The taxpayer acquired a 100% undivided interest in a property (the "Quarter Claim") adjoining its "Golden Giant" mine subject to a 50% net profits royalty in favour of the vendor ("Teck/Corona"). In finding that the payment by the taxpayer of 50% of the net profits from the mining operations it conducted on the Quarter Claim did not entail a "reimbursement" by Teck/Corona for 50% of the mining taxes that the taxpayer paid as an expense of that operation, D'Arcy J. stated (at para. 77):
The allocation of revenue from the Golden Giant Mine to the calculation of the Quarter Claim Royalty was not payment of an amount by Teck/Corona. [The taxpayer] as the owner of the Golden Giant Mine (including the Quarter Claim) realized all revenue from mining the Golden Giant Mine. This revenue was not the revenue of Teck/Corona. Teck/Corona was only entitled to receive an amount as a royalty. Further, such royalty was only payable if the Royalty Account showed a credit balance.