Subsection 89(1) - Definitions
Adjusted Taxable Income
Administrative Policy
20 June 2016 External T.I. 2016-0648481E5 F - Small business deduction and GRIP
Can a corporation choose not to take the small business deduction to enable it to add an amount to its general rate income pool account ("GRIP "),...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 125 - Subsection 125(1) | SBD discretionary | 37 |
Canadian corporation
Administrative Policy
4 July 2000 External T.I. 2000-0014725 F - REER - Placement étrangers
In the course of a general discussion of when shares would constitute a qualified investment and foreign property, CCRA stated:
Paragraph 89(1)...
88 C.R. - Q.9
A corporation incorporated in a foreign jurisdiction that is continued in Canada is not a Canadian corporation as it was not incorporated in Canada.
Capital Dividend Account
Cases
Canada v. Innovative Installation Inc., 2010 DTC 5175 [at at 7317], 2010 FCA 285
In order to ensure payment of a loan owing by the taxpayer ("Innovative") to a bank (RBC) on the death of Innovative's principal (Mr Peacock),...
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| Tax Topics - General Concepts - Payment & Receipt | indirect receipt through debt repayment | 156 |
See Also
Csi Development Corp. v. R., 99 DTC 1139, [1999] 3 CTC 2421 (TCC)
McArthur TCJ. found that the amount added to the taxpayer's capital dividend account as the result of the realization by a partnership of an...
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| Tax Topics - Statutory Interpretation - Interpretation Bulletins, etc. | 79 |
Administrative Policy
3 December 2015 External T.I. 2015-0613761E5 F - Capital Dividend Account
Where a corporation donates ecologically sensitive lands so as to be eligible for the s. 110.1(1)(d) deduction, what amount will be added to its...
9 October 2015 APFF Roundtable Q. 6, 2015-0595551C6 F - Capital Dividend Account
If Holdco (a CCPC) has realized $1M in allowable capital losses on its public company portfolio, its subsidiary (Opco) has realized a $1M taxable...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 87 - Subsection 87(2) - Paragraph 87(2)(z.1) | amalgamation can cause a combined positive CDA balance to be zeroed | 161 |
18 August 2014 External T.I. 2014-0540361E5 F - CDA and the deeming rules of 40(3.6) or 112(3)
A corporation's capital dividend accounts will not be reduced by a loss on the redemption of shares held by it where such loss is deemed to be nil...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 40 - Subsection 40(1) - Paragraph 40(1)(b) | ss. 112(3) and 40(3.6) stop-loss rules modify operation of s. 40(1)(b) | 128 |
19 December 2013 Internal T.I. 2013-0490751I7 - Adjustment to a taxpayer`s CDA
The taxpayer, which was a private corporation, disposed of eligible capital property to a non-arm's-length non-resident sister company...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 247 - New - Subsection 247(8) | s. 247(2) trumps s. 69(1) | 80 |
25 March 2013 External T.I. 2012-0447171E5 - Creditor's Group Life Insurance and CDA
Creditor's group life insurance products generally have no cash surrender value, premiums payable with respect to a particular debtor for this...
24 May 2012 External T.I. 2012-0441151E5 - Donation of flow-through shares - 40(12) and CDA
Where a private corporation holding flow-through shares as capital property gifts the shares to a qualified donee, it will include the capital...
8 May 2012 CALU Roundtable Q. 6, 2012-043564
Shareholders of a corporation use a buy-sell agreement to requires the corporation to acquire insurance on the shareholders' lives (and pay the...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 104 - Subsection 104(1) | holder of insurance proceeds as agent | 194 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 89 - Subsection 89(1) - Capital Dividend Account | 115 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 89 - Subsection 89(1) - Capital Dividend Account | 124 |
8 May 2012 CALU Roundtable Q. 6, 2012-043564
On the same facts as for Q. 6.1 above except that the buy-sell agreement gives an irrevocable direction to the insurer to pay the proceeds over to...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 104 - Subsection 104(1) | holder of insurance proceeds as agent | 194 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 89 - Subsection 89(1) - Capital Dividend Account | 115 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 89 - Subsection 89(1) - Capital Dividend Account | 194 |
8 May 2012 CALU Roundtable Q. 6, 2012-043564
On the same facts as for Q. 6.1 above except that the insurance policy names the Insurance Trustee as the beneficiary of the policy, for example,...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 104 - Subsection 104(1) | holder of insurance proceeds as agent | 194 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 89 - Subsection 89(1) - Capital Dividend Account | 124 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 89 - Subsection 89(1) - Capital Dividend Account | 194 |
18 June 2007 External T.I. 2006-0215001E5 - Capital Dividend Account
Each of the partners of a partnership with a fiscal period end of April 30, 200X and which disposed of eligible capital property in that year is a...
16 August 2004 External T.I. 2004-0090461E5 - Computation of Balance in Capital Dividend Account
A capital gains reserve taken in a taxation year will be included in the calculation of the capital dividend account balance on the first day of...
4 December 2003 External T.I. 2003-0038595 - CAPITAL DIVIDEND ACCOUNT
"We would normally expect the partnership agreement to determine a particular partner's share of a capital dividend received by the partnership...
21 March 2002 External T.I. 2001-0115265 F - 89(1)(c.1)(i)&(c.2)(i) Capital Div. Acc.
As a result of the amendments associated with the introduction of ss. (c.1)(i) and (c.2)(i) of the definition of CDA for taxation years ending...
12 April 2001 External T.I. 2000-0050655 F - ASSURANCE MUTILATION/INVALIDITE
CCRA indicated that dismemberment insurance benefits received by a corporation pursuant to a life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 148 - Subsection 148(9) - Disposition - Paragraph (h) | disability benefits under a policy providing life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance could be non-taxable | 69 |
22 November 2000 External T.I. 2000-0049415 - Dividends - General
"Where, for example, a particular corporation is a member of a partnership which realized a capital gain in its fiscal period ending April 30,...
