Legislative Proposals And Explanatory Notes On Taxpayer Migration

The first part of this publication contains proposed amendments to the federal Income Tax Act related to taxpayers who immigrate or emigrate. The second part provides explanatory notes to the proposed amendments. The amendments pertain to such matters as emigrants' stock options, inventory valuation, computation of income, capital losses, changes in use of property, adjustments to cost base, tax deductions, successor rules, part-year residents, non-residents' taxable income in Canada, disposition of property, credit for tax paid, foreign tax credits, changes in residence, instalment interest, returning former residents, post-emigration losses, mutual fund corporations, reassessments, security for departure tax, and definitions of terms.

Contains draft legislative proposals, with explanatory notes appended, to amend the federal Income Tax Act, to implement measures that are consequential on changes to the Canada-US Tax Convention of 1980, and to amend the Income Tax Conventions Interpretation Act, the Old Age Security Act, and the War Veterans Allowance Act. The proposals relate to sections of the acts dealing with such matters as amounts owing by non-residents, expenses, tax credits, corporate immigration, savings plans, filing of returns, definitions of terms, and United States tax refunds.

This publication contains the following four parts: A model Competent Authority Agreement (CAA) for the automatic exchange of CRS information; the Common Reporting Standard; the Commentaries on the CAA and the CRS; and the CRS XML Schema User Guide.