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Small Business: Year-end Tax Planning Tips


Loans to a Spouse

Subsections 74.1(1) and 74.3(1) of the Income Tax Act provide that where an individual has transferred or loaned property (including money) to the individual's spouse or to a trust in which that spouse is beneficially interested at any time, any income or loss from the property or property substituted for it is deemed to be the individual's income or loss for a taxation year.

In order to avoid these attribution rules, interest on the loan must be paid to your spouse by January 30, calculated at Revenue Canada's prescribed rates.

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