Subsection 75(2) - Trusts
Cases
Fiducie financière Satoma v. Canada, 2018 FCA 74
A tax plan turned upon dividends that in fact were paid to a family trust (Satoma Trust) being attributed under s. 75(2) to a corporation...
Canada v. Sommerer, 2012 DTC 5126 [at at 7219], 2012 FCA 207
The taxpayer (a Canadian-resident individual) sold shares of a Canadian company to an Austrian private foundation (privatstiftung) which had been...
Fraser v. The Queen, 91 DTC 5123 (FCTD), aff'd 95 DTC 5684 (FCA)
Subsection 75(2) did not apply to income earned by unit holders in a trust which used the subscription proceeds for the units to acquire mortgages...
The Queen v. Quinn, 73 DTC 5215, [1973] CTC 258 (FCTD)
Under a contract with the Canadian Scholarship Trust Fund it was agreed that interest on funds deposited by the taxpayer would be transferred to...
See Also
Fiducie Financière Satoma v. The Queen, 2017 TCC 84, aff'd 2018 FCA 74
The taxpayer was found to be subject to s. 245(2) respecting a surplus-stripping plan that relied on dividends that in fact were paid to a family...
Brent Kern Family Trust v. The Queen, 2013 DTC 1249 [at at 1396], 2013 TCC 327, aff'd 2014 FCA 230
The facts (see para. 29 of the Reasons, which states the opposite of para. 6 of the poorly-drafted Statement of Agreed Facts) appear to be...
Sommerer v. The Queen, 2011 DTC 1162 [at at 845], 2011 TCC 212, aff'd 2012 FCA 207
The taxpayer (a Canadian-resident individual) transferred shares of a Canadian company to an Austrian private foundation (privatstiftung) which...
Garron Family Trust v. The Queen, 2009 DTC 1568, 2009 TCC 450, aff'd sub nom St. Michael Trust Corp. v. The Queen, 2010 DTC 5189 [at 7361], 2010 FCA 309, aff'd sub nom Fundy Settlement v. Canada, 2012 SCC 14
In the course of the reorganization of the share structure of a Canadian holding company ("PMPL") for a Canadian automotive business, two newly...
Howson c. The Queen, 2007 DTC 141, 2006 TCC 644
Monies advanced by the taxpayer to a family trust were found to be a loan rather than a contribution of capital, notwithstanding that a loan...
Administrative Policy
10 October 2024 APFF Roundtable Q. 15, 2024-1028451C6 F - Paiement d’une dépense d’une fiducie et paragraphe 75(2) L.I.R.
Regarding whether the payment of professional fees by a trustee or beneficiary of a trust triggers the application of s. 75(2), CRA stated:
[T]he...
2024 Ruling 2023-0989121R3 F - Internal reorganization - 55(3)(a) and 55(3.01)(g)
Before Opco (whose shares were held by three unrelated individuals, Messrs. A, B and C) was to effect a real-estate spin-off to a new sister...
4 June 2024 STEP Roundtable Q. 7, 2024-1003611C6 - AET and Subsection 75(2)
The trust deed for an alter ego trust provided that no capital distributions, including any capital gains, could be made while the settlor (who...
15 June 2022 STEP Roundtable Q. 11, 2022-0929331C6 - Joint Spousal or Common-law Partner Trust
After a joint spousal or common-law partner trust is created with a contribution of jointly-owned property by an individual and the individual’s...
15 June 2021 STEP Roundtable Q. 5, 2021-0883001C6 - Income Attribution from AET
Would s. 75(2) apply in the following independent scenarios?
(a) A taxpayer settles an alter ego trust and contributes an interest in a limited...
17 July 2019 Internal T.I. 2017-0718021I7 - Deregistration of TFSA
A trust lost its status as a tax-free savings account (“TFSA”) because it contravened the registration restriction on borrowing money. It...
7 June 2019 STEP Roundtable Q. 12, 2019-0798301C6 - Attribution under 75(2)
CRA acknowledged that, in Satoma, Noël CJ. noted that express exclusions in most of the attribution provisions (e.g., s. 74.1) of the attributed...
