0095361E5 F - Dommages
Regarding the treatment of damages received pursuant to proceedings against a professional for negligence resulting in loss of a survivor's...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 56 - Subsection 56(1) - Paragraph 56(1)(a) - Subparagraph 56(1)(a)(i) | damages for negligence resulting in not becoming entitled to QPP would not be income under s. 56(1)(a)(i) | 220 |
5 October 2004 External T.I. 2004-0067741E5 F - Indemnités aux jurés
Daily allowance paid to jurors and witnesses were includible in income - but not reasonable allowances to cover expenses incurred by the juror...
3 August 2004 Internal T.I. 2004-0077991I7 F - Allocations d'aide à domicile reçues de la SAAQ
In connection with finding, in light of Maurice, 2001 DTC 3710, that car insurance proceeds received by the taxpayer to compensate her for her...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 152 - Subsection 152(1) | CRA applies changes to its position as a result of taxpayer-friendly judgments effective to post-judgment assessments | 96 |
12 July 2004 Internal T.I. 2004-0077981I7 F - Dédommagement-Régime de pension
A lump sum that the Quebec Treasury Board recommended be paid to the taxpayer on the basis that the taxpayer may have been credited with only a...
9 July 2004 External T.I. 2004-0079221E5 F - Indemnité pour mauvaise information
The administrator of a registered pension plan of which the taxpayer was member made a mistake in computing the annual benefit payable to the...
10 June 2004 Internal T.I. 2004-0073781I7 F - Orphelins et orphelines de Duplessis - intérêts
The taxpayer received a lump sum under the National Reconciliation Program for Duplessis Orphans (the "Program") (which the Directorate indicated...
25 February 2004 External T.I. 2003-0042461E5 F - Invalidité d'un actionnaire/admin./employé
A corporation, which is the policyholder and beneficiary of an insurance policy protecting it against the disability of its...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Income-Producing Purpose | premiums paid by corporation on disability policy on its principal employee are non-deductible | 112 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 6 - Subsection 6(1) - Paragraph 6(1)(a) | taxable continued payment of salary-equivalent payments to disabled employee, but no taxable benefit from employer’s previous payment of premiums on funding disability policy | 150 |
24 February 2004 External T.I. 2003-0049351E5 F - Dommages moraux
Regarding amounts received by a union member for mental suffering, loss of enjoyment of life and physical injury, CRA reiterated its position in...
18 November 2003 External T.I. 2003-0181195 F - REGLEMENT STRUCTURE
CCRA indicated that its position on the exemption of structured settlements in personal injury actions, which it summarized, extended to...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 56 - Subsection 56(1) - Paragraph 56(1)(d) | CCRA position on exemption of structured settlements (as described) extends to court-ordered personal injury payments | 264 |
31 October 2003 External T.I. 2003-0045795 F - DEDOMMAGEMENT POUR PERTE DE REVENU
CCRA indicated that Quebec government compensation paid (at the option of the recipient) in one lump sum or in two instalments, to members of two...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 56 - Subsection 56(1) - Paragraph 56(1)(a) - Subparagraph 56(1)(a)(i) | Quebec government compensation to pension plan members for cessation of employer contributions was not itself pension or other income | 89 |
3 October 2003 External T.I. 2003-0004575 F - ASSURANCE-INVALIDITE
Regarding where a corporation is the policyholder and beneficiary of a disability insurance policy for an employee-shareholder, CCRA stated:
We...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Income-Producing Purpose | premiums paid by corporation for disability policy on shareholder-employee are non-deductible | 92 |
12 July 2002 External T.I. 2002-0127585 F - Legal Expenses, Compensation for Defamation
Following a disagreement with his employer, Mr. X was suspended from his employment without salary, and then brought an action regarding malicious...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 5 - Subsection 5(1) | damages received by employee for defamation were not employment income if not deliberately mislabeled | 85 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 8 - Subsection 8(1) - Paragraph 8(1)(b) | legal fees incurred for employee to receive damages only for defamation were not deductible | 177 |
18 April 2002 Internal T.I. 2001-0105007 F - RECOMPENSE POUR UN SAUVETAGE MARITIME
A company owning a pilot boat participated with its employed crew in the marine rescue of a vessel in distress, received compensation pursuant to...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 5 - Subsection 5(1) | salvage received by employed crew members likely employment income | 121 |
4 April 2002 External T.I. 2002-0123065 F - DOMMAGES-INTERETS
The French government starting in 1999 started making reparations payment in the form, at the choice of the recipient, of lump-sum compensation of...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 54 - Proceeds of Disposition - Paragraph (b) | compensation received by Jews for property seized 60 years previously was a windfall rather than proceeds of disposition | 172 |
12 March 2002 Internal T.I. 2001-0094067 F - DEDOMMAGEMENT - TITRE DE PROPRIETE
Monsieur received damages from his separated common-law spouse (Madame) to compensate him for her use of his ½ co-ownership interest in a...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 54 - Proceeds of Disposition | damages received for use of a property contrary to the recipient’s co-ownership right were tax-free receipts | 194 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Legal and other Professional Fees | legal fees incurred in ownership dispute were capital expenditures | 130 |
6 March 2002 Internal T.I. 2001-0108587 F - AIDE A DOMICILE DE LA SAAQ
The Directorate indicated that in cases similar to Maurice (2001 DTC 3710) amounts received as personal home assistance allowances under section...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 152 - Subsection 152(4) | refunds not issued beyond Objection period based on favourable judgment rendered to another taxpayer | 155 |
25 February 2002 Internal T.I. 2001-0114167 F - DOMMAGES - DISCRIMINATION
Regarding what portion a settlement of a claim made under the Canadian Human Rights Act should be treated as compensation for pain and suffering,...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(1) - Retiring Allowance | compensation under the CHRA for lost wages and expenses would be a retiring allowance – reasonable (e.g., under $5,000) compensation for pain and suffering would be non-taxable | 193 |
8 January 2002 External T.I. 2001-0084115 F - SOMMES RECUES D'UN SYNDICAT
Amounts received by union members for making a referral of employee of a non-unionized company leading to the filing of an application for...
28 November 2001 External T.I. 2001-0104285 F - PRESTATION CONSECUTIVE AU DECES
CCRA indicated that a lump sum death benefit paid by the employer to the widow of a deceased employee was not income to her under the Act's death...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(1) - Death Benefit | death benefit paid to widow is not income | 99 |
23 October 2001 Internal T.I. 2001-0102337 F - MONTANTS RECUS D'UNE EGLISE
An evangelist receives money from a foreign church, in order to promote evangelism in Canada and found and build a church. The amounts received...
