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CAPITAL DIVIDENDS FROM A TRUST TO NON-RESIDENTS – TAX ISSUES

Subject to the relevant sections of the Income Tax Act, a Canadian private corporation has a special corporate tax account known as a capital dividend account (“CDA”) which gives shareholders designated capital dividends, tax free. The CDA of a corporation may include the non-taxable portion of the company’s capital gains, proceeds of life insurance policies on death and capital dividends received from other companies. While a capital dividend is normally….

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Canada Revenue Agency, Canadian and US Tax Treaty, Estate Administration, Estate Administration and Probate Applications, Estate Planning, Executors, Investments, Property, Small Business, Tax Issues, Trustee, Trusts, U.S. Citizen, United States

Credit given for improvement costs funded by beneficary where property owned by a trust

The Canada Revenue Agency was recently asked whether the cost of capital improvements made to a real property that is held by an inter vivos trust is included in the adjusted cost base (ACB) of the property and in the ACB of the capital interest of the beneficiaries that have borne the cost of the improvements…..

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

INCOME FROM TRUST – WHEN PAYABLE IS NOT PAID

Fellow bloggers and I have written in the past about how income from a Trust is not deemed payable to a beneficiary (pursuant to relevant sections of the Income tax Act) unless it has been paid to the beneficiary or the beneficiary has the legal right to demand payment during the year. Recently, the Canada Revenue Agency (“CRA”) was asked to review a hypothetical situation related to this issue which….

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Canada Revenue Agency, Estate Administration, Estate Administration and Probate Applications, Estate Planning, Executors, Tax Issues, Trustee, Trusts

RESIDENCY OF A TRUST – A QUESTION OF MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL II: A View from the CRA Bridge!

Last fall I wrote about the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador being asked to rule on the specific issue of residency which would have significant tax implications to the trust depending on the Court’s determination. In Discovery Trust vs Canada (National Revenue), 201201G6615, at issue was whether a trust was a resident of Newfoundland and Labrador where the beneficiaries resided or in Alberta where the trustee was a resident…..

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