A corporation has insufficient safe income in respect of its shares and, rather than making a s. 55(5)(f) designation, self-assesses itself for a capital gain to the extent of the insufficient safe income on hand? Is it permissible for it to self-assess the dividend received by it as proceeds of disposition?
CRA referred to Nassau Walnut, which found that a s. 55(5)(f) designation is not an election (and "is, in some respects, no different than the deduction provided under subsection 112(1)") and, more generally, referred to Brelco, Lamont and Kruco for the principle "that the safe income of a corporation should not be subject to double taxation when distributed as a dividend to another corporation." CRA then stated:
CRA's long standing practice is to apply subsection 55(2) only to the excess of the taxable dividend paid on a share over the safe income on hand attributable to that share, when issuing an assessment based on subsection 55(2).