Draft legislation making significant changes to the foreign affiliate provisions of the Income Tax Act (Canada) (the “Act”) was released by the Department of Finance on August 19, 2011. The new provisions deal with upstream loans from and other indebtedness...
Canada Revenue Agency (“CRA”) has recently issued a favourable advance income tax ruling (“ATR”) to the effect that a company that is a non-resident of Canada (“Foreign Parent”) would not be considered to be carrying on business in Canada through...
Exchangeable shares have long been used to effect tax-deferred share transactions involving Canadian resident vendors and foreign purchasers. Briefly, certain rollover provisions of the Act permitting tax-deferred share-for-share exchanges require that, where the shares being sold are shares of a...
In the 2011 Federal Budget, the government announced its intention to review the rules regarding employee profit sharing plans (“EPSPs“). Further to this announcement, the Department of Finance issued a consultation paper on August 30, 2011 requesting feedback from stakeholders on...
Article XV(2) of the Canada-US Tax Treaty (the “Tax Treaty”) provides for an exemption from taxation of remuneration derived by an employee resident in a country (referred to herein as “residence state”) in respect of temporary employment exercised in the...
On August 26, 2011, Elections B.C. announced that British Columbians voted against the controversial Harmonized Sales Tax (“HST”). In a historic and binding mail-in referendum, approximately 1.6 million British Columbians representing 54.73% of the electorate voted to extinguish the HST....