26 June 1998 External T.I. 9729995 - 89(1), CAPITAL DIVIDEND ACCOUNT
Because the amount in paragraph (a) cannot be less than zero, a company had a positive capital dividend account as a result of disposing of...
Income Tax Technical News, No. 10, 11 July 1997: "Net Profits Interests and Proposed Section 18.1"
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 66 - Subsection 66(15) - Canadian Resource Property | 112 |
26 July 1994 External T.I. 9415675 - CAPITAL DIVIDEND ACCOUNT
Where a corporation is the beneficiary of a life insurance policy but is not the policyholder and has, therefore, not paid the premiums in respect...
15 February 1994 Ruling 9402353 - LIFE INSURANCE - CAPITAL DIVIDEND ACCOUNT
There is no requirement that the shareholders to whom a capital dividend is to be paid must have been shareholders at the time the corporation...
20 October 1993 External T.I. 9323775 F - Capital Account and Life Insurance Proceeds in Trust
In order for life insurance proceeds to be included in the capital dividend account of a corporation, the proceeds must be considered to be...
20 September 1993 Income Tax Severed Letter 9321275 - Life Annuities
S.245 potentially could apply to a back-to-back insurance strategy which provided for the purchase of a term life insurance policy providing a...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 70 - Subsection 70(5.3) | 50 |
24 July 1992 T.I. 921605 (C.T.O. "Living Benefits and Capital Dividend Account")
An advance payment of part of the sum assured under a policy where the life expectancy of the insured is less than two years due to a medically...
23 March 1992 T.I. (Tax Window, No. 18, p. 22, ¶1824)
Where two personal holding companies each own 50% of the shares of Opco and each holding company is the owner of an insurance policy on the life...
3 January 1992 Memorandum (Tax Window, No. 15, p. 8, ¶1682)
The capital dividend account with respect to a dividend paid part-way through the year was not reduced by the bankruptcy prior to that time of a...
12 November 1991 T.I. (Tax Window, No. 13, p. 4, ¶1592)
Where an individual owns a life insurance policy and pays all the premiums, but a corporation is the beneficiary, the corporation will add the...
31 May 1990 T.I. (October 1990 Access Letter, ¶1468)
The amount of 1% of a price paid to the vendor of a winning lottery ticket under Lotto-Québec would not be included in the vendor corporation's...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 9 - Exempt Receipts/Business | 24 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 9 - Expense Reimbursement | 24 |
31 January 1990 T.I. (June 1990 Access Letter, ¶1266)
In computing the capital dividend account of a corporation following the winding-up of the wholly-owned subsidiary, separate calculations must be...
9 November 89 T.I. (April 90 Access Letter, ¶1176)
A business investment loss is a capital loss, and therefore will reduce a taxpayer's capital dividend account.
89 C.R. - Q.49
A prior year's capital gains reserve is considered to come into the capital dividend account calculation at the beginning of the year.
IT-66R6 "Capital Dividends"
Articles
Strain, "Estate Planning: Life-Insured Share Redemption Provides Advantages over Outright Buy Back", Taxation of Executive Compensation and Retirement, September 1993, p. 811.
Paragraph (a)
See Also
Gladwin Realty Corporation v. The Queen, 2019 TCC 62, aff'd 2020 FCA 142
The taxpayer, a private real estate corporation, rolled a property under s. 97(2) into a newly-formed LP, with the LP then distributing to the...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 245 - Subsection 245(4) | using the CDA and negative ACB rules to generate “over-integration” was abusive | 594 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 40 - Subsection 40(3.1) | purpose of s. 40(3.1) is to trigger gain on extraction of excess funds by passive partners | 330 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 123.3 | no CRA challenge to continuance to BVI to avoid s. 123.3 tax | 96 |
Administrative Policy
22 January 2019 External T.I. 2019-0791631E5 - Calculation of Capital Dividend Account
In Year 1, a corporation paid a capital dividend based on a capital gain realized in that year. Would the realization by it of a capital loss in...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 184 - Subsection 184(2) | subsequent capital loss did not generate excessive dividend | 57 |
21 November 2017 CTF Roundtable Q. 4, 2017-0724051C6 - Timing of deemed gain under 55(2)
S. 55(2)(c) deems most dividends that did not arise on a share redemption and to which s. 55(2) applies to be gains “for the year,” without...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 55 - Subsection 55(2) - Paragraph 55(2)(c) | immediate CDA addition for s. 55(2)(c) dividend | 173 |
S3-F2-C1 - Capital Dividends
S. 55(2) gains
1.31.1 An amount deemed to be a gain under paragraph 55(2)(c) is deemed to be realized on a disposition of a capital property at...
17 August 2016 Internal T.I. 2016-0639251I7 - Capital Dividend Account and 149(1)(n)
Can an entity exempt under s. 149(1)(n) have and use a capital dividend account (“CDA”)? The Directorate responded:
[A] s. 149(1)(n) entity...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 89 - Subsection 89(1.2) | deemed 149(10) gain does not add to CDA before it disapppears under 89(1.2) | 169 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 149 - Subsection 149(1) - Paragraph 149(1)(n) | can have a CDA while exempt | 92 |
29 November 2016 CTF Roundtable Q. 4, 2016-0671491C6 - 55(2) and Part IV Tax
Taking its RDTOH of $383,333 into account, Opco pays a taxable dividend of $1,000,000 to Holdco (its wholly-owning parent also with a calendar...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 55 - Subsection 55(2) | repeal of the s. 55(2) exemption, for dividends for which the Part IV tax is refunded on on-payment to an individual shareholder, busts integration | 93 |
5 October 2012 APFF Roundtable Q. 8, 2012-0454161C6 F - Computation of CDA and Acquisition of Control
Where Mr. A, who owns 50% of the shares of a CCPC ("Holdco") having net capital losses of $200,000, purchases the other 50% shareholding of Mr. B,...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 245 - Subsection 245(4) | purchase of shares of cash-rich company could be part of abusive surplus strip | 76 |
28 March 2012 External T.I. 2011-0412541E5 F - Compte de dividendes en capital
A deemed capital gain arising under s. 80(12) will result in an addition to the corporation's capital dividend account under (a)(i)(A) (with the...
