Pub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.32721/ctj.2024.72.1.pfp
Novaira Khan, Amy Dodds, Yan Lu, Sean McGroarty
Les gains fortuits tirés de jeux en ligne ont connu un essor sans précédent au cours des dernières années, notamment en raison de la légalisation des jeux d'argent en ligne et des paris sur une seule épreuve sportive. Des arrêts récents ont créé de l'incertitude quant à la distinction entre les activités récréatives personnelles et les activités professionnelles dans l'industrie des jeux numériques. Cet article explore ce qui différencie les gains fortuits tirés d'une activité de jeu en ligne considérée comme récréative ou professionnelle, et examine si ces gains sont en fin de compte imposables.
{"title":"Planification fiscale personnelle : Les gains fortuits tirés de jeux en ligne — sachez reconnaître vos chances quand la maison de jeux est l'Agence de revenu du Canada","authors":"Novaira Khan, Amy Dodds, Yan Lu, Sean McGroarty","doi":"10.32721/ctj.2024.72.1.pfp","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32721/ctj.2024.72.1.pfp","url":null,"abstract":"Les gains fortuits tirés de jeux en ligne ont connu un essor sans précédent au cours des dernières années, notamment en raison de la légalisation des jeux d'argent en ligne et des paris sur une seule épreuve sportive. Des arrêts récents ont créé de l'incertitude quant à la distinction entre les activités récréatives personnelles et les activités professionnelles dans l'industrie des jeux numériques. Cet article explore ce qui différencie les gains fortuits tirés d'une activité de jeu en ligne considérée comme récréative ou professionnelle, et examine si ces gains sont en fin de compte imposables.","PeriodicalId":375948,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Tax Journal/Revue fiscale canadienne","volume":"44 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140788918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.32721/ctj.2024.72.1.awards
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Pub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.32721/ctj.2024.72.1.pf.latulippe
Lyne Latulippe
Ethics play a significant role in a critical assessment of tax practice, but ethical standards on their own have a rather limited influence on tax-planning decisions; therefore, transparency is a necessary tool. Tax planning has traditionally been driven by cost-benefit analysis and by a risk-management perspective. However, closer public scrutiny of corporate tax affairs and increased disclosure requirements have put pressure on tax-planning decisions, thus adding an ethical dimension to the risk-management perspective. Transparency is certainly essential in limiting the aggressiveness of tax planning, but its impact on ethics may be broader in providing an occasion to change the "moral meanings" in relation to tax-planning activities for those involved.
{"title":"Policy Forum: Transparency—An Essential Condition for Ethical Behaviour in Tax Planning","authors":"Lyne Latulippe","doi":"10.32721/ctj.2024.72.1.pf.latulippe","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32721/ctj.2024.72.1.pf.latulippe","url":null,"abstract":"Ethics play a significant role in a critical assessment of tax practice, but ethical standards on their own have a rather limited influence on tax-planning decisions; therefore, transparency is a necessary tool. Tax planning has traditionally been driven by cost-benefit analysis and by a risk-management perspective. However, closer public scrutiny of corporate tax affairs and increased disclosure requirements have put pressure on tax-planning decisions, thus adding an ethical dimension to the risk-management perspective. Transparency is certainly essential in limiting the aggressiveness of tax planning, but its impact on ethics may be broader in providing an occasion to change the \"moral meanings\" in relation to tax-planning activities for those involved.","PeriodicalId":375948,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Tax Journal/Revue fiscale canadienne","volume":"256 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140778330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.32721/ctj.2023.71.2.pfp
Luc Godbout, Natalie Hotte
En vigueur depuis le 1er avril 2023, le compte d'épargne libre d'impôt pour l'achat d'une première propriété (CÉLIAPP), instauré par le gouvernement fédéral, a pour objectif de favoriser l'accumulation d'épargne en vue de l'achat d'une première habitation. À la lumière des dispositions législatives, les auteurs détaillent les paramètres du CÉLIAPP et en font ressortir les particularités par comparaison avec les paramètres d'autres véhicules d'épargne existants, notamment le CÉLI et le REÉR.
