Apus Theory, Part 1 PDF

Unreported Income
Not on a CRA T1 Form

Is not Always Tax Evasion

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by
Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Ph.D. Jr. (Caltech)

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Abstract

Private property “income” can only be reported by letter and not on a Canada Revenue
Agency (“CRA”) T1 form. Only “income” deemed by law to be Canada’s “public money” is
filed on a T1. CRA uses the SIN to identify individual taxpayers as two legal persons.

1 Summary
Over the last ten years or so Canadian courts have been full with people who claim that
they do not have to pay income tax. There are so many different theories that Associate
Chief Justice of Alberta wrote about this ‘movement’ in an 135-page obiter in the divorce
case Meads v. Meads 1 , calling such persons “Organized Pseudolegal Commercial
Argument [“OPCA”] Litigants”. Some argue the Income Tax Act “ITA” is unconstitutional,2
as they3 believe it to be a direct4 tax. Another theory is that due to common law’s human
right to private property5, a natural person is not included6 in the definition of “person” in
the ITA and so is an ITA “exempt person” (the courts ruled both positions to be incorrect).
Yet another theory is the ITA taxes an entity that the individual represents, but in the
Stanchfield7 case, the individual plaintiff failed to show how to create a second entity in a
fashion recognized by law, so such an individual was ruled to be indivisible. In a nutshell,
Crown’s position is that as the individual is indivisible and not an ITA “exempt person”, all
‘income’8 by such an indivisible individual is subject to, and taxable, by the ITA as ‘profit’,
which is also undefined by the ITA.
The ITA is legal and constitutional via an individual representing an office of Her Majesty as
an officer by forming a corporation sole. As the ITA taxes ‘profit’ from ‘income’, and
income for any office is profit, such “office profit9” is taxable. An individual who is not an
officer lacks the legal power to convert income into or to receive it as “office profit” (which
is also public money), receives instead private property as ITA “exempt income” which is
deemed to be equal to zero. This dual capacity allows the ITA to tax individuals as officers
while also protecting private property rights in compliance with Canada’s common law
principles and international human rights covenants. It also makes individual income tax an
indirect federal tax and therefore constitutional, as it is a tax on the “office profit” (public

1
Meads v. Meads, 2012 ABQB 571, Pages 15-150
2
See, for example, R. v. Klundert, 2004 CanLII 21268 (ON CA), http://canlii.ca/t/1hqhg, and subsequent
appeals still ongoing ten years later.
3
Most tax lawyers believe individual income tax is a direct tax; see, for example, lawyer Paul McKeever’s
web site: http://www.ownlife.com/tax/
4 See, for example, Kasvand v. The Queen, 94 DTC 6271; appeal refused, 95 DTC 5618
5
Libertarians take this position. See, for example, Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State and Utopia (New York:
Basic Books, 1974), where Nozick says: the taxation of labour income “is on a par with forced labor”—
resulting in the “(partial) ownership by others of people and their actions and labor” (page 169), and David
Duff, University of British Columbia (UBC), Faculty of Law, Private Property and Tax Policy in a
Libertarian World: A Critical Review, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=719742
6
Kennedy v. Canada (Customs & Revenue Agency), 2000 CanLII 22837 (ON SC), http://canlii.ca/t/1wd1t
Canada (National Revenue) v. Stanchfield, 2009 FC 99 (CanLII), http://canlii.ca/t/22g7x
7
There is no definition of ‘income’ or ‘profit’ in the Income Tax Act. For more see the Appendix.
8
9
See our definition of the phrase “office profit” in the Appendix.
2
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money) of Her Majesty’s federal office that the federal officer represents, and not a tax on
the private property income of an individual who is not an officer.
Since the ITA protects private property rights, the ITA can only deem and not mandate an
individual’s income to be public money for Her Majesty’s office, which must be reported
accurately and on time, as not to do so is analogous to a breach of trust by a public
officer 10 . However, if the deeming is rebutted, (which must be allowed since the ITA
protects private property rights), then the individual’s income not as such an officer is ITA
“exempt income” which ITA s.3(f) deems to be zero. There is no line on Canada Revenue
Agency’s (“CRA”) T1 forms11 to file such private property “exempt income” because a T1
uses the all-lower-case ‘social insurance number’ to indicate that it is only for filing the
public money of Her Majesty’s office (in contrast to the upper-and-lower case Social
Insurance Number that denotes one’s position as an ITA “legal representative”). This line
omission, and the ITA s.3(f) deeming such “exempt income” = 0, both prevent private
property from being illegally converted into public money on a T1 and thereby protects Her
Majesty’s honour 12 . That is why I propose that not reporting on CRA’s T1 form an
individual’s private property (ITA “exempt income”) is not always tax evasion.
2 Essential Elements of Tax Evasion: Crown’s Perspective

Outside the legal profession, tax evasion is commonly perceived as a failure to declare all
income. In the case of R. v. Balla13, Crown stated that the essential elements of tax
evasion are: jurisdiction, identity, time, location, actus reus (guilty act) of evasion (having
failed to file income tax returns) and mens rea (guilty mind) of evasion (failing to file knowing
that the evasion of taxes would be the result).

3 Essential Elements of Tax Evasion: A Fraud Against Public Money

I propose three essential elements for tax evasion are missing from Crown’s list in Balla.
It is useful to look at whom tax evasion is against, and what the status of the money is:

“As between tax avoidance (tax planning) and tax evasion, only the latter is a criminal offence.
Tax evasion at its core perpetuates an element of fraud against the treasury and typically carried
out through some form of concealment or deceit with the intent to evade or defeat a tax or
payment of the tax.” – Tax Evasion14, Page 1-10
Financial Administration Act, s.2: “public money means all money belonging to Canada…”
Financial Administration Act, s.2: “Consolidated Revenue Fund means the aggregate of all
public moneys that are on deposit at the credit of the Receiver General”

10
Financial Administrative Act (“FAA”) s.2 “public officer”: http://canlii.ca/t/52jt4
CRA’s T1 forms are archived by CRA at: http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/formspubs/t1gnrl/llyrs-eng.html
11
12
Manitoba Metis Federation Inc. v. Canada (Attorney General), 2013 SCC 14 highlighted the concept of
“honour of the Crown”: http://canlii.ca/t/fwfft
13
R. v. Balla, 2009 BCPC 136, at [59], www.canlii.ca/t/241fc
14
Tax Evasion, William Innes, http://carswell.com/product-detail/tax-evasion/
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From above, two characteristics of tax evasion are that 1) it is a fraud15 2) against the
treasury with Canada’s public money. In Canada, that is the Consolidated Revenue Fund
(“CRF”), where taxes, fines and penalties under the ITA are paid into and benefits are paid
out of. It is clear that the CRF is not private property.
Fraud is a legal remedy against someone taking public money for private use, or private
property for public use. A FAA s.2 “public officer”, an agent of Her Majesty16 that has been
alleged to embezzle public money for personal use is charged under Criminal Code of
Canada17 (“CCC”) s.122:

s.122. Breach of Trust by Public Officer - Every official who, in connection with the duties of
his office, commits fraud or a breach of trust is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to
imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years, whether or not the fraud or breach of trust
would be an offence if it were committed in relation to a individual.
CCC s.122 states “whether or not the fraud or breach of trust would be an offence if it
were committed in relation to a private person”. As an individual owns private property, this
corroborates that private property is distinct from public money. Here is a CRA press
release on one of their agents guilty18 of ‘Breach of Trust by Public Officer’:

Former CRA Employee Sentenced for Fraud and Breach of Trust
TORONTO, ONTARIO (Marketwire - Nov. 29, 2007) - Pertab Lall, of Mississauga, pleaded
guilty in the Ontario Court of Justice in Brampton on June 18, 2007, to one count of fraud over
$5,000, and one count of breach of trust by a public officer. Today, he was sentenced to 18
months in jail.
Mr. Lall, who was an employee of the CRA at the time the offences took place (1999-2002),
accessed the tax accounts of 17 deceased individuals. The accounts were reactivated for the
purpose of filing fraudulent income tax returns and making Canada Child Tax Benefit claims.
This resulted in the CRA issuing approximately $150,945 in refunds to post office boxes, and
bank accounts through direct deposit, belonging to Mr. Lall.

The third essential element comes from the ITA deeming19 that all income by an individual
taxpayer is received as an officer for Her Majesty’s office identified by the “social insurance

15
Tax evasion became a predicate offence (a crime that is a component of and results in a more serious
offence) to fraud on July 12, 2010: http://www.parl.gc.ca/content/sen/committee/411%5CBANC/12EV-
49362-e.HTM, testimony before a Senate Committee by Claude St-Pierre, Director General, Enforcement
and Disclosures Directorate, Compliance Programs Branch, Canada Revenue Agency, page 12-9.
Taxpayers charged with tax evasion can now also be charged with fraud under the Criminal Code.
16
Her Majesty legally personifies the public in Canada: Citizenship and Immigration Canada (2009).
Discover Canada. Ottawa: Queen's Printer for Canada. p. 2.
17
Criminal Code, RSC 1985, C-46, s.122 http://canlii.ca/t/5298l
18
R. v. Lall, [2007] O.J. No. 5213 (Ont S.C.J.) (Unreported decision)
19 nd
The Composition of Legislation, 2 Ed., Driedger, 1976, Department of Justice Ottawa: “Deemed:
Used to establish legal fictions. For a statutory purpose it is often necessary to deem a thing to be
something it is not.” The ITA uses the word “deem” 3,681 times – or about four times every three pages.
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number” styled all in lower case, or, as Canada’s public money and not as the individual’s
private property. If such an individual converts Canada’s public money for private use, it
would be theft by conversion, a CCC offence20.
There seems to be a legal similarity between ‘Breach of Trust by a Public Officer’ and tax
evasion/fraud, which earlier was defined also as an individual who has taken public money
for private use. It seems that for tax evasion/fraud to occur:
1) The individual is deemed by the ITA to be an ITA “officer” of Her Majesty,

2) That ITA “officer” somehow is identified from other public officers of Her Majesty,
3) That officer somehow has fiduciary duties to the public (personified by Her Majesty),
4) That officer is in breach of its fiduciary duties handling public money of that office.
4 Essential Elements of Tax Evasion/Fraud: The First Two Missing Elements

If the individual declines to receive public money as an officer of Her Majesty, the individual
then has no fiduciary duties to the public to breach. This is the second essential element
for tax evasion that Crown assumes and does not prove in court - even if the accused is
also charged with fraud. It seems the first two missing essential elements of tax evasion
that Crown deems are:

1) Crown deems the ‘income’ received in the taxpayer’s hands is public money and is
not the individual’s private property.
2) Crown deems the individual consents to be an ITA “officer” dealing with Canada’s
public money, and so has certain fiduciary duties to the public.
I will show how the four items above can occur, and then result in tax evasion.