29 May 2018 STEP Roundtable Q. 11, 2018-0748241C6 - Subsection 104(13.4)
For taxation years ending after 2015, where the lifetime beneficiary of an alter ego trust dies, the trust will have a deemed year end on the...
16 February 2017 Internal T.I. 2016-0669881I7 - 75(2) applicability to trust
Under the terms of the trust indenture for a family trust, the settlor is one of two original trustees, all decisions must be made unanimously,...
12 July 2016 External T.I. 2014-0560361E5 - Cdn beneficiary of US living trust
In the course of a general discussion of the Canadian tax treatment of a taxpayer holding an interest in a U.S. “living trust,” CRA stated:
A...
10 June 2016 STEP Roundtable Q. 13, 2016-0645811C6 - Filing Obligation for 75(2) trust
Reg. 204(1) provides that a trustee having control of or receiving income, gains or profits must file an information return – so that even...
2015 Ruling 2015-0610391R3 - Whether 75(2) will apply to new trusts
Terms of New Trusts
Two new trusts (the “New Trusts”) are settled by Mr. A and Mrs. A, respectively. The trustees of each New Trust consist...
13 April 2015 External T.I. 2012-0449141E5 F - Usufruct
A corporation sold the usufruct respecting a property to an arm’s length third party for use as a secondary residence, while retaining the bare...
10 October 2014 APFF Roundtable, 2014-0538241C6 F - 75(2) and definition of "earned income" in 146(1)
5(a)
When a rental property has been transferred to a trust, is rental income attributed to the transferor under s. 75(2) transformed into trust...
3 October 2014 External T.I. 2013-0476871E5 - Subsection 75(2)
Property settled on a trust includes an LP interest. On termination of the trust, the trust property will revert to the settlor. Will s. 75(2) not...
16 June 2014 STEP Roundtable, 2014-0523061C6 - Trust audit issues
2010-036630117 concerned the sole trustee and capital beneficiary of a trust (the taxpayer) who, had
transferred property to the trust by...
16 June 2014 STEP Roundtable, 2014-0523001C6 - Trusts structured to invoke 75(2)
An "evil trust" is structured to deliberately cause the application of subsection 75(2), so as to cause the attribution of dividend income to a...
12 February 2014 Internal T.I. 2013-0508841I7 F - Application of subsection 75(2)
Corp transferred its limited partner interest in a limited partnership ("SEC") to Trust. It then applied s. 75(2) to attribute to itself the...
23 January 2014 External T.I. 2013-0500711E5 F - Paragraph 75(2)
The will of Mr. X provided for the bequeathing of some of his property to family inter vivos discretionary trusts. The liquidator (i.e., executor)...
11 October 2013 APFF Roundtable, 2013-0495721C6 F - APFF 2013- Round table question 7
Mr. X, who holds all the common shares of Corporation, exchanges his common shares under s. 51 for preferred shares having an equivalent fair...
11 June 2013 STEP Roundtable Q. 9, 2013-0480351C6 - STEP CRA Roundtable Q9 - June 2013
Respecting whether CRA accepted Sommerer, it stated that the decision stood:
for the general proposition that where property is transferred to a...
23 May 2013 Internal T.I. 2013-0481651I7 F - Attribution rules- business loss
A trust, that was subject ot s. 75(2), incurred losses from stock trading, and treated the resulting losses (which CRA had accepted had been...
14 February 2013 Internal T.I. 2011-0424341I7 F - Amounts forwarded to trustee/beneficiary
The financial advisor of Mother settled a discretionary trust of which Mother and her friend (Y) were the trustees (with decisions to be made...
23 June 2010 External T.I. 2010-0365581E5 F - Règles d'attribution de l'article 74.2
An individual disposed of capital property to a discretionary trust (whose beneficiaries were the individual and spouse and their children) in...
S4-F3-C1 - Price Adjustment Clauses
CRA will consider a price adjustment clause to represent pricing at fair market value if:
- the agreement reflects a bona fide intention of the...