{"title":"Planification fiscale personnelle : Les paramètres du nouveau compte d'épargne libre d'impôt pour l'achat d'une première propriété (CÉLIAPP)","authors":"Luc Godbout, Natalie Hotte","doi":"10.32721/ctj.2023.71.2.pfp","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32721/ctj.2023.71.2.pfp","url":null,"abstract":"En vigueur depuis le 1er avril 2023, le compte d'épargne libre d'impôt pour l'achat d'une première propriété (CÉLIAPP), instauré par le gouvernement fédéral, a pour objectif de favoriser l'accumulation d'épargne en vue de l'achat d'une première habitation. À la lumière des dispositions législatives, les auteurs détaillent les paramètres du CÉLIAPP et en font ressortir les particularités par comparaison avec les paramètres d'autres véhicules d'épargne existants, notamment le CÉLI et le REÉR.","PeriodicalId":375948,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Tax Journal/Revue fiscale canadienne","volume":"269 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132428564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.32721/ctj.2023.71.2.sym.boadway
Robin Boadway, J. Tremblay
Recent proposals for corporate tax reform in Canada call for changing the existing tax on shareholder income to a tax on rents or above-normal profits. A feasible option would be an allowance for corporate equity (ACE) system based on the territorial principle. Canada has agreed to the approach to international corporate tax reform developed by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, including the pillar two minimum tax proposal. We explore the compatibility of adopting pillar two with the ACE system. Several elements of pillar two would complement moving to an ACE system. Large multinational corporations would be liable for a top-up tax if their effective tax rates in any given jurisdiction fell below 15 percent. The effective tax rates and the top-up tax would both use the territorial approach and consolidated accounting. The top-up tax would be similar to a tax on excess profits. Pillar two might also mitigate tax competition and reduce the constraints that countries face in increasing their tax rates on excess profits. For these reasons, pillar two would facilitate moving to an ACE system. At the same time, the minimum tax would deter adoption of an ACE if the deduction for the cost of equity finance reduced the pillar two effective tax rate. On balance, pillar two would be compatible with proposed corporate tax reforms.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.32721/ctj.2023.71.2.fon
L. Godbout, Suzie St-Cerny
In this article, Luc Godbout and Suzie St-Cerny focus on the effects of enhancing the Canada workers benefit (CWB) in 2021. More specifically, they seek to determine whether, for couples in Ontario and Quebec, the enhancement served to render work more rewarding (by lowering effective marginal tax rates) and to provide better income support for low-income workers (by increasing disposable income). The authors show that, while the objective of income support was achieved, the results for the objective of work incentivization were mixed, depending largely on a couple's family income level and working income split. The authors suggest how the CWB might be reformed to better fulfill its role in incentivizing work.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.32721/ctj.2023.71.2.itp
R. Danon
The author analyzes the Supreme Court of Canada's judgment in Canada v. Alta Energy Luxembourg SARL in light of the rules of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT), including general principles of law such as good faith and legal certainty pursuant to the principle of systemic integration set out in article 31(3)(c) of the VCLT. The author concludes that the findings of the majority are correct as a matter of public international law.
根据《维也纳条约法公约》(VCLT)第31条第3款(c)项规定的系统整合原则,包括诚信和法律确定性等一般法律原则,笔者分析了加拿大最高法院对加拿大诉Alta Energy Luxembourg SARL一案的判决。作者的结论是,就国际公法而言,多数人的结论是正确的。
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.32721/ctj.2023.71.2.plekhanova
V. Plekhanova, C. Noonan
Drawing on narrative analysis developed by communications scholars, and applied by scholars of economics and international law and in policy analysis, this article studies action 1 of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD's) base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) project as a policy narrative. The authors outline the role of narrative in international tax policy making and evaluate the probability and the argumentative and material coherence of the OECD's story about the need to ensure the stability of the international tax framework and system. Focusing on the narrative strategy adopted by the OECD to promote its pillar one proposal, the authors assess the likely persuasiveness of the OECD's stability argument—in particular, how it may have influenced the response to the proposal by the members of the Inclusive Framework on BEPS. The authors conclude that the OECD's concern about potentially destabilizing effects of digital services taxes and similar taxes on the international income tax system propagates a global fiscal illusion, and may not sustain long-term support for pillar one by many members of the Inclusive Framework.
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