5 Officer Deals with Public Money; is also Agent of Her Majesty
From Chapter 3, individual taxpayers often deal with public money because taxes, fines,
penalties, tax credits and benefits, such as Employment Insurance (“EI”) and Canada
Pension Plan (“CPP”) all flow in and out of the CRF. An office that deals with public money
is a “public office” 21 . When such an office is lawfully occupied, a fiduciary duty is
established against the officer owed to the public at large since it is a trustee of the people
as an agent of Her Majesty. Therefore, if an individual consents to be an officer of Her
Majesty, it also becomes Her Majesty’s agent and deals with public money and not private
property. Justice Kovatch corroborates this in HMTQ v. Doug Amell et al22, saying that

20
Criminal Code of Canada, s.322(1): http://www.canlii.org/en/ca/laws/stat/rsc-1985-c-c-
46/latest/#sec322subsec1
21
Black’s Law Dictionary, 4th Ed. “Public office – public property is under control of the office.” This fits
with the FAA s.2 definition of “public officer”.
22
HMTQ v. Doug Amell et al 2010 SKPC 107, at [50]: www.canlii.ca/t/2c05t
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such an officer is a “statutory agent identified with a social insurance number”. A CRA
audit is arguably one agent of Her Majesty (CRA) auditing23 another agent of Her Majesty.
To further corroborate that an individual taxpayer could become Her Majesty’s agent as it
deals with public money instead of private property, the following is CRA’s P-182R24
Policy Statement on the indicators that a principal-agent relationship exists:

CRA P-182R: Fiduciary Duty

“The agent must act in the best interests of the principal and may not put its own
interests before those of the principal. Where the agent is in a position in which its
interests conflict with those of the principal, the agent is obliged to fully disclose that
conflict to the principal.”
Translation (if a statutory agent identified with a ‘social insurance number’):
The officer/agent must act in the best interests of Her Majesty and may not put its own
interests before those of Her Majesty. Where the officer/agent is in a position in which
its interests conflict with those of Her Majesty, the officer/agent is obliged to fully
disclose that conflict to Her Majesty.
CRA P-182R: Filing of Returns

“In an agency relationship, the principal exerts a degree of control over the agent.
Evidence of that control could include the requirement for the agent to obtain approval to
incur certain expenses or the requirement for the agent to provide ongoing reports.”

If an agency relationship, Her Majesty exerts a degree of control over the officer/agent.
Evidence of that control could include the requirement for the officer/agent to obtain
approval to incur certain expenses or the requirement for the officer/agent to file returns
(i.e. T1, T2125, T2).
CRA P-182R: Filing Honestly and Completely

“One of the ways in which an agent’s fiduciary duty serves to restrict the agent’s actions
concerns secret profits. Except with the consent of the principal, an agent is not permitted
to receive any financial advantage in excess of that which the agent is entitled to as
remuneration.”

23
Since both are agents of Her Majesty, CRA can arbitrarily assess if the individual officer/agent fails to
file. See Chapter 32, “Assessment versus ITA “Assessment”, “Re-Assessment”, and “(Re)assessment”.
24
GST/HST Policy Statement on Agency, P-182R, Canada Revenue Agency, http://www.cra-
arc.gc.ca/E/pub/gl/p-182r/README.html. While this CRA Policy Statement is for GST, the principles and
duties of an agency relationship should be the same for non-GST matters.
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One of the ways in which an officer/agent’s fiduciary duty serves to restrict the officer
/agent’s actions concerns secret profits. Except with the consent of Her Majesty, an
officer/agent is not permitted to omit filing “public money” for Her Majesty’s office,
which the officer/agent is entitled to, under the ITA, as remuneration (after taxes are paid).
CRA P-182R: Audit Representations

“If an agency relationship, the principal will authorize the agent to provide representation
on the principal’s behalf. Consequently, whether it is agency should be evident from the
purported agent arranging transactions for the principal and not trading on its own
account.”
If an agency relationship, Her Majesty will authorize the officer/agent to provide

representation (i.e. CRA audits and appeals) on Her Majesty’s behalf (for Her office).
Consequently, whether it is agency should be evident from the purported agent/officer
arranging transactions for Her Majesty’s office and not trading on its own account.
Based on the above characteristics from CRA’s P-182R Policy Statement that point to a
principal-agent relationship, one could conclude that an individual as an officer of Her
Majesty is also an agent of Her Majesty. However, being an officer is also essential to the
ITA as officers gain legal powers and owe legal duties that individuals of full capacity do
not possess, nor are liable for.
6 Officer: Has Legal Powers and Duties Absent from Individual
The CCC uses the phrase “private person” only twice: as seen earlier in Chapter 3 under
s.122, ‘Breach of Trust by a Public Officer’, and in s.25(1) below:

Criminal Code of Canada, s.25(1): Protection of Persons Acting Under Authority:
25. (1) Every one who is required or authorized by law to do anything in the administration or
enforcement of the law
(a) as a private person,
(b) as a peace officer or public officer,
(c) in aid of a peace officer or public officer, or
(d) by virtue of his office, …
is, if he acts on reasonable grounds, justified in doing what he is required or authorized to do and
in using as much force as is necessary for that purpose.

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CCC s.25(1) clearly shows that a private person is distinct from an officer. As an office
invokes certain legal powers and duties, the officer gains those legal powers and duties
that an individual does not have nor is liable for. For example, a CRA officer has the power
to look at anyone’s tax filings; a judge (court officer) has immunity from libel and slander in
his court rulings; a prosecutor (court officer) is mostly immune from prosecution. Police
forces swear in police dogs as police officers to give them the same legal protection25
given to human police officers. All four officers here have a duty to serve Her Majesty since
she legally personifies all Canadians26. That is why all the officers have to swear an oath of
office to Her Majesty – even if that means having to help the police dog put his paw on the
Bible during the swearing-in ceremony27.
As we will see later in Chapter 12, one legal power of an office is the ability to convert any
consideration into what I define in the Appendix as “office profit”. If such an officer of that
office is also handling public money, it also has, as we saw earlier in Chapter 5, a fiduciary
duty to report accurately and on time all the public money in its hands. It is allowed (as a
privilege of the office) via Canada’s implied consent to use that public money for private
use, minus the income tax paid for using the office. All these legal powers and duties of
this office are absent for an individual of full capacity. However, (as we will see later), since
the ITA deems all individuals to be such an officer, CRA deems all individuals to have the
legal powers, privileges, and duties attached to that office, such as that office’s property is
Canada’s public money and not the individual’s private property.
7 Corporations: Aggregate or Sole
There are two main categories of persons in law: natural or private persons, and artificial
persons. Since we just saw in the CCC that a private person is distinct from an officer, it
follows that an officer must be an artificial person 28 , who are further subdivided into
aggregate artificial persons, such as limited companies, trusts, non-profit societies, and
foundations, etc., and sole artificial persons, or corporations sole (see diagram, “Persons
in Law”).
The first example of a corporation sole is His or Her Majesty in Right of Canada, as per
the case of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation29:

25
Canada has now given police dogs more legal protection with the proposed Quanto’s Law:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/quanto-s-law-brings-closure-after-police-dog-s-death-say-
police-1.2125668. Subsection 445.01 of the Criminal Code has been added to give them the same
protection as human police officers: https://openparliament.ca/bills/41-2/C-35/.
26
Her Majesty legally personifies the public in Canada: Citizenship and Immigration Canada (2009).
Discover Canada. Ottawa: Queen's Printer for Canada. p. 2.
27
http://www.newsnet5.com/news/local-news/oh-cuyahoga/garfield-heights-two-welcome-two-new-k-9-
officers.
28
Principles of Contract, 6th Ed., Sir Frederick Pollock, p. 107: “Officer: The Roman invention, adopted
and largely developed in modern law, of constituting the official character of the holders for the time being
of the same office, … into an artificial person… of legal capacities and duties."
The Queen v. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, [1957] O.J. No. 655
29
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Persons in Law
Corporation sole as office/officer
Natural
or
private
persons Aggregate artificial
persons
Persons (Corporations, trusts,
in law societies,foundations)
Artificial
persons
Sole artificial
persons
(Corporations sole as
Office/Officers)
13 The position which the King and his prerogative held in the common law is summarized in
Blackstone's Commentaries. In the 16th and early 17th centuries the law invested the King with a
political capacity as well as a natural capacity.
35 …When Parliament names Her Majesty in a statute means Her Majesty, not in her capacity as
a natural person but in her capacity as a corporation sole, a persona ficta (artificial person).
In Regina v. Porisky & Gould30, the Court noted:

[46] The law has long recognised the distinction between a natural person and an artificial
person, such as a corporation. And it has recognised a corporation sole which applies to an
office, such as a bishop.
However, a corporation sole is not restricted to just queens, kings or bishops, as per this
1917 Alberta court case:

‘If the original district bodies corporate continue, then it appears that it would be this single
trustee who, being clothed with all the powers and subject to all the responsibility of the
preceding Board of Trustees who were the body corporate, is to be now considered as the ‘body
corporate’. It looks as if we had here another example of a ‘corporation sole’ i.e. of one single
person being ex officio a corporate body, a thing hitherto perhaps only exemplified in the King or
Bishop.’ - Arnegard v. Board of Trustees31

30
R. v. Porisky and Gould, 2012 BCSC 657, http://canlii.ca/t/fppg9
31
Arnegard v. Board of Trustees of the Barons Consolidated School District, Alberta, 1917, page 306
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Since this court ruled it is false that only queens and clergy can form a corporation sole,
and we are familiar with lawyers, judges and prosecutors (all court officers) and police
officers, and since Her Majesty who has dual individual capacity is the legal equivalent of all
Canadians, it is obvious that Canadians can also have dual individual capacity by being
officers through corporations sole by filling offices.
8 Corporation Sole: Formed By Filling An Office
A corporation sole is usually formed by Letters Patent or by a direct Act of Parliament or of

a Province. For income tax purposes, however, I propose this occurs by becoming an
officer that fills a particular office of Her Majesty.
From earlier, Regina v. Porisky & Gould said, “… a corporation sole which applies to an
office”. Sir Edward Coke32, considered to be the greatest jurist of the Elizabethan and
Jacobean eras, in his famous set of books, Institutes of the Lawes of England33 defined a
corporation sole as “a man who fills an office”. The Industry Canada Government website34
states: “A corporation sole creates a corporation out of an office.”
Based on the above, one could conclude that an individual could form a corporation sole
by filling a particular office by becoming an officer. How is this office with Her Majesty
identified, and how is it created? In Chapter 9, I propose it is identified with the all-lower-
case ‘social insurance number’, which appears to be undefined35; then, in Chapter 10, we
will look at how individuals create these offices with Her Majesty.
9 Identifying Her Majesty’s Office for Income Tax

From ITA s.248(1), there are many kinds of offices with Her Majesty:

248(1) “office” means the position of an individual entitling the individual to a fixed or
ascertainable stipend or remuneration and includes a judicial office, the office of a minister of the
Crown, the office of a member of the Senate or House of Commons of Canada, a member of a
legislative assembly or a member of a legislative or executive council and any other office, the
incumbent of which is elected by popular vote or is elected or appointed in a representative
capacity and also includes the position of a corporation director, and “officer” means a person
holding such an office;
While many of these offices seem to be just a job with Her Majesty, recall from Chapter 6
that officers have special legal powers and duties absent from an individual. Many such
officers hold more than one office. For example, a CRA agent is an officer of Her Majesty
authorized to administer the ITA. That same CRA officer is likely also paid (as we will see

32
Sir Edward Coke was Attorney General for England and Wales; later was the Chief Justice of the
Common Pleas; later still, Chief Justice of the King’s Bench. He also authored the 1628 Petition of Rights.
Institutes of the Lawes of England, Coke on Littleton, Sir Edward Coke: Co. Lit. 2a
33
34
Industry Canada website, http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/cilp-pdci.nsf/eng/cl00384.html
35
The ITA does not define the words ‘income’, ‘profit’, ‘source’ or ‘non-taxable income’ either. Possible
reasons are discussed in Chapter 43, “Why Lack of Full Disclosure for Agents of Her Majesty?”
10

later) as a CPP or ITA officer, and therefore must have income tax, CPP, EI deducted from
its paycheque. The same goes for police officers, judges (officer of the court), etc. To be
identified as such officers, CRA officers carry CRA identification and police officers carry
police badges; judges wear special robes. But how does one identify someone who
consents to be an ITA officer for income tax? The answer seems to be a two-step
process.
Most Canadians have experienced being unable to apply for CPP unless first having a
Social Insurance Number. According to the NAS-2120 form on the Services Canada web
site link 36 (see attached, ‘SOCIAL INSURANCE NUMBER APPLICATION’), such an
application is clearly for an upper-and-lower case Social Insurance Number and not an all-
lower-case ‘social insurance number’.

