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Post-mortem and succession planning turns on timing: elections such as the spousal rollover and the capital gains exemption only work when claimed in the right return. The expanded trust-reporting rules require most trusts to file a T3 with full beneficial-ownership schedules even when no tax is payable. We quote trust wind-up tax assistance as one affordable fixed price — the budget-friendly alternative to hourly billing.
Good trust wind-up tax assistance work is mostly about sequencing: which questions to settle before which. These notes lay out the sequence an accountant follows on Trust Wind-Up Tax Assistance engagements.
The first thing we verify on every engagement: Capital property of a trust can generally be distributed to a Canadian-resident capital beneficiary at the cost amount of the trust under subsection 107(2). That is why a wind-up is usually preferred to letting the twenty-one-year deemed disposition under subsection 104(4) arrive. The rollover is not available where subsection 75(2) applied to the property at any time. The history of the trust is therefore reviewed before anything moves.
Layer a second constraint on top and the picture sharpens: Section 84.1 applies where an individual disposes of shares of a Canadian corporation to a purchaser corporation with which the individual is not dealing at arms length. The two corporations must also be connected immediately afterwards. The adjusted cost base being relied on may have come from a claimed capital gains exemption or from pre-1972 value. To that extent, the cost is stripped out for this purpose. What looked like a capital gain can then come back as a deemed dividend. One more rule deserves attention, mostly because ignoring it is expensive in ways that only show up later. Dividends paid from an operating company to a connected holding company are generally deductible to the recipient under section 112. Retained cash can therefore be moved out of the operating company without immediate tax. Refundable Part IV tax applies to dividends from a payer that is not connected. It also applies to dividends from a connected payer to the extent the payer recovers refundable tax by paying them. The timing of the dividend therefore matters as much as the amount.
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An owner separating surplus assets from the operating business in Barrie, Ontario had already been penalised. The issue was an investment portfolio accumulating inside the operating company, putting the qualified small business corporation tests at risk. A relief application cancelled $135,000 of that penalty.
An owner separating surplus assets from the operating business in Barrie, Ontario had already missed one deadline and was about to miss a second. Behind it sat an investment portfolio accumulating inside the operating company, putting the qualified small business corporation tests at risk. A penalty of $135,000 was accruing. We split the work into what had to happen before the deadline and what could follow it. Then we computed safe income on hand share by share before any dividend was declared, and sized the dividend so subsection 55(2) had nothing to recharacterise. The outstanding return was accepted as filed, and the taxpayer relief application cancelled $135,000 of the penalty already assessed on the earlier year.
The ledger at a jointly owned rental-property corporation in Burnaby, British Columbia could not support its own filings. The reason was a capital dividend account balance that would have been lost on dissolution had the final distribution gone ahead as planned. Rebuilding it surfaced $16,000 in unclaimed input tax.
A jointly owned rental-property corporation in Burnaby, British Columbia could not answer basic questions about its own numbers. A capital dividend account balance that would have been lost on dissolution had the final distribution gone ahead as planned sat between the bank statements and the ledger. We wound the subsidiary up into its parent under subsection 88(1) and moved the property across at its cost amounts. We closed the subsidiary program accounts once the final return had been assessed. We then documented the process so the work does not depend on any one person remembering how it was done. Records rebuilt and reconciled, $16,000 recovered in input tax credits that the old file could not support, and a documented monthly process now in place.
An incorporating sole proprietor in Edmonton, Alberta was profitable and permanently short of cash. Behind the gap sat all future growth accruing to shares the founder already held, with no freeze in place. Restructuring the tax cycle freed $29,000.
An incorporating sole proprietor in Edmonton, Alberta was profitable on paper and short of cash every month. All future growth accruing to shares the founder already held, with no freeze in place explained most of the gap. We cleared the inter-company balances and the shareholder loan before the reorganisation closed. We papered each step with the resolutions and agreements the structure has to rest on. We also built a thirteen-week cash view so tax payments stopped competing with payroll for the same dollars. $29,000 was released back into working capital. Remittances have been on time every period since, and the forecast shows the tax outflow before it lands.
A second opinion for a two-subsidiary holding company in Kelowna, British Columbia recovered $26,500 a year. It found a trust still holding capital property with its twenty-one-year deemed disposition inside the planning horizon in prior filings.
