immediately after

It was submitted that where a taxpayer transfers property to a corporation that is controlled by the taxpayer and shortly thereafter the taxpayer disposes of its shares in the transferee corporation to an arm's length purchaser, s. 85(4) and (5.1) would not apply because the taxpayer would not control the corporation within a relatively short time after the disposition and because the taxpayer would have indirectly disposed of the property to the purchaser.

By services, 28 November, 2015

In order to avoid Quebec mutation tax, the taxpayer transferred the assets of a business division to a newly-incorporated wholly owned subsidiary and then sold the shares of the subsidiary to a purchaser. The taxpayer was unsuccessful in arguing that these transactions should be viewed as an indivisible transaction or as two transactions that occurred simultaneously. Accordingly, the taxpayer was found to have controlled the subsidiary "immediately after" the transfer.