See Also
Daggett v. MNR, 93 DTC 14, [1992] 2 CTC 2764 (TCC)
A series of transactions pursuant to which the taxpayer used borrowed funds under a daylight loan to subscribe for common shares of a loss company...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(1) - Dividend | 34 |
Distribution
See Also
Northern Hot Oil Services Ltd. v. The Queen, 97 DTC 12107 (TCC)
A transaction in which the common shares of a corporation held by the taxpayer were purchased for cancellation for consideration consisting of...
Administrative Policy
2023 Ruling 2022-0957491R3 F - Butterfly Reorganization
Background
Transferor is a holding company holding near-cash and investment property including shares of a public corporation (Corporation). Its...
2024 Ruling 2023-0987001R3 - Public Spin-Off Butterfly
CRA ruled on butterfly spin-off transactions to effect the split-up of DC2, a public corporation, into two publicly listed companies: DC2 and...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 55 - Subsection 55(3.02) | successive butterflies to effect the creation of a 2nd public corporation/ lower-tier butterfly by a “specified wholly-owned corporation” | 938 |
2021 Ruling 2021-0904311R3 F - Butterfly Reorganization
Background
Transferor is a farming corporation whose Class A common and Class D preferred shares are both held by two resident brothers (A and...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 191 - Subsection 191(5) | specified amount included in shares issued on butterfly distribution | 200 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 186 - Subsection 186(1) - Paragraph 186(1)(b) | circularity avoided through intervening taxation year end of transferee corp | 74 |
2021 Ruling 2020-0848061R3 - Sequential Butterfly
Background
Aco to Eco are corporations held by unrelated individuals (A to E) or their families or family trusts. They wish to separate their...
2021 Ruling 2020-0852541R3 F - Split-up XXXXXXXXXX Butterfly
CRA provided standard rulings for a one-wing split-up butterfly respecting the “Transferor,” which computed the income from its business...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 186 - Subsection 186(1) - Paragraph 186(1)(b) | resolution of Part IV tax circularity issue on butterfly to be resolved by local TSO | 80 |
2022 Ruling 2021-0884331R3 - Gross Asset Butterfly
Background
The shares (being preferred and common shares) of DC, whose assets (other than minor cash) consisted solely of publicly-traded shares,...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 86 - Subsection 86(1) | s. 86 exchange by articles of amendment of pref into common | 86 |
2021 Ruling 2020-0863171R3 - Gross basis split-up Butterfly
Background
DC owns four rental properties (Properties 1, 2, 3 and 4) which generate business income rather than being a specified investment...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 88 - Subsection 88(2) - Paragraph 88(2)(b) - Subparagraph 88(2)(b)(ii) | butterfly with preliminary safe income dividend to increase ACB to pre-1972 CSOH, avoiding capital gain on wind-up | 190 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 186 - Subsection 186(1) - Paragraph 186(1)(b) | request to TSO for short taxation year to avoid dividend circularity on split-up butterfly | 233 |
2020 Ruling 2018-0772291R3 F - Multi-wings split-up net asset butterfly 55(3)(b)
Background
The Corporation, which is held by Holdco, three siblings (Child 1, 2 and 3) and three trusts (Newtrust 1, 2 and 3) for the benefit of...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 186 - Subsection 186(1) - Paragraph 186(1)(b) | split-up butterfly that avoids Pt IV tax circularity by a subsequent wind-up of the distributing corporation | 153 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 80 - Subsection 80(1) - Forgiven Amount | no application of s. 80 where notes owing by corporation to its shareholders are distributed to them on its winding-up | 173 |
2019 Ruling 2018-0758411R3 - Multi-wing split-up net asset butterfly
Current structure
DC, which is the beneficial owner of a rental real estate property (representing a specified investment business), is held by...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 186 - Subsection 186(1) - Paragraph 186(1)(b) | Pt. IV tax circularity avoided through winding-up dividend in subsequent year | 144 |
2018 Ruling 2017-0733011R3 - Split-up Butterfly
Current structure
The shareholders of DC (a Canadian-controlled private corporation) are A and her two adult children, B and C, each holding...
2018 Ruling 2017-0714411R3 - Butterfly Reorganization
Current structure
The shareholders of DC, a Canadian-controlled private corporation carrying on a farming business are Mother, holding...
