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Tax on principal residence? How to plan for a change of use

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No, the government did not eliminate or claw back the principal residence exemption in the 2021 Budget, as had been speculated. Yet, there is a circumstance in which a taxpayer could face an unexpected tax burden in respect of a principal residence: when there is a change in use of a property. AS an executor, the expectation of a tax-free receipt on the sale of what was the deceased’s home may….

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Canada Revenue Agency, Estate Planning, Executors, Property, Tax Issues

Company purification – don’t take the short-cut

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If a business is successful, it will eventually have excess cash retained in the company that is not necessary for the operations of the business.  Two options for this cash is to distribute the excess to the shareholder(s) as a dividend, but that would result in personal tax being paid by the shareholder on the dividend or the company can simply retain the excess cash and invest it in non-business-related….

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Some Ins and Outs of RRSPs & RRIFs Transfers on Death

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Generally the RRSP or RRIF of a deceased can be transferred by specific bequest under the terms of the deceased’s will to a qualifying survivor tax-free. A qualifying survivor would be the deceased annuitant spouse or common-law partner or a financially dependent child or grandchild. When payments from a deceased annuitant’s RRSP are paid to the annuitant’s estate and a qualifying survivor is a beneficiary of  the estate, the deceased….

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Business purpose, source of income, and sham gets a thorough review

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In a recent court case (Paletta Estate v. The Queen) the estate successfully appealed that it was entitled to $55 million in losses in the 2000 to 2006 taxation years generated through forward foreign exchange trading. The estate purchased straddled forward foreign exchange contracts – one long and one short. The taxpayer closed the loss leg of the straddle before the end of the year (realizing a loss in the….

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Inconsistency in CRA policy for dividends paid to a deceased beneficiary

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A recent article discussed taxation anomalies that occur due to timing differences between when a trust receives a dividend and subsequently pays and allocates a dividend to a beneficiary. CRA view 2016-0647621E5 provides that when a trust receives a dividend in the year and subsequently pays and allocates the dividend to a beneficiary in the same year, the allocation of the dividend for tax purposes occurs on December 31 of the year because….

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Canada Revenue Agency, Estate Administration, Estate Planning, Executors, Tax Issues

What is a Reasonable Error

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Further to my last post, the Canada Revenue Agency (“CRA”) does have the discretion to waive tax penalties on excess (or deemed to be excess) contributions to Tax Free Savings Accounts (“TFSA’s) and Registered Retirement Savings Plans (“RRSP”) if an excess contribution  to a TFSA or RRSP resulted from a reasonable error under the applicable sections of the Income Tax Act (“ITA”). With regard to TFSA’s, it would be for….

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