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Attribution rules
Legislation under which interest, dividends, or capital gains earned on assets you transfer to your spouse will be treated as your own for tax purposes.

 


Attribution Rules
A Canada Revenue Agency rule stating that an investor cannot avoid paying taxes at their marginal rate by transferring assets to other family members who have lower personal tax rates.
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Attribution Rules. A set of rules whereby income realized from an asset is credited to the person who previously owned the asset.
Auction. A sale that is to be accomplished by a process of requesting Bids for a business by a specified date.

Attribution rules are intended to prevent income splitting between members of a family in order to benefit from the progressive tax rates and apply only to property income earned on property transferred to a spouse or a minor child.

If the taxpayer has a 5% to 50% ownership, the taxpayer is requires including its proportionate share of gross receipts according to percentage of ownership. Attribution rules apply to indirect or direct ownership. Example: ...

ATTRIBUTION RULES -- Rules that create ownership by attributing stock to one party even though the shares are legally owned by another party; often called constructive ownership of stock.

See also: Expense, Tax shelter, Tax bracket, Saving, Cost of goods sold

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