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you were between 18 and 24 years of age at the end of the year, and the amount you received is any of the following:
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your safe harbour capital return for the year
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an amount that represents a reasonable return from your arm's length capital contributions
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you were under 25 years of age at the end of the year and your income, or your taxable capital gain or profit from the disposition of property, was from a property you inherited from one of the following:
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your parent
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anyone else if, during the year, you were enrolled full-time in a post-secondary institution or you were eligible for the disability tax credit
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you were under 25 years of age at the end of the year, and you received any of the following:
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income or taxable capital gain from the disposition of excluded shares
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an amount that represents a reasonable return from a related business
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income, or taxable capital gain or profit from the disposition of property, if the amount would be an excluded amount of your spouse or common-law partner in one of the following situations:
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if the amount was included in calculating the income of your spouse's or common-law partner's who was at least 65 years of age at the end of the year
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if the amount was included in calculating the income in the final return of your spouse or common-law partner who died during the year
For more information, go to canada.ca/cra-income-sprinkling.
Definitions
Arm's length capital
Property of the specified individual, where the property, or property for which it is a substitute, was not:
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acquired as income from, or a taxable capital gain or profit from the disposition of, another property that was derived directly or indirectly from a related business in respect of the specified individual
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borrowed by the specified individual under a loan or other deb
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transferred, directly or indirectly, to the specified individual from a person who was related to the specified individual (other than as a consequence of the death of a person)
Excluded business
An excluded business of a specified individual for a tax year means a business in which the individual is actively engaged on a regular, continuous and substantial basis in the business activities during the year, or in any five previous years (five-year test). However, gains from the disposition of property will be an excluded amount because of the excluded business exception only if the individual satisfies the five-year test.
If the individual works in the business an average 20 hours per week or more during the portion of the year that the business operates, he is considered to have met the excluded business exception in the tax year. A specified individual does not need to work every week that the business operates in a year in order to satisfy the condition for the year. For example, the test would be satisfied if the specified individual works 30 hours per week for 20 weeks for a business that operates 25 weeks per year.
Excluded shares
Excluded shares of a specified individual are shares of the capital stock of a corporation that are owned by the individual if all of the following conditions are met:
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less than 90% of the business income of the corporation, for the corporation's last tax year before that time, is from the provision of services
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the corporation is not a professional corporation that carries on the professional practice of an accountant, dentist, lawyer, medical doctor, veterinarian or chiropractor
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the specified individual owns 10% or more of shares of the capital stock of the corporation, determined by reference to their FMV relative to all of the issued and outstanding shares of the capital stock of the corporation, and to the votes that could be cast at an annual meeting of the shareholders of the corporation
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the income of the corporation for the corporation's last tax year is not derived directly or indirectly from another related business in respect of the specified individual, other than a business of the corporation
Reasonable return
A particular amount derived directly or indirectly from a related business in respect of the specified individual that satisfies both of the following criteria:
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the amount would be an amount defined under "split income", on page 1, in respect of the specified individual for a tax year, if the following excluded amounts are not considered:
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the specified individual was between 18 and 24 years of age at the end of the year, and received an amount that represents a reasonable return in respect of their arm's length capital contributions
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the specified individual was at least 25 years of age at the end of the year, and received an amount that represents a reasonable return from a related business
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the amount is reasonable considering the relative contributions to the related business that were made by the specified individual, and each source individual in respect of the specified individual, having regard to the following factors:
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the work they performed in support of the related business
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the property they contributed, directly or indirectly, in support of the related business
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the risks they assumed in respect of the related business
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the total of all amounts that were paid or that became payable, directly or indirectly, by any person or partnership to, or for the benefit of them, in respect of the related business
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