Upon receiving the upper-and-lower case Social Insurance Number, most individuals fill
those nine digits onto a CRA TD1 form. However, all federal and Provincial TD1 forms37
use the all-lower-case ‘social insurance number’ and not the upper-and-lower case Social
Insurance Number issued by Services Canada and as styled in ITA s. 237(1):

237(1) Every individual (other than a trust) who was resident or employed in Canada at any time
in a taxation year and who files a return of income under Part I for the year, or in respect of whom
an information return is to be made by a person pursuant to a regulation made under paragraph
221(1)(d), shall,
(a) on or before the first day of February of the year immediately following the year for
which the return of income is filed, or
(b) within 15 days after the individual is requested by the person to provide his Social
Insurance Number,
apply to the Canada Employment Insurance Commission in prescribed form and manner for the
assignment to the individual of a Social Insurance Number unless the individual has previously
been assigned, or made application to be assigned, a Social Insurance Number.
An electronic search for the upper-and-lower case “Social Insurance Number” from the
PDF version38 of the ITA from Canada’s Department of Justice web site reveals that term
used thirty times; a search for the all-lower-case ‘social insurance number’ as used in the
TD1 from that same document resulted in zero matches. But is there legally a difference?
The Employment Insurance Act39 (“EIA”) uses five times the upper-and-lower case Social
Insurance Number, but never uses the all-lower-case ‘social insurance number’:

36
Social Insurance Number: http://www.servicecanada.gc.ca/eng/sc/sin/
TD1 forms: www.cra-arc.gc.ca/formspubs/frms/td1-eng.html
37
38
Income Tax Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. 1 (5th Supp.), from Canada’s Department of Justice, http://laws-
lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/I-3.3/index.html
Employment Insurance Act, SC 1996, c 23, http://canlii.ca/t/52664
39
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Government Gouvernement PROTECTED WHEN COMPLETED - B

of Canada du Canada
SOCIAL INSURANCE NUMBER APPLICATION
This application form is not required if you go in-person to apply. Refer to the Information Guide or call FINDER NO DATE
1-800-206-7218 (select Option #3) or 506-548-7961 (long-distance charges apply) to determine if you are eligible
to apply by mail.
This application form must be accompanied by original document(s). DO NOT WRITE IN THIS AREA
I am applying for a (an):
FIRST SOCIAL INSURANCE NUMBER (SIN) CHANGE OF STATUS
UPDATE or CORRECTION TO SIN RECORD CHANGE TO THE EXPIRY DATE (“900 Series SIN”)
CONFIRMATION OF SIN OTHER - SPECIFY
LEGAL CHANGE OF NAME
INFORMATION CONCERNING THE APPLICANT PRINT CLEARLY IN BLUE OR BLACK INK

First Given Name Other Given Name(s) Family Name
APPLICANT’S NAME
1 TO BE SHOWN ON
SIN RECORD
APPLICANT’S Day Month Year APPLICANT’S Male

2 DATE OF BIRTH 3 SEX Female
Check if the applicant is a twin, triplet, etc.
APPLICANT’S Given Name(s) Family Name at Birth APPLICANT’S Given Name(s) Family Name at birth
4 MOTHER'S NAME 5 FATHER'S NAME
AT HER BIRTH AT HIS BIRTH
APPLICANT'S City, Town or Village Province/Territory/State Country
6 PLACE OF BIRTH
APPLICANT’S FAMILY NAME AT BIRTH OTHER FAMILY NAME(S) PREVIOUSLY USED
7 8
DID THE APPLICANT EVER HAVE A SOCIAL INSURANCE NUMBER (SIN)?
9 If yes, write the nine digit number here - No - Unknown (don’t recall)
APPLICANT’S Check one of the following: Daytime Telephone Number Evening Telephone Number
STATUS IN Canadian Registered Permanent Temporary Other
10 CANADA Citizen Indian Resident Resident 11
IS THE APPLICANT currently residing in Canada? Yes No
In care of (if different than the name in item 1)
APPLICANT’S Number and Street Apartment, suite or unit No.

12 MAILING ADDRESS
City, Town or Village Province/Territory/State Country Postal/ZIP Code
The personal information you provide is collected for the administration of the Employment Insurance Act (EIA) and the Department of Employment and Social Development Act (DESDA). It
will be used by Service Canada officials (operating within Employment and Social Development (ESD)) for the purpose of assigning a Social Insurance Number (SIN) to you or your child, as
authorized by the DESDA. Your personal information is administered in accordance with the DESDA, the EIA and the Privacy Act and your information will be retained in the Social Insurance
Register. Participation is voluntary. However refusal to provide your personal information will result in you or your child not receiving a SIN. The information you provide may be shared with
federal departments and agencies that are authorized users of the SIN and in accordance with the Treasury Board Secretariat Directive on the Social Insurance Number for the administration
of benefits and services. The information may also be shared with provincial departments and agencies for the administration of benefits and services and/or federal and provincial departments
for the administration and enforcement of the legislation for which they are responsible. The information and documents you provide may also be verified with provincial and territorial vital
statistics registers or Citizenship and Immigration Canada records. The information may also be used and/or disclosed for policy analysis, research and/or evaluation purposes, and may be
linked to various sources of information under the custody and control of ESD. However, these additional uses and/or disclosures of your personal information will not result in an administrative
decision being made about you. You have the right to the protection of and access to your personal information, which is described in Personal Information Bank (HRSDC PPU 390) of the
government publication Info Source. Instructions for obtaining this information are outlined in Info Source, which is available online at infosource.gc.ca. Info Source may also be accessed
13 online at any Service Canada Centre.
I acknowledge that the information provided on the application form is true and complete.
Signature of applicant/representative: Date :
Relationship of representative to the applicant: Mother Father Legal Guardian Legal Representative
IMPORTANT: If you are a representative such as a parent, legal guardian or legal representative applying on behalf of the applicant you must sign for the applicant and provide additional
document(s). Refer to the Information Guide for Applicants -Additional document(s) required for representatives.
Printed Name of representative: Telephone Number of representative:
IT IS AN OFFENCE TO FRAUDULENTLY USE YOUR SIN, INCLUDING TO KNOWINGLY APPLY FOR MORE THAN ONE SIN AND TO SELL, GIVE OR LEND YOUR
NUMBER OR CARD TO ANYONE WITH THE INTENT TO DECEIVE.
DO NOT WRITE BELOW - FOR OFFICE USE ONLY
ALL NAMES Given Names Family Name
A AS SHOWN ON
PRIMARY DOC.
DATE OF BIRTH Day Month Year PRIMARY Abbreviation
B AS SHOWN ON DOCUMENT C
PRIMARY DOC. SEEN
DOCUMENT NO. SUPPORTING Abbreviation
D E DOCUMENT
SEEN
USER CODE: RESPONSIBILITY CENTRE NO. WHERE REFERRAL GENERATED: REFERENCE (FINDER) NO.: OFFICER’S INITIALS:
F
Abbreviation
G SECONDARY DOCUMENT SEEN
REMARKS / REASON FOR PRIORITY REQUEST
NAS-2120-(09-14)
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Social Insurance Number
Obligation
138. Every person employed in insurable employment, and every self-employed person in respect
of whom Part VII.1 applies, must have a Social Insurance Number that has been assigned to that
person under an Act of Parliament.
Change of name
139. When the name of a person to whom a Social Insurance Number has been assigned
changes because of marriage or otherwise, the person shall inform the Commission of their new
name within 60 days after the day on which the change of name becomes effective, unless they
have already so informed another authority empowered to receive that information.
Regulations
140. For the purposes of sections 138 and 139, the Commission may, with the approval of the
Governor in Council, make regulations respecting

(a) applications for a Social Insurance Number;
(b) the assignment and use of Social Insurance Numbers;
(c) requirements that must be met by persons who have been assigned Social Insurance
Numbers; and
(d) requirements that must be met by employers.
The Canada Pension Plan40 (“CPP”) has a definition for the upper-and-lower case “Social
Insurance Number” in s.2.(1), but also has no definition for the all-lower-case ‘social
insurance number’ either:
“Social Insurance Number” means a Social Insurance Number assigned to an individual under
the authority of any Act of Parliament, and “Social Insurance Number Card” means a Social
Insurance Number Card issued to an individual under that authority;
The CPP also uses the upper-and-lower case “Social Insurance Number” twenty-eight
times (excluding headings) in s.98 to s.102, but, like the ITA and the EIA, it never uses the
all-lower-case ‘social insurance number’:
Application for assignment of Social Insurance Number
98. (1) Every individual who applies for a division under section 55 or 55.1 shall, within thirty
days of the date of application for such division, if he has not earlier been assigned a Social
Insurance Number, file an application with the Minister, in such form and manner as may be
prescribed, for the assignment to him of a Social Insurance Number.
(2) Every individual who reaches eighteen years of age and is or becomes employed in
pensionable employment on or after reaching that age shall, within thirty days after he reaches

40Canada Pension Plan, R.S.C., 1985, c. C-8, s.2.(1): http://canlii.ca/t/52hkh

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eighteen years of age or becomes employed in pensionable employment, as the case may be, if he
has not earlier been assigned a Social Insurance Number, file an application with the Minister,
in such form and manner as may be prescribed, for the assignment to him of a Social Insurance
Number.
(3) Every individual who is required by section 30 to file a return of his self-employed earnings
for a year, other than an individual to whom subsection (1) or (2) applies, shall on or before the
first day on or before which he is required by section 33 to pay any amount as or on account of
the contribution required to be made by him for that year in respect of those earnings, if he has
not earlier been assigned a Social Insurance Number, apply to the Minister, in such form and
manner as may be prescribed, for the assignment to him of a Social Insurance Number.
Assignment of Number
(4) The Minister shall, on application by an individual to whom a Social Insurance Number has
not earlier been assigned, cause a Social Insurance Number to be assigned to the individual and
a Social Insurance Number Card may be issued to the individual.
Employer to maintain record of Social Insurance Number

(5) Every employer who employs an employee in pensionable employment shall, in the case of an
employee to whom subsection (2) applies, within 30 days after the day on which the employee
reaches 18 years of age or becomes employed in pensionable employment, whichever is the later,
require the employee to inform the employer of their Social Insurance Number, and the
employer shall maintain a record of the Social Insurance Number of each employee.
Employee to provide Social Insurance Number

(6) Every employee who is required under subsection (5) to inform the employer of their Social
Insurance Number shall do so within 30 days after the day on which they are required to do so
by the employer.
Application to be signed by applicant
99. (1) An application for a Social Insurance Number shall be signed by the applicant in his
own hand but where the applicant is unable to sign his own name, he may attest the application
by making his mark in the presence of two witnesses whose names and signatures shall be shown
thereon.