27 June 2011 External T.I. 2009-0350501E5 F - Gains et pertes sur change étranger
A Canadian corporation acquires capital property at a cost of U.S.$90,000 and pays the purchase price 30 days later after the exchange rate has...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 39 - Subsection 39(2) | s. 39(2) gain or loss on USD-denominated purchase arises between acquisition and payment date | 221 |
17 September 2009 External T.I. 2009-0310251E5 F - Interaction between sections 89 and 55
S. 55(2) applied to the redemption by Opco of shares held by Holdco, given that the resulting s. 84(3) deemed dividend exceeded the safe income on...
14 March 2003 External T.I. 2003-0001385 F - Capital Dividend Account
Parentco, which had a January 31 year end, sold one of its subsidiaries (Subco1) at a capital loss on January 14, 2000, and amalgamated with its...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 256 - Subsection 256(9) | amalgamation and acquisition of control on successive days created 1-day short taxation year | 166 |
6 January 2003 External T.I. 2002-0173405 F - Capital Dividend Account
CCRA provided an overview of the CDA computation in the context of the changes in the inclusion rates from ¾ to 2/3 to ½ (including the...
Subparagraph (a)(i)
Administrative Policy
27 November 2018 CTF Roundtable Q. 2, 2018-0780071C6 - Impact of 55(2) deeming rules
CRA will ensure that the taxpayer will not be penalized in the capital dividend account calculation where a stock dividend or paid-up capital...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 52 - Subsection 52(2) | property dividended has cost equal to FMV where subject to s. 55(2) | 104 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 52 - Subsection 52(3) | cost under s. 52(3) for stock dividend amount to which s. 55(2) applied | 69 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 53 - Subsection 53(1) - Paragraph 53(1)(b) - Subparagraph 53(1)(b)(ii) | no basis reduction for s. 84(1) dividend to which s. 55(2) applied | 161 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 112 - Subsection 112(3) - Paragraph 112(3)(b) - Subparagraph 112(3)(b)(i) | stop-loss rule does not apply to the extent of the application of s. 55(2) | 92 |
Clause (a)(i)(A)
Administrative Policy
21 June 2017 External T.I. 2016-0678361E5 F - Capital Dividend Account
ACo and BCo is each a private corporation holding a 49.99% limited partnership interest in Holdings LP and having a calendar year end. On December...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 96 - Subsection 96(1) - Paragraph 96(1)(f) | a negative ACB gain retains its character when allocated | 85 |
16 November 2011 External T.I. 2011-0423861E5 F - paragraph 53(1)b)
Holdco, whose common shares of Opco have a nominal adjusted cost base ("ACB") and paid-up capital ("PUC"), a fair market value ("FMV") of $2...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 53 - Subsection 53(1) - Paragraph 53(1)(b) | example of application of s. 53(1)(b) on dirty s. 85 exchange of common shares with partial SIOH for high PUC/ACB prefs and low PUC/ACB common shares | 295 |
14 October 2011 External T.I. 2011-0421141E5 F - Computation of capital dividend account
A dividend computed under s. 84(1) is deemed not to be a dividend by s. 55(2)(a), and the share is disposed of at a gain. Is the addition of...
7 October 2011 APFF Roundtable Q. 29, 2011-0412131C6 F - Subsection 55(2) and Capital Dividend Account
If in the year prior to the sale of Opco by Holdco, Opco pays a dividend to Holdco which is subject to s. 55(2), s. 55(2)(b) generally would apply...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 55 - Subsection 55(2) - Paragraph 55(2)(c) | dividend paid in contemplation of subsequent arm’s length share sale is part of proceeds of that sale | 207 |
Articles
Rick McLean, Jeff Oldewening, Jonas Lau, "Capital Gains Stripping and Surplus Stripping", 2017 Annual CTF Conference draft paper
Use of high-PUC, low ACB shares to create CDA (pp. 4-5)
[T]he new rules denied the creation of ACB in shares issued on a stock dividend or...
Clause (a)(i)(C)
Administrative Policy
S3-F2-C1 - Capital Dividends
Exclusion for gains of CCPC that accrued under exempt or NR-controlled status
1.37 For dispositions occurring after November 26, 1987, another...
Subparagraph (a)(i.1)
Administrative Policy
20 June 2023 STEP Roundtable Q. 12, 2023-0959591C6 - Corporate Beneficiary and CDA
An inter vivos Canadian resident trust pays an amount equal to its net taxable capital gain for the year to a Canadian private corporation that is...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 104 - Subsection 104(21) | s. 104(21) designation can be made re distributing the taxable half of a trust capital gain to a corporate beneficiary – who receives no CDA addition | 172 |
Subparagraph (a)(ii)
Administrative Policy
23 July 2007 Internal T.I. 2007-0234691I7 F - Foreign Exchange Gains/Losses and CDA
CRA indicated that since a capital loss was not recognized under s. 39(2) until the end of the taxation year, the deduction under the CDA account...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 39 - Subsection 39(2) | FX losses sustained on the maturity of commercial paper deemed under s. 39(2) to be realized at year end, so that CDA deduction deferred until then | 187 |
28 September 2006 Internal T.I. 2006-0202901I7 F - Subsection 80(4) - Impact on the CDA
In finding that the application of a net capital loss under s. 80(4) does not reduce the deduction for the non-taxable portion of realized capital...
Paragraph (b)
Administrative Policy
30 August 2017 External T.I. 2017-0718311E5 F - Capital dividend account
CRA indicated that a late but valid capital dividend election retroactively validates the dividend so that the recipient of the dividend thereby...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 83 - Subsection 83(3) | a late s. 83(3) election causes a retroactive increase to the CDA of the corporate recipient of the dividend | 213 |
S3-F2-C1 - Capital Dividends
Effect of excessive 83(2) election
1.47 ... [E]ven an excessive dividend is included in the recipient corporation’s CDA. However, if the payor...
