Section 164

Subsection 164(1.2)

Cases

Canada (National Revenue) v. 0741449 B.C. Ltd., 2016 FC 530

An individual (“Consiglio”) his wife was the sole director and shareholder of the respondent corporation, whose assets consisted of several...

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Subsection 164(1) - Refunds

Cases

Clover International Properties Ltd. v. Canada (AG), 2013 DTC 5116 [at 6132], 203 FC 676

The taxpayer had an overpayment of tax in its 1996 taxation year, and did not file its T2 return within three years of the end of 1996. Although...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 221.2 - Subsection 221.2(1) 185

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. v. MNR, 2001 DTC 5125 (FCTD)

The taxpayer had filed income tax returns reporting Part XIV tax payable, its returns were assessed as filed, and it did not file Notices of...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 219 - Subsection 219(2) 56

See Also

The Queen v. Erasmus, 92 DTC 6301 (FCA)

Pratte J.A. stated (pp. 6304-6305):

"Until an assessment is made, therefore, a court may not order the refund of the sums paid as income tax...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 152 - Subsection 152(8) 37

Beryl Mary Hughes v. Her Majesty The Queen, 91 DTC 5290, [1991] 1 CTC 492 (FCTD)

The taxpayer filed tax returns beyond the time period referred to in s. 164(1)(b) seeking a refund of a portion of the source deductions remitted...

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Administrative Policy

15 June 2015 Internal T.I. 2015-0583081I7 - Refund Request - Normal Reassessment Period

In clarifying the indication in 2012-0468081I7 that "where a refund request is based on issues that are covered by a valid waiver, a refund may be...

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18 November 2014 TEI Roundtable, Q. E.4

Where a corporation has been formally dissolved and has an "overpayment," the CRA may refuse to issue a refund, whereas if it has a a balance of...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 88 - Subsection 88(1) refund re dissolved sub 102

CBAO National Commodity Tax, Customs and Trade Section – 2014 GST/HST Questions for Revenue Canada, Q. 7

It appears that these refunds are being withheld when an audit is about to take place even if the returns have been filed and duly paid. Is this...

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Tax Topics - Excise Tax Act - Section 229 - Subsection 229(1) discretion to delay refund if pending audit 106

5 November 2014 External T.I. 2014-0538901E5 - Refund Sought/Notices of Objection, ss. 164(1)

A non-resident corporation, which had not filed any T2 returns (notwithstanding having been subject to Reg. 105 withholding), was assessed under...

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15 March 2013 Internal T.I. 2012-0468081I7 - Paragraph 164(1)(b)

Does s. 164(1)(b) permit a refund to be made where a taxpayer has filed a valid waiver to allow a reassessment beyond the normal reassessment...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 152 - Subsection 152(4) - Paragraph 152(4)(a) - Subparagraph 152(4)(a)(ii) refund request not related to issues in waiver issues 119

8 October 2008 Internal T.I. 2008-0269581I7 - statute-barred refund

The corporate taxpayer requested that CRA exercise its discretion under any of ss. 220(2.1), 220(3) and 221.2(1) to refund an overpayment where...

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Words and Phrases
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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 164 - Subsection 164(1.5) "may" establishes CRA discretion 128
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 220 - Subsection 220(2.1) request to extend filing deadline 70
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 220 - Subsection 220(3) request to extend filing deadline 70
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 221.2 - Subsection 221.2(1) request to re-appropriate 88

7 June 2012 Internal T.I. 2012-0435561I7 - Refunds on Post-Bankruptcy Returns

An individual becomes a bankrupt part-way through a year. In his return for his post-bankruptcy part year (commencing under s. 128(2)(d)(i) on...

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Subsection 164(1.1) - Repayment on objections and appeals

Cases

Topol v. MNR, 2003 DTC 5343 (FCTD)

Layden Stevenson J. found that the correct standard of judicial review under s. 18.1 of the Federal Court Act of a decision of the Minister under...