28 June 2001 External T.I. 2000-0061365 F - Frais de déplacement - athlètes
Regarding amounts received by an amateur athlete, who expects to generate business income, for accommodation and meal expenses incurred in the...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(h) | travel and accommodation expenses satisfying s. 18(1)(h) must also satisfy s. 18(1)(a) | 71 |
18 April 2001 External T.I. 2001-0074995 F - Indemnité journalière de grossesse de France
CCRA indicated that daily pregnancy benefits paid by the French government constituted income which was taxable for Canadian tax purposes, and was...
23 February 2001 External T.I. 2001-0066265 F - Salaire différé français
A French citizen residing in Canada had helped to run the family farm in France and, to thank him for those seven years of contribution, his...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(1) - Disposition - Paragraph (b) - Subparagraph (b)(ii) | receipt of “deferred salary,” pursuant to a right established by French legislation, was not a pension given no previous employer-employee relationship | 306 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(1) - Property | “deferred salary” right of farmer descendant was a debt | 82 |
| Tax Topics - Treaties - Income Tax Conventions - Article 18 | receipt of “deferred salary,” pursuant to a right established by French legislation, was not a pension given no previous employer-employee relationship | 284 |
Business Source/Reasonable Expectation of Profit
Commentary
One of the sources of income enumerated in s. 3 is a business. Based on a dictum in the Moldowan case, many subsequent cases found that a taxpayer...
Cases
Fournier-Giguère v. Canada, 2025 CAF 112
The three taxpayers, who were friends, were reassessed to include income from their poker gambling (of the type Texas Hold’em without limit) for...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 40 - Subsection 40(2) - Paragraph 40(2)(f) | poker gambling did not come within s. 40(2)(f) | 111 |
Brown v. Canada, 2022 FCA 200
The taxpayer (Mr. Brown, a lawyer) together with his wife (an artist) formed a numbered company (owned on a 51/49 basis) in 2010 to operate a new...
Peach v. Canada, 2022 FCA 163
The Tax Court found that the taxpayer was not pursuing a profit in renting his rental properties to his sons in 2011, as he had been charging rent...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 152 - Subsection 152(4) - Paragraph 152(4)(a) - Subparagraph 152(4)(a)(i) | whether CRA could have reassessed within the normal reassessment period is irrelevant to the extension under s. 152(4)(a)(i) | 152 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 67 | distinction between not challenging a taxpayer’s business acumen and measuring against the standard of what a reasonable business person would have done | 161 |
Canada v. Paletta, 2022 FCA 86
In order that he could shelter most or all of his income for his 2000 to 2006 taxation years through a straddle program (with much of his 2007...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(1) - Business | common law concept of business informs the s. 248(1) definition | 161 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 163 - Subsection 163(2) | informal consultations with tax lawyers without formal opinion did not avoid gross negligence penalties | 303 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 152 - Subsection 152(4) - Paragraph 152(4)(a) - Subparagraph 152(4)(a)(i) | applicability of gross negligence penalty necessarily precludes statute-barring | 102 |
De Geest v. Canada, 2022 FCA 22
The taxpayer, who stated that he had formed the subjective activity to no longer carry on his work of installing windows and other construction...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 163 - Subsection 163(2) | penalties where the taxpayer’s legal argument had “no merit” | 270 |
Renaud v. Canada, 2019 FCA 154
The taxpayer (a member of the Quebec bar) who worked in a legal services department of Transport Canada as a full-time employee, also taught a law...
Ludmer v. Attorney General of Canada, 2018 QCCS 3381, aff'd 2020 QCCA 697
Two of the taxpayers (“Ludmer” and Steinberg”) were invested along with family, friends and acquaintances (all resident in Canada) in a BVI...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 56 - Subsection 56(2) | recurring fee reduction amounts received for no work were income and taxable under s. 56(2) when directed to controlled company | 289 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 152 - Subsection 152(4) - Paragraph 152(4)(a) - Subparagraph 152(4)(a)(i) | nature of the legal advice relied upon was unclear | 417 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 152 - Subsection 152(1) | improper advancing of “settlement” elements that were not sustainable | 45 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 94.1 - Subsection 94.1(1) | equity-linked notes held in BVI company were portfolio investments held with a tax avoidance purpose, but were not subject to 7000(2)(d) interest accrual | 576 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Regulations - Regulation 7000 - Subsection 7000(2) - Paragraph 7000(2)(d) | mere possibility of locking in value accretion each year did not crystallize the maximum amount of interest respecting the year | 484 |
| Tax Topics - General Concepts - Negligence, Fiduciary Duty and Fault | damages awarded against CRA for inter alia making unreasonable reassessments | 260 |
Radonjic v. Canada Revenue Agency, 2013 DTC 5152 [at at 6352], 2013 FC 916
Russel J found that the Minister's decision (in a s. 152(4.2) application) to treat the taxpayer's online poker winnings as income lacked...
Canada v. Johnson, 2013 DTC 5004 [at at 5515], 2012 FCA 253
The taxpayer realized gains of $1.3 million from periodically placing funds with a rogue ("Lech") who, it was later discovered, had not invested...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 152 - Subsection 152(4) - Paragraph 152(4)(a) - Subparagraph 152(4)(a)(i) | failure to seek confirmatory independent advice | 204 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 9 - Exempt Receipts/Business | taxable gains from contract with Ponzi operator | 263 |
Tarascio v. Canada, 2012 DTC 5046 [at at 6785], 2012 FCA 30
The taxpayer's degree in mathematics and experience with various forms of gambling were not a sufficient basis to reverse the trial judge's...
Vankerk v. Canada, 2006 FCA 96
The taxpayers claimed deductions relating to their investments in purported partnerships whose purported business would be the production of sound...
Hammill v. Canada, 2005 DTC 5397, 2005 FCA 252
The taxpayer was a co-owner in a clothing manufacturing company. He acquired a gem inventory over several years. A business contact informed him...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(1) - Business | fraudulent scheme foisted on taxpayer was not a business | 63 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 67 | s. 67 can be applied to eliminate rather than just limit a deduction | 108 |
McClelland v. Canada, 2004 DTC 6019, 2003 FCA 483
The taxpayer was not entitled to deduct losses from an alleged business as an artist given the finding of the trial judge (supported by the...
Nadoryk v. Canada, 2003 DTC 5744, 2003 FCA 458
The Tax Court had correctly found that the taxpayer, who worked as a full-time employee, was not using his residence in connection with an auto...
Maysky v. Canada (Attorney General), 2003 DTC 5337, 2003 FCA 237
The fact that a rental property of the taxpayer had formerly been his home and that he used the property as collateral for a line of credit...
Jarquio v. Canada, 2003 DTC 5164, 2003 FCA 80 (FCA)
The taxpayer, who derived personal benefits from the ownership of a two storey residence containing four bedrooms by having her family live on the...
