Certainty

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Cases

Foix v. Canada, 2023 FCA 38

After finding that s. 84(2) extended to the indirect distribution of liquid assets of the target to the taxpayers through its sale to an arm’s...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 84 - Subsection 84(2) s. 84(2) extends to the indirect distribution of liquid assets of the target through its sale to an arm’s length purchaser cum “facilitator” 917

Canada v. Loblaw Financial Holdings Inc., 2021 SCC 51

In connection with finding that the “business conducted” by a Barbados subsidiary of the taxpayer did not include its activities of raising...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(1) - Business “business conducted,” as contrasted to “business,” did not include the raising of capital 229
Tax Topics - General Concepts - Foreign Law meaning of banking business under Barbados law was not persuasive 234
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 95 - Subsection 95(1) - Investment Business - Paragraph (a) bank business was conducted with arm's length persons notwithstanding that capital raised from shareholder 581
Tax Topics - Statutory Interpretation - Speaking in vain Parliament does not speak in vain 72
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 91 - Subsection 91(1) two policies balanced in FAPI regime 79
Tax Topics - Statutory Interpretation - Expressio Unius est Exclusio Alterius specific addition of a competition requirement in another provision implied that there was no such requirement here 152

McGillivray Restaurant Ltd. v. Canada, 2016 FCA 99

In finding that there should not be an expansive interpretation of what constitutes de facto control in s. 256(5.1), Ryer JA stated (at para....

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 256 - Subsection 256(5.1) de facto control includes only significant influence over the board of directors 402

Canada v. Lehigh Cement Limited, 2014 DTC 5058 [at at 6849], 2014 FCA 103, aff'g 2013 DTC 1139 [at 740], 2013 TCC 176

In rejecting the Minister’s position that s. 95(6)(b) had a broader scope than addressing situations where Canadian taxpayers manipulate share...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 95 - Subsection 95(6) - Paragraph 95(6)(b) restricted to status-manipulating acquisitions or dispositions 347
Tax Topics - Statutory Interpretation - Consistency restricting of anti-avoidance rule to avoid arbitrary application 158
Tax Topics - Statutory Interpretation - Headings provision not in Tax Avoidance Part of Act 149

Canada Trustco Mortgage Co. v. Canada, 2005 SCC 54, [2005] 2 S.C.R. 601, 2005 DTC 5523

In indicating that judges should not apply taxation policies that are not grounded in the specific provisions of the Act, McLaughlin C.J. and...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 245 - Subsection 245(1) - Tax Benefit tax benefit if taxable income reduction or on basis of comparison to alternative 132
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 245 - Subsection 245(4) policy of CCA provisions relied on cost irrespective of risk mitigation 211
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(10) "in contemplation" references "because of" or "in relation to" 127
Tax Topics - Statutory Interpretation - Ordinary Meaning primacy to ordinary meaning if unequivocal 96

Ludco Enterprises Ltd. v. Canada, 2001 DTC 5505, [2001] 2 S.C.R. 1082, 2001 SCC 62

Before finding that for purposes of the requirement in s. 20(1)(c)(i) that money must have been borrowed for an income-producing purpose in order...

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Tax Topics - General Concepts - Purpose/Intention objective and subjective manifestations of purpose 104
Tax Topics - General Concepts - Tax Avoidance right to structure for tax avoidance 129
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 20 - Subsection 20(1) - Paragraph 20(1)(c) - Subparagraph 20(1)(c)(i) ancillary purpose of earning (1%-yield) dividend income/allocation of reinvested proceeds 100% to income-producing source 434

Brill v. The Queen, 96 DTC 6572, [1997] 1 CTC 2 (FCA)

In finding that the proceeds of disposition of a property to the taxpayer were established by the actual sale price rather than by the formula in...

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Friesen v. Canada, 95 DTC 5551, [1995] 3 S.C.R. 103

Major J. accepted the following comments in P.W. Hogg's Notes on Income Tax:

"It would introduce intolerable uncertainty into the Income Tax Act...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 10 - Subsection 10(1) loss recognized on decline in value of land held as an adventure 142
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(1) - Inventory property held in an adventure was inventory 83
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 9 - Capital Gain vs. Profit - Real Estate undeveloped land held in speculative venture 142
Tax Topics - Statutory Interpretation - Drafting Style 95
Tax Topics - Statutory Interpretation - Inserting Words interpretation should not effectively add words 104
Tax Topics - Statutory Interpretation - Ordinary Meaning common usage of a technical term given weight 80
Tax Topics - Statutory Interpretation - Resolving Ambiguity 97
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(1) - Business s. 10(1) applied to an adventure in the nature of trade even if that deemed business was not “carried on” 75
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 45 - Subsection 45(1) - Paragraph 45(1)(a) property not generating income does not convert to capital property unless s. 13(7) or 45(1) applies 209

The Queen v. Johnson & Johnson Inc., 94 DTC 6125, [1994] 1 CTC 244 (FCA)

In finding that a federal sales tax refund should not be considered to have been receivable by the taxpayer until the Minister had given some...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 12 - Subsection 12(1) - Paragraph 12(1)(b) 54
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 9 - Timing backdating of effective time of sales tax refund 153

J.L. Guay Ltée v. MNR, 71 DTC 5423, [1971] CTC 686 (FCTD), aff'd 73 DTC 5374, [1973] CTC 506 (FCA), aff'd 75 DTC 5094, [1975] CTC 97 (SCC)

Nöel A.C.J. stated (at p. 5427) that in order for an accountant's report to give the taxpayer a general picture of his affairs "it is not...

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See Also

High-Crest Enterprises Limited v. The Queen, 2015 TCC 230, nullified on procedural grounds 2017 FCA 88

Although assisted–living facilities (or additions thereto) normally are subject to HST on their fair market value when substantially completed,...

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Tax Topics - Excise Tax Act - Section 191.1 - Subsection 191.1(1) - Government Funding government funding only of operating costs did not detract from its objective of increasing beds 244
Tax Topics - General Concepts - Purpose/Intention government funding only of operating costs did not detract from its purpose of increasing beds 365
Tax Topics - Excise Tax Act - Regulations - Public Service Body Rebate (GST/HST) Regulations - Section 2 - Government Funding government funding only of operating costs did not detract from its objective of increasing beds 173

Daishowa-Marubeni International Ltd. v. The Queen, 2010 DTC 1216 [at 3582], 2010 TCC 317, rev'd in part 2013 DTC 5085 [at 5959], 2013 SCC 29

Before finding that the consideration in an asset sale represented by the assumption by a purchaser of a future reforestation liability should be...

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