25 August 2011 External T.I. 2011-0417511E5 F - CDA and Excessive dividend
A private corporation elected under s. 83(2) on a dividend amount in excess of its capital dividend account (CDA), and it paid Part III tax under...
14 June 2007 Internal T.I. 2007-0229311I7 F - Capital Dividend Account
Subco declared a dividend payable to its parent (Parentco) which, in turn, declared a corresponding dividend to its individual shareholder, with a...
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| Tax Topics - General Concepts - Payment & Receipt | making accounting entries does not constitute payment of a dividend | 130 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 184 - Subsection 184(3) | invalid payment of capital dividend (because no payment) was subject to Pt. III tax (given valid s. 83(2) election) for which no s. 184(3) election could be made as no payment | 135 |
| Tax Topics - General Concepts - Effective Date | a declared dividend cannot be revoked | 158 |
Paragraph (c.1)
See Also
Non Corp Holdings Corp. v. Canada (Attorney General), 2016 ONSC 2737
Following the sale of a business giving rise to a “capital gain” (likely, goodwill proceeds), the dividend of the targeted capital dividend...
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| Tax Topics - General Concepts - Rectification & Rescission | date of capital dividend declaration rectified to eliminate Part III tax | 192 |
Administrative Policy
5 December 2001 Internal T.I. 2001-0089247 F - CDC - Immobilisation Admissible
The Directorate confirmed that since any inclusion under s. 14(1) can only be determined at the end of a taxation year, under the amended rules a...
Paragraph (c.2)
Administrative Policy
13 September 2004 Internal T.I. 2004-0080041I7 F - Compte de dividendes en capital
A corporation which has a 50% interest in a general partnership (the "SENC") which sold a milk quota, was required to include an amount in...
Paragraph (d)
Administrative Policy
8 July 2020 CALU Roundtable Q. 2, 2020-0842141C6 - Return of premiums on death & CDA
A private corporation is the owner and beneficiary of an exempt life insurance policy (with an adjusted cost basis of $90,000) on the life of a...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 148 - Subsection 148(9) - Disposition - Paragraph (j) | a refund of premiums on death under a life insurance policy does not entail its disposition | 122 |
2016 Ruling 2015-0624611R3 - Capital Dividend Account
Background
A life insurance policy (the “Policy”) was issued to B, and subsequently transferred by him to Canco 1, so that Canco 1 became the...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 83 - Subsection 83(2.1) | transactions to rectify an overlooked life insurance policy of an amalgamated target | 154 |
S3-F2-C1 - Capital Dividends
Reductions under (d)(v) to CDA addition on death
1.60.3 The third and fourth amounts, described in subparagraphs (d)(v) and (vi) of the definition...
19 November 2009 External T.I. 2007-0257251E5 F - Assurance-vie
For the purpose of calculating its capital dividend account, is a corporation that is a beneficiary of a life insurance policy required to take...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 148 - Subsection 148(9) - Disposition - Paragraph (d) | disposition by operation of law if there is a new contract | 162 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 148 - Subsection 148(10) - Paragraph 148(10)(d) | designation of a different beneficiary does not entail a disposition | 132 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 15 - Subsection 15(1) | s. 15(1) benefit where sub is policyholder and premium payer and parent is beneficiary – but not for reverse | 223 |
8 October 2004 APFF Roundtable Q. 5, 2004-0089141C6 F - Compte de dividendes en capital
A corporate owner and beneficiary of a life insurance policy receives a death benefit in the amount of $850,000, less a policy loan of $150,000...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 148 - Subsection 148(9) - Adjusted Cost Basis - Element E | ACB of policy immediately before death reduced by policy loan | 135 |
5 November 2002 External T.I. 2002-0160815 F - CDC HYPOTHEQUE
In 2002-0122944 F, CCRA indicated that the CDA of a corporation for purposes of an s. 83(2) election made after July 8, 2002 could include the...
5 November 2002 External T.I. 2002-0161695 F - CDC HYPOTHEQUE
In 2002-0122944 F, CCRA indicated that the CDA of a corporation for purposes of an s. 83(2) election made after July 8, 2002 could include the...
12 August 2002 External T.I. 2002-0150095 F - Capital Dividend Account
Opco received a lump sum in settlement of its action against an insurance company for its refusal to pay a death benefit to Opco as a result of...
Subparagraph (d)(ii)
Administrative Policy
8 July 2020 CALU Roundtable Q. 3, 2020-0842151C6 - Insurance Proceeds & CDA
A universal life (UL) policy (referred to as “face amount plus fund value”) purchased by Opco as an exempt policy upon the life of its...
5 October 2012 Roundtable, 2012-0453231C6 F - Creditor's Group Life Insurance and CDA
Under an individual policy for loan insurance purchased by a borrowing corporation, the death benefit on the insured’s death is applied to repay...
7 October 2011 Roundtable, 2011-0407291C6 F - Group Life Insurance Policy
Professionals practising through a professional corporation hold a group term life insurance certificate as an insured, for which the policyholder...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 15 - Subsection 15(1) | s. 15(1) could possibly apply where a professional corporation pays the premiums, and is designate the beneficiary, of a policy in name of professional | 148 |
4 July 2011 External T.I. 2011-0401991E5 F - CDA and life insurance proceeds
Innovative Installation found that proceeds of an insurance policy (whose premiums had been paid by a corporation (Innovative)) that the insurance...
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| Tax Topics - General Concepts - Payment & Receipt | Insurance proceeds received by borrower where applied to repay its loan | 92 |
Subparagraph (d)(iii)
See Also
Rogers Enterprises (2015) Inc. v. The Queen, 2020 TCC 92
Sommerfeldt J. found that there was no abuse under s. 245(4) where, following the death of the insured in 2008, a corporate beneficiary’s...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 245 - Subsection 245(1) - Tax Benefit | no tax benefit where alleged excessive CDA addition was not distributed to individual shareholders | 498 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 245 - Subsection 245(4) | taking full credit to the CDA for insurance proceeds received, notwithstanding a positive ACB of the policyholder, reflected the policy of the CDA text | 415 |
Administrative Policy
8 May 2018 CALU Roundtable Q. 2, 2018-0745811C6 - CDA credit - joint ownership
Opco, which is owned 50/50 by the respective wholly-owned holdcos of Messrs. A and B (Holdco A and Holdco B) jointly owns with Holdco A (and...
