2019

Recently, the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal ruled, in a majority decision of 3 – 2, that the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act was constitutional.

Section 224 of the Excise Tax Act allows a supplier that has remitted GST/HST collectible from, but as yet unpaid by, a purchaser to sue that purchaser for the unpaid tax as if it were a debt owed to the supplier.

On May 10, 2019, the Canada Border Services Agency posted Customs Notice 19-08 “Final Safeguard Measures on the Importation of Certain Steel Goods.” Effective May 13, 2019, Canada will impose definitive safeguard duties on certain imported heavy plate and stainless steel wire for a period of three years.

In a unanimous decision delivered from the bench, the SCC recently reversed the decision of the Federal Court of Appeal in Canada v. Callidus Capital Corporation. The SCC agreed with the dissenting judge on the FCA panel that the original ruling of the Federal Court, dating from 2015, was correct.

MC carries on a property management services business. Between 2011 and 2013, MC entered into ten contracts with the owner(s) of various Ontario residential and commercial real properties.

Section 182 of the Excise Tax Act generally deems any payment made to a registrant as a consequence of a breach, modification, or cancellation of an agreement (other than as consideration for a supply), to be a taxable supply. This rule, in effect, means that a payment to a supplier by a recipient to compensate for a breach of an agreement to supply property or services, will generally be deemed to include GST/HST.

The Saskatchewan Ministry of Finance has reinstated a previously repealed provincial sales tax exemption on permanently mounted equipment used in the oil and gas industry. As a retroactive change, PST that had been paid on now-exempt equipment can be claimed back as refunds (as tax paid in error).

The Tax Court of Canada has dismissed a Canadian bank’s appeal in connection with GST/HST rebates for tax paid in error that were claimed by the bank.1

In a decision handed down on May 29, 2018, the Tax Court of Canada dismissed an appeal by a subsidiary of a leading Canadian bank to claim input tax credits for expenses attributable to certain exported supplies made by it to the bank’s branches located outside Canada.

When you’re negotiating a lump-sum settlement, it’s important to take GST/HST obligations into effect, says Jean-Guillaume Shooner in his review of Automodular Corporation v General Motors of Canada Limited, where the parties forgot to factor in taxes.