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Subsection 164(1.5) - Exception

Administrative Policy

8 October 2008 Internal T.I. 2008-0269581I7 - statute-barred refund

In disagreeing with the taxpayer's submission "that subsection 164(1.5) is not really a discretionary provision but essentially gives individuals...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 164 - Subsection 164(1) request to extend filing deadline or re-appropriate 106
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 220 - Subsection 220(2.1) request to extend filing deadline 70
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 220 - Subsection 220(3) request to extend filing deadline 70
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 221.2 - Subsection 221.2(1) request to re-appropriate 88

Subsection 164(2) - Application to other debts

Administrative Policy

18 July 2013 External T.I. 2013-0483031E5 - Applying Income Tax Refund to Security for GST

In indicating that a non-resident's failure to post security under s. 240(6) of the ETA did not create a liability so that subsection 164(2) of...

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27 September 2011 Internal T.I. 2010-0389171I7 - Reassessment of a Bankrupt Taxpayer

After the taxpayer's return for 2006 was assessed on April 27, 2007 on a basis that showed a refund was owing to the taxpayer for that year, the...

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85 C.R. - Q.32

Although s. 164(2) does not apply to the request of a taxpayer, RC will honour a taxpayer's request to transfer an overpayment to a subsequent...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 161 - Subsection 161(2) 34

Subsection 164(2.01) - Withholding of refunds

Administrative Policy

18 July 2013 External T.I. 2013-0483031E5 - Applying Income Tax Refund to Security for GST

After noting that in order to post security pursuant to 240(6) of the ETA, a non-registrant is required to complete and return Form GST 114...

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Subsection 164(3) - Interest on refunds and repayments

Cases

Imperial Oil Resources Ventures Limited v. Canada (Attorney General), 2014 DTC 5113 [at 7275], 2014 FC 839

In response to an increase in royalty charges by the Albertan government for the rights to oil sands, the federal government issued the Syncrude...

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Portage Tax Services v. The Queen, 82 DTC 6104, [1982] CTC 95 (FCTD)

The overpayments on which interest runs include rights to refunds which a discounter has acquired pursuant to the Tax Rebate Discounting Act, and...

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Administrative Policy

IT-155R3 "Exemption from Non-resident Tax on Interest Payable on Certain Bonds, Debentures, Notes, Hypothecs or Similar Obligations"

The exemption in s. 212(1)(b)(ii)(C) is not applicable to refund interest.

Subsection 164(3.1) - Idem [Interest on refunds and repayments]

Cases

Interprovincial Steel and Pipe Corp. v. The Queen, 86 DTC 6583, [1986] 2 CTC 473 (FCA)

Prior to the enactment of s. 164(3.1), there was no basis for the Minister to collect interest in the circumstances described therein.

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 152 - Subsection 152(1) 30

Subsection 164(4.1) - Duty of Minister

Cases

Trzop v. Canada, 2002 DTC 6728, 2001 FCA 380

The taxpayer had acquired debt with a nominal adjusted cost base to it and successfully argued before the Supreme Court of Canada that subsequent...

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Indalex Ltd. v. The Queen, 86 DTC 6598, [1986] 2 CTC 482 (FCA)

The issuance of a fresh reassessment by the Minister pursuant to s. 164(4.1)(d) does not have the effect of nullifying the assessment from which...

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See Also

Hagedorn v. The Queen, 95 DTC 288 (TCC)

The Tax Court could not consider the appeal of the taxpayer from a reassessment of the Minister made pursuant to s. 164(4.1) given that such...

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Subsection 164(6) - Where disposition of property by legal representative of deceased taxpayer

Administrative Policy

S4-F8-C1 - Business Investment Losses

1.71 ... Where an estate realizes a business investment loss in its first tax year, the legal representative of the estate may elect under...

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2015 Ruling 2015-0569891R3 - Ss. 164(6) carry-back and post-mortem pipeline

One of the beneficiaries (“Child 2”), of a Canadian estate holding stepped-up (per s. 70(5)) shares of A Co (a Canadian portfolio investment...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 84 - Subsection 84(2) proceeds of share redemption (generating s. 164(6) carryback) allocated to U.S. beneficiary before pipeline for Cdn beneficiaries 711

12 February 2013 Internal T.I. 2012-0437211I7 F - NRT rules and subsection 164(6)

The estate of an individual, who was resident in Canada for more than 60 months, was deemed to be resident in Canada under s. 94. At the time of...

