FA1 (wholly-owned by Canco) transfers all of the shares of FA2 to another non-resident subsidiary of FA1, viz., a non-share corporation (“FA3”), as a capital contribution, i.e., no new member interests are issued by FA3. S. 93.2(3)(a) deems FA3 to have issued shares to FA1 in respect of the transfer if the fair market value of a class of its shares (i.e., the FMV of its membership interest) is increased as a result of the transfer.
CRA noted that, as a technical matter, s. 93.2(3)(a) does not appear to go quite far enough so as to permit the particulars of the rollover formula in s. 95(2)(c) to be filled in. However, CRA went on to find that despite these “textual challenges,” the s. 95(2)(c) rollover would be available provided that the fair market value of the membership interest in FA3 increased by the FMV of the contributed shares.