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ATTRIBUTION RULES AND PLANNING REVISITED

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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Canada Revenue Agency, Estate Administration, Estate Administration and Probate Applications, Estate Planning, In the News, Investments, Joint Tenancy, Loans, Property, Small Business, Tax Issues, Trustee, Trusts

TRUST INSTALLMENT REQUIREMENTS, INTEREST AND PENALTIES

One of the many tasks associated with the administration of trusts is making sure all tax payments are made on a timely basis to protect the trust and its beneficiaries from avoid interest and penalties. In this regard, most trusts are required to make installment payments. Prior to 2016 only inter vivos trusts (other than grandfathered inter vivos trusts) were legislatively required to make instalment payments under the relevant sections….

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Estate Administration, Estate Planning, Executors, Interest, Property, Tax Issues, Trustee, Trusts
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