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Trust Claiming a Capital Gain Reserve

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The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) answered several questions regarding a scenario in which a trust claims a capital gains reserve. When a trust claims a capital gains reserve, and the amount of the reserve is included in income in the subsequent year and flows through the trust to a beneficiary, does the gain retain all of its attributes? The reserve amount which the trust claims is included in calculating its capital….

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Canada Revenue Agency, Estate Planning, Executors, Tax Issues

CRA Keeps A-Knockin’ (and Can Come In)

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Estate trustees be warned: you may be held personally liable for failure to pay the estate’s taxes and/or the tax arrears of the deceased. When estate trustees are advised of this fact by their lawyers, pains are taken to soften the blow. CRA tends to be more blunt. Following the death of a taxpayer, CRA may write directly to the estate trustee setting out the amount of arrears owing and….

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

A Roadblock for Multiple Wills

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Today’s blog was written by Justin W. de Vries and Jacob Kaufman A will need not be probated. The power of an estate trustee derives from the will itself. However, in certain cases, a grant of probate (now awkwardly called a certificate of appointment of estate trustee with a will) is needed and the estate trustee will have no choice but to apply for probate and to pay the accompanying….

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Contested wills, Estate Administration, Estate Administration and Probate Applications, Estate Litigation, Estate Planning, Executors, In the News, Succession Planning, Wills

Where’s There is a Will (and a Clear One), There is a Way!

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In Campbell v Evert 2018 ONSC 593, the deceased had, in the decade prior to her passing, transferred to Mr. Evert (one of the “kids”) the family cottage valued at $145,000. In her will later that year,  she made a specific bequest of $145,000 to Ms. Campbell, the other “kid’, which was consistent with the value of the cottage at that time. Several years later and prior to her passing,….

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Contested wills, Estate Administration, Estate Administration and Probate Applications, Executors, Property, Real Estate, Testamentary Capacity, Trusts, Uncategorized, Wills

Tax implications of losses incurred in a fraudulent investment scheme

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All to often it is the elderly and disadvantaged who are taken advantage of in fraudulent investment schemes. The Canada Revenue Agency recently released some general information that applies to taxpayers who participated in what reasonably appeared to be a legitimate investment for income tax purposes. Generally speaking, an amount paid to a taxpayer that is a return on investment, such as interest, must be included in the taxpayer’s income….

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Canada Revenue Agency, Executors, Tax Issues

Is Priority Given to a Spouse/Common Law Partner to be an Executor in an Intestacy?

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This Bog was written by; Sally Lee Is Priority Given to a Spouse/Common Law Partner to be an Executor in an Intestacy? No, but I can understand why this misconception exists. Subsection 29(1) of the Estates Act creates the confusion by naming the surviving spouse/common law partner before the next of kin, which leads many to believe that there is in fact a priority of appointment to the surviving spouse/common….

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Estate Administration and Probate Applications, Executors, Uncategorized
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