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25 February 2004 External T.I. 2004-005668

"When the total of the capital losses that are the subject of an election under subsection 164(6) and capital losses otherwise realized by the...

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15 May 1995 T.I. 950724 (C.T.O. "NR Estate - is 164(6) Limited to 'Tax Cnd Pty'?")

Where an estate is a non-resident of Canada, only a capital loss arising on the disposition of taxable Canadian property is eligible for carryback...

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Halifax Round Table, February 1994, Q. 27

RC will accept a T1 Adjustment Request to amend the terminal year T1 return in order to deduct a capital loss incurred by the deceased taxpayer's...

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30 November 1993 T.I. 932296 (C.T.O. "Executor's Year-Loss Carryback to Year of Debt Return")

Re whether prior to (1) the anniversary of the death of the deceased and (2) the winding-up of the estate, the executor has the right to wind-up a...

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24 November 1993 Internal T.I. 7-932553

Discussion of when shares are capital property of the estate as opposed to the beneficiaries, including a finding that a flow-through of dividends...

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91 C.R. - Q.42

If a capital loss is deemed to be nil as a result of s. 85(4), there is no capital loss to which the rules in s. 164(6) are applicable.

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 85 - Subsection 85(4) 31

January 4 1991 T.I. (Tax Window, No. 2, p. 7, ¶1182)

The phrase "notwithstanding any other provision of this Act" does not exclude the application of s. 85(4) or similar stop-loss rules. Accordingly,...

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12 September 1990 T.I. (Tax Window, Prelim. No. 1, p. 21, ¶1014)

Where property is held in joint tenancy and one of the joint tenants dies, the surviving joint tenant is not entitled to make the election under...

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IT-484R "Business Investment Losses" under "Deceased Taxpayers"

Where the estate realizes a business investment loss in its first taxation year, an election under s. 164(6)(c) may be utilized to have it...

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Articles

Chris Falk, Stefanie Morand, "Current Issues Forum: Pipeline Planning; Subsection 164(6) Circularity Issue; Eligible Dividend Designations", 2012 Ontario Tax Conference of Canadian Tax Foundation

Interaction of Subsections 40(3.6), 40(3.61) and 164(6) — the "Circularity" Issue

As discussed in more detail in the Moraitis/Kakkar Article,...

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David Louis, "164(6) - This Time in Context", Tax Topics No. 1595, 3 October 2002, p. 1.

Subsection 164(6.1) - Realization of deceased employees’ options

Administrative Policy

16 June 2014 STEP Roundtable, 2014-0523011C6 - STEP Roundtable 2014-7(1)(e)

After noting that s. 7(1)(e) did not apply if a deceased employee held unvested stock options because such options had no value immediately after...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 7 - Subsection 7(1) - Paragraph 7(1)(e) nil valuation of unvested options 99

30 October 2012 Ontario CTF Roundtable Q. 14, 2012-0462941C6 - 2012 Ontario CTF Q14 - Circularity with 164(6)

The query noted that when an estate elects under subsection 164(6) to apply a capital loss to the terminal return of the deceased, it is possible...

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21 December 2012 Internal T.I. 2009-0327221I7 - Paragraph 7(1)(e) - Death of a Taxpayer

After noting that a deceased employee would be deemed under s. 7(1)(e) to dispose of unexercised stock options at fair market value on death, and...

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Subsection 164(6.4)

Administrative Policy

21 December 2012 Internal T.I. 2009-0327221I7 - Paragraph 7(1)(e) - Death of a Taxpayer

CRA stated:

Where an employee stock option provides that the option is automatically cancelled on death of an employee, the value of the option...

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Subsection 164(7)

Cases

Imperial Oil Resources Limited v. Canada (Attorney General), 2016 FCA 139

In response to an increase in royalty charges by the Albertan government for the rights to oil sands, the federal government issued the Syncrude...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 171 - Subsection 171(1) Tax Court has no jurisdiction to hear an appeal on the computation of refund interest 347

See Also

McMillen Holdings Ltd. v. MNR, 87 DTC 585 (TCC)

The taxpayer, which had received a dividend refund, for its taxation year ended July 31, 1982, on August 22, 1983, appealed to the Tax Court...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 171 - Subsection 171(1) no jurisdiction to order payment of refund interest 325