Archive for Category: Income Tax Planning

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Federal Court of Appeal Overturns Tax Court’s Decision and Vacates Gross-Negligence Penalties because the Canada Revenue Agency’s Evidence was Exclusively About the Taxpayer’s Spouse: Khanna v The Queen, 2022 FCA 84 – A Canadian Tax Lawyer’s Analysis

Penalties Canada’s tax statutes contain various penalties that seek to curb non-compliance. A gross-negligence penalty aims to punish a taxpayer whose conduct “involves a high degree of negligence tantamount to intentional acting, an indifference as to whether the law is complied with or not”: Venne v R., 84 DTC...

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Repeated Failure to File Income Tax Penalty

Repeated Failure to File Income Tax Penalty

Introduction – Repeated Failure to File Income Tax Penalty Under Canada’s income tax system, taxpayers are required to calculate, report and pay their taxes in accordance with the applicable deadlines. In particular, the deadline to file 2020 taxes is April 30th 2021 for individual taxpayers and June 15th 2021...

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