Change of name
(2) When the name of an individual to whom a Social Insurance Number has been assigned
changes, by reason of marriage or otherwise, the individual shall inform the Minister of their new
name, unless they have already so informed another authority empowered to receive that
information,
(a) if the individual is employed in pensionable employment, within 60 days after the day
on which the change of name becomes effective; or
(b) if the individual is not employed in pensionable employment but later becomes so
employed, or is required to make a contribution under this Act in respect of their self-
employed earnings, within 60 days after the day on which the individual becomes so
employed or after the first day on or before which they are required under section 33 to
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pay any amount as or on account of the contribution required to be made by them in
respect of those earnings, as the case may be.
Agreement respecting assignment of Social Insurance Numbers
100. (1) The Minister may, on behalf of the Government of Canada, enter into an agreement with
the government of a province providing a comprehensive pension plan under which the Minister
may cause Social Insurance Numbers to be assigned to persons to whom Social Insurance
Numbers have not earlier been assigned, on the basis of applications made by those persons to
the appropriate authority in that province.

Numbers deemed to have been assigned under Act
(2) Any Social Insurance Numbers caused to be assigned by the Minister under any agreement
entered into under subsection (1) shall be deemed for all purposes of this Act to have been
assigned under this Act.
Regulations

101. (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations
(a) requiring employers to distribute to their employees applications and other material
relating to applications for Social Insurance Numbers;
(b) prescribing districts for purposes of assigning Social Insurance Numbers, in which
persons who reside therein may file their applications for Social Insurance Numbers
and, having regard to the public convenience, the place or places within each district at
which those persons may apply;
(c) prescribing the conditions on which and manner in which Social Insurance Number
Cards that have been lost or destroyed may be replaced;
(d) authorizing the Minister and the Minister of National Revenue to cause a Social
Insurance Number to be assigned and a Social Insurance Number Card to be issued to
any individual who has not earlier been assigned a Social Insurance Number;
Offence and punishment
102. (1) Every person who, in his application for a Social Insurance Number, knowingly
furnishes any false or misleading information is guilty of an offence punishable on summary
conviction.
(2) Every person who has been assigned a Social Insurance Number and who knowingly makes
application again to be assigned a Social Insurance Number, whether giving the same or
different information in that application as in his previous application, and whether or not he is
assigned a Social Insurance Number again, is guilty of an offence punishable on summary
conviction.
Continuing our search, CRA’s website has definitions (albeit not law since not statutory
definitions) for both the upper-and-lower case “Social Insurance Number41” and the all-
lower-case ‘social insurance number 42 ’ (see attached: “Definitions for letter S
(Business)” and “Social insurance number (SIN)”):

41
CRA, under Definitions for letter S: http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tx/bsnss/glssry/s-gn-eng.html
42
CRA: http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tx/ndvdls/tpcs/ncm-tx/rtrn/cmpltng/prsnl-nf/sin-nas/menu-eng.html
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Social Insurance Number (SIN)

A number given to each contributor to the Canada Pension Plan (CPP), Quebec Pension Plan
(QPP), and Employment Insurance (EI). It helps record the contributions and premiums paid
into and the benefits paid out of the plans. Since these social insurance programs are connected to
the tax system, the SIN is also used as an identifier for federal income tax purposes. Everyone
who files an income tax and benefit return must provide a SIN.

Social insurance number (SIN)
Your SIN is the authorized number for income tax purposes under section 237 of the Income Tax
Act and is used for certain federal programs. You must give it to anyone who prepares
information slips (such as a T3, T4, or T5 slip) for you. Each time you do not give it when you
are supposed to, you may have to pay a $100 penalty… You must also give it to us when you ask
us for personal tax information.

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Both share the nine-digit number provided by Services Canada43; both have shared the
acronym44 “SIN” since 2001 on CRA’s T1 form45. Furthermore, Revenue Canada used the
upper-and-lower case “Social Insurance Number” on T1 forms up to 1990, then switched
over to the all-lower-case ‘social insurance number’ in the 1991 T1, where it currently
(2015 T1) remains. As CRA has different descriptions for the two SINs, started sharing that
acronym in 2001, and made the switch described above in 1991, a reasonable conclusion
is that they are legally different (see the attached forms, “History of the T1 GENERAL”,
“T1 for 1990”, “T1 for 1991”,“T1 for 2000”, “T1 for 2001”, and “T1 for 2015”.
CRA’s web site says that an upper-and-lower case Social Insurance Number is “a number
given to each contributor”. From earlier, the EIA s.138 says that, “every person employed
in insurable employment, and every self-employed person in respect of whom Part VII.1
applies, must have a Social Insurance Number that has been assigned to that person

43
Canadian Payroll Association, Payroll Terminology: “SIN: Unique nine-digit number provided by Service
Canada”. http://www.payroll.ca/CPA/Resources/Tools/Lexicon/Definition.aspx?t=451
44
The Canadian Style Manual, Ch. 1.16, Public Works and Government Services Canada Translation
Bureau, http://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2guides/guides/tcdnstyl/index-eng.html?lang=eng
45
The CRA website archives T1s back to 1985: http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/formspubs/t1gnrl/llyrs-eng.html
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under an Act of Parliament” and in Section 140, “for the purposes of sections 138 and
139, the Commission may, with the approval of the Governor in Council, make regulations
respecting (a) applications for a Social Insurance Number”. One concludes that the
upper-and-lower case Social Insurance Number is the one that is given by Services
Canada (formerly HRDC) when one applies for such a number.
CRA’s web site then says about the all-lower-case ‘social insurance number’: “your SIN is
the authorized number for income tax purposes under section 237 of the Income Tax
Act…” Notice it says the same number is for income tax purposes; it does not say that
the upper-and-lower case Social Insurance Number is for income tax purposes under
section 237 of the ITA, which we saw earlier says, “within 15 days after the individual is
requested by the person to provide his Social Insurance Number, apply to the Canada
Employment Insurance Commission in prescribed form and manner for the assignment to
the individual of a Social Insurance Number unless the individual has previously been
assigned, or made application to be assigned, a Social Insurance Number.”
CRA also says about the ‘social insurance number’: “Your SIN is used for certain federal
programs. You must give it to anyone who prepares information slips (such as a T3, T4, or
T5 slip) for you.” As we will see later, the all-lower-case ‘social insurance number’ is used
not only for T3, T4, or T5, but also for many other CRA forms, such as the T1 and the
TD1. Furthermore, saving CRA’s web definition46 of the Social Insurance Number as a PDF
file (see attached, “Definitions for letter S (Business)”) reveals that the SIN used twice in
that paragraph actually refers both times to the all-lower-case ‘social insurance number’:
History of the T1 GENERAL
Prescribed Form T1: Still Social Still: One Current Day

“Form prescribed and Insurance Number Meaning for “SIN” “SIN” still denotes both
authorized by the Still: “Form authorized and Last year of not using the ‘social insurance
Minister of National prescribed by order of the acronym “SIN” for ‘social number’ and “Social
Revenue” on T1A-1941 Minister of National Revenue” insurance number’ Insurance Number”
1941 1966 1990 1991 2000 2001 2013
T1: Start Use of T1: Changed to Start Use of: Two

Social Insurance ‘social insurance Meanings for “SIN”
Number number’ Acronym “SIN” also denotes
Start of use of “Social T1 no longer states it is a the all-lower-case ‘social
Insurance Number” “prescribed form” insurance number’

46 CRA Definitions for letter S: http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tx/bsnss/glssry/s-gn-eng.html
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Complete the fol lowing
Usual First Name and Initial Sumame, Family or Last Name (Please print) Your Social Insurance Number
I II I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I Il
Present Address (Please Print) Number, Street and Apt . N o., or PO. No. or R.R. N o. Your Spouse’s Social Insurance Number
llIIznam
City On December 3 1, Married Widow(er) Divorced Separated Single

1990, you were: ICI ZIZI 30 40 50
Name of Spouse
Province or Territory Postal Code Address of Spouse: same as mine 0 or
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII(I I,,
Day Month Year
Your Date of Birth
-lave you filed an Income Tax Return before? YES 0 No
q Your Province or Territory of Residence on December 31. 1990, was:
f “YES”, please indicate for what year: 19 m
Vame on last return: same as above 0 or If you were self-employed
in 1990. pleasestate province
or territoryof self-
emolovment:
4ddress on last return: same as above 0 or If you became or ceased to be a resident of Canada in 1990, give:
Day Month Day Month
rype of work or occupation in 1990 Date of Entry or Departure
darne of present employer If taxpayer is deceased, Day Month Year
please give date of death: (
I I l I l
Employment income before deductions from Box (14) or Box (C) on all T4 slips
(attach copy 2 of T4 slips) IDI 0
Commissionsfrom Box (42) or Box (P) on all T4 slips, includedin above total 102
Other employment income including tips and gratuities, etc. 104 0
Old Age Security pension (from Box (18) or Box (F) on T4A(OAS)) 113 0
Canada or Quebec Pension Plan benefits (attach copy 2 of T4A(P) slip) 114 0
Other pensions or superannuation (attach copy 3 of T4A slips) 115 0
Family allowance payments (attach copy of TFAl slip) 118 0
Unemployment Insurance benefits (attach copy 2 of T4U slip) 119 0
Taxable amount of dividends from taxable Canadian corporations (attach completed Schedule 5) 120 0
Interest and other investment income (attach completed Schedule 5) 121 0
Partnership income: limited or non-active partners only (attach completed Schedule 5)
Rental income Gross 180
Taxable capital gains (attach completed Schedule 3)
Alimony or separation allowance income 128
Registered retirement savings plan income (attach T4RS.P slips) 129
Other income (please specify; see line 130 in guide) 130
Business income Gross 162 Net 135
Professional income Gross 164 Net 137
Commission income Gross 166 Net 139
Farming income Gross 166 Net 141
Fishing income Gross 170 Net 143
IIlCODle (add lines 10 1 to 143 inclusive - please enter this amount on line 200 on page 2) 166 1
PLE ASE DO NOT USE T HIS AREA
605 I l 600
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Step 5 - Summary of Tax and Cre its There are two methods of tax calculation (sec Table A bstructions) 4
TaxableIncome from line 260 on page 2 400 1
TABLE METHOD ONLY

FederalIncome Tax (look up amount from line 400 in Table A) 401
Enter: Total non-refundable tax credits from line 350 on page 2 402
Federal Tax (line 401 minus line 402: if negative, enter zero or from line 406 on Schedule 1) 406
Federalpol i t ical
cont r ibut ion
tax credi t Total contributions 409 0
Allowable tax credit (from calculation at line 410 in guide) 410 .
Investment tax credi t(attach form T2038 (IN@) 412 .
Labour-SponsoredFunds tax credi t(attach receipts) 414
Total of above credits 416
s ;
Federal tax before federal individual surtax (line 406 minus line 416: if negative. enter zero) 417
Federalindividual
sur tax(look up amount from line 406 in Table B or from line 419 on Schedule 1) 419
Net Federal Tax (add lines 417 and 419) 420 Es
Columbia tax (look up amount from line 406 in table B or from line 423 on Schedule 1)
Br i t ish 423
Subtract: Transfer of spouse’s unused renter’s tax reduction
(from calculation on spouse’s TIC (B.C.)) 425
Net Br i t ish
Columbia Tax 427
I ;
Canada Pension Plan contribution payable on self-employment earnings from page 3 431
Repayment of Social Benefits (from calculation at line 235 in guide) 432
Repayment of Child tax credit overpayment from Schedule 7, Part 8 434
Total Payable (add lines 420 to 434 inclusive)435 (

Pleasedo not use thisarea
Totalincome tax deducted from al linformat ion
sl ips 437 .@
FederalCredi ts
Child tax credit A-
(attach Schedule 7, complete Parts A and B)
Federal sales tax credit 444t l
(attach Schedule 7, complete Parts A and C) 446 1 l
Canada Pension Plan overpayment 448 .

