carry on

In 2010, a Canadian corporation, which was a specified financial institution by virtue of being controlled by its parent, a Canadian insurance corporation, subscribed for 9,350,000 mandatory redeemable preferred shares of Luxco 1 (“MRPS” – subsequently, “Class A MRPS”) for US$935,000,000. Luxco 1 used those proceeds to make loans to US foreign affiliates for use in the corporate group’s US operations. In 2012, the MRPS and common shares of Luxco 1 were transferred on an s. 85(1) rollover basis to a Canadian subsidiary (XXXXXXXXXX).

By services, 28 November, 2015

In January and May 1984 the taxpayer, who was a resident of Switzerland, paid $150,000 to acquire six units in the Energy Research Group Unit Trust, in November 1984 he sold his six units to Energy Research Group Australia Ltd. for $300,000 to be satisfied by the issuance to him of 600,000 ordinary shares of that company, and in 1985, following a listing of the shares on the Australian Stock Exchange, he sold 252,000 of his shares for $566,307.