18 May 2017 Roundtable, 2017-0690311C6 - CLHIA 2017 - Q1 CDA
Corporation A is the sole owner and premium payor for a life insurance policy with a death benefit of $1 million on the life of Mr. A. Corporation...
Finance
6 October 2017 APFF Financial Strategies and Instruments Roundtable, Q.7
In 2017-0690311C6, Corporation A was the sole owner and premium payor for a life insurance policy with a death benefit of $1 million on the life...
Paragraph (g)
Administrative Policy
14 May 2013 External T.I. 2012-0469591E5 F - Capital dividend received by a trust and CDA
A Canadian-controlled private corporation paid a capital dividend to its sole shareholder, a trust, in 20x1. The beneficiaries of the trust were...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 104 - Subsection 104(20) | no recognition of capital dividend by corporate beneficiary where received by trust in Year 1 and distributed in Year 2 | 127 |
3 May 2010 External T.I. 2010-0358471E5 F - Capital dividend account - beneficiary of a trust
A trust received a capital dividend form a corporation and distributed it in the same year to a corporate beneficiary, and made a designation...
Excessive Eligible Dividend Designation
Administrative Policy
11 October 2013 APFF Roundtable, 2013-0495781C6 F - GRIP Exceeds Safe Income
Targetco is a CCPC owned by Sellco (also a CCPC) and has a GRIP account of $2.6M. However, the safe income on hand of Sellco in respect of the...
General Rate Income Pool
Administrative Policy
20 February 2014 External T.I. 2013-0480051E5 F - Eligible dividend and safe income
Holdco, which is unrelated to Opco or any other shareholder, holds 30% of both the Class A common and Class B preferred shares of Opco. Its Class...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 89 - Subsection 89(14) | eligible dividend designation treated as applying only to safe income portion of dividend | 261 |
16 April 2013 External T.I. 2013-0477771E5 F - Calculation of the general rate income pool
A Canadian-resident corporation (Corporation A), which presents performances of an artist (A) who is its sole shareholder, became a...
28 November 2010 CTF Roundtable Q. 5, 2010-0385991C6 - 2010 CTF - Q. 5 - 55(2) and GRIP
Where a CCPC pays an eligible dividend across a single class of shares owned 50/50 by a Canadian resident individual and a Canadian resident CCPC,...
Income Tax Technical News, No. 41, 23 December 2009 Under "Definition of 'Tax Shelter' - Subsection 237.1(1)
Where the full amount of the dividend paid by a CCPC is designated as an eligible dividend but a portion of the dividend is received by a...
Articles
John Granelli, "Getting a Handle on GRIP", Tax Topics (Wolters Kluwer), No. 2252, May 7, 2015, p. 1
Addition to general rate income pool differs from actual after-tax income subject to full rates (p.1)
[T]he following table compares the GRIP...
Jennifer Smith, Trent Henry, "De-tax the Dividends", CA Magazine, December 2006, p. 40.
Element A
Element G
Administrative Policy
23 December 2008 External T.I. 2008-0271401E5 F - GRIP/CRTG
Bco receives, from its wholly-owned subsidiary (Aco), two taxable dividends (the first, designated as an eligible dividend of $3.5 million, for...
Element B
Administrative Policy
17 November 2022 External T.I. 2021-0919001E5 F - Eligible Dividends and Non-Capital Loss Carry-Back
Opco incurred a non-capital loss (an "NCL") in each of its 2019 and 2020 taxation years (the 2019 and 2020 Loss Years), and carried back the 2019...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 152 - Subsection 152(4) - Paragraph 152(4)(b) - Subparagraph 152(4)(b)(i) | CRA discretion re accepting adjustment to losses carried back provided that the amendment request is made within the s. 152(4)(b)(i) period and loss year not statute-barred | 322 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 152 - Subsection 152(6) - Paragraph 152(6)(c) | s. 152(6)(c) permitted amending carryback request, if made within s. 152(6)(c) deadline and normal reassessment period, and implicitly authorized consequential Part III.1 reassessment | 278 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 152 - Subsection 152(3) | s. 152(3) (and, consequentially, s. 185.2(2)) requires filing of amended return to reflect missing excessive dividend | 173 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 185.1 - Subsection 185.1(2) | s. 185.1(2) election can be made before the incremental Part III.1 assessment that is being avoided | 181 |
Paid-Up Capital
See Also
Insight Venture Associates III, LLC v. SLM Soft Inc. (2003), 67 O.R. (3d) 115 (S.C.J.)
With respect to s. 23 of the Ontario Business Corporations Act … the effect of the conversion [of] a debt security into shares releases the...
