A corporation owned by the appellant entered into an agreement with him in 1981 to sell vacant land to him for a purchase price of $185,000 with the agreement of purchase and sale being conditional upon the appellant and the corporation entering into a building contract under which the corporation would construct condominium units on the land. The transfer was registered in 1983 after building work had been completed.
Although the gross sale price for the conveyance was $185,000, the building contract constituted "part of the arrangement relating to the conveyance" and by virtue of the building contract arrangement a liability was assumed by the appellant as part of that arrangement. McKinlay J. noted that the Oxford English Dictionary defined "arrangement" as "a structure or combination of things for a purpose". Consequently, the total "value of the consideration" was $2,142,700 (i.e., including such liability).