2017 Ruling 2017-0699201R3 - Cross-border Butterfly
Current Structure
Foreign Parentco, which is governed by the laws of (foreign) Country 1 and has two classes of issued and outstanding shares...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 55 - Subsection 55(1) - Permitted Exchange - Paragraph (b) | cross-border butterfly including preliminary transfer of DC to foreing parent to come within “permitted exchange” | 444 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 143.3 - Subsection 143.3(3) | s. 143.3(3) inapplicable on a 4-party exchange | 234 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 54 - Adjusted Cost Base | full cost of property acquired under 4-party exchange | 222 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 212.1 - Subsection 212.1(1.1) - Paragraph 212.1(1.1)(b) | application on 4-party exchange | 291 |
2017 Ruling 2016-0646891R3 - Pipeline and subsequent Split-up butterfly
CRA ruled on a combined pipeline and split-up butterfly transaction respecting DC, which invested in marketable securities, and the shares in...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 84 - Subsection 84(2) | pipeline coupled with split up butterfly in favour of TCs for grandchild residuary trusts | 543 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 186 - Subsection 186(1) - Paragraph 186(1)(b) | circularity avoided through 2nd dividend arising on winding-up of DC | 145 |
2017 Ruling 2016-0674681R3 - Sequential Split-Up Butterfly
Background
DC1 holds cash and cash-like assets (e.g., money market funds or GICs), marketable securities and has an RDTOH and CDA balance. Its...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 129 - Subsection 129(1) | capital gain deliberately triggered to generate CDA and RDTOH addition and year end change granted to isolate dividend refund | 543 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 55 - Subsection 55(3.1) - Paragraph 55(3.1)(a) | sale of securities for cash proceeds that are reinvested, and tendering shares for shares of offeror | 58 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 249.1 - Subsection 249.1(7) | CRA accommodates year end change so that dividend refund of full RDTOH balance is generated in Year 1 | 210 |
2016 Ruling 2015-0616291R3 - Cross-Border Butterfly
Background
All of the common shares of Canadian DC are owned by Forco 2 which, in turn, is wholly-owned by Forco 1 which, in turn, is...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 55 - Subsection 55(1) - Permitted Exchange | two successive permitted exchanges contemplated | 205 |
2013 Ruling 2012-0459781R3 - Cross border butterfly
Overview
This was a cross-border butterfly of a Canadian spin business (already packaged into a subsidiary of DC) by DC to TC, an indirect...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 55 - Subsection 55(3.2) - Paragraph 55(3.2)(h) | 4-party exchange to avoid s. 55(3.2)(h) | 115 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 212.1 - Subsection 212.1(1.1) - Paragraph 212.1(1.1)(b) | PUC grind where shares issued in 4-party exchange | 220 |
2015 Ruling 2014-0552871R3 - Split-Up Butterfly
Background
Mr. D and Mr. E (and their respective families), with the two families being unrelated, decided to split up the business of the CCPC...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 55 - Subsection 55(2.1) - Paragraph 55(2.1)(b) | post-butterfly sale of distributed shares by one TC to the other | 63 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 20 - Subsection 20(24) | deferred revenue treated as boot | 53 |
2015 Ruling 2014-0558831R3 - No-type of property spin-off butterfly
Background
DC is a public corporation all of whose multiple-voting (common) shares (“DC MVS”) and some of whose subordinate-voting (common)...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 7 - Subsection 7(1.4) | replacement stock options issued by Spinco treated as boot | 112 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 86 - Subsection 86(1) | new common shares with same attributes as old subject to rights of new special shares/pro rata PUC | 164 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 85 - Subsection 85(1) - Paragraph 85(1)(d) | proration of CEC preliminary to butterfly | 156 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(1) - Disposition | splitting of fee for management of 2 divisions not a disposition of contract | 145 |
8 June 2016 CTF Technical Seminar: Update on s. 55(2)
CRA indicated that it cannot confirm in the context of a butterfly that the pro-rata requirement in s. 55(1) is met where the shares issued are...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 55 - Subsection 55(2.1) - Paragraph 55(2.1)(b) | integration principle/expanded scope/no contemplated sale required/no blanket exemptons/policy similar to boot rules | 375 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 55 - Subsection 55(2.1) - Paragraph 55(2.1)(c) | safe income appropriately reduced by incentive reductions | 29 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 55 - Subsection 55(2.5) | significant reduction in value of nominal value share | 84 |
27 April 2016 External T.I. 2016-0633101E5 F - Attribution of safe income
After discussing the allocation of safe income between two classes of discretionary dividend common shares, CRA added this comment (TI...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 55 - Subsection 55(2.1) - Paragraph 55(2.1)(c) | discretionary dividend will not reduce safe income attributable to the other class of discretionary dividend shares to the extent the dividend is taxable under s. 55(2) | 346 |
2015 Ruling 2014-0548491R3 - Split-up XXXXXXXXXX Butterfly
A split up of DC's business among three brothers (A, B and C) and their respective immediate families is accomplished by split-up style butterfly...