Titus v. Canada, 2003 DTC 5158, 2003 FCA 78 (FCA)
There was a personal element in the acquisition by the taxpayer of a cottage property close to that of his parents, and the Tax Court judge had...
Morris v. Canada, 2003 DTC 5236, 2003 FCA 116 (FCA)
The manner in which a full-time employee of BC Rail conducted a fishing guide activity from which he reported revenues under 5% of expenses was...
Partridge v. Canada, 2003 DTC 5175, 2003 FCA 91 (FCA)
The Tax Court Judge did not commit a reviewable error when he found that the taxpayer's activities lacked commercial flavour and that the taxpayer...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(1) - Business | 54 |
Mendoza v. Canada, 2003 DTC 5071, 2003 FCA 17 (FCA)
The trial judge had not erred in finding that a property owned "under" a partnership of the taxpayers, which was rented at a significant loss to...
Walls v. Canada, 2002 DTC 6960, 2002 SCC 47, [2002] 2 S.C.R. 684
A limited partnership that had purchased mini-warehouses was found to have a source of income for purposes of s. 9 of the Act with respect to the...
Stewart v. Canada, 2002 DTC 6969, 2002 SCC 46, [2002] 2 S.C.R. 645
There was no evidence that the taxpayer had acquired condominium rental units for his personal benefit. Accordingly, his property rental activity...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 20 - Subsection 20(1) - Paragraph 20(1)(c) | not tainted by capital gains motivation | 115 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(1) - Business | "business" has its broad common law definition | 95 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(1) - Personal or Living Expenses | 12 | |
| Tax Topics - Statutory Interpretation - Deference to Parliament/ No judicial legislation | avoid judicial rule-making | 80 |
Carter v. The Queen, 2001 DTC 5560, 2001 FCA 275 (FCA)
In response to a submission of the taxpayer that he should be treated as an individual and that the involvement of his wife and company with...
Keeping v. Canada, 2001 DTC 5358, 2001 FCA 182 (FCA)
In reversing a finding of the Tax Court Judge that a teacher was not entitled to deduct the losses of his Amway distributorship, Rothstein J.A....
Devito v. Canada (Attorney General), 2001 DTC 5394, 2001 FCA 166 (FCA)
An operation of the taxpayer in renting or trying to rent out two units and a spare room in his Burlington home was not engaged in with a...
King v. Canada, 2001 DTC 5116 (FCA)
The Court affirmed a finding of the Tax Court that partnerships in which the taxpayer invested did not have a reasonable expectation of profit in...
Cardella c. Canada, 2001 DTC 5251, 2001 FCA 39
The realization of profit from its rental operation was found not to motivate the partners of a limited partnership in which the taxpayer was a...
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| Tax Topics - General Concepts - Onus | 99 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 9 - Capital Gain vs. Profit - Real Estate | barrier to resale of rental properties | 106 |
Kuhlmann v. Canada, 98 DTC 6652, [1999] 1 CTC 38 (FCA)
The Court reversed a finding of the trial judge that a husband and wife team of practising physicians were not engaged in operating an "English...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Reasonable Expectation of Profit | 100 |
Mohammad v. R., 97 DTC 5503, [1997] 3 C.T.C. 321 (FCA)
The taxpayer had acquired a co-ownership interest in a residential property by assuming his share of a first mortgage and borrowing money for the...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Reasonable Expectation of Profit | must be a realistic plan to reduce overleverage | 158 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 20 - Subsection 20(1) - Paragraph 20(1)(c) | 85 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 67 | s. 67 does not embed a reasonable expectation of profit requirement | 104 |
R. v. Donnelly, 97 DTC 5499, [1998] 1 CTC 23 (FCA)
Before going on to find that the deduction of farming losses by the taxpayer was restricted by s. 31(1) of the Act, Robertson J.A. stated (at p....
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Reasonable Expectation of Profit | 84 |
Watt Estate v. The Queen, 97 DTC 5459 (FCA)
In finding that the taxpayer could not deduct the costs incurred by her in seeking to develop her daughter (who was in the taxation years in issue...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Reasonable Expectation of Profit | 104 |
Mastri v. R., 97 DTC 5420, [1997] 3 C.T.C. 234 (FCA)
The Court reversed a finding of the Tax Court judge that the taxpayers were entitled to deduct their net loss from a rental property...
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| Tax Topics - General Concepts - Stare Decisis | 85 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Reasonable Expectation of Profit | 144 |
Hickman Motors Ltd. v. Canada, 97 DTC 5363, [1997] 2 S.C.R. 336, [1998] 1 CTC 213
Before finding that equipment that the taxpayer received on the winding-up of one subsidiary and held for five days before transferring it to...
Schwartz v. Canada, 96 DTC 6103, [1996] 1 SCR 254
Major J. stated, in an obiter dictum (at p. 6120) that "in the long line decisions that distinguish a 'business' from a 'hobby', it has been...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 180 - Subsection 180(3) | no deference to FCA factual findings | 95 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(1) - Employment | 46 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(1) - Retiring Allowance | pre-employment termination damages were not a retiring allowance | 62 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 3 - Paragraph 3(a) | quaere whether income can be from a non-enumerated source | 39 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 5 - Subsection 5(1) | 83 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 68 | 95 | |
| Tax Topics - Statutory Interpretation - Comparison of Provisions | presumption of consistent expression within same statute | 73 |
| Tax Topics - Statutory Interpretation - Specific v. General Provisions | specific statutory rule should not be undercut by a more general rule | 76 |
The Queen v. Gulf Canada Resources Ltd., 96 DTC 6065, [1996] 2 CTC 55 (FCA)
Pratte J.A. noted (at p. 6067) (and Linden J.A. concurred at p. 6069) that the reasonable expectation of profit doctrine had no application where...
Tonn v. The Queen, [1996] 1 CTC 205 (FCA)
In 1989 the taxpayer purchased a vacant residential property in Scarborough, containing two residential rental units, with the expectation that...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Income-Producing Purpose | expenses must be incurred within business framework | 70 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Reasonable Expectation of Profit | REOP test should be applied sparingly if no personal element | 154 |
Yaki v. The Queen, 94 DTC 6637, [1994] 2 CTC 361 (FCTD)
In finding that the taxpayer operated his farm in his 1986, 1987 and 1988 taxation years with a reasonable expectation of profit Jerome A.C.J....