Unemployment Insurance overpayment 450 .
Refund of investment tax credit
(attach form T2038 (IND)) 454 .
!
Part XII.2 tax credit (attach T3 slip) 456 1 .@
Provincial
Credi ts
British Columbia tax credits
Other Credi ts
Tax paid by instalments
Forward averaging tax credit (attach form T58 1)
Total @redé% (add lines 437 to 478 inclusive)

Subtract line 482 from line 435 and enter
the difference in applicable soace below. r l
l hereby certify that the information given in this return and in any
A difference of less than $1.00 is neither charged nor refunded.
documents attached is true, correct and complete in every respect
1 L
and fully discloses my income from all sources.
Refund 484 ’ ( l Balance Due 485
Please sign here
Arsacode
Telephone I I
I I I i I I Date
Amount Enclosed
It is a serious offence to make a false return.
Privacy Act Persona1 Information Bank number RCT/P-PU-005
Please attach cheque or money order payablet
. not mai l cash .
the ReceiverGeneral Do
469
199 1.
Payment is due not later than April30,
- Langue de correspondance7
- Languageof correspondence 490
Please indicate below the Veuillez indiquer plus bas dans
language of your choice for quelle langue vous désirez
subsequent correspondence recevoir toute correspondance
I
and returns. subséquente et vos prochaines If you paid to have your return prepared,
déclarations de revenus. please check box *
1. English q Anglaise Form authorized and prescribed by order of the Minister of National Revenue for purpost
2. French 17 Française of Part 1, Part 1.1 and Part 1.2 of the Income Tax Act, Part I of the Canada Pension Plan ar
Part VIII of the Unemployment Insurance Act.
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Tl GENERAL 1991
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If the socialinsurancenumber(s)shownon the label is not correct,or if you did
. Did you get an identification label? If SO,and if your name and address are not receivea label,entercorrectnumber(s)below:
correct, attach the label here.
. If the information on the label is incorrect, do not attach lt here. In thls case,
or if you did not receive a label, complete the area that follows. Yours:
.JI I I
Usualfkst Name and /nifia/ Surname,Famiiyor Lasf Name
Spouse’s:
Name 1 l l l l l l , l l l l l , , , , , , (if it applies) I/IJIIIIIJII
Number,Sfreet,Apt. No.. P.O. BoxNo. or R.R. No.
Address 1 l l 1 l l l l l l l l l , l l l , , Please complete the followlng
OnDecembsr 31, Married Widow(er) Divorced Separated Single
1991,youwere:
City 10 20 30 40 50
III l 11 l III I I I I I I I I I I
Name of spouse
Provinceor POStéIl
territory 1 l l l l l l l l l l code I I I l I I Address of spouse same as mine 0 or
-------------------_
Type of work or occupation in 1991
amcrnz
W Month Year
Your date of birth
Name of present employer Your province or territory of residence on December 31,1991, was:
If you became or ceased to be a resident of Catiada in 1991, give If you were self-employed in 1991, state province or territory of self-
W Monfh W Month employment:
Date of entry II 171 or departure rr-1 II
mm I
If taxpayer is deceased, W Month Year
$ve date of death:
su
z E Employment iricome before deductions from box 14 on all.
-.. r4 slips (attach copy 2 of T4 slips)
‘-
g g Commissions from box 42 on all T4 slips, included in above total 102
Lu Other employment incarne including tips and gratuities, etc. 0
or E Old Age Security pension (from box 18 on T4A(OAS) slip) 0
? p, Canada or Quebec Pension Plan benefits lattach CODV
2 of T4AIPI slio~ 0
0
0
0
0
~~ 0
‘i $$ Partnership income: limited or non-active partners only (attach completed Schedule 5) 0
; bI Rental income Grass
-..--- ._-
160 . .“. 0
2 g Taxable capital gains (attach completed Schedule 3)
I
1Alimony or separation allowance income 0
1 Regist&?d retirement savings plan income (attach T4RSP slips) 119
Other income (see line 130 in guide and specify) 130
Business income Gross 162 Net 135
Professiona! income Gross 164 Net 137
Commission income Gross 166 Net 139
Farming income Gross 168 Net 141
Fishing income Gross 170 Net 143
Add lines 101 and 104 to 143 inclusive. This is your Total Incomel50
PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS AREA
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ary of Tax and Cr There are two methods of tax calculation (see Table A instructions)
4
Taxable Income from line 260 on page 2 409 1
TABLE METHOD ONLY

Federal Income Tax (look up amount from line 400 in Table A) 401
Enter: Total non-refundable tax credits from line 350 on page 3 402
Subtract line 402 from line 401: if negative, enter zero or enter amount from line 406 on Schedule 1. FEDERAL TA)( 406
Federal political contribution tax credlt Total contributions 0
.
Add lines 417 and 419.Net Federal Tax 420

Canada Pension Plan contribution payable on self-employment earnings from Schedule 8 421
Repayment of social benefits (from calculation at line 235 in guide) 422
Repayment of Child tax credit overpayment from Schedule 7, Part B 426 .
Brltlsh Columbia tax (lookupamountfromline406in Table8 or enteramountfromline428onSchsdule1) 428
Subtract: Transfer of spouse’s unused renter’s tax reduotion (from calculation on spouse’e il C (B.C.)) 430 .
Net Brltlsh Columbia Tax 431
Add lines 420 to 426 inclusive and line 431. Total i%$!abfe 435 1 l
Total lncome tax deducted (from all information slips) 437 l 0
Federal Credlts
Child tax credit (attach Schedule 7, complete Parts A and B) 444 .
Canada Pension Plan overpayment 44% .
Unemployment Insurance overpayment 450 .
Refund of investment tax credit (attach form T2038 (IND)) 454 .
Part XII.2 trust tax credit (attach T3 slip) 456 l 0
Employee and Par-merGST rebate (attach form GST-370) 457 l 0
Other Credlts
Tax paid by instalments 476 l 0
Forward averaging tax credit (from form T581) 478 .

Brltlsh Columbia tax credlts 479 .
Add lines 437 to 479 inclusive. Total Credits 482
~Pl$pe do nqt use thls area Subtract line 482 from line 435 and enter the difference in applicable space below.
A differenceof lessthan$2.00is neitherchargednor refunded.
Refufld 484 1,.

If you want a direct deposlt,
complete Form Tl-DD. Amount Enclosed
Please attach cheque or money order payable to

the Receiver General. Do not mail cash.
Payment is due no later than April30, 1992.
It is a serious otfence to make a false return. bue. correct and complete in every respect and fully discloses my income from all sources
Privacy Act Personal Information Bank number RCT/P-PU.005
469
Language of correspondence Languedecorrespondance
Please indicate below the Veuillez indiquer plus bas
language of your choice for dans quelle langue vous desirez
subsequent correspondence recevoir toute correspondance
and returns. subsequente et vos prochaines
declarations de revenus.
1. English 0 Anglaise
If you paid to have your return prepared,
2. French 0 Française
please check this box
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Canada Customs Agence des douanes

and Revenue Agency et du revenu du Canada
T1 GENERAL 2000
Income Tax and Benefit Return
Identification 7
Attach your personal label here. Correct any wrong information. Enter your social insurance number if it is not on the label, or if you
If you are not attaching a label, print your name and address below. are not attaching a label:
First name and initial Year Month Day
Enter your date of birth:
Last name Your language of correspondence:

Votre langue de correspondance : English Français
Address Apt. or Unit No.
If this return is for a deceased
Year Month Day
person, enter the date of death:
City
Marital status on December 31, 2000 (check the box that applies):
Province or territory Postal code (see the "Marital status" section in the guide for details)
1 Married 2 Living common law 3 Widowed
4 Divorced 5 Separated 6 Single
Enter your province or territory of residence
on December 31, 2000: If box 1 or 2 applies, enter your spouse’s social insurance number if it
is not on the label, or if you
If you were self-employed in 2000, enter the province
are not attaching a label:
or territory of self-employment:
If you became or ceased to be a resident of Canada in 2000, give the date of: Enter the first name of your spouse:
Month Day Month Day Check this box if your spouse was self-employed in 2000: 1
entry or departure Do not use this area
Elections Canada (see the guide for details)

Do you authorize the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency to provide your name, address, and date of birth
to Elections Canada to update your information on the National Register of Electors? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes 1 No 2
Your authorization is needed each year. This information can be used for electoral purposes only.
Goods and services tax / Harmonized sales tax (GST/HST) credit application
Are you applying for the GST/HST credit? (see the guide for details) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes 1 No 2
If yes, enter the number of children under age 19 on December 31, 2000 (if applicable) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
If yes, enter your spouse’s net income from line 236 of your spouse’s return (if applicable) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Foreign income
As a Canadian resident, you have to report your income from all sources both inside and outside Canada.
Please answer the following question