2015 Ruling 2013-0490651R3 - Single-wing Split-up Farm Butterfly
DC carries on a farming business. There is a single-wing butterfly transfer of its three types of property to TC, to which Sibling 1 has...
2014 Ruling 2014-0533601R3 - Spin-off butterfly - subsection 55(2)
Current structure
DC, which is a Canadian-controlled private corporation, carries on the production, processing and sale of XX (the "DC Retained...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 186 - Subsection 186(1) | matching of PUC of cross-shareholdings to match Part IV tax | 152 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 84 - Subsection 84(1) | stated capital distribution effected by set-off | 77 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 86 - Subsection 86(1) | new common shares distinct on basis of right to interim financials | 97 |
2014 Ruling 2014-0530961R3 - Cross-Border Butterfly
Overview
In connection with a spin-off by a U.S. public company (Foreign PubCo) of a U.S. subsidiary (Foreign Spinco) to which one of its...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 55 - Subsection 55(3.1) - Paragraph 55(3.1)(b) - Subparagraph 55(3.1)(b)(i) | pro rata allocation of Foreign Spinco debt | 180 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 86.1 - Subsection 86.1(2) | spin-off by U.S. pubco of U.S. spinco after Canadian butterfly | 115 |
2014 Ruling 2013-0513211R3 - Butterfly Transaction
Current structure
The Class A common shares of DC1, a CCPC, are owned equally by Holdco1, Holdco2 and Holdco3 and its Class J preferred shares...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 186 - Subsection 186(1) | split-up CCPC butterfly was structured to avoid Part IV circularity | 95 |
2014 Ruling 2013-0498651R3 - Single-Wing Split-up Butterfly
underline;">: Background. The sole shareholders of DC, which holds a farm property, are two siblings (Sibling1 and Sibling2) and their respective...
2014 Ruling 2012-0446701R3 - Butterfly reorganization
Split-up butterfly is "being undertaken to allow each of [cousins] B and C to carry on separate farming operations from one another, and to...
2014 Ruling 2012-0432441R3 - Butterfly reorganization
Standard split-up butterfly of DC for division of DC between families of Brother 1 and 2.
2013 Ruling 2013-0491651R3 - Cross-Border Butterfly
Overview
The ordinary shares of Foreign PubCo, which was formed under the laws of Country 1, trade on Exchange 1. The worldwide business...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 55 - Subsection 55(3.1) - Paragraph 55(3.1)(a) | preliminary LP acquisition, cross-border debt repayments and dividend: not part of series | 230 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 55 - Subsection 55(3.1) - Paragraph 55(3.1)(b) - Subparagraph 55(3.1)(b)(i) | cross-border b/f with 3-party exchange, pro rata application of upper tier debt, cash-out of ineligible shareholders | 501 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 86 - Subsection 86(1) | exchange for substantively identical common shares | 124 |
2013 Ruling 2013-0502921R3 - Split-Up Butterfly - Farm
Structure
The DC is a CCPC owned (as to both DC-Class A (common) and DC-Class D (pref)) by Son1, Son2 and Mother and which formerly had carried...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 186 - Subsection 186(1) | split-up b/f of farm CCPC with unresolved circularity issue | 242 |
2014 Ruling 2013-0498951R3 - Split-up Butterfly
A standard split-up butterfly for the pro rata division of the assets (mostly portfolio shares) of DC (a CCPC with no liabilities other than...
2013 Ruling 2013-0490341R3 - No-type of property spin-off butterfly
Preliminary
As a preliminary step under a plan of arrangement, the shareholders of Old Pubco (a Canadian public corporation dealing at arm's...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 20 - Subsection 20(1) - Paragraph 20(1)(c) | post butterfly FX loan by TC to DC | 242 |
2013 Ruling 2013-0475681R3 - Family holding butterfly transaction
Facts
DC is a CCPC holding company whose assets consist of the shares of Aco (controlled by uncles, aunts and cousins), which are investment...