Administrative Policy
2020 Ruling 2019-0817051R3 - Reorganization
Background
Following a pre-closing reorganization, including an amalgamation of Canadian corporations within the same group to form Parent Amalco,...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 128.1 - Subsection 128.1(4) | s. 111(4)(e) step-up and drop-down of royalty interest used to step up the PUC of Canco sub of Canco parent before parent continued to US under s. 128.1(4) | 170 |
2015 Ruling 2015-0584151R3 - Conversion of Contributed Surplus to PUC
A non-resident corporation governed by a non-resident jurisdiction’s corporate law had issued share capital based only on the “nominal...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 84 - Subsection 84(1) | cross-border inbound continuance of corporation with different labels for capital and surplus followed by conversion of capital surplus to stated capital | 245 |
20 March 2015 External T.I. 2014-0535971E5 - Meaning of "paid-up capital" in subsection 90(3)
CRA stated that "to the extent [the applicable State corporate] laws and constating documents do not provide for stated capital akin to that which...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 90 - Subsection 90(3) | LLC with partner capital-account style LLC Agreement does not have PUC | 251 |
8 October 2010 APFF Roundtable, 2010-0373301C6 F - Classes of shares with identical characteristics
Under s. 49 of the new Québec Business Corporations Act, it is possible to create classes and series of shares with exactly the same rights and...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 47 - Subsection 47(1) | shares of identical but separate QBCA classes are identical properties unless their PUC rights differ | 184 |
18 April 2002 Internal T.I. 2002-0118827 F - DEBENTURES CONVERTIBLES
The corporation, on the conversion by holders of convertible debentures that it had previously issued, passed a resolution stipulating that the...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 20 - Subsection 20(1) - Paragraph 20(1)(f) | no s. 20(1)(f)(ii) deduction on conversion of convertible debentures notwithstanding attempt in resolution to fix the issued shares’ stated capital at their market value | 179 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(9.1) | straight-line or present value method may be used in amortizing premium, and must relate to interest | 203 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(b) - Capital Expenditure v. Expense - Financing Expenditures | premium on redemption of convertible debentures was not deductible on current account | 60 |
26 April 2001 Internal T.I. 2000-0046367 F - DEBENTURES CONVERTIBLES
The corporation issued exchangeable debentures whose principal was exchangeable into a specified number of Class A shares whose price for such...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 20 - Subsection 20(1) - Paragraph 20(1)(f) | shares issued on conversion of debenture for their stated capital (equal to debenture face amount) rather than higher FMV, so that they were not repaid at a premium | 160 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 54 - Adjusted Cost Base | where shares issued for property, the shares’ stated capital determines the property’s cost, whereas the cost of the shares to the shareholder is their FMV | 181 |
October 1992 Central Region Rulings Directorate Tax Seminar, Q. 2 (C.T.O. Doc. No. 142 "Paid-Up Capital Foreign Currency Shares"; May 1993 Access Letter, p. 230)
Because where a transaction is on capital account, the Canadian dollar value of the transaction is calculated at the exchange rate prevailing at...
88 C.R. - Q.7
Where the stated capital in respect of a class of shares is maintained in a foreign currency, the paid-up capital in respect of shares of the...
88 C.R. - Q.35
Where subsequent to a transaction to which s. 85(2.1) applied, a corporation reduced its stated capital for corporate purposes, then the paid-up...
IT-463R2 "Paid-up Capital" 8 September 1995
2
Since subparagraph (b)(iii) of the definition of "paid-up capital" provides that the amount of the paid-up capital of a class of shares is...
Articles
Marshall Haughey, "Issuing Shares for a Promissory Note", 24 Can. Current Tax, May 2014, p. 85.
Prohibition by jurisdiction (pp. 85-6)
[I]n Saskatchewan, Manitoba, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland…a promissory note cannot be given as...
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| Tax Topics - General Concepts - Illegality | 742 |
Vern Krishna, "Equity Financing: Corporate Aspects", 19 Canadian Current Tax, December 2008, p. 21.
Stephen Fyfe, Craig Webster, "Current Mutual Fund Developments and Products", 2000 Conference Report, c. 21: Discussion (at pp. 21:40-42) of paid-up capital of mutual fund corporation including:
A number of years ago, advance income tax rulings were sought from the CCRA with respect to whether a mutual fund corporation has paid-up capital...
Christopher J. Steeves, "Shares Issued for Foreign Currency and the Potential for Deemed Dividends", Corporate Structures and Groups, Vol. V, No. 4, 1999, p. 280: Discussion of the time at which the paid-up capital of a share issued in a foreign currency is translated into Canadian dollars.
Paragraph (a)
Administrative Policy
8 October 2010 Roundtable, 2010-0373221C6 F - Paid-up capital
CRA indicated that it has concluded in some cases that using PUC averaging to shift PUC to individual shareholders engages GAAR, and “is...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 245 - Subsection 245(3) - Paragraph 245(3)(a) | transaction can be an avoidance transaction even where the series is motivated by business reasons | 142 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 245 - Subsection 245(4) | CRA has concluded in some cases that using PUC averaging to shift PUC to individual shareholders engages GAAR | 283 |
Private Corporation
Administrative Policy
80 C.R. - Q.25
The status of a private corporation does not change on the acquisition of its control by a public corporation acting as executor or trustee as a...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 256 - Subsection 256(1) - Paragraph 256(1)(b) | 39 |
Public Corporation
Administrative Policy
2021 Ruling 2020-0852951R3 - Public Spin-Off Butterfly
Parent, a listed corporation with a specified shareholder (and perhaps with two classes of multiple voting and single voting shares), wishes to...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 55 - Subsection 55(3.02) | spin-off of grandchild of public corporation to direct Newco subsidiary followed by spin-off to public shareholders | 562 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 7 - Subsection 7(1.4) | stock options replaced by stock options with lower exercise price on shares of shrunken post-spin-off corp | 131 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 85.1 - Subsection 85.1(1) | 85.1 applicable on exchange by Pubco shareholders for shares of spin-off sub | 142 |
2015 Ruling 2015-0577141R3 - Election to cease to be a public corporation
Proposed transactions
Bidco, which is a wholly-owned Canadian-resident subsidiary of Holdco2, which is a non-resident wholly-owned subsidiary of a...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 87 - Subsection 87(2) - Paragraph 87(2)(ii) | closely-held Amalco can elect following the delisting of shares of a public predecessor | 81 |
27 June 2014 External T.I. 2014-0527341E5 F - Sociétés publiques aux fins de SPCC
Are federal Crown corporations not prescribed in Regs. 6700 and 7100 considered public corporations for purposes of the definition of...
21 September 2012 External T.I. 2012-0455231E5 - Section 89(1) - defn of a "public corporation"
A wholly-owned subsidiary (Subco) of a public corporation (Pubco) that has never elected to be a public corporation itself, will not itself be a...
