Words and Phrases - "gift"
1 February 2023 External T.I. 2022-0945221E5 - Directed gift to a municipality
Regarding the receipt of funds by a qualified donee that is a municipality from a registered charity where such funds would then be directed to a...
6 April 2003 External T.I. 2003-0054461E5 F - Traitement fiscal d'un cadeau
In indicating that an amount described as a “gift” could be business income to the recipient, CRA stated:
…IT-334R2[, para. 4] … states...
24 January 2019 External T.I. 2018-0773301E5 - Paragraph 69(1)(c) and Nominal Consideration
$1 consideration is specified in the legal documentation for a gift of property by a parent to a child solely to ensure the agreement is legally...
Fonds de solidarité des travailleurs du Québec (F.T.Q) v. The Queen, 2018 TCC 3, aff'd on s. 18(1)(a) grounds 2019 FCA 36
The appellant was the limited partner of a partnership (“SEC”) that had become insolvent during efforts to relaunch a paper mill close to the...
Cassan v. The Queen, 2017 TCC 174
In rejecting (at para. 296) a Crown submission (summarized at para. 249) that “gift” required “detached and disinterested generosity”)...
S7-F1-C1 - Split-receipting and Deemed Fair Market Value
Meaning of "gift"
1.2 Under the common law, “a gift is a voluntary transfer of property owned by a donor to a donee, in return for which no...
French v. Canada, 2016 FCA 64
In his 2000 to 2002 taxation years, the taxpayer made gifts to a registered charity that were funded from personal funds and from loans tied to...
26 June 2013 External T.I. 2013-0490711E5 F - Disposition en contrepartie de 1$
Could the acquisition of a property for consideration of one dollar qualify as an acquisition by gift for purposes of s. 69(1)(c)? The Directorate...
16 April 2013 External T.I. 2013-0477981E5 F - Interpretation of Gift
A Quebec collective agreement requires each employee to annually pay a specified amount to a pre-established registered charity whose mission...
Berry v. Warnett, [1980] T.R. 299 (C.A.), rev'd [1980] BTC 239 (HL)
"[T]he ordinary primary meaning of 'gift' is a voluntary transfer of property made without consideration."
The Queen v. Littler, 78 DTC 6179, [1978] CTC 235 (FCA)
A sale by the taxpayer to his sons of shares for their market price at a time when the taxpayer had insider knowledge that an offer would be made...