S. 130.1(6)(d) requires inter alia that a mortgage investment corporation have at least 20 shareholders. How is this test applied where a husband and wife hold a share as joint tenants (with rights of survivorship)?
After noting that under a joint tenancy, “the joint tenants have concurrent ownership and possession of the same property,” CRA stated:
[W]here two or more joint owners of a share of a corporation are considered one shareholder under relevant corporate law or are entitled to jointly receive any dividend paid on the share by the corporation, the joint owners of the share will generally be counted as one shareholder for purposes of paragraph 130.1(6)(d) … .