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Reasonable Expectation of Profit | 90 |
Landry v. The Queen, 94 DTC 6624, [1995] 2 CTC 3 (FCA)
Before finding that the taxpayer - who returned to the practice of law in 1979 at the age of 71, organized his practice in a similar manner to...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Reasonable Expectation of Profit | 157 |
McGovern v. The Queen, 94 DTC 6527, [1994] 2 CTC 231 (FCTD)
A condominium rental unit located at Paul Lake, near Kamloops, was found to have been purchased in December of 1980 with a reasonable expectation...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Reasonable Expectation of Profit | 154 |
Engler v. The Queen, 94 DTC 6280, [1994] 2 CTC 64 (FCTD)
A venture of buying and selling various gift items, was marginally profitable while it was conducted by the taxpayer on a part-time basis or...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Reasonable Expectation of Profit | test of reasonableness met if any profit realized | 173 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 4 - Subsection 4(1) - Paragraph 4(1)(a) | channels expense deductions | 91 |
Johnson v. The Queen, 93 DTC 5462 (FCTD)
An employee of M.L.W. Bombardier who only visited his farm once a week except on summer vacations, and whose farming operation suffered consistent...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Reasonable Expectation of Profit | 44 |
DesChênes v. The Queen, 93 DTC 5234, [1993] 2 CTC 107 (FCTD)
The taxpayers, who were full-time employees of the federal government, were found not to have engaged in the leasing of a yacht with a reasonable...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Reasonable Expectation of Profit | 82 |
Edwardes v. The Queen, 91 DTC 5635, [1991] 2 CTC 269 (FCTD)
A full-time teacher was prohibited from deducting losses incurred in automobile performance rallying in the absence of any record of achieving...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Reasonable Expectation of Profit | 52 |
Blake v. The Queen, 91 DTC 5574 (FCTD)
A teacher who earned approximately $1,000 per year in farm revenues in the taxation years in question was unsuccessful in deducting farm losses...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Reasonable Expectation of Profit | 40 |
Bigelow v. The Queen, 90 DTC 6262, [1990] 1 CTC 351 (FCTD)
The taxpayer, who in his 1978 and 1979 taxation years was a full-time employee in a potash mine, was found not to be carrying on a thoroughbred...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Reasonable Expectation of Profit | 102 |
The Queen v. Demers, 90 DTC 6216, [1990] 1 CTC 317 (FCTD)
A husband and wife, who were full-time employees, and who in 1981 purchased farmland which required considerable work before it would become...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Reasonable Expectation of Profit | 89 |
McNeill v. The Queen, 89 DTC 5516, [1989] 2 CTC 310 (FCTD)
The taxpayer was found to have held his condominium with a reasonable expectation of profit after the time that he abandoned his intention to hold...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Reasonable Expectation of Profit | 48 |
Posno v. The Queen, 89 DTC 5423, [1989] 2 CTC 234 (FCTD)
The taxpayer, who worked full time as a co-ordinator of special education but had a passion for flying, purchased a high performance aircraft and...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 13 - Subsection 13(4) | 34 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Reasonable Expectation of Profit | personal use was principal motivation for aircraft operation | 130 |
Madronich v. The Queen, 89 DTC 5093, [1989] 1 CTC 247 (FCTD)
The taxpayer's tree farm was found to have a reasonable expectation of profit in light of the reforestation operation being undertaken in a...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Reasonable Expectation of Profit | 30 or 40 years to generate tree farm revenue does not detract from a business | 70 |
Coupland v. The Queen, [1988] 1 CTC 414, 88 DTC 6252 (FCTD)
A campground operation on land in the Calabogie area of Lanark which an Ottawa resident with a full-time job had originally purchased as a holiday...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Reasonable Expectation of Profit | 65 |
Chequer v. The Queen, 88 DTC 6169, [1988] 1 CTC 257 (FCTD)
Although the taxpayer purchased a 48-foot diesel cruiser with a sincere belief that he eventually would make a financial success of an operation...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Reasonable Expectation of Profit | 41 |
The Queen v. Gorjup, 87 DTC 5348, [1987] 2 CTC 129 (FCTD)
The taxpayer, who at all relevant times had a full-time job, purchased 1/2 of his father-in-law's run-down 200-acre farm in 1975 with the...
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| Tax Topics - General Concepts - Evidence | his subsequent actions corroborated the taxpayer's intentions | 63 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Reasonable Expectation of Profit | 134 |
London Life Insurance Co. v. The Queen, 87 DTC 5312, [1987] 2 CTC 90 (FCTD), aff'd 90 DTC 6001 (FCA)
London Life provided excess computer capacity to its subsidiary ("LDS") and charged LDS a fee that was calculated so as to avoid any profit or...
Magee v. The Queen, 87 DTC 5282, [1987] 2 CTC 17 (FCTD)
Two spouses, who carried on a truck repair service and an accounting service for truckers, were held not to be carrying on a small operation of...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Reasonable Expectation of Profit | 105 |
Meech v. The Queen, 87 DTC 5251, [1987] 1 CTC 421 (FCTD)
The taxpayer failed to establish that he acquired two Florida condominium units with a reasonable expectation of profit. One unit showed losses...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Reasonable Expectation of Profit | 96 |
Firestone v. The Queen, 87 DTC 5237, [1987] 2 CTC 1 (FCA), rev'g 86 DTC 6405, [1986] 2 CTC 251 (FCTD)
A taxpayer's expenses may be deductible even if "there is neither immediate income nor an immediate source of income in his business." In the...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Reasonable Expectation of Profit | 102 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(b) - Capital Expenditure v. Expense - Oversight or Investment Management | fees for expansion of portfolio | 131 |
Croutch v. The Queen, 86 DTC 6453, [1986] 2 CTC 246 (FCTD)
A part-time farmer who realized farming losses for his 1977-1980 taxation years which were approximately twice his revenues was prohibited from...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Reasonable Expectation of Profit | 71 |
Gillis v. The Queen, 78 DTC 6103, [1978] CTC 44 (FCTD)
A full-time professor at the University of Prince Edward Island who purchased an 117 acre farm 7 miles away in dilapidated condition, built his...
Moldowan v. The Queen, 77 DTC 5213, [1977] CTC 310, [1978] 1 S.C.R. 480
Dickson, J. stated (at 485, SCR):
[I]f the taxpayer in operating his farm is merely indulging in a hobby with no reasonable expectation of profit,...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Reasonable Expectation of Profit | no entitlement to deductions if no reasonable expectation of profit | 100 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 31 - Subsection 31(1) | farming was not the taxpayer's chief source of income in light of limited capital and time commitment | 76 |
Tobias v. The Queen, 78 DTC 6028, [1978] CTC 113 (FCTD)
An unsuccessful 8-year search by the taxpayer for buried pirate treasure was a business rather than a hobby.
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| Tax Topics - General Concepts - Onus | 42 | |
| Tax Topics - General Concepts - Personality | 48 | |
| Tax Topics - General Concepts - Separate Existence | 51 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Reasonable Expectation of Profit | 20 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Timing | 57 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(b) - Capital Expenditure v. Expense - Improvements v. Repairs or Running Expense | 69 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 67 | high pay-off if unlikely prospect of success was achieved justified the expenditure | 91 |
McLaws v. The Queen, 76 DTC 6005, [1976] CTC 15 (FCTD)
An operation of breeding and keeping horses for racing purposes was held to be carried on as a commercial venture and with a reasonable...