2013 Ruling 2012-0449611R3 - single-wing butterfly reorganization
Existing situation
DC, which is a CCPC beneficially owning rental real estate encumbered with mortgages (the "Buildings") and which carries on a...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 186 - Subsection 186(1) | 562 |
2012 Ruling 2012-0460811R3 - Public Company Spin-Off Butterfly
Under the proposed transactions for a spin-off butterfly of Spinco by DC (a public corporation and principal business corporation as defined in...
2012 Ruling 2011-0425441R3 - Cross Border Butterfly
Overview
A non-resident public company (Foreign Pubco) will be spinning off Business A to its shareholders, to be accomplished by a...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 55 - Subsection 55(3.1) - Paragraph 55(3.1)(b) - Subparagraph 55(3.1)(b)(i) | upper tier debt applied pro rata re 10% limitation | 383 |
2012 Ruling 2011-0416001R3 - Split-up butterfly
Structure
The DC is a CCPC whose only significant assets is shares (being investment property) of Pubco (a Canadian public company over which...
2012 Ruling 2012-0439381R3 - Cross-border spin-off butterfly
Preliminary transactions
. The transactions entail the spin-off by Foreign Pubco of Foreign Spinco Parent including a Canadian business which...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 55 - Subsection 55(3.1) - Paragraph 55(3.1)(b) - Subparagraph 55(3.1)(b)(i) | 507 |
2012 Ruling 2011-0431101R3 - Cross-border spin-off butterfly
Background
Foreign Pubco has announced that it will divide itself into three separate publicly traded companies by making a distribution by way...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 20 - Subsection 20(1) - Paragraph 20(1)(c) | interest deduction following b/f cross-redemption | 143 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 55 - Subsection 55(1) - Permitted Exchange | 429 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 55 - Subsection 55(3.1) - Paragraph 55(3.1)(b) - Subparagraph 55(3.1)(b)(i) | 604 |
2012 Ruling 2011-0413661R3 - Butterfly
The distributing corporation ("DC") is controlled by a financial institution ("Owner 1" - perhaps a credit union) and its only assets are a...
7 October 2011 Roundtable, 2011-0399401C6 - Butterfly, life insurance policies, grandfathering
Where two siblings are the shareholders of two transferee corporations which are to receive two life insurance policies taken out by the...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 55 - Subsection 55(3.1) - Paragraph 55(3.1)(a) | a policy loan under a life insurance policy to reduce its CSV would trigger s. 55(3.1)(a) | 169 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 55 - Subsection 55(4) | s. 55(4) inapplicable if the principal reason for parent’s control of DC was parent's economic interests | 178 |
2009 Ruling 2008-0304371R3 - Single-Wing Butterfly
In a single-wing butterfly of a company whose assets consisted of cash and cash equivalents, tenant receivables and a revenue producing rental...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 20 - Subsection 20(24) | portion of assets transferred to transferee corporation on butterfly treated as s. 20(24) payment | 70 |
2008 Ruling 2007-0241221R3 - 55(3)(b) butterfly reorganization
preliminarily to butterfly transactions involving a CCPC (DC) whose individual shareholders are implementing a settlement agreement in respect of...
2008 Ruling 2007-0251681R3 - Butterfly and freeze of an estate
there are two proposed successive butterfly reorganizations in which DC, which is a CCPC whose assets include development real estate, mortgage...
2007 Ruling 2006-0215751R3 - Cross-border butterfly
In a net equity butterfly, after the current liabilities are allocated to cash and near-cash property, "any remaining net FMV of any accounts...
2006 Ruling 2006-0197501R3 - Multiple-wing Butterfly
Vacant land of a distributing corporation used as a parking lot for a facility owned by a subsidiary, and vacant land owned by the distributing...
2006 Ruling 2006-0181061R3 - Butterfly Distribution - XXXXXXXXXX
The cash and near cash property of DC Amalco includes funds in an escrow bank account which, pursuant to the relevant loan agreement, DC Amalco is...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 85 - Subsection 85(1) - Paragraph 85(1)(e) | UCC in butterfly is proportionate UCC | 129 |
2004 Ruling 2003-004375
Where TC receives a butterfly property from DC on spin-off butterfly, the sale by TC of some of the butterflied property back to DC after the...
