2015 Ruling 2014-0541951R3 - Foreign Affiliate Debt Dumping -- summary under Subsection 90(2)

A limited liability partnership (FA1) will pay a distribution proportionately to its partners who directly comprise (i) a limited partner corporation (Canco9), and (ii) a general partner which is a general partnership - whose partners on a s. 212.3(25) look-through basis are two other Canadian corporations in the same group (Canco7 and Canco8). The CRA ruling letter described the proportionate distribution as being deemed by s. 90(2) to be a dividend and ruled that the distribution will be considered to be received as a dividend in respect of a single class of shares of capital stock of FA1 by Canco7, 8 and 9 for the purposes of s. 212.3(9)(b)(ii) – A(B).