5 July 2012 Internal T.I. 2010-0388551I7 F - Fiducie - retour de sommes
In finding that s. 75(2) did not apply to an estate freeze effected by Father in relation to shares of Holdco in favour of a family trust (the...
4 March 2013 External T.I. 2011-0428661E5 - trust payments to minor
The trustees of a Quebec trust exercise their discretionary power in order to allocate an amount of income or taxable capital gain to a minor...
5 October 2012 APFF Roundtable, 2012-0453591C6 F - Prêt à une fiducie
The question described a situation where most of the income generated by a discretionary family trust was generated from investments made out of...
5 October 2012 APFF Roundtable, 2012-0453891C6 F - Price Adjustment Clause
A taxpayer (the “freezor”) exchanges his common shares of a corporation for preferred shares of the same corporation, with the purchase price...
28 November 2010 CTF Roundtable, 2010-0386351C6 - 2010 CTF Q#10 - T3 Reporting and 75(2)
The correspondent asked how to report income attributed to a non-beneficiary settlor under s. 75(2). CRA stated:
Where income is allocated...
20 October 2009 External T.I. 2009-0328441E5 F - Fiducie testamentaire
Under the terms of a deceased person's will, all property is bequeathed in equal shares to the deceased’s children. The heirs, in order to...
30 September 2009 External T.I. 2009-0317641E5 F - Attribution de revenu
Participating shares of Opco were issued to a discretionary trust ("Trust") as part of an estate freeze, and Opco then paid a dividend to the...
23 June 2008 External T.I. 2008-0268121E5 F - 75(2) et Prêt consenti à une fiducie
An individual makes an interest-free loan to a discretionary trust of which such individual is one of the beneficiaries. The trust uses the...
23 April 2009 External T.I. 2008-0301241E5 F - Fiducie d'invest. à participation unitaire-75(2)
Units of a unit trust (“UT”) that does not qualify as a mutual fund trust (“MFT”) are issued for monetary consideration to subscribing...
25 March 2009 External T.I. 2008-0300401E5 F - Fiducie en faveur de soi-même - prêt sans intérêt
Mr. X makes a non-interest bearing loan to an alter ego trust that was established for him. The terms of the loan were established independently...
16 December 2008 External T.I. 2008-0279741E5 F - Renonciation au capital d'une fiducie
An individual transfers shares to a trust of which he is the trustee, and he, his wife and children are the capital and income beneficiary. Would...
9 March 2007 External T.I. 2006-0218501E5 F - Application de 75(2) lors d'une émission d'actions
Would s. 75(2) apply to dividends on shares of a corporation that are subscribed for by a trust where the corporation subsequently could become a...
11 September 2006 STEP Roundtable Q. 4, 2006-0185571C6 - 2006 STEP Conference -Question 4
Although CRA does not apply s. 75(2) to a genuine loan of cash to the trust, this position does not extend to a loan of income-producing property...
2 February 2006 External T.I. 2005-0127351E5 F - Fiducie révocable -Prêt authentique
Regarding the situation where a trust receives bank loans that are guaranteed by Mr. A, who along with his spouse is a trustee, CRA noted:
[A]...
2004 Ruling 2004-006020
Ruling re attribution of income to a First Nation (which was exempt under s. 149(1)(c)) from investments transferred by it and exclusion of such...
13 August 2004 Internal T.I. 2004-0076861I7 F - Investissement à l'étranger
A resident individual (the taxpayer) lent a sum to a Barbados borrower pursuant to a debenture contract. Although this characterization was...
3 August 2004 External T.I. 2004-0066431E5 F - Contrat de rente et fiducie
In 2003-004063 CRA concluded that s. 75(2) applied to a donor who, under a charitable annuity arrangement, transferred an amount to a trust in...
13 July 2004 External T.I. 2004-0058141E5 F - Transfert du droit aux revenus provenant d'un bien
A couple transferred, to their jointly-owned corporation, the right to receive the income from a Quebec rental property for a specified period, in...
29 January 2004 External T.I. 2003-0040631E5 F - Rente de bienfaisance : contrat ou fiducie
Under a "charitable annuities" arrangement, the excess of the amount paid to a trust (a charitable organization) by a donor (who is not a trust...