See Also
Galea v The Assessment Review Committee & Anor (Mauritius), [2025] UKPC 17
Whether the taxpayer could deduct his 92% share of the losses incurred by a Mauritius partnership (of which he was the dominant partner) from his...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(1) - Business | deer-hunting activity was a business based on the taxpayer's subjective intention of generating a profit | 312 |
Boles v. The King, 2024 TCC 167
In finding that the activities of the taxpayers (a couple) in raising, breeding and showing dogs and engaging in dog-show judging were a hobby...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 152 - Subsection 152(4) - Paragraph 152(4)(a) - Subparagraph 152(4)(a)(i) | a mistaken judgment that the taxpayers’ activities were a business was not a s. 152(4)(a)(i) misrepresentation | 372 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 162 - Subsection 162(2) | Minister required to demonstrate that a demand for the return had been made, or that penalty for prior year had already been assessed | 44 |
Chad v. The King, 2024 TCC 142
In order to generate a targeted loss of $22 million for use in his 2011 taxation year, Chad agreed to pay a fee of $240,000 to a UK foreign...
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| Tax Topics - General Concepts - Sham | FX straddle trades to generate losses were not shams or legally ineffective | 227 |
Stackhouse v. The King, 2023 TCC 156
Before going on to find that the taxpayer’s losses from a cattle operation (which were substantial both in dollar terms and relative to the...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 31 - Subsection 31(1) | deductions of losses from a farming business carried on for profit were severely limited because it was a subordinate source of income | 411 |
Preston v. The King, 2023 TCC 136 (Informal Procedure)
The taxpayer entered into a personal management contract with his daughter (Chantal). an aspiring singer/ songwriter, under which he would incur...
9127-6287 Québec Inc. v. Agence du revenu du Québec, 2023 QCCQ 4688
The taxpayer (“Québec Inc.”), during the taxation years at issue, suspended the operation of its golf course to backfill two artificial lakes...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(3.1) | s. 18(3.1) equivalent prorated between the construction of golf course buildings and work on the golf course | 268 |
Bérubé v. The King, 2023 TCC 12, aff'd 2025 CAF 112
After depositing his entire savings with an online poker site in 2007, the taxpayer began playing poker (online around 95% of the time, and...
D'Auteuil v. The King, 2023 TCC 3, aff'd 2025 CAF 112
The taxpayer was assessed for unreported net earnings from his activities as an online poker player participating in games of the type “Texas...
Duhamel v. The King, 2022 TCC 66
In 2010, 2011 and 2012, the net winnings of the taxpayer from participating in in-person poker tournaments were $4.87 million, $0.38 million and...
Fyfe v. The Queen, 2022 TCC 20 (Informal Procedure)
The taxpayer spent approximately six months per year doing work for one client (mostly construction and repair work), and the balance of the year...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 122.7 - Subsection 122.7(1) - Working Income - Paragraph (c) | a taxpayer who regularly reported business income was carrying on a business | 160 |
Paletta Estate v. The Queen, 2021 TCC 11, rev'd 2022 FCA 86
The taxpayer in Friedberg entered into spread positions in gold futures contracts, and in the same taxation year closed out the losing legs on his...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 9 - Timing | straddle trade losses recognized consistently with Friedberg | 337 |
| Tax Topics - General Concepts - Sham | FX straddles were not shams, and “window dressing” is not a standalone anti-avoidance doctrine | 241 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 163 - Subsection 163(2) | a reasonable person would have surfaced the omission of an $8M trading gain with an inquiry of his accountant | 391 |
DiCaita v. The Queen, 2021 TCC 5 (Informal Procedure)
In rejecting the Crown’s submission that the repair expenditures were not deductible because the rental unit at issue was not rented out during...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(b) - Capital Expenditure v. Expense - Improvements v. Repairs or Running Expense | reconditioning of rental unit allowed as deductible expense | 242 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Income-Producing Purpose | expenses of flight, at the conclusion of Las Vegas vacation followed by attending at a rental property in Phoenix, from Phoenix back home were deductible | 284 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(12) | significant time must be spent in home office to justify significant deduction | 166 |
Larkin v. The Queen, 2020 TCC 98 (Informal Procedure)
The taxpayer was a 76 year old geologist with decades of successful experience as a prospector, entrepreneur and inventor, with a B.Sc. degree in...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) | a geologist with no current income could deduct various expenses documented only in spreadsheets | 210 |
| Tax Topics - General Concepts - Evidence | spreadsheet was sufficient documentation of various claimed expenses | 99 |
Agence du revenu du Québec v. Weaver, 2019 QCCA 1687
The taxpayer, a full-time engineer working for a multinational (but also a self-described “gentleman farmer”), maintained two horses which his...
Savage v. The Queen, 2017 TCC 247 (Informal Procedure)
The taxpayers worked full time but stated that they were building up a dog kennel business, which they had started in 1999, in order to supplement...
Abenaim v. The Queen, 2017 TCC 223
A senior employee who, in the somewhat distant past, had also been a shareholder, received damages following his termination, and pursuant to a...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(1) - Retiring Allowance | amount received by a terminated employee (claiming oppression) exceeding 18 months’ salary was non-taxable | 486 |
Mazo v. The Queen, 2016 TCC 232 (Informal Procedure)
Graham J found that whereas successful participation in a Ponzi scheme gives rise to property income, successful participation in a pyramid scheme...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(1) - Business | pyramid scheme gives rise to business, not property, income | 287 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 9 - Timing | revenue earned when credited to taxpayer's account with promoter | 218 |
Berger v. The Queen, 2015 TCC 153 (Informal Procedure)
In 2011, the taxpayer lost his job at a radio station as a sports broadcaster. He started blogging on the Maple Leafs with a view to generating...
Hakki v. Secretary of State for Work and Pensions & Anor, [2014] BTC 22, [2014] EWCA Civ 530
The question of whether the appellant was obligated to pay child support maintenance out of his poker winnings turned on whether, under the Social...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 9 - Exempt Receipts/Business | careful and successful poker playing was not a trade or business | 132 |
Roszko v. The Queen, 2014 DTC 1083 [at at 3099], 2014 TCC 59
The taxpayer innocently advanced $800,000 to a corporation ("TransCap") which was engaged in a Ponzi scheme. He received $408,000 in total, styled...
