Last week, the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) dismissed the Crown’s appeal in Canada v. Alta Energy Luxembourg S.A.R.L. (2021 SCC 49). In doing so, the SCC wrestled with important, timely, and politically contentious questions of domestic and international…
Authors: Alexander Demner, Tyler Berg, and Gloria Wang
The federal government released its 2021 budget on April 19, 2021. Coming in as the longest budget in Canadian history, Budget 2021 proposes a myriad of income tax…
The Tax Court’s decision in Landbouwbedrijf Backx B.V. v. Canada, 2021 TCC 2 is a reminder to taxpayers that just because their filing position in a tax return is accepted by the Minister of National Revenue (the “Minister”), it…
On May 19, 2020 the CRA published administrative relief (found here) for taxpayers who might otherwise be facing Canadian tax residency or cross-border issues as a result of travel restrictions imposed in light of the COVID-19 crisis. Certain potential tax…
Yesterday, the CBC reported that the CRA has transferred more than 1.6 million Canadian banking records to the United States Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) since an information sharing agreement was entered into between the two countries in 2014. The…