2002 Ruling 2002-0140733 - XXXXXXXXXX - Sequential Butterfly
sequential butterfly. In each butterfly, "to the extent a portion of the cash or near cash property of the [DC] Group is committed by the [DC]...
2000 Ruling 2000-0040663 - Butterfly reorganization
No look-through approach was applied to holdings in public corporation where each holding was less than 20% and neither the taxpayer nor persons...
1999 Ruling 9902623 - BUTTERFLY REORGANIZATION
Where the distributing corporation or a look-through corporation has limited partnership interests, the consolidated look-through approach will be...
30 November 1997 Ruling 9801803 - PUBLIC BUTTERFLY
In determining the net fair market value of property of the distributing corporation, liabilities should be valued at their principal amount...
30 November 1997 Ruling 9800973 - BUTTERFLY RULING (SPIN-OFF)
sales proceeds, in the form of cash and a non-convertible note receivable, which DC received on the sale of its interests in [unspecified assets]...
30 November 1995 Ruling 9632593 - DIVISIVE REORGANIZATION
Vacant land held for development, which was capital property, was categorized as investment property. Any tax accounts, such as the balance of any...
1996 Corporate Management Tax Conference Roundtable, Q. 16 (Canadian Tax Foundation), at 24:19
When does a reorganization end (that is, when are subsequent transactions considered part of the "reorganization" and when are they outside the...
Robert J.L. Read, "Section 55: A Review of Current Issues," 1988 Conference Report (Canadian Tax Foundation), 18:1-28
Wind-up of transferred corporation into the transferee corporation accomplishes indirect transfer; cf. its amalgamation with TC (p. 18:16)
[A]...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 55 - Subsection 55(1) - Safe-Income Determination Time | 433 |
Articles
Christian Desjardins, Nik Diksic, "Cross-Border Butterflies in the Context of Public Spin-Off Transactions", 2015 CTF Annual Conference paper
Net cash/investment property transferred driven by relative FMV of spun-off business assets (p.29:20)
[T]he CRA requires that the redemption...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 55 - Subsection 55(3.1) - Paragraph 55(3.1)(b) | 1907 |
Permitted Exchange
Administrative Policy
2016 Ruling 2015-0616291R3 - Cross-Border Butterfly
A foreign public company (Foreign Pubco) is to spin-off a newly-formed non-resident subsidiary (Foreign Spinco). preparatoryh to this, there is...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 55 - Subsection 55(1) - Distribution | 2 successive permitted exchanges in cross-border butterfly/deferred revenue not a liability/agreements between DC And TC re certain allocations so as to affect 3 types of property | 1699 |
2012 Ruling 2011-0431101R3 - Cross-border spin-off butterfly
As preliminary transactions to a butterfly distribution by DC, which is owned by a non-resident subsidiary (Foreign Sub 1) of a non-resident...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 20 - Subsection 20(1) - Paragraph 20(1)(c) | interest deduction following b/f cross-redemption | 143 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 55 - Subsection 55(1) - Distribution | cross-border b/f as part of double Code s. 355 spin-off | 1540 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 55 - Subsection 55(3.1) - Paragraph 55(3.1)(b) - Subparagraph 55(3.1)(b)(i) | 604 |
Paragraph (b)
Administrative Policy
2017 Ruling 2017-0699201R3 - Cross-border Butterfly
CRA ruled on a cross-border butterfly which entailed assets of the “Transferred Business” being transferred indirectly to a wholly-owned...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 55 - Subsection 55(1) - Distribution | cross-border butterfly with 4-party exchange and preceding distribution of DC to foreign parent to qualify as permitted exchange/rental property valued at nil/post-butterfly equaling cash payment | 1140 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 143.3 - Subsection 143.3(3) | s. 143.3(3) inapplicable on a 4-party exchange | 234 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 54 - Adjusted Cost Base | full cost of property acquired under 4-party exchange | 222 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 212.1 - Subsection 212.1(1.1) - Paragraph 212.1(1.1)(b) | application on 4-party exchange | 291 |
8 October 2010 Roundtable, 2010-0373211C6 F - Butterfly Transaction - Permitted Exchange
Where after a butterfly transaction, a family trust (whose beneficiaries are persons unrelated to the transferee corporation, the distributing...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 55 - Subsection 55(3.1) - Paragraph 55(3.1)(b) | issuance of shares by TC after the DC distribution without AOC of TC does not engage s. 55(3.1)(b) | 212 |