Did you own or hold foreign property at any time in 2000 with a total cost of more than CAN$100,000?
(read the "Foreign income" section in the guide for details) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266 Yes 1 No 2
If yes, attach a completed Form T1135.
If you had certain dealings with a non-resident trust or corporation in 2000, see the "Foreign income" section in the guide.
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Canada Customs Agence des douanes

and Revenue Agency et du revenu du Canada

Identification 8
Attach your personal label here. Correct any wrong information. Information about you
If you are not attaching a label, print your name and address below. Enter your social insurance number (SIN) if it is not on the label, or if
First name and initial you are not attaching a label:
Year Month Day
Last name
Your language of correspondence: English Français
Mailing address: Apt. No. – Street No. Street name Votre langue de correspondance :
Check the box that applies to your marital status on December 31, 2001:
P.O. Box, R.R. (see the "Marital status" section in the guide for details)
1 Married 2 Living common law 3 Widowed
City Prov./Terr. Postal code 4 Divorced 5 Separated 6 Single
Information about your spouse or

common-law partner (if you checked box 1 or 2 above)
Information about your residence Enter his or her SIN if it is not on the label, or
if you are not attaching a label:
Enter your province or territory of
residence on December 31, 2001:
Enter his or her first name:
Enter the province or territory where you currently reside if
it is not the same as that shown Enter his or her net income for 2001 to claim
above for your mailing address: certain credits: (see the guide for details)
If you were self-employed in 2001, Check this box if he or she was self-employed in 2001: 1
enter the province or territory of
self-employment:
If this return is for a deceased Year Month Day
If you became or ceased to be a resident of Canada in 2001, give the date of: person, enter the date of death:
Month Day Month Day
entry or departure Do not use this area
Elections Canada (Canadian citizens only; see the guide for details)
Do you authorize the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency to provide your name, address, and
date of birth to Elections Canada for the National Register of Electors? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes 1 No 2
Your authorization is needed each year. This information will be used for electoral purposes only.
Goods and services tax / Harmonized sales tax (GST/HST) credit application
Are you applying for the GST/HST credit? (see the guide for details) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes 1 No 2
If yes, we will now get the number of children for purposes of this credit from the Canada Child Tax Benefit information we have on file.
Your guide contains valuable information to help you complete your return.
When you come to a line on the return that applies to you, look up the line number
in the guide for more information.
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Protected B when completed
T1 GENERAL 2015
Complete all the sections that apply to you. For more information, see the guide.
BC 8
Identification Information about you
Print your name and address below. Enter your social insurance
number (SIN):
First name and initial
Year Month Day
Last name
Your language of correspondence: English Français
Votre langue de correspondance :
Mailing address: Apt No – Street No Street name
Is this return for a deceased person?

PO Box RR
If this return is for a deceased Year Month Day
person, enter the date of death:
City Prov./Terr. Postal code
Marital status
Tick the box that applies to your marital status on
December 31, 2015:
Email address
1 Married 2 Living common-law 3 Widowed
I understand that by providing an email address, I am registering for online mail.
I have read and I accept the terms and conditions on page 15 of the guide. Divorced Separated Single
4 5 6
Enter an email address:
Information about your spouse or
common-law partner (if you ticked box 1 or 2 above)
Information about your residence
Enter your province or territory of Enter his or her SIN:
residence on December 31, 2015:
Enter his or her first name:
Enter the province or territory where
you currently reside if it is not the Enter his or her net income for 2015
same as your mailing address above: to claim certain credits:
If you were self-employed in 2015, Enter the amount of universal child care
enter the province or territory of benefit (UCCB) from line 117
self-employment: of his or her return:
If you became or ceased to be a resident of Canada for income tax purposes Enter the amount of UCCB repayment
in 2015, enter the date of: from line 213 of his or her return:
Month Day Month Day

entry or departure Tick this box if he or she was self-employed in 2015: 1
Do not use this area
Residency information for tax administration agreements

For more information, see Information Sheet T1-BC10(E), Residency information for tax administration agreements,
included in this package.
Did you reside within Nisga'a Lands on December 31, 2015? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes 1 No 2
If yes, are you a citizen of the Nisga'a Nation? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes 1 No 2
Elections Canada (see the Elections Canada page in the tax guide for details or visit www.elections.ca)
A) Are you a Canadian citizen? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes 1 No 2
Answer the following question only if you are a Canadian citizen.
B) As a Canadian citizen, do you authorize the Canada Revenue Agency to give your name,
address, date of birth, and citizenship to Elections Canada to update the National Register of Electors? . . . . . . Yes 1 No 2
Your authorization is valid until you file your next return. Your information will only be used for purposes permitted under the Canada
Elections Act, which include sharing the information with provincial/territorial election agencies, members of Parliament, and registered
political parties, as well as candidates at election time.
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Social Insurance Number (SIN)
A number given to each contributor to the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) (/tx/bsnss/glssry/c-gn-
eng.html#Cnd_pnsn_pln), Quebec Pension Plan (QPP) (/tx/bsnss/glssry/q-gn-eng.html#QPP),
and Employment Insurance (EI) (/tx/bsnss/glssry/e-gen-eng.html#Emplymnt_nsrnc). It helps
record the contributions and premiums paid into and the benefits paid out of the plans. Since these
social insurance programs are connected to the tax system, the SIN (social insurance number) is
also used as an identifier for federal income tax purposes. Everyone who files an income tax and
benefit return must provide a SIN (social insurance number).
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CRA: Uses of ‘social insurance number’ Signifying Capacity as “Beneficiary”/ “Officer”
Act Form Form Name Use
CPP Act Appeal of Ruling Under Appeal of ruling applied for with CPT1. Worker has been ruled to be a CPP
CPT100
EI Act CPP Act or EI Act officer and/or EI insured person (same office with Her Majesty).
Statement of Professional or For individuals running a business or a professional activity as an officer

ITA T2125
Business Activities for “office profit” (see definition in the Appendix).
T2091 Designation of Principal To calculate capital gain exemption (property held for “office profit”) of an
ITA
(IND) Residence by an Individual officer. Signed by individual as beneficiary since applying for a benefit .
Contract Payment Reporting An individual that is a subcontractor: ‘social insurance number’ (officer)
ITA T5018
System presumed and filled out by the payer, who sends a copy to CRA.
Schedule Lists shareholders and their ‘social insurance numbers’. Shareholder

ITA Shareholder Information
50 dividends can only be “office profit” for an officer.
Designation of Forgiven When a commercial obligation is settled for less than its principal amount.
ITA T2154
Amount by Debtor Debtor has ‘social insurance number’. Compare with T2047.
Benefits claimed establishes beneficiary holding an office of profit in the

ITA TD1 Personal Tax Credits Return
federal jurisdiction, even if payer is not an employer.
Income Tax and Benefit Various persons’ income are all to be reported, including all benefits, to
ITA T1
Return ascertain the tax liability of Her Majesty’s office.
ITA T1-ADJ T1 Adjustment Request Request for reassessment of an officer’s income tax return.
ITA T1-DD Direct Deposit Request For individual benefits: refunds, CCTB, UCCB, for Her Majesty’s office.
Version 2.4
The definition of “office profit” is in the Appendix.
CRA says the all-lower-case ‘social insurance number’ “is also used as an identifier for
federal income tax purposes. Everyone who files an income tax and benefit return must
provide a SIN (social insurance number)”. We started this chapter by noting that CRA’s
TD1 form asks for the all-lower-case ‘social insurance number’ that is not defined in the
ITA. This is not a one-form anomaly; the all-lower-case ‘social insurance number’ is also
used on many other CRA forms, such as, but not limited to: (see list, “Uses of ‘social
insurance number’ Signifying Capacity as “Beneficiary”/”Officer”).
In contrast to the above, all the CRA forms on the next page ask for the upper-and-lower
case Social Insurance Number (see list, Uses of Social Insurance Number Signifying
Capacity as ITA “Legal Representative”) such as, but not limited to:
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CRA Uses of “Social Insurance Number” Signifying Capacity as ITA “Legal Representative”
Act Form Form Name Use
CPP Act Request for Ruling for Status Request by “legal representative”. No relationship yet to an “officer”.
CPT1
EI Act of a Worker for CPP and/or EI
OAS ISP-3000 Old Age Security Application Application for optional OAS, GIS, allowance, survivor.
CPP Act Request for Voluntary Income Application by individual for voluntary tax deductions off CPP and/or OAS,
OAS Tax Deductions off CPP/OAS both of which are taxable income.
Request for Record of Legal representative agrees to pay back any overpayments.
EI Act INS3166
Employment (ROE)
Voluntary Disclosure Program In this form, legal representative hands over income (which could be ITA
ITA RC199
Taxpayer Agreement “exempt income”) over to the taxpayer as taxable income
ITA T1162 Pre-Authorized Payment Plan Individual (family name) as LR of taxpayer pre-authorizes payments
ITA T600 Ownership Certificate Financial company fills out individual’s surname as owner of security (1999)
Waiver of Reassessment Signed by legal representative of individual taxpayer. Revoked by Form

ITA T2029
Period T652
Use by debtor and creditor ITA 78(1)(b). To be filled out and signed by both
ITA T2047 Agreement Unpaid Amounts
individuals before filing of both T1 returns. Form authorized by MNR.
Non-resident (individual) tax Non-resident individual applies for reduction in withholding of non-resident
ITA T1287
reduction for acting tax from acting or video production. Takes liability.
Non-resident individual applies for reduction in withholding of non-resident

ITA NR5 Non-resident Reduction of tax
tax (fill out every 5 years). Takes liability.
CPP Act Social Insurance Number “The information may be shared … for administration and enforcement
NAS-2120
ITA Application of the legislation responsible…”
Version 2.1
It is obvious that CRA’s use of the all-lower-case ‘social insurance number’ on many of its
forms, and use of the upper-and-lower case Social Insurance Number on many of its other
forms, is deliberate. This above (incomplete) list of forms using the Social Insurance
Number seems to share something in common: being liable upon signing of these forms.
This corroborates with the Services Canada online application 47 for a Social Insurance
Number (see from earlier, ‘SOCIAL INSURANCE NUMBER APPLICATION’), which has
this warning on the application:

“The personal information… is collected… for the purpose of assigning a Social Insurance
Number (SIN)… Participation is voluntary. However refusal to provide your personal
information will result in you or your child not receiving a SIN. The information may also be
shared with provincial departments and agencies for the administration of benefits and services
and/or federal and provincial departments for the administration and enforcement of the
legislation for which they are responsible.”
One could conclude that the upper-and-lower case Social Insurance Number, which
makes one liable to “enforcement”, is to identify an individual as an ITA “legal
representative”:

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Social Insurance Number application: http://www.servicecanada.gc.ca/eng/sin/forms.shtml
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248(1) “legal representative” of a taxpayer means a trustee in bankruptcy, an assignee, a
liquidator, a curator, a receiver of any kind, a trustee, an heir, an administrator, an executor, a
liquidator of a succession, a committee, or any other like person, administering, winding up,
controlling or otherwise dealing in a representative or fiduciary capacity with the property that
belongs or belonged to, or that is or was held for the benefit of, the taxpayer or taxpayer’s estate;
as the liability of an ITA “legal representative” is in ITA s.159(1):

159(1) For the purposes of this Act, where a person is a legal representative of a taxpayer at any
time,
(a) the legal representative is jointly and severally liable with the taxpayer
(i) to pay each amount payable under this Act by the taxpayer at or before that time and
that remains unpaid, to the extent that the legal representative is at that time in
possession or control, in the capacity of legal representative, of property that belongs or
belonged to, or that is or was held for the benefit of, the taxpayer or the taxpayer’s estate,
and
(ii) to perform any obligation or duty imposed under this Act on the taxpayer at or before
that time and that remains outstanding, to the extent that the obligation or duty can
reasonably be considered to relate to the responsibilities of the legal representative
acting in that capacity; and
(b) any action or proceeding in respect of the taxpayer taken under this Act at or after that time by
the Minister may be so taken in the name of the legal representative acting in that capacity and,
when so taken, has the same effect as if it had been taken directly against the taxpayer and, if the
taxpayer no longer exists, as if the taxpayer continued to exist.
If the upper-and-lower case Social Insurance Number is to identify an individual as an ITA

“legal representative”, it then corroborates with why one cannot fill out a TD1 form and
receive CPP before receiving that upper-and-lower case Social Insurance Number from
Services Canada, since Canada wants to ensure that the individual has first agreed to be
legally liable for filing accurately, on time, and for any overpayments.