26 September 1996 External T.I. 9627665 - ELECTION TO CRYSTALIZE GAINS ON GOING PUBLIC
"The Department takes the view that shares that are conditionally listed will not be listed for purposes of the Act until the time at which all of...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 48.1 - Subsection 48.1(1) | 53 |
Forms
T2067 "Election not to be a Public Corporation"
At the time of this election, for each class of shares referred to in 2 above:
a) insiders of the...
Paragraph (a)
Administrative Policy
24 May 2000 Internal T.I. 2000-0014047 F - Société publique - titres au comptoir
The Directorate indicated that “where a class of the capital stock of a corporation trades ‘Over-the-Counter’, through XXXXXXXXXX, we are of...
Articles
Joint Committee, "Definition of 'Public Corporation'", 4 March 2019 Joint Committee Submission
- Acquisitionco, a private company, acquires all the shares of Targetco, a public corporation, and immediately amalgamated with it.
- 2017-0723771C6...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 87 - Subsection 87(2) - Paragraph 87(2)(ii) | Targetco now held 100% by Acquisitionco, and with a formal delisting imminent, is still listed, so that Amalco will be tainted under s. 87(2)(ii) | 305 |
Paragraph (b)
Administrative Policy
2023 Ruling 2022-0958241R3 - Public Spin-Off Butterfly
CRA ruled on a butterfly spin-off by a listed Canadian corporation (DC) of its indirect interest in a foreign project to a “SpinCo” to be held...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 55 - Subsection 55(3.02) | public company spin-off with s. 51 reversal of new s. 86 common shares | 948 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 86 - Subsection 86(1) | new common shares created on s. 86 reorg then immediately converted under s. 51 back to old common shares | 124 |
| Tax Topics - General Concepts - Fair Market Value - Shares | FMV of listed shares based on their 5-day VWAP pre-spin-off or post spin-off | 173 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 55 - Subsection 55(3.1) - Paragraph 55(3.1)(a) | pre-butterfly transactions included DC acquiring shares under a plan of arrangement | 71 |
Paragraph (c)
Subparagraph (c)(i)
Administrative Policy
2018 Ruling 2018-0752531R3 - Public corporation election 89(1)(c)(i)
Pubco was a corporation that was now closely held but nonetheless was deemed to be a public corporation under s. 87(2)(ii) given that it resulted...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Regulations - Regulation 4800 - Subsection 4800(2) - Paragraph 4800(2)(a) | Reg. 4800(2)(a)(i) considered to be satisfied when, in fact, none of the shares held by the insiders had ever been listed since the Pubco’s formation by amalgamation | 340 |
21 November 2017 CTF Roundtable Q. 12, 2017-0723771C6 - Election not to be a public corporation
Where a private corporation (Acquisitionco) acquires all of the shares of a publicly-listed target (Targetco), the designated stock exchange often...
Forms
T2067 Election Not to Be a Public Corporation
3. At the time of this election, for each class of shares referred to in 2 above:
• insiders of the corporation must hold more than 90% of the...
Subsection 89(1.2)
Administrative Policy
17 August 2016 Internal T.I. 2016-0639251I7 - Capital Dividend Account and 149(1)(n)
CRA indicated that one-half of the capital gains generated by a private corporation that is exempt as a low-rental housing corporation under s....
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 89 - Subsection 89(1) - Capital Dividend Account - Paragraph (a) | exempt low-rental housing corp can use a CDA | 127 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 149 - Subsection 149(1) - Paragraph 149(1)(n) | can have a CDA while exempt | 92 |
Subsection 89(7) - GRIP addition for 2006
Administrative Policy
7 January 2008 External T.I. 2007-0227071E5 F - GRIP Addition for 2006
A CCPC (Aco) received (as its only income during the years 2001 to 2005) taxable dividends of $1,200,000 and $300,000 in 2003 and 2005 from its...
21 March 2013 External T.I. 2013-0476901E5 F - GRIP addition under 89(7)
Situation 1
Corporation A received a taxable dividend of $1M from its wholly-owned subsidiary (Corporation P) on January 1, 2001, then sold all...
24 January 2011 Internal T.I. 2010-0390111I7 F - GRIP Computation and Taxable Income for M&P Credit
Corporation C realized a business loss in 2006, which was carried back to 2003. Should Corporation C’s income for purposes of the M&P credit...
26 May 2008 External T.I. 2007-0263001E5 F - 2006 GRIP Addition
3rd Situation
ABCco and DEFco are connected CCPCs with calendar year ends. During each of 2001 to 2005, ABCco had full rate taxable income...
20 February 2008 External T.I. 2007-0250841E5 F - GRIP addition for 2006
Holdco 2 wholly-owns Opco 2. A(a) and (b) of s. 89(7) for Opco 2 are nil for the taxation year ending in 2001, while they aggregate $100,000 for...
7 January 2008 External T.I. 2007-0225481E5 F - GRIP Addition for 2006
A CCPC (Holdco) received (as its only income during the years 2001 to 2005) a taxable dividend of $400,000 in 2001 from its wholly-owned...
Element A
Administrative Policy
19 December 2012 External T.I. 2012-0468511E5 F - GRIP addition for 2006
Corporation A, which held 40% of the shares of Corporation B (also a Canadian-controlled private corporation), received a (s. 112(1) deductible)...
Paragraph (c)
Administrative Policy
8 December 2008 External T.I. 2008-0264691E5 F - GRIP Addition/ Majoration CRTG
Subco earned $160,000 of full rate taxable income in each of the 2001 to 2005 years and paid to its wholly-owning parent (Parentco) in each of...
Subsection 89(8) - LRIP addition — ceasing to be CCPC
Administrative Policy
19 January 2011 External T.I. 2010-0390831E5 - Compute LRIP - corporation becomes non-CCPC
A future income tax asset is not "property" within the meaning of variable A of s. 89(8) as it does not represent a "right" - unless the...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(1) - Property | 39 |
28 August 2009 External T.I. 2009-0325881E5 F - Application of Subsection 89(8)
A public corporation (“Pubco”) acquires all shares of "Target" (theretofore, a Canadian-controlled private corporation with a calendar year...