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| Tax Topics - General Concepts - Evidence | finding of fraud by securities commission is a legal conclusion, not a factual allegation | 104 |
Garber v. The Queen, 2014 DTC 1045 [at at 2812], 2014 TCC 1
Each appellant (along with 600 other taxpayers over several taxation years in the 1980's) bought units in a limited partnership. Each of the 36...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 13 - Subsection 13(21) - Depreciable Property | title not held by GP on behalf of partnership | 122 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Income-Producing Purpose | expenses mere window-dressing | 135 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 20 - Subsection 20(1) - Paragraph 20(1)(c) | no source required if reasonable expectation of income | 241 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 96 | GP had fraudulent intention | 241 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Regulations - Regulation 1102 - Subsection 1102(1) - Paragraph 1102(1)(c) | asset was mere window-dressing | 146 |
Drouin v. The Queen, 2014 DTC 1016 [at at 2564], 2013 TCC 139
A Barbados corporation ("PIN") allegedly developed marketing software. It did business mainly through franchise arrangements, under which it would...
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| Tax Topics - General Concepts - Onus | late disclosure of assumptions does not reverse onus | 134 |
Bouchard v. The Queen, 2013 DTC 1203 [at at 1083], 2013 TCC 247 (Informal Procedure)
When his daughter was nine years old, the taxpayer created the "Tennis Mania LP," which used the funds contributed by him to reimburse him for...
Kuhlmann v. The Queen, 2011 DTC 1297 [at at 1675], 2011 TCC 410 (Informal Procedure)
The taxpayer and his wife carried on a consulting business through a partnership. They taxpayer subsequently became employed by the partnership's...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Start-Up and Liquidation Costs | 90 |
Hanna v. The Queen, 2011 DTC 1279 [at at 1584], 2011 TCC 382 (Informal Procedure)
The taxpayers held a rental property, which they intended to use to assist refugees coming to Canada. Campbell J. found that their expenses in...
Perreault v. The Queen, 2011 DTC 1256 [at at 1469], 2011 TCC 270 (Informal Procedure)
V.A. Miller J. allowed the taxpayer to deduct 50% of approximately $24,000 of business losses incurred in connection with a pyramid sales...
Cohen v. The Queen, 2011 DTC 1195 [at at 1080], 2011 TCC 262
The taxpayer attempted to claim $121,991 in poker losses on the basis that his gambling was a commercial activity. Pizzitelli J. found that the...
Dickson v. The Queen, 2011 DTC 1123 [at at 681], 2011 TCC 153 (Informal Procedure)
The taxpayer did not have a reasonable expectation of profit in various business activities. She did not invest enough time in her flight...
Daoust v. The Queen, 2010 DTC 1331 [at at 4265], 2010 TCC 330 (Informal Procedure)
The taxpayer could not claim a loss on the cottage he rented out. He used the cottage personally, and his rental activities did not demonstrate a...
Landriault v. The Queen, 2009 DTC 1334, 2009 DTC 1243, 2009 TCC 378 (Informal Procedure)
The taxpayers rented out the upper floor of a residential property to their disabled son at a minimal rent which helped to defray operating costs,...
Saint-Laurent v. The Queen, 2008 DTC 3668 (TCC)
In investing in a partnership the taxpayer had no intention of deriving any profit whatsoever and his only motivation was to generate a tax refund...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 96 | 105 |
Caputo v. The Queen, 2008 DTC 3596, 2008 TCC 263
A tax shelter arrangement under which the taxpayer agreed to pay licence fees for the right to market customer loyalty cards in specified areas...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(b) - Capital Expenditure v. Expense - Copyright and Licences | 26 |
Allard v. The Queen, 2007 DTC 1667, 2005 TCC 91 (Informal Procedure)
The taxpayer, who rented out a property to his parents at a modest monthly amount, without any rental increases from 1997 to 2002, so that it was...
Coome v. The Queen, 2007 DTC 1522, 2007 TCC 493 (Informal Procedure)
A real estate agent who showed persistent losses and who in the taxation years in question earned minimal revenue from his activity was found not...
Leblanc v. The Queen, 2007 DTC 307, 2006 TCC 680
The two taxpayers, who together won over $5.5 million during a four year period from playing sports lottery parlay games, were found to not be...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(1) - Business | winnings on internet gaming were non-taxable | 151 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 9 - Exempt Receipts/Business | compulsive gamblers rather than professionals | 151 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 9 - Expense Reimbursement | 151 |
Partridge v. The Queen, 2004 TCC 471 (Informal Procedure)
The taxpayer's a farming loss of $26,142 was allowed given that the only reason for the disallowance of the loss given by the Minister was the...
Shaughnessy v. The Queen, 2002 DTC 1272 (TCC)
After finding that the taxpayer had incurred deductible interest respecting an investment in a rental condominium in Whister, B.C. on the basis of...
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| Tax Topics - General Concepts - Onus | 62 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 108 - Subsection 108(2) - Paragraph 108(2)(b) | 98 |
Rikley v. The Queen, 2001 DTC 756 (TCC)
Before finding that the taxpayer was entitled to deduct losses incurred by him in operating a yacht for charter in the Caribbean, Bowman A.C.J....
Allen v. R., 99 DTC 968, [1999] 4 CTC 2371 (TCC)
The Minister's position, as revealed in the examinations for discovery, was that the taxpayers, who invested in what quickly became a profitable...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Reasonable Expectation of Profit | 146 |
Witkin v. R., 98 DTC 1933, [1998] 3 CTC 2869 (TCC)
The taxpayers and other Canadians purchased a 99% interest in a partnership ("CL 1") which, in turn, owned a 99% interest in a Texas general...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Reasonable Expectation of Profit | 103 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 96 | 70 |
Balanko v. MNR, 88 DTC 6228, [1988] 1 CTC 317 (FCTD)
The gains of an inveterate gambler were not taxable. A statement of Judge Bonner was adopted that "there is a total absence of any evidence here...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 9 - Exempt Receipts/Business | 47 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 9 - Expense Reimbursement | 43 |
Graham v. R., 97 DTC 1258, [1998] 1 CTC 2333 (TCC)
Before finding that the taxpayers were able to deduct amounts paid by them to a third party to help fund legal expenses to be incurred by the...
