The Court of Justice for the European Union (CJEU) recently invalidated a provision derived from the EU Directive informally known as DAC6 which requires lawyers to report their involvement in certain cross-border tax-planning arrangements to third parties. The provisions analyzed…
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 recently released an important decision regarding the relevance test for production of documents and information during discoveries. In Thompson Bros. (Constr.) Ltd. v. The Queen, 2021 TCC 15 (“Thompson Bros.”), the Tax Court was asked to…
On December 21, 2020, the Federal Court of Appeal (“FCA”) released its decision in Deyab v Canada, 2020 FCA 222 (“Deyab”), partly overturning the decision of the Tax Court of Canada (“TCC”). The FCA’s decision clarified that failing to…