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The OPGT and the Case of the Missing Estate Trustee

Gillian Fournie • November 29, 2016

As regular readers of this blog well know, not everyone dies with a will. When this happens, the Succession Law Reform Act (Part II) sets out who are the beneficiaries of the estate, while the Estates Act (section 29) ranks in order of priority who may apply to be estate trustee. This statutory system works well, until no one wishes to step into the role of estate trustee. When that….

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Stock options held at death

Derek de Gannes • November 22, 2016

The Department of Finance released a Notice of Ways and Means which included amendments to the tax rules of interest to executors. On such amendment dealt with the security option benefit of the deceased.
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Canada Revenue Agency, Estate Administration, Estate Planning, Executors, Tax Issues

TFSA’s – a refresher on the Rules

Steven Frye • November 15, 2016

Borrowing heavily from some recent literature on this subject, I though it may be useful at this time of the year to quickly revisit some of the rules surrounding tax free savings accounts (“TFSA”) Contribution room for an individual’s TFSA is the total of the TFSA dollar amount for the year, unused room from prior years and withdrawals from the TFSA in the prior year. Note a withdrawal is a….

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Canada Revenue Agency, Estate Administration, Estate Planning, Interest, Investments, Property, Tax Issues, Trustee

LATE FILED ELECTION TO SPLIT PENSION INCOME

Steven Frye • November 1, 2016

While we are on the subject of joint elections to split pension income in the year of death: What if, as trustee of the estate, you discover that the deceased and his spouse did not split eligible pension income in the years prior to his year of death. Can you late file the elections and will the CRA accept them and re-assess accordingly? Recently the CRA was asked to comment….

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Canada Revenue Agency, Estate Administration, Estate Planning, Liability, Spouse, Trustee

PASSING OF ACCOUNTS – PART II “HOW IS IT DONE?”

Paul Fensom • October 31, 2016

In my previous blog post, I discussed the “what” and “why” of a passing of accounts. In this blog, I will provide a quick refresher on the technical process for a passing of accounts….

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Estate Administration, Passing Of Trustees’ and Executors’ Accounts

ATTRIBUTION RULES AND PLANNING REVISITED

Steven Frye • October 18, 2016

Recently the Canada Revenue Agency (the “CRA”) issued a technical interpretation on the application of the income attribution rules under the Income Tax Act (“ITA”) which serves as a good primer particularly when a personal representative is looking at the deceased’s prior year returns with joint accounts and the potential for additional taxes. Mrs. Entrepreneur owned and sold shares of a Canadian-controlled private corporation that were “qualified small business corporation….

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