NEW BUDGET TWEAKS INDIRECT TAX RULES
BUDGET 2025 HARD TO CELEBRATE BUT PROPOSES SOME GOOD INDIRECT TAX CHANGES
Canada's Budget 2025 was launched on November 4th with the energy of a lead balloon. Despite the doom and gloom focus on the continuing deficit financing by the Liberal Government – off-loading our current woes on the backs of our children and grandchildren – there were some (largely) positive changes from an Indirect Tax perspective.
The highlights, in our view, are as follows.
With the New Year approaching, GST/HST registrants should be aware of a number of GST/HST compliance requirements for 2015, the more notable of which include as follows.
The CRA's treatment of "bare trusts" has been problematic from the first days of the GST.
When the GST was first implemented in January 1991, the CRA was initially advising bare trustees of bare trusts (trusts that operating at the behest of their beneficiaries, and where the trustee has no independent authority other than following express directions of the beneficiaries) that it was the bare trustee that was viewed as the supplier for GST purposes, and the person required to register for GST purposes. This position was changed in mid-1992, when the CRA flipping its position, and now advising that bare trustees were not allowed to register, and that the beneficiaries of these bare trusts were the one's required to register.
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