Heier v. The Queen, 97 DTC 739, [1997] 1 CTC 2471 (TCC)
The taxpayer was not entitled to deduct her losses from operating a bookstore and selling religious artifacts. Her initial purpose in starting the...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Reasonable Expectation of Profit | 92 |
Griffin v. The Queen, 96 DTC 1731 (TCC)
The taxpayer, who had a successful medical practice, was unable to deduct any of his losses incurred in respect of an import/export business given...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Reasonable Expectation of Profit | 63 |
Heenan v. The Queen, 96 DTC 1344 (TCC)
A partnership in which the taxpayer allegedly invested as a general partner was found not to have a reasonable expectation of profit and,...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Reasonable Expectation of Profit | 91 |
Roopchan v. The Queen, 96 DTC 1338, [1995] 2 CTC 2415 (TCC)
It was not appropriate for the Minister to aggregate the small operating profit realized by the taxpayer in renting out a basement apartment in...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Reasonable Expectation of Profit | 155 |
Mattison v. The Queen, 95 DTC 489 (TCC)
In finding that the Minister had been "premature" in disallowing initial losses sustained by the taxpayer in his operation of selling Amway...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Reasonable Expectation of Profit | 85 |
Administrative Policy
S4-F14-C1 - Artists and Writers
Stewart and Walls criteria of a business
1.22 It was determined in the Stewart decision that in order for an activity to be classified as...
17 January 2020 External T.I. 2017-0685341E5 - Tax Comparison of the FIT & Net Metering Programs
Under the Net Metering Program administered by the Ontario Power Authority, a participant who generates electricity primarily for the...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 9 - Computation of Profit | a credit generated by a business under the Ontario Net Metering Program is only income when applied, and is offset by a deduction for the electricity consumed | 261 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Regulations - Schedules - Schedule II - Class 43.1 | general Class 43.1 or 43.2 treatment of specified energy property rules to equipment used in the Ontario Feed-in Tariff program | 157 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Regulations - Regulation 1100 - Subsection 1100(25) | application of exception to the specified energy property rules to equipment used in the Ontario Feed-in Tariff program | 364 |
S4-F11-C1 - Meaning of Farming and Farming Business
Business source: Whether farm activities are a business
1.20 In order to determine if a farming business exists, it is important to consider...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(1) - Farming | 353 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 4 - Subsection 4(1) - Paragraph 4(1)(a) | 249 |
26 March 2015 Internal T.I. 2013-0503031I7 F - Existence d’une source de revenu
Although an individual’s activity, which he engaged in in order to generate funds for recreational activities, hade a certain level of...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Income-Producing Purpose | criteria for determining whether a home is a principal place of business | 162 |
12 February 2015 External T.I. 2014-0550771E5 F - Allocation à des bénévoles - chantier particulier
A registered charity sends volunteers on missions to developing countries and pays them an allowance of $X per day based on the National Joint...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 118.1 - Subsection 118.1(1) - Total Charitable Gifts | mission work volunteers foregoing allowances | 123 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 5 - Subsection 5(1) | quite unrepresentative remuneration: exempt | 106 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 6 - Subsection 6(6) | mission work under 2 years in LDCs | 109 |
3 October 2014 Internal T.I. 2014-0532051I7 - Rent and Part XIII Tax
A non-resident individual not carrying on business in Canada leases a Canadian property to a related resident individual at less than fair market...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 212 - Subsection 212(1) - Paragraph 212(1)(d) | non-commercial arrangement not subject to s. 247 but is subject to Part XIII/property taxes included in rent/no Part XII tax on imputed rent | 247 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 247 - New - Subsection 247(2) | non-commercial arrangement not subject to s. 247 | 99 |
2 July 2014 Ministerial Correspondence 2014-0537231M4 - Local Exchange Trading System
Respecting whether participation in a local bartering exchange network would give rise to income, CRA stated:
Paragraph 5 of IT-490 indicates that...
25 April 2014 External T.I. 2013-0485421E5 - Payments to Spouse for Attendant Care
The common law spouse of Mr. X, who was incapable of taking care of himself and was moved into a care facility, received expense reimbursement...
3 April 2014 External T.I. 2013-0512371E5 F - Qualification des montants gagnés au jeu de poker
In connection with concluding that a taxpayer, who began to devote a substantial portion of his time to online poker gambling, earned income from...
28 March 2014 External T.I. 2014-0525191E5 - Virtual Currencies (Bitcoins)
After stating that "if it is clear that a personal endeavour or hobby is pursued in a sufficiently commercial and businesslike way, it can be...
4 March 2014 External T.I. 2013-0491981E5 F - Soins à un conjoint inapte
What is the tax treatment of amounts received by an individual (who has been appointed as a mandatary by the Superior Court of Quebec) for the...
6 July 2012 Internal T.I. 2012-0453461I7 F - rental losses Canada-France Treaty
Subject to the rental property restriction rule respecting CCA, a Canadian resident individual generally can deduct rental losses incurred in...
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| Tax Topics - Treaties - Income Tax Conventions - Article 24 | s. 126(1) FTC re French income tax on rental income | 89 |
7 January 2004 Internal T.I. 2003-0038217 F - gain en capital / résidence principale
A taxpayer constructed a housing unit for his son and son's spouse on the second floor of his personal residence and incurred small losses in...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 45 - Subsection 45(1) - Paragraph 45(1)(c) | no partial change of use of residence where rental operation was not a business, or the business was ancillary | 124 |
18 September 2012 External T.I. 2012-0442581E5 F - Fiducie au profit d'un athlète amateur
A world-class amateur athlete (the “Athlete”) deposits qualifying performance income (as defined in s. 143.1(1)) to an athlete trust (the...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 143.1 - Subsection 143.1(2) | amounts distributed from athlete trust were business income | 129 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Income-Producing Purpose | expenses of athlete with athlete trust | 127 |
29 March 2012 Internal T.I. 2011-0430871I7 F - Participation à une étude de recherche clinique
Pharmaco, which is engaged in the development of pharmaceutical drugs, recruits volunteers to be tested in clinical trials and agrees to pay them...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 5 - Subsection 5(1) | "volunteers" for drug clinical trials earned business rather than employment income | 26 |
10 April 2012 Internal T.I. 2011-0430291I7 F - Montant d'aide versé par la SAAQ à un conjoint
Are amounts received from the Société de l 'assurance automobile du Québec ("SAAQ") by a taxpayer for personal home assistance services...
3 March 2011 External T.I. 2010-0379181E5 F - Jeux de hasard sur Internet
Respecting winnings of an individual from daily internet poker gambling, CRA stated:
Generally such activities will not be a source of income.
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(1) - Business | on-line poker winnings would be non-taxable if absence of conduct of serious business person | 143 |
3 February 2011 External T.I. 2010-0389601E5 F - Allocation de transport
Under an agreement with the School Board (which previously provided student free transportation), the parent was required to personally arrange...
26 July 2010 External T.I. 2010-0364721E5 F - Revenus de bien et d'entreprise
In the course of discussing the deductibility of expenses incurred in a rental or bed and breakfast operation, CRA stated:
a taxpayer may deduct,...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(12) | bed and breakfast operation was business rather than property source (and thus subject to s. 18(12) limitation) since more than normal essential services provided | 166 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Regulations - Regulation 1100 - Subsection 1100(14) | rental property restriction rule applies to business properties as well/"principally" references over 50% of the time | 127 |
28 September 2010 External T.I. 2010-0372461E5 F - Exploitation d'une entreprise à perte
An individual, a pharmacist, operates a pharmacy at a profit but also, as part of the same business, has a commercial department which sells other...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(b) - Capital Expenditure v. Expense - Goodwill, Trademarks and Customer Lists | per Canada Starch, a payment made to preserve goodwill or a business is not a capital expenditure | 157 |
3 June 2009 External T.I. 2009-0319551E5 F - Déductibilité des dépenses
Before indicating that there were insufficient details regarding a question on expense deductibility to give a specific response, CRA gave an...