A two-subsidiary holding company in Kelowna, British Columbia asked for a second opinion on trust wind-up tax assistance. That followed three years of rising tax. The review found a trust still holding capital property with its twenty-one-year deemed disposition inside the planning horizon. We built the comparison first: current structure against two alternatives. Then we filed the short-year T2 for each predecessor corporation and chose the first year-end of the amalgamated corporation deliberately. We carried the predecessor loss balances forward under the continuity rules. First-year saving of $26,500, with the same benefit recurring. Every position taken is documented and supported in the file.
A shareholder exchanging common shares for preferred shares in Brampton, Ontario expanded into a second province. The file already carried an inter-company balance and a shareholder loan left outstanding between the corporations being merged. Every obligation was set up in advance and $137,000 of cash released.
Revenue at a shareholder exchanging common shares for preferred shares in Brampton, Ontario was up sharply and cash was tighter than ever. Underneath it sat an inter-company balance and a shareholder loan left outstanding between the corporations being merged. We reviewed the paid-up capital of each class, the capital dividend account and the eligible dividend designations before the final distribution. We dissolved the corporation and requested the clearance certificate. Every new obligation was set up before it was triggered, not after. That covered registration, remittance frequency and provincial filing. $137,000 of cash was released from the working capital cycle. The expansion completed with every registration and filing obligation covered from day one.
An investment-heavy operating company in Ottawa, Ontario faced a $143,000 proposed reassessment. It came after a dividend paid up to the holding company with no safe income on hand computed behind it. We rebuilt the documentation and the adjustment was withdrawn in full.
An investment-heavy operating company in Ottawa, Ontario received a proposal letter opening a review of trust wind-up tax assistance. The CRA had identified a dividend paid up to the holding company with no safe income on hand computed behind it. It proposed an adjustment of $143,000, with 30 days to respond. We treated the response as an evidence exercise rather than an argument. We filed the section 85 election on form T2057 with the elected amounts set at the cost amounts of the transferred property. We kept the non-share consideration inside those amounts, so nothing was realised on the transfer. We then indexed every supporting document against the specific line the auditor had questioned. The proposed adjustment was withdrawn in full — all $143,000 of it. The file closed in 7 weeks with no change to the assessed amounts and no penalty.
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At minimum: prior-year returns and notices of assessment, your bank and credit-card statements for the fiscal period, payroll records if you have employees, and GST/HST filings. We send a checklist tailored to your situation after the free 15-minute call.
Most engagements are completed within 3 to 5 business days once your documents are complete. Catch-up work covering multiple years takes longer, and we tell you the realistic timeline before you commit rather than after.
We respond on your behalf at no extra charge for any return we prepared. Every figure we file is supported by documentation retained in your file, which is what turns a CRA review from a crisis into correspondence. See how our CRA audit representation works.
Yes. Late filing penalties compound at 5% of the balance owing plus 1% per month, so the cost of waiting is real. We prioritise catch-up work and, where eligible, file under the CRA's Voluntary Disclosures Program to reduce penalties.
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In our files, this is the deciding factor: Dividends paid from an operating company to a connected holding company are generally deductible to the recipient under section 112. Retained cash can therefore be moved out of the operating company without immediate tax. Refundable Part IV tax applies to dividends from a payer that is not connected. It also applies to dividends from a connected payer to the extent the payer recovers refundable tax by paying them. The timing of the dividend therefore matters as much as the amount. A tax specialist applies it to your numbers before submission.
The honest answer comes down to one rule. Shares meet the qualified small business corporation tests only where two asset tests are met. At the time of the disposition, all or substantially all of the fair market value of the corporation’s assets must be used in an active business. That business has to be carried on primarily in Canada. More than half of that value must also have met a comparable test throughout the twenty-four months before the disposition. Investments accumulating in an operating company put both tests at risk. That risk is a large part of what a holding structure exists to prevent. That is the part we verify before anything is filed.
The questions Canadians actually search on this topic, answered plainly. Browse every question in the Canadian tax answers directory.
A tax return is the annual filing that reports your income, deductions and credits to the CRA so the final tax for the year can be settled. Payers withhold tax during the year and the return reconciles that against what you actually owe, producing either a refund or a balance to pay. For 2025 returns filed in 2026, refunds usually arrive in about two weeks for an online return, while a paper return runs on a considerably longer standard because it is handled manually.