15 December 2003 External T.I. 2003-0182855 - Fiducie pour Loi au Quebec
Regarding the application of s. 75(2) to a trust of which the settlor was the sole beneficiary, CCRA stated:
Where the income of the trust is...
18 July 2003 External T.I. 2002-0162985 F - Renonciation et bénéficiaire
A holding company owned by the parents transfer shares of an operating company to a family trust (Trust A) with the parents and children as...
4 June 2003 Internal T.I. 2003-0006967 F - Province de résidence d'une fiducie
A trust resident in Quebec avoided tax by making the election under s. 104(13.1) to be deemed to retain its income (notwithstanding its actual...
7 February 2003 External T.I. 2002-012676A - Attribution of NPI Royalty Income
A trust of which the settlor and family members are beneficiaries uses the settlement proceeds to buy a net profits interest in a particular oil...
25 September 2000 External T.I. 2000-0025855 - PRIVATE FOUNDATION - NOVA SCOTIA LIMITED
A Nova Scotia company limited by guarantee would not constitute a trust for purposes of s. 75(2). Corporations incorporated under the Nova Scotia...
13 October 1999 External T.I. 9832385 - ATTRIBUTION TO CONTRIBUTOR TO A TRUST
Where the settlor of a trust changes his common shares of a corporation into preferred shares and the trust then subscribes for common shares, s....
6 July 1998 External T.I. 9811115 - ATTRIBUTION & GENUINE LOAN
Discussion of when a loan of money by a parent to a trust will qualify as a "genuine loan" so that s. 75(2) does not apply.
May 1998 Advance Life Underwriting Round Table, No. 9807000
Where property held by an RCA trust may revert to the employer corporation that settled the trust, e.g., where employees do not satisfy vesting...
3 December 1997 External T.I. 9622765 - NON-RESIDENT TRUST - ATTRIBUTION
RC noted that, notwithstanding a previous memorandum, it was now its position that "in circumstances where the conditions for the application of...
10 January 1996 External T.I. 9406865 - NON RESIDENT DISCRETIONARY TRUSTS
Unlike s. 94(1), there is no mechanism for the utilization of foreign tax credits by a person to whom income is attributed under s. 75(2).
21 August 1995 External T.I. 9514275 - 75(2) - ESTATE FREEZE- SUBCRIPTION OF SHARES BY A TRUST
S.75(2) would apply where under the trust agreement, decisions are made by majority vote and the affirmative vote of the settlor must be included...
23 June 1995 External T.I. 9508185 - ATTRIBUTION OF INCOME TO A TRUST
Where contributions made by members of a union to a benefit plan (that was established by the union in accordance with a collective agreement),...
14 June 1994 External T.I. 9405845 - TRUST PROPERTY ACQUIRED BY MORTGAGE
S.75(2) would not apply where a trust acquires a property from an arm's length vendor (who is not a trustee or beneficiary of the trust) in...
28 April 1994 External T.I. 9411115 - ATTRIBUTION
"Where subsection 75(2) of the Act applies to attribute income to a person, that income is never income of the trust for tax purposes and...
27 January 1994 External T.I. 9332575 F - Attribution of Income
S.75(2) will apply where the terms of the trust provide that the transferor of property to the trust (including a transfer for fair market value...
26 September 1994 APFF Roundtable Q. 24, 9422630 F - DROIT D'ACQUÉRIR DE NOUVEAU LE BIEN TRANSFÉRÉ
"The Department considers that subsection 75(2) of the Act could apply if the deed of trust or any other contract between the trustees and a...
1994 I.C.A.A. Round Table, Q.4
Where s. 75(2) applies to the settlor of a non-resident trust who becomes a resident of Canada, income or loss from property settled on the trust...
19 May 1993 T.I. (Tax Window, No. 31, p. 13, ¶2528)
Where a trust indenture allows the settlor to reacquire the contributed property, s. 75(2) will apply even where the relevant provision can apply...
13 January 1993 T.I. (Tax Window, No. 28, p. 20, ¶2380)
A loan to a trust which is a genuine loan as discussed in IT-258R2, paragraph 8 and IT-260R, paragraph 3 would not be considered to result in...