12 June 2009 Internal T.I. 2009-0324511I7 F - Déductibilité des primes payées
A self-employed financial products broker receives commissions for the sale of life insurance policies that he takes out for his own benefit (the...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(h) | premiums paid by broker on policies on which the insureds were family members were non-deductible notwithstanding that the related commissions earned by him were taxable | 115 |
9 November 2009 External T.I. 2009-0337281E5 F - Paris sportifs sur Internet
Regarding whether a taxpayer deriving income from placing sports bets had a source of income, CRA stated:
[A]n activity that does not have a...
26 March 2008 External T.I. 2007-0224771E5 F - Sommes reçues en échange de références de clients
XYZco, which is in the residential construction business, makes a $500 referral payment to each former customer who provides the name of a...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Regulations - Regulation 200 - Subsection 200(1) | one-off referral fees to clients, if non-taxable, do not require T4As | 99 |
4 June 2007 Internal T.I. 2007-0229251I7 F - Montants reçus pour aide personnelle à domicile
The cognitively-impaired victim of an automobile accident received compensation from the Quebec Automobile Insurance Association, which he, in...
10 January 2007 External T.I. 2006-0171132E5 F - Revenu locatif
The taxpayer and his wife purchased a bungalow for their daughter, who was a single parent with a low income, with her staying there and being...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 54 - Principal Residence - Paragraph (a) | exemption potentially available re bungalow rented (but not as a source of income) to daughter | 165 |
26 April 2005 External T.I. 2004-0107761E5 F - Aide à domicile/SAAQ
A taxpayer, injured in an automobile accident in 1994, received in 2004 a sum from the Quebec auto insurer (the “SAAQ”) to reimburse him for...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 9 - Timing | amount not business income until the entitlement thereto was determined | 108 |
14 April 2005 External T.I. 2004-0107991E5 F - Participation à des études cliniques
Individuals participating in clinical studies to test new drugs for pharmaceutical companies were required to include the amounts they received...
13 May 2004 External T.I. 2003-0051951E5 F - Course automobile amateur
Regarding whether an amateur car racer receiving between $5,000 and $10,000 annually in sponsorships and incurring expenses between $10,000 and...
15 September 2003 Internal T.I. 2003-0013357 F - ALLOCATION RECUE PAR UN BENEVOLE
A volunteer driver for two organizations, who drove children or patients for various reasons such as medical appointments and parental visits,...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 5 - Subsection 5(1) | volunteer driver was not an employee | 68 |
7 November 2002 CTF Roundtable Q. 1, 2002-0144140 - CTF STEWART & WALLS
In response to various questions on the impact of Stewart and Walls including its impact on CCRA’s use of the reasonable expectation of profit...
30 October 2001 External T.I. 2001-0070655 F - COMMISSION VENDEUR D'ASSURANCE-VIE
CCRA indicated that a commission received by a self-employed life insurance broker following the sale of a life insurance policy of which he was...
31 July 2000 Internal T.I. 2000-0017597 F - COMMISSION-POLICES D'ASSURANCE-VIE
Regarding a life insurance salesman who acquired a segregated fund policy or an annuity contract and received commissions that he did not include...
Income Tax Technical News, No. 16, 8 March 1999
"The Department recognizes that a start-up period often involves incurring extra costs in order to get a business up and running but taxpayers...
Income Tax Technical News, No. 16, 8 March 1999
Comments on Tonn, Mastri, Mohammad and Kaye cases.
11 December 1998 Internal T.I. 9828647 - PARAGRAPH 18(1)(A)
Discussion on whether certain swap transactions were entered into for the purpose of producing income in a situation where the swap contracts were...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Reasonable Expectation of Profit | 41 |
28 May 1990 T.I. (October 1990 Access Letter, ¶1446)
Where as a result of a temporary move to another city, an employee rents out his house at a rent which is less than the expenses of maintaining...
October 1989 Revenue Canada Round Table - Q. 2 (Jan. 90 Access Letter, ¶1075)
The test of reasonable expectation of profit is applied at the level of the partnership, not at that of the partners. Therefore, in the case of a...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Reasonable Expectation of Profit | 73 |
IT334R2 "Miscellaneous receipts" 1 January 1995
10. Profits derived from bookmaking or from the operation of any gambling establishment (carried on legally or otherwise) constitute income from...
87 C.R. - Q.35
In determining whether an activity has a reasonable expectation of profit, discretionary deductions should be considered if they are relevant in...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Reasonable Expectation of Profit | 29 |
84 C.R. - Q.75
List of criteria that are applied in assessing whether an enterprise has a reasonable expectation of profit.
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Reasonable Expectation of Profit | 19 |
Articles
Benjamin Alarie, "The Taxation of Winnings from Poker and Other Gambling Activities in Canada", 2011 Canadian Tax Journal, Vol 59, p. 731, at p. 757
"Only when a taxpayer as established a clear and consistent record of accomplishment in poker will there be sufficient evidence to take the...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 9 - Exempt Receipts/Business | 46 |
John Saunders, "The Empire Strikes Back - The Rebirth of the Reasonable Expectation of Profit Test", 2003 British Columbia Tax Conference Report.
Joel A. Nitikman, "Reasonable Expectation of Profit - Where Are We Now?", Canadian Current Tax, Vol 8, No. 8, May 1998, p. 81.
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Reasonable Expectation of Profit | 0 |
John R. Owen, "The Reasonable Expectation of Profit Test: Is There a Better Approach?", 1996 Canadian Tax Journal, Vol. 44, No. 4, p. 979. [cited in the Hickman Motors case, supra, at p. 5373].
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Reasonable Expectation of Profit | 0 |
Silver, "Great Expectations: Are They Reasonable?", 1995 Corporate Management Tax Conference Report, c. 6.
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Reasonable Expectation of Profit | 0 |
Paragraph 3(c)
Administrative Policy
11 August 2020 Internal T.I. 2018-0782181I7 - Successored CCEE and Non-Capital Losses
CRA indicated that even though taking deductions under s. 66.7(3) to (5) from successored resource pools against income from successored...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 66.7 - Subsection 66.7(3) | deductions of successored resource expenditures cannot generate a non-capital loss | 322 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Incurring of Expense | successored resource expenses are not deductible under s. 9 | 165 |
Commentary
S. 3(a) requires the inclusion in income for purposes of the Act of income from sources inside and outside Canada "including, without restricting...