Two CRA forms that illustrate very well the deliberate use of the upper-and-lower case
Social Insurance Number versus the all-lower-case ‘social insurance number’ are (see
attached forms) CPT148, Request for Ruling for Status of a Worker for CPP and/or EI
and CPT10049, Appeal of Ruling Under CPP Act or EI Act. A worker first files a CPT1 to
ask CRA to determine whether it is doing pensionable employment and/or insurable
employment. If CRA deems the worker to be doing pensionable employment and/or
insurable employment, the deemed officer can appeal that ruling by filing Form CPT100.
Some of the differences between the CPT1 and the CPT100 are:

Form SIN Name Status
CPT1 Social Insurance Number Surname ITA ”legal representative”
CPT100 social insurance number Last Name deemed as beneficiary (officer)

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CRA Form CPT1, Request for a Ruling as to the Status of a Worker under the Canada Pension Plan
and/or the Employment Insurance Act: http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/E/pbg/tf/cpt1/README.html
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CRA Form CPT100, Appeal of a Ruling Under the Canada Pension Plan and/or Employment Insurance
Act: http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/E/pbg/tf/cpt100/README.html
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As these two forms are used sequentially, it is illogical to change the upper-and-lower case
“Social Insurance Number” later to the all-lower-case ‘social insurance number’, and
“Surname” later to “Last Name” unless, perhaps, the status of the person changed from
first being liable for the ruling as an ITA “legal representative”, then later appealing in
another capacity, such as an officer with the all-lower-case ‘social insurance number’?
From Chapter 5 earlier, recall that Justice Kovatch in HMTQ v. Doug Amell et al50 said
an officer of Her Majesty for income tax is a “statutory agent identified with a social
insurance number”. Based on all of the above, one could conclude that the all-lower-
case ‘social insurance number’ identifies Her Majesty’s office and/or the officer/agent that
represents it, as all income tax goes into and many benefits come out of Her Majesty’s
CRF. The following CRA forms, when filed with the all-lower-case ‘social insurance
number’, could then indicate for Her Majesty (“HM”):
CRA Form Title of Form Purpose
CPT100 Appeal of Ruling Under CPP or EI Act By HM’s officer/agent

T2125 Statement of Professional or Business Activities ‘Income’ of HM’s office
T2091 (IND) Designation of Principal Residence by an Individual By HM’s officer/agent
T5018 Contract Payment Reporting System Payer deems payee: HM officer
Schedule 50 List of Shareholder Information Shareholder is HM’s officer
T2154 Designation of Forgiven Amount by Debtor By HM’s officer
TD1 Personal Tax Credits Return Individual fills HM’s office
T1 Income Tax and Benefit Return ‘Income’ of HM’s office
T1-ADJ T1 Adjustment Request ‘Income’ of HM’s office
T1-DD Direct Deposit Request For ‘Income’ of HM’s office
10 Creating Her Majesty’s Office
Having made a reasonable conclusion that the all-lower-case ‘social insurance number’ is
used to identify Her Majesty’s office related to income tax filings, I next propose an
individual can create such an office, as Sir Edward Coke said51, by “filling an office”:
TD1 Signs & files form – consents to “fill an office” related to ‘social insurance number’
T1 Signs & files form – consents to “fill an office” related to ‘social insurance number’
T2125 Signs & files form – consents to “fill an office” related to ‘social insurance number’
T5018 Payer signs & files form – Payer presumes subcontractor consents to “fill an office”

I propose that most individuals become an officer52 of Her Majesty by either applying via a
TD1 with the all-lower-case ‘social insurance number’53 for “pensionable employment”54

50
HMTQ v. Doug Amell et al 2010 SKPC 107, at [50], www.canlii.ca/t/2c05t
51
52
CPP, R.S.C., 1985, c. C-8, s.2(1), within the definition of “office”
53
In addition to being used in many CRA forms, the ‘social insurance number’ is also used in some CRA
Information Circulars, such as IC82-2R2: http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/E/pub/tp/ic82-2r2/README.html
54
CPP, R.S.C., 1985, c. C-8, s.2.(1)
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REQUEST FOR A RULING AS TO THE STATUS OF A DEMANDE DE DÉCISION QUANT AU STATUT D'UN
WORKER UNDER THE CANADA PENSION PLAN AND/OR TRAVAILLEUR AUX FINS DU RÉGIME DE PENSIONS DU
THE EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT CANADA ET/OU DE LA LOI SUR L'ASSURANCE-EMPLOI
Please complete all sections to the best of your ability – Veuillez remplir toutes les sections au meilleur de votre connaissance
Who is completing this application? Qui remplit cette demande?
Worker Payer Representative Travailleur Payeur Représentant(e)
(Indicate whether you are representing the worker or the payer and attach (Veuillez indiquer si vous représentez le travailleur ou le payeur et joindre le
your client's consent form (T1013 or RC59) or a letter that authorizes the CRA formulaire d'autorisation de votre client (T1013 ou RC59) ou une lettre
to discuss confidential issues with you.) autorisant l'ARC à discuter de questions confidentielles avec vous.)
Is this an employer restructuring request? Yes No Est-ce une demande succession d'employeur? Oui Non
The Payer – Le payeur

Name of Corporate Entity, Operating Name or Partnership Name – Nom de la société par actions ou de la société de personnes ou nom de l'entreprise
Name of Proprietor, Partner or Corporate Officer (if applicable) CRA Business Number (applicable, if known)
Nom du propriétaire, sociétaire, cadre corporatif (s'il y a lieu) Numéro d'entreprise de l'ARC (applicable, si connu)
RP
Address – Adresse Telephone Number – Numéro de téléphone
( )
Nature of Business – Genre d'entreprise Province in which the work was performed
Province où l'emploi a été effectué
The Worker – Le travailleur

Surname of Worker – Nom de famille du travailleur Usual first name and initials – Prénom usuel et initiales
Address – Adresse Telephone Number – Numéro de téléphone
(Home – à la maison) ( )
(Work – au travail) ( )
Social Insurance Number – Numéro d'assurance sociale Worker's Job Title/Position
Titre de l'emploi ou du poste du travailleur
Date on which employment started – Date à laquelle l'emploi a débuté Date on which employment terminated (if applicable)
Date à laquelle l'emploi a cessé (s'il y a lieu)
Y–A M D–J Y–A M D–J
I hereby certify that, to the best of my knowledge, the information contained in Par la présente, j'atteste qu'au meilleur de mes connaissances, les
this request and in the attached documents is accurate and complete. renseignements fournis dans la présente demande et dans les documents
annexés sont exacts et complets.
Y M D A M J
Date: Date :
Please print your name and title (if applicable) Veuillez écrire votre nom et votre titre (s'il y a lieu) en lettres moulées
Signature Signature
CPT1 (08)
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APPEAL OF A RULING UNDER THE CANADA PENSION PLAN AND/OR EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT
Please read the instructions on the back before completing this form.
APPELLANT IDENTIFICATION
Indicate whether you are: Employer/Payer Worker

Appellant's last name, first name/Business name (print) Mailing address
Social insurance number (SIN) or Telephone Fax

Business number (BN)
Please check applicable boxes

an assessment of CPP and/or EI for this same period/employment relationship – EMPLOYERS ONLY (Form CPT101)
I have filed other appeals a notice of assessment/determination under the Income Tax Act relating to this same issue/year (Form T400A)
and/or objections of:
a notice of objection GST/HST (Form GST159)
DETAILS OF RULING (Attach a copy of the ruling decision letter with this form.)
Ruling date Applicable legislation(s)
Canada Pension Plan (CPP) Employment Insurance Act (EIA)
Period(s) under appeal

Ruling reference number From: To:
Issue(s) under appeal (tick one or more boxes)

Whether the worker(s) is/are employee(s) or self-employed The number of insurable hours
Whether the worker(s) is/are dealing at arm's length with the payer The amount of insurable earnings
Other:
OTHER PARTY
If you are the worker, list the name, address and telephone number of the payer.
If you are the payer, list the name, address, telephone number and social insurance number (SIN) of the worker(s) to which the ruling(s) applies.
(Attach separate sheet(s) if necessary.)
Name Address Telephone SIN
Please state all the facts about the working relationship and the reason(s) for your appeal. For more information, see the back of this form.
(Attach separate sheet(s) if necessary.)
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE (Please complete this section to authorize a representative for this appeal.)
Representative's name (print) Address Telephone
SIGNATURE OF THE APPELLANT OR AUTHORIZED OFFICER OF THE CORPORATION

Signature Print name/Title Date YYYY-MM-DD
CPT100 E (12) (Ce formulaire est disponible en français à www.arc.gc.ca.)
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under the CPP, which is only payable to the CPP “officer” holding such an office55, or via
the ITA by being “appointed in a representative capacity” 56 as an officer 57 to the ITA
“office”58 through failure to rebut the deeming59 in the ITA of an individual to be such an
officer, or by filing a T1 or T2125 with the all-lower-case ‘social insurance number’.
If this theory is correct, most Canadians with a job “appoint themselves in a representative
capacity60” as an officer of Her Majesty’s office by voluntarily filling out a TD1 with the all-
lower-case ‘social insurance number’ and signing the form. This evidence of consenting to
working as such an officer for Her Majesty’s office allows the payer to deduct CPP, EI, and
income tax from the officer’s paycheque (more in Chapters 19-21). At the end of the year
CRA directs the individual to file the income of Her Majesty’s office on a T161, which also
uses62 the all-lower-case ‘social insurance number’.
If the individual works for himself, CRA helpfully directs such a worker to file a T212563, and
so creates evidence that the individual filled Her Majesty’s office identified by the all-lower-
case ‘social insurance number’ on that T2125.
Subcontractors in the construction industry are presumed by their payers through the
Contract Payment Reporting System (CPRS) form T501864 with the all-lower-case ‘social
insurance number’ to be working for Her Majesty’s office; did any of the payers ask the
subcontractors whether they wanted to work for Her Majesty’s office as its officer?
A quick look (more in Chapters 19-21) at the statutory definitions below show that Her
Majesty’s office, and the officer that represents it, are pivotal to the CPP, for GST in the
Excise Tax Act, and to the ITA. First, here are some definitions from the CPP s.2(1):

“pensionable employment” means employment specified in subsection 6(1);
“employment” means the state of being employed under an express or implied contract of service
or apprenticeship, and includes the tenure of an office;
“office” means the position of an individual entitling him to a fixed or ascertainable stipend or
remuneration and includes a judicial office, the office of a minister of the Crown, the office of a
lieutenant governor, the office of a member of the Senate or House of Commons, a member of a
legislative assembly or a member of a legislative or executive council and any other office the

55
CPP, R.S.C., 1985, c. C-8, s.2.(1)
56
ITA, R.S.C. 1985, c. 1 (5th Supp.), s.248(1), within the definition of “office”
57
ITA, R.S.C. 1985, c. 1 (5th Supp.), s.248(1), definition of “office”

