Cases
Irving Oil Ltd. v. The Queen, 88 DTC 6138, [1988] 1 CTC 263 (FCTD), aff'd 91 DTC 5106 (FCA)
An individual ("K.C. Irving") who controlled the taxpayer and an arm's length supplier of Middle East crude ("Socal") sought to share the...
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| Tax Topics - General Concepts - Ownership | 50 | |
| Tax Topics - General Concepts - Stare Decisis | 32 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 165 - Subsection 165(1) | 27 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 67 | expense fell within reasonable range | 156 |
Consolidated-Bathurst Ltd. v. The Queen, 87 DTC 5001, [1987] 1 CTC 55 (FCA)
Consolidated-Bathurst insured various risks with arm's length Canadian demestic insurers, who reinsured all but a small percentage of those risks...
Indalex Ltd. v. The Queen, 86 DTC 6039, [1986] 1 CTC 219 (FCTD), aff'd 88 DTC 6053, [1988] 1 CTC 60 (FCA)
An arrangement under which a Bermudan affiliate of the taxpayer purchased aluminium from Alcan, and then sold the aluminium to the taxpayer at a...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 15 - Subsection 15(1) | 17 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 69 - Subsection 69(2) | 208 |
Edmonton Liquid Gas Ltd. v. The Queen, 84 DTC 6526, [1984] CTC 536 (FCA)
"[W]here provisions of the Income Tax Act have the obvious purpose of encouraging taxpayers to enter into an expenditure of a particular kind...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Incurring of Expense | expense incurred as no refund rights | 138 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 66.1 - Subsection 66.1(6) - Canadian exploration expense - Paragraph (c) | 46 | |
| Tax Topics - Statutory Interpretation - Hansard, explanatory notes, etc. | 39 |
Stubart Investments Ltd. v. The Queen, 84 DTC 6305, [1984] CTC 294, [1984] 1 S.C.R. 536
"Where the facts reveal no bona fide business purpose for the transaction, s.[245(1)] may be found to be applicable depending upon all the...
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| Tax Topics - General Concepts - Sham | taxpayer-created facade | 132 |
| Tax Topics - General Concepts - Tax Avoidance | legally effective transaction with non-arm's length party should not be disregarded because it was tax-motivated | 148 |
| Tax Topics - Statutory Interpretation - Resolving Ambiguity | 24 |
The Queen v. Gelber, 83 DTC 5385, [1983] CTC 381 (FCA)
The taxpayer was not precluded from deducting capital cost allowance in respect of a portion of the purchase price paid for a motion picture film...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 13 - Subsection 13(21) - Undepreciated Capital Cost - A | 80 |
Don Fell Ltd. v. The Queen, 81 DTC 5282, [1981] CTC 363 (FCTD)
S.245(1) is "directed not only to sham transactions but to something less as well where the expense, although real, would unduly or artificially...
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| Tax Topics - General Concepts - Evidence | 40 | |
| Tax Topics - General Concepts - Purpose/Intention | 24 |
Antoine Guertin Ltée v. The Queen, 81 DTC 5268, [1981] CTC 351 (FCTD), aff'd 87 DTC 5458, [1988] 1 CTC 117 (FCA)
The taxpayer's president had the company pay substantial bonuses to its employees, and persuaded them to donate a large portion of the bonuses to...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 67 | 47 |
Spur Oil Ltd. v. The Queen, 81 DTC 5168, [1981] CTC 336 (FCA)
A Bermudan affiliate of the taxpayer purchased crude oil at a price that was less than 90% of its fair market value and resold the oil to the...
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| Tax Topics - General Concepts - Tax Avoidance | 53 |
The Queen v. Alberta and Southern Gas Co. Ltd., 77 DTC 5244, [1977] CTC 388 (FCA), aff'd 78 DTC 6566, [1978] CTC 780, [1979] 1 S.C.R. 36
S.66 provided favourable treatment for the deduction and taxation of capital amounts in order to encourage taxpayers to put money into resource...