Subsection 89(11) - Election: non-CCPC
Administrative Policy
May 2013 ICAA Roundtable, Q. 24 (reported in April 2014 Member Advisory)
[A] subsection 89(11) election does not prevent an otherwise qualifying CCPC from receiving the enhanced federal SR&ED rate of 35%. The election...
20 October 2010 External T.I. 2010-0377251E5 F - Canadian Controlled Private Corporation
On May 15, 20-A, Corporation A, a Canadian-controlled private corporation (a "CCPC"), acquired all the shares of Corporation B, a public...
Articles
Manon Thivierge, "Income Tax Due-Diligence Considerations in Mergers and Acquisitions", 2015 Conference Report (Canadian Tax Foundation), 18:1-29
Deemed year-end on ceasing to be a CCPC (p. 18:16)
[U]nder subsection 249(3.1), when a corporation either becomes or ceases to be a CCPC...
Subsection 89(14) - Dividend designation
Administrative Policy
7 October 2020 APFF Roundtable Q. 11, 2020-0852231C6 F - Designation under subsection 89(14)
At 2017-0709021C6 F, CRA accepted that the amount of the dividend paid out of the capital dividend account on a winding-up need not be...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 185.1 - Subsection 185.1(2) | an eligible dividend designation must state a dollar amount, and GRIP variances are addressable under s. 185.1(2) | 246 |
3 December 2019 CTF Roundtable Q. 16, 2019-0824471C6 - Eligible Dividend Designation
CRA considers that a public corporation can make an eligible dividend designation by posting a statement on its website that “all dividends are...
18 December 2017 External T.I. 2017-0720731E5 F - Eligible dividend designation
CRA stated:
[T]he sending of an e-mail, with an acknowledgment of receipt, would meet the conditions for the designation of a dividend as an...
20 November 2015 External T.I. 2014-0539951E5 - Foreign Currency Denominated Dividends
Citing Banner Pharmacaps, CRA considered that a dividend does not “arise” for s. 261(2) purposes until it is paid (rather than declared) so...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 261 - Subsection 261(2) | U.S.-dollar dividends are translated on a cash rather than accrual basis | 279 |
20 February 2014 External T.I. 2013-0480051E5 F - Eligible dividend and safe income
Holdco, which is unrelated to Opco or any other shareholder, holds 30% of both the Class A common and Class B preferred shares of Opco. Its Class...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 89 - Subsection 89(1) - General Rate Income Pool | full amount of designated dividend reduces payor's GRIP even though recipient's GRIP increased only by safe income portion | 272 |
6 January 2014 External T.I. 2013-0512041E5 F - Dividend Designation under subsection 89(14)
After noting that an alleviatory amendment was made to s. 89(14) effective for dividends paid after March 28, 2012 to address the problem that...
5 October 2012 APFF Roundtable, 2012-0454091C6 F - GRIP and deemed dividend pursuant to 84.1(1)(b)
Mr and Mrs X hold all the shares of Corporation A and B, respectively (both private corporations). Mr X sells all his shares of Corporation A to...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 84.1 - Subsection 84.1(1) - Paragraph 84.1(1)(b) | unnecessary in s. 89(14) for s. 84.1 to have deemed dividend to be paid on shares | 233 |
8 October 2010 APFF Roundtable Q. 11, 2010-0373281C6 F - Redemption of shares and eligible dividend
CRA's position that, in order to be valid, an eligible dividend designation must stipulate the amount of the dividend, only applies to regular...
9 April 2010 External T.I. 2010-0361381E5 F - Eligible Dividend
The "general rate income pool" of Opco (a Canadian-controlled private corporation) at the end of its 2009 taxation year was $100,000 (and exceeded...
21 January 2008 External T.I. 2007-0227531E5 F - GRIP / GRIP Addition for 2006
Where, in 2006, Bco's GRIP is $1.3 M and, pursuant to s. 84(3), Bco is deemed to have paid a dividend of approximately $1M to Cco and Dco...
Income Tax Technical News, No. 41, 23 December 2009 Under "Definition of 'Tax Shelter' - Subsection 237.1(1)
"Eligible Dividend Designation - Subsection 89(14)".
Designation of Eligible Dividends 20 December 2006
Public Corporations
For ... public corporations, ... notification has been made if, before or at the time the dividends are paid, a designation is made stating that...
All Other Corporations
For 2007 and subsequent taxation years, for all corporations other than public corporations, the notification requirements of proposed subsection...
2 May 2008 External T.I. 2007-0249941E5 - Dividend designation
An eligible dividend designation by a CCPC must specify an amount.
Articles
Hiren Shah, Manu Kakka, "Coming to Grips with Quebec's Lack of GRIP", Tax for the Owner-Manager, Vol. 17, No. 2, April 2017, p.6
Quebec CCPC not eligible for Quebec SBD nonetheless pays ineligible dividends (p. 7)
[C]onsider, for example, a Quebec-resident CCPC that has...
Subsection 89(14.1) - Late designation
Administrative Policy
12 March 2015 External T.I. 2014-0541991E5 - Objection Eligible Dividend Designation
A Canadian-controlled private corporation ("Canco") declared and paid out a dividend at a time it had an insufficient GRIP balance to make an...
11 October 2013 APFF Roundtable, 2013-0495771C6 F - Late eligible dividend designation
Q.14(a)(1)
Essentially the same question and response as immediately below for 2013-0475261E5 respecting an excessive capital dividend, so that...
2 August 2013 External T.I. 2013-0475261E5 - Eligible Dividend - Late Filing 89(14.1) & 184(3)
A Canadian-controlled private corporation makes a s. 184(3) election to deem the excess portion of a capital dividend to be a separate taxable...
29 May 2012 CTF Prairie Tax Conference 2012 Roundtable, 2012-0445661C6 - Late Eligible Dividend Designation
The Minister will generally accept a late designation where, for example:
- there have been tax consequences not intended by the taxpayers and...