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OBJECTIVE:
While the small business deduction reduces the amount of income tax for many corporations, the myriad of rules and regulations and recent changes has significantly expanded the complexity. These changes have substantially increased challenges for accessing the small business deduction, rendering it one of the most complex provisions in the Income Tax Act (ITA) that is commonly used by most practitioners.

The seminar covers the unique taxation issues that apply to groups of privately held companies and their access to the small business deduction.  It will outline the significant changes made in the past few years, including a detailed review of the association rules, reductions of the small business deduction limit, specified partnership income, specified corporate income rules for income streams, basic considerations for intercorporate dividends, and the impact of trusts in the corporate group. Mini cases and review questions will be used to highlight these concepts. 

The seminar does not include a review of Section 55, Safe Income or GST/HST as additional courses on these topics are available. 

WHO WILL BENEFIT:
Although this seminar benefits most tax professionals, the content specifically targets practitioners and accounting professionals involved with groups of privately held companies.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:
By the end of this course, participants should be able to:

• explain the basic types of relationships between corporations in the Income Tax Act (ITA),
• apply the related and associated corporation rules in the ITA to private corporate group structures,
• identify situations where the specified partnership income and specified corporate income rules will apply, and
• evaluate the impact of taxable capital and investment income on the available small business deduction.

CONTENT:

•  The SBD – requirements and basic rules
• SBD limit reductions – taxable capital and passive income
• Basic related, association and affiliated rules and their impacts, including deemed association
• The impact of partnerships in the group, including specified partnership income rules
• Specified corporate income rules
• Part IV tax between private corporations
• Use of trusts in the group

PREREQUISITES:
Participants should be familiar with existing tax rules in the ITA.