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| Tax Topics - Statutory Interpretation - Specific v. General Provisions | 94 |
Mendels v. The Queen, 78 DTC 6267, [1978] CTC 404 (FCTD)
A partnership of two dentists determined that the value of administrative services performed by them was $20,000, and 'by means of' appropriate...
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| Tax Topics - General Concepts - Payment & Receipt | payment by mutual book entry | 280 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Related Companies | 103 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 9 - Related Companies | 103 |
McKee v. The Queen, 77 DTC 5345, [1977] CTC 491 (FCTD)
"A disbursement or expense made or incurred" does not include capital cost allowance.
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 13 - Subsection 13(21) - Undepreciated Capital Cost - A | 127 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Regulations - Schedules - Schedule II - Class 12 | 16 |
The Queen v. Laidlaw Transport Ltd., 77 DTC 5091, [1977] CTC 151 (FCTD)
A fee of $61,317 which a subsidiary paid to its parent for services that the parent (primarily in the person of its shareholder and officer)...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Loans and Financing Charges | charges re parent's IPO were deductible | 49 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(b) - Capital Expenditure v. Expense - Oversight or Investment Management | fee paid to obtain (IPO proceeds) financing from parent was currently deductible to sub | 49 |
Produits LDG Products Inc. v. The Queen, 76 DTC 6344, [1976] CTC 591 (FCA)
A company made contributions to a pension plan toward the current and past services of certain of its employees (mainly the company's principal...
The Queen v. Esskay Farms Ltd., 76 DTC 6010, [1976] CTC 24 (FCTD)
"The word 'disbursement' in common parlance means 'money paid out, an expenditure' and the word 'expense' also in common parlance means 'money out...
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| Tax Topics - General Concepts - Agency | weight given to written agreement terms in finding that intermediary purchased as principal | 122 |
| Tax Topics - General Concepts - Evidence | 81 | |
| Tax Topics - General Concepts - Sham | no sham if documents describe intended legal rights | 354 |
| Tax Topics - General Concepts - Tax Avoidance | no sham if documents describe intended legal rights | 354 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 104 - Subsection 104(2) | 143 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 20 - Subsection 20(1) - Paragraph 20(1)(n) | 199 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 246 - Subsection 246(1) | 195 | |
| Tax Topics - Statutory Interpretation - Provincial Law | 58 |
Sigma Exploration Ltd. v. The Queen, 75 DTC 5121, [1975] CTC 215 (FCTD)
The taxpayer, which carried out seismic surveys primarily on its own account and then sold the information so obtained to other companies, was...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(b) - Capital Expenditure v. Expense - Capital Asset v. Inventory | 104 |
Simard-Beaudry Inc. v. M.N.R., 74 DTC 6552, [1974] CTC 715 (FCTD)
The taxpayer acquired depreciable assets for a price less than their fair market value as part of a series of dividend-stripping transactions that...
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| Tax Topics - General Concepts - Agency | agent can act for two principals | 51 |
| Tax Topics - General Concepts - Sham | motives should not be exaggerated | 98 |
| Tax Topics - General Concepts - Tax Avoidance | motives should not be exaggerated | 98 |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 13 - Subsection 13(21) - Undepreciated Capital Cost - A | cost of option included in cost of acquired asset | 28 |
J&J Hotels Ltd. v. MNR, 74 DTC 6505, [1974] CTC 670 (FCA)
The taxpayer hotel company, in order to soak up losses in a sister company ("Vernon") transferred an employee who had been washing cars on the...
The Queen v. Clark, 74 DTC 6242, [1974] CTC 305 (FCTD)
A cash-basis farmer purchased cattle from a cattle company at the end of his taxation year on the understanding that the cattle company would...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Income-Producing Purpose | 65 |
Holmes v. The Queen, 74 DTC 6143, [1974] CTC 156 (FCTD)
A 15% management fee paid by a law firm to its related administrative services company was deductible in light of a finding that genuine business...
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| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 18 - Subsection 18(1) - Paragraph 18(1)(a) - Related Companies | 126 | |
| Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 9 - Related Companies | 126 |
Administrative Policy
86 C.R. - Q.37
the Consolidated - Bathurst decision confirmed RC's position that premiums paid to an off-shore captive are not deductible where there is no...