Safe-Income Determination Time
See Also
Les Placements E&R Simard Inc. v. The Queen, 97 DTC 1328 (TCC)
On September 10, 1988, the taxpayer transferred its assets to a subsidiary ("Alimentation 1988") in consideration for a demand promissory note and...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(10) | 152 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 55 - Subsection 55(2) | 111 |
Administrative Policy
7 October 2022 APFF Roundtable Q. 14, 2022-0942191C6 F - Safe-income determination time
The incorporation on March 15 by a purchaser of a corporation for the purpose of purchasing the assets of another corporation (the vendor) caused...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 55 - Subsection 55(2.1) - Paragraph 55(2.1)(b) | no need for CRA flexibility regarding safe income issues arising from early formation of a Buyco | 307 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(10) | safe income arising on a sale and after the safe-income determination time could be used for subsequent dividends not paid as part of the same series | 156 |
2015 Ruling 2015-0589471R3 - Earnout
Background
The equal and unrelated (corporate) shareholders of Holdco (a Canadian-controlled private corporation) wish to accommodate the purchase...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 12 - Subsection 12(1) - Paragraph 12(1)(g) | 5-year earnings based earnout for sale of Holdco common shares by Opco to key employee | 841 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 85 - Subsection 85(1) | s. 85(1) rollover available on dirty s. 85 exchange | 92 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 55 - Subsection 55(2.1) - Paragraph 55(2.1)(c) | utilization of safe income as earned through a contemplated succession of dividends of all the annual earnings | 203 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 7 - Subsection 7(1) - Paragraph 7(1)(a) | transactions for using s. 7 rules on sale of non-treasury shares | 212 |
15 November 2016 Roundtable, 2016-0672321C6 - Guidance on determination of safe income
Having regard to the concern that the safe-income determination time is no later than the time immediately before the earliest dividend paid as...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 55 - Subsection 55(2.1) - Paragraph 55(2.1)(c) | annually recurring dividends are not a series of transactions for safe-income determination purposes/ CRA provision of old returns/ safe income reduced by contingent amounts | 623 |
26 June 2003 External T.I. 2003-0021595 F - Distribution of Corporate Property
Two brothers (A and B), and their cousins (C and D, who were brothers) each held 50% of the shares of a holding company ("ABco" and ) ("CDco)" for...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - 101-110 - Section 107 - Subsection 107(2.1) | illustration of application, by virtue of s. 107(2.001) election, of s. 107(2.1) to distribution of CCPC shares | 157 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 84 - Subsection 84(2) | s. 84(2) inapplicable to s. 107(2.1) wind-up of trust holding a Portfolioco followed by an inter vivos pipeline transaction re Portfolioco | 323 |
Robert J.L. Read, "Section 55: A Review of Current Issues," 1988 Conference Report (Canadian Tax Foundation), 18:1-28
Safe income excludes income earned after the commencement of the series (p. 18:4)
The period of time relevant to the calculation of “ the income...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 55 - Subsection 55(1) - Distribution | wind-up of transferred corporation into but not amalgamation with TC | 149 |
Articles
Doron Barkai, Alexander Demner, "Dealing with New Subsection 55(2): Issues and Strategies", 2016 Conference Report (Canadian Tax Foundation), 6:1–56
Annual cash dividends generally not a series (p. 6:17)
One issue to consider is whether annual dividends may be part of the same series of...
Rick McLean, "Subsection 55(2): What Is the New Reality?", 2015 CTF Annual Conference paper
Application of safe-income determination time to annual cash dividends (p. 22:43)
The legislative definition of "safe-income determination...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 55 - Subsection 55(2.1) - Paragraph 55(2.1)(b) | 824 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 55 - Subsection 55(2.3) | 251 |
Marc Ton-That, Vance Sider, "Understanding Section 55 and Butterfly Reorganizations", 2nd Edition, CCH, 1999
Harshness of cut-off at beginning of series (being, generally, the beginning of sale negotiations) (pp. 34-35)
Prior to the introduction of the...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(10) | 135 |