Rent on your home is not deductible on a Canadian return. Two situations change that. Self-employed people, and employees who meet the work-space-in-the-home conditions, may claim the share of rent tied to the area used for work. Several provinces also run a property tax or rent based credit, applied for on the provincial schedule filed with your T1, where rent paid affects the amount. Keep receipts and your landlord's details either way.
Most tax saving comes from a short list of levers: contributing to an RRSP or a spousal RRSP, holding investments inside a TFSA, FHSA or RESP so growth is sheltered, claiming every deduction and credit you actually qualify for, and splitting income where the rules allow, such as pension income splitting. Business owners add expense timing and salary versus dividend planning. Order matters, so decide before year end rather than at filing time.
For the 2026 tax year, federal rates are 14% on the first $58,523 of taxable income, 20.5% from there to $117,045, 26% to $181,440, 29% to $258,482, and 33% above that. Each rate applies only to the income inside its own band, so moving into a higher bracket does not raise the tax on the income below it. Provincial or territorial tax is added on top.
No. The GST, HST, PST or QST you charge is not your revenue. You collect it as an agent and remit it, so it belongs in a liability account and revenue is recorded net of tax. Including it overstates sales and distorts every margin you calculate. Input tax credits work the same way in reverse, against that liability rather than as an expense. Payment processors deposit tax-included amounts, which is why bank totals never equal revenue.
The parent who paid the child care and had the child living with them claims it for that period. If you separated during the year, each parent claims what they paid while the child was in their care. Where parents live apart for the whole year and share the child, each claims their own payments, and the usual rule that the lower-income spouse must claim does not apply. Keep receipts showing the caregiver's name and social insurance number.
About two weeks for a return filed online, once the CRA has processed it. Direct deposit is the fastest way to receive it. A non-resident return can take up to 16 weeks. Your refund can also be held if the CRA reviews a claim, asks for receipts, or applies it against another balance you owe, including support or student-loan amounts. Track the status in My Account.
There is no single CRA number. Individuals are identified by their social insurance number, a business by its business number with program accounts added for GST/HST, payroll or corporate tax, and a trust by its trust account number. Register a business number through Business Registration Online, by phone, or automatically when you incorporate federally. If you meant a telephone line instead, the CRA lists its enquiry numbers by topic on canada.ca.
An RRSP contribution is a deduction, so it lowers taxable income and saves tax at your marginal rate: the higher your top bracket, the more each dollar contributed is worth. Lower net income can also lift income-tested benefits. Each year's new room is 18% of prior-year earned income, capped at that year's dollar limit — $32,490 for 2025 and $33,810 for 2026 — then reduced by any pension adjustment; unused room carried forward from earlier years is added on top of that cap, so banked room can put your total well above the annual limit. You may contribute now and claim the deduction in a later, higher-income year.
HST is one tax with two components: the 5% federal GST part plus a provincial part. Ontario's 13% is 5% federal and 8% provincial. New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Prince Edward Island are 15%, being 5% plus 10%. Nova Scotia is 14% from 1 April 2025, being 5% plus 9%. You charge and report the single combined rate on one GST/HST return, and the CRA shares the revenue with the province.
Yes, it can. The CRA contacts employers directly in a payroll review or audit, to confirm employment and earnings reported on a T4, or to serve a requirement to pay that garnishes wages when a personal tax debt is unpaid and collection steps have started. It will not discuss the details of your personal return with your employer. If you owe, arranging payment with the CRA first usually stops that step.
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Udit Gupta has over 15 years of experience helping corporations and business owners with corporate structuring, corporate tax filing, bookkeeping, payroll, GST/HST, cross-border tax and CRA representation. He is Big 4 trained, at Ernst & Young and Deloitte, and qualified as a chartered accountant in India and again in Malaysia. In 2014 he founded his accounting practice to serve entrepreneurs, startups and non-resident business owners across Canada. View full member bio.
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India — member 521458 · Malaysian Institute of Accountants — member CA 44667 · Ex Big 4: Ernst & Young, Deloitte · CPA Canada (In-Depth Tax Program), completed 19 Dec 2023 · In-Depth GST/HST Part I, 12 Jul 2022 · Part II, 5 Jul 2023
Editorial policy. Every page is researched against primary sources — the Income Tax Act, CRA publications and CPA Canada guidance — and every rate or threshold is stated with the tax year it applies to.
Sources. CRA — Trust income tax · Income Tax Act (Justice Laws Website)