11 August 1992, T.I. 921396 (May 1993 Access Letter, p. 197, ¶C56-226)
S.75(2) would apply if the transferor retains the power to veto distributions of property to beneficiaries or could select beneficiaries from a...
22 July 1992, T.I. 920736 (March 1993 Access Letter, p. 71, ¶C56-219)
Where unanimity was required in respect of any decision by the two trustees of a trust and the settlor was a trustee, s. 75(2)(b) would...
1992 A.P.F.F. Annual Conference, Q. 19 (January - February 1993 Access Letter, p. 57)
S.75(2) will apply to a taxpayer who establishes a usufruct for another person with respect to property of which the taxpayer is the naked owner.
19 June 1992 T.I. 9218450 (January - February 1993 Access Letter, p. 20, ¶C56-212)
S.75(2) can apply by virtue of a right of the contributor of property to reacquire that property at fair market value.
16 June 1992 External T.I. 5-920008
S.75(2) will apply where the settlor is able to select additional beneficiaries or delete beneficiaries after the creation of the trust.
27 February 1992 T.I. (Tax Window, No. 17, p. 8, ¶1766)
S.75(2) will apply where the settlor, in his capacity of sole trustee, has the discretion as to whom the trust property will be distributed on a...
91 C.R. - Q.8
A genuine loan to a trust, or the unpaid purchase price for a property on an unconditional bona fide sale, will not by itself be considered to...
90 C.R. - Q23
Where a law firm receives funds from its clients to be held in trust pending the application of the funds for disbursements or against fees for...
16 November 89 T.I. (April 90 Access Letter, ¶1175)
Father settles an irrevocable trust of which he is the sole trustee and whose terms are totally discretionary as to income and capital payments,...
88 C.R. - Q.32
Because a bare trust is reversionary and revocable, all income, losses, capital gains and capital losses will be attributed to the transferor.
88 C.R. - Q.48
Capital gains attributed to the transferor by virtue of s. 75(2) are not eligible for the capital gains exemption.
86 C.R. - Q.46
A reversion requires a transfer of property, and the making or repayment of a loan does not constitute a transfer of property.
84 C.R. - Q.30
S.75(2)(b) may apply where the trustee may amend the dispositions of the trust deed with the approval of the settlor.
IT-369R "Attribution of Trust Income to Settlor"
1. ...A genuine loan to a trust would not...by itself result in the application of subsection 75(2)..., if the loan is outside and independent of...
Articles
Elie Roth, Tim Youdan, Chris Anderson, Kim Brown, "Classification of Trusts for Income Tax Purposes", Chapter 2 of Canadian Taxation of Trusts (Canadian Tax Foundation), 2016.
Waiver by spouse of entitlement to income under spousal trust (p. 92)
The terms of a spousal or common-law partner trust may include a provision...
Carmen Thériault, "Alter Ego and Joint Partner Trust", 21 Estates, Trusts & Pensions Journal, p. 345.
Darling, "Bare Trusts", 1989 Corporate Management Tax Conference, c. 8.
Saunders, "Inter Vivos Discretionary Family Trust: A Potpourri of Issues and Traps", 1993 Conference Report, pp. 37:6-14.
Paragraph 75(2)(a)
Subparagraph 75(2)(a)(i)
Administrative Policy
11 July 2001 External T.I. 2001-0078365 F - APPLICATION DE 75(2) ET 104(4)
Does s. 75(2) apply where the transferor of a property to an inter vivos trust may, under the terms of the trust indenture, be paid the capital...
8 November 2001 External T.I. 2001-0096435 F - Sous-alinéa 75(2)(a)(i) de la Loi
Ms. X created a spousal trust for her trust. It was posited that the trust terminated by operation of law pursuant to Arts. 1294 and 1296 of the...
Subsection 75(3) - Exceptions
Cases
Labow v. Canada, 2012 DTC 5001 [at at 6501], 2011 FCA 305
The taxpayer, who employed both his wife and two part-time employees in his medical practice, deducted $150,000 and $247,691 for contributions he...