Words and Phrases - "during"

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Thomson v. Minister of National Revenue, 2 DTC 812, [1946] S.C.R. 209

Summary Under
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 250

For a number of years the taxpayer spent between 81 and 159 days in Canada each year, with most of the balance spent in the United States. The taxpayer argued that he was not "ordinarily resident" for the purposes of what was then s. 9 (now reformulated in ss. 2(1) and 250(1)).

Rand J. set out the scope of "residence" at pp. 224-25:

For the purposes of income tax legislation, it must be assumed that every person has at all times a residence. It is not necessary to this that he should have a home or a particular place of abode or even a shelter. He may sleep in the open. It is important only to ascertain the spatial bounds within which he spends his life or to which his ordered or customary living is related.

The Court rejected the taxpayer's appeal. Kurwin J. at p. 214:

The appellant seeks to make himself a sojourner as he carefully remained in Canada for a period or periods amounting to less than 183 days during each year. This attempt fails. The family ties of his wife, if not of himself, the erection of a substantial house, the retention of the ser­vants, together with all the surrounding circumstances, make it clear to me that his occupancy of the house and his activities in Canada comprised more than a mere temporary stay therein.

Estey J. also stated for the majority at p. 233 that, throughout the Income Tax Act, "during" means "in the course of."

Words and Phrases
during residence

Thomson v. Minister of National Revenue, 2 DTC 812, [1946] S.C.R. 209

Summary Under
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 2 - Subsection 2(1)

For a number of years the taxpayer spent between 81 and 159 days in Canada each year, with most of the balance spent in the United States. The taxpayer argued that he was not "ordinarily resident" for the purposes of what was then s. 9 (now reformulated in ss. 2(1) and 250(1)).

Rand J. set out the scope of "residence" at pp. 224-25:

For the purposes of income tax legislation, it must be assumed that every person has at all times a residence. It is not necessary to this that he should have a home or a particular place of abode or even a shelter. He may sleep in the open. It is important only to ascertain the spatial bounds within which he spends his life or to which his ordered or customary living is related.

The Court rejected the taxpayer's appeal. Kerwin J. at p. 214:

The appellant seeks to make himself a sojourner as he carefully remained in Canada for a period or periods amounting to less than 183 days during each year. This attempt fails. The family ties of his wife, if not of himself, the erection of a substantial house, the retention of the ser­vants, together with all the surrounding circumstances, make it clear to me that his occupancy of the house and his activities in Canada comprised more than a mere temporary stay therein.

Estey J. also stated for the majority at p. 233 that, throughout the Income Tax Act, "during" means "in the course of."

Words and Phrases
residence ordinarily resident during