58
59
ITA, R.S.C. 1985, c. 1 (5th Supp.), s.6(3) and s.9(1)
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61
Although it seems to be CRA policy to demand taxpayers file a T1, there is no requirement in the ITA to
file on a T1. A possible reason why CRA does this is discussed in Chapter 46, “Conclusions”.
62
Recall that the T1 used the upper-and-lower-case ‘Social Insurance Number’ until 1990 (see the
attached 1990 T1 and 1991 T1 forms). If it makes no difference, then why was it changed?
63
CRA’s T2125 form: http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/E/pbg/tf/t2125/README.html. There is also no statutory
requirement in the ITA to file on a T2125 either.
CRA’s T5018 form: http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/E/pbg/tf/t5018/README.html
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incumbent of which is elected by popular vote or is elected or appointed in a representative
capacity, and also includes the position of a corporation director, and “officer” means a person
holding such an office;
From the Excise Tax Act (“ETA”), Part IX (GST), s. 123.(1):

“office” has the meaning assigned by subsection 248(1) of the Income Tax Act, …

“officer” means a person who holds an office
The ITA s.6(3) deems amounts received by a person from a payer is as an officer:

An amount received by one person from another
(a) during a period while the payee was an officer of, or in the employment of, the payer, or
(b) on account, in lieu of payment or in satisfaction of an obligation arising out of an agreement
made by the payer with the payee immediately prior to, during or immediately after a period that
the payee was an officer of, or in the employment of, the payer,
shall be deemed, for the purposes of section 5, to be remuneration for the payee’s services
rendered as an officer or during the period of employment, unless it is established that,
irrespective of when the agreement, if any, under which the amount was received was made or the
form or legal effect thereof, it cannot reasonably be regarded as having been received
(c) as consideration or partial consideration for accepting the office or entering into the contract
of employment,
(d) as remuneration or partial remuneration for services as an officer or under the contract of
employment, or
(e) in consideration or partial consideration for a covenant with reference to what the officer or
employee is, or is not, to do before or after the termination of the employment.
From ITA s.248(1), definition of certain words used in the Income Tax Act:

“employed” means performing the duties of an office or employment;
“employee” includes officer;
“employment” means the position of an individual in the service of some other person
(including Her Majesty or a foreign state or sovereign) and “servant” or “employee” means a
person holding such a position;
“office” means the position of an individual entitling the individual to a fixed or ascertainable
stipend or remuneration and includes a judicial office, the office of a minister of the Crown, the
office of a member of the Senate or House of Commons of Canada, a member of a legislative
assembly or a member of a legislative or executive council and any other office, the incumbent
of which is elected by popular vote or is elected or appointed in a representative capacity and
also includes the position of a corporation director, and “officer” means a person holding such
an office;

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11 Sole Office with Her Majesty
From Chapter 10, the definition of “office”65 under the CPP is nearly identical66 with the
definition of office67 under the ITA. The definition of “office”68 under Part IX (GST/HST) of
the ETA is that it is the same as the definition of the ITA “office”. Since all three offices are
virtually defined as the same office, and all three use the same all-lower-case ‘social
insurance number’, one could conclude that an individual, as a CPP/ITA/ETA officer, deals
with only one office of Her Majesty. Corroborating that there is a sole office with Her
Majesty is the right of set-off 69 in the ITA, which allows Her Majesty to deduct any
outstanding debt to Her Majesty from any refund:

224.1 Where a person is indebted to Her Majesty under this Act or under an Act of a province
with which the Minister of Finance has entered into an agreement for the collection of the taxes
payable to the province under that Act, the Minister may require the retention by way of
deduction or set-off of such amount as the Minister may specify out of any amount that may be or
become payable to the person by Her Majesty in right of Canada.

Further corroboration is that there was no right of set-off under the old Unemployment
Insurance Act as those funds were held in a separate account from the CRF. With the
current Employment Insurance Act, since June 20,1996 EI contributions and payments
deal with the CRF, so Her Majesty now has the right of set-off also with the EI Act70.
12 ITA Office: a Position to Receive Public Money as Taxable “Office Profit”
These two court cases confirm that an office is a position to receive all income as profit for
that office, or what I have defined as “office profit” (see Appendix). The first case says:

“A payment to the holder of an office or employment is a profit of the office or employment if it
accrues to the holder in virtue of his office or employment…”
- Mr. C. v. Minister of National Revenue71

In the second case, the Supreme Court of Canada confirmed on February 23, 1953 that
holding an office is also a position to receive income as “office profit”:

65
CPP, s.2(1)
66
Real Estate Council of Alberta v. M.N.R., 2011 TCC 5 (CanLII), http://canlii.ca/t/2f7p9: [21] “The
definition of “office” found in the 1948 Income Tax Act was nearly identical to the current one in the
Canada Pension Plan except it includes “the office of a lieutenant-governor”.
67
ITA, R.S.C. 1985, c. 1 (5th Supp.), s.248(1)
68
Excise Tax Act, s.123.(1)
69
ITA, R.S.C. 1985, c. 1 (5th Supp.), s.224.1
70
The Tax Collector’s Bible, Alan Baggett, page 149: “In recent years the tax collector has also begun
capturing set-offs derived from EI payments. In the past the attachments to these types of monies were
also considered taboo, but no longer”: http://www.taxcollectorsbible.com, ISBN 978-1-55483-913-1.
71
Mr. C. v. Minister of National Revenue, 50 DTC 206. Mr. C was a judge that did not want to pay income
tax on his earnings for serving as Commissioner on a Royal Commission.
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“The question is whether the money so paid is within the provisions of the Income Tax Act, Sec. 3:
'Income' means the annual net profit or gain or gratuity, whether ascertained and capable of
computation as being wages, salary, or other fixed amount, or unascertained as being fees or
emoluments … directly or indirectly received by a person from any office or employment … and
also the annual profit or gain from any other source including …”
- Goldman v. Minister of National Revenue72
Only 81 days after this 1953 Supreme Court of Canada ruling, the Government on May 14,
1953 amended73 the ITA74 retroactively back to 1952 (see attached, 1-2 ELIZABETH II,
CHAP. 40) by adding the following definitions, which are still used today in the current ITA:

“employee” includes officer;
“employer”, in relation to an officer, means the person from whom the officer receives the
officer’s remuneration;
One meaning of “includes” in The Composition of Legislation 75, as used by Canada’s

Department of Justice, is to “retain the ordinary meaning of a word and add a meaning it
does not normally have”. According to this Department of Justice reference book, an ITA
“employee” can be someone who works for somebody else (not as an officer) or it can be
someone who works for somebody else as an ITA “officer”. This corroborates with the ITA
meaning of “employer”, which is someone who may or may not have a relation to an
officer.

Canadians do not have the mindset to make profit at their jobs, but this 1953 amendment
allows the ITA to tax ITA “employees” who consent to being deemed by the ITA to work as
officers since they are earning “office profit”. The power of an office to convert any
consideration into “office profit” contrasts with an individual who lacks the legal power to
convert or receive any consideration as “office profit”. Moreover, this CPP/EIA/ETA/ITA
office deals with Canada’s public money that is distinct from private property.
The legal fact is, one who consents the ITA’s deeming to be such an officer receives
income as Canada’s public money that is taxable as “office profit”, regardless of what
the ‘income’ is called by the officer, whether the officer has an intent to profit or
not, and even if the “accounting profit” (see Appendix) is equal to zero. This could
be why Crown assumes and does not want to have to prove in court the two missing
essential elements of tax evasion from Chapter 4: how an individual becomes an officer
identified with the all-lower-case ‘social insurance number’, and how that office converts
private property into public money that is also “office profit” which then is legally taxable
by the ITA without violating any human rights (theft) to private property ownership.

72
Goldman v. Minister of National Revenue, [1953] 1 S.C.R. 211, decided on February 23, 1953
73
An Act to amend The Income Tax Act, 1-2 Elizabeth II, Chapter 40, assented May 14, 1953
74
ITA, 1952, amended in 1953 retroactive to 1952 Statutes of Canada
The Composition of Legislation, Driedger, 2nd Ed., 1976, The Department of Justice Ottawa, p. 46
75
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1-2 ELIZABETH II.
C H A P. 40.
An Act to amend The Income Tax Act.
[Assented to 14th May, 1963.]
HertheMajSenate
esty, by
andand withofthe
House advice ofand
Commons consent
Canada, of
enacts
as follows:—
Pakt I.
1. (1) Paragraph (g) of section 6 of The Income Tax

Act, chapter 52 of the statutes of 1947-4S, is repealed and
the following substituted therefor,:
"(g) amounts received by the taxpayer in the year as Premium on.
premiums paid by a corporation on the redemption
before April 30, 1953 of any of its shares,"
(2) This section is applicable to the 1949 and subsequent
taxation years.
2. (1) Section 10 of the said Act is amended by adding

the following subsection thereto:
"(3) Where an elected officer of an incorporated munici- Municipal
pality has been paid by the municipal corporation an
amount as an allowance in a taxation year for expenses allowance,
incident to the discharge of his duties as an elected officer
of the corporation, the allowance shall not be included in
computing his income for the year unless it exceeds one-
half of the amount that was paid to him in the year by the
municipal corporation as salary or other remuneration as an
elected officer of the corporation, in which event there shall
be included in computing his income for the year only the
amount by which the allowance exceeds one-half of the
amount so paid to him by way of salary or remuneration."
(2) This section is applicable to the 1949 and subsequent
taxation years.
(3) Subsection (3) of section 10 of The Income Tax Act
as enacted by subsection (1) of this section is applicable
mutatis mutandis in the computation of the income of an
Part i—15 225 elected
m o i
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be deemed, for the purposes of this Part, to have been paid of which the expression is being applied, was or might
as a dividend/' have been qualified by registration under the Family
(2) Subsection (4) of the said section lOS as enacted Allowances Acty so that an allowance under the said Act
by this section is applicable to amounts paid or credited was or might have been payable in respect of that child
after 1952. for the immediately following month;"
(2) The said subsection (1) is further amended by
83. (1) Section 115 of the said Act is repealed and the adding thereto immediately following paragraph (I) thereof
following substituted therefor: the following paragraphs:
''115. The provisions of Division F of Part I, except ' ' ( l a ) ' e m p l o y e e ' i n c l u d e s o f fi c e r ; " E m p l o y e e ' '
sections 47 to 51 and sections 53 and 54, are applicable (Ih) 'employer', in relation to an oflScer, means the "i^mpioyer"
jnvtalis mutandis to this Part." person from whom the officer receives his remunera
(2) This section is applicable to the 1953 and subsequent tion;"
taxation years. (3) The said section 139 is further amended by adding
thereto the following subsection:
84. Subsection (1) of section 119 of the said Act is "(10) For greater certainty it is hereby declared that, Contract
where a document has been issued or a contract entered pe^sTon
repealed and the following substituted therefor:
into (either before or after the coming into force of this
''119. (1) An amount payable under this Act that has not
been paid or such part of an amount payable under this subsection) purporting to create, to establish, to extinguish
or to be in substitution for, a taