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Calculating General Rate Reduction - ANSWER ✔✔GRR is for
income that is not already benefiting from the SBD and is reduced by
passive investment income (Aii)
It is 13% x (Taxable income - Income eligible for the SBD - Aii)
Calculating Part I Additional Refundable Tax (ART) - ANSWER
✔✔This is an addback increasing the tax you pay. It is meant to make
the corporate tax rate on investment income higher than the personal tax
rate on investment income earned directly by an individual.
,It is calculated by:
10 2/3% x lesser of:
a) Aii included in taxable income
b) Taxable income less the amount eligible for the SBD
Calculating Part IV Tax - ANSWER ✔✔Tax on dividends calculated as
follows:
Sum of:
a) 38 1/3% of dividends received from non-connected taxable Canadian
corporations
b) Investors share of the dividend refund received by connected
corporation paying the dividend (
Specific Schedule 1 adjustment - Financing Expenses - ANSWER
✔✔Costs incurred for the purposes of issuing shares or borrowing
money are deductible on a straight-line basis over five years.
,If included in accounting net income, addback and deduct 1/5 of the
cost.
Specific Schedule 1 adjustment - Reserves - ANSWER ✔✔Reserves
are not permitted to be deducted (special circumstances with Bad debt)
Warranties are an example of reserves. Only the cash paid in the year is
deductible.
Bad debts that are anticipated may be deductible but they must be
added back in the following year.
Leases are another reserve treated the same way as warranties
FILING Deadlines (corp/individual/terminal) - ANSWER
✔✔Corporation:
6 months after YE
Individual::
June 15th if taxpayer OR Spouse carried on a business
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, April 30th of following year if did not
Deceased:
Later of:
a) regular deadline
b) 6 months from the date of death
EX. If carried on a business but died March 8, 2024, their terminal return
would be April 30, 2025 for 2024 and then would need to do a regular
return for 2023 I think...
Tax Balance due dates for indiv/corp - ANSWER ✔✔Corp:
a) 2 mths after YE
b) 3 mths for CCPCs that claimed the SBD in CY or preceding year and
taxable income of PY did not exceed 500k
Indiv:
April 30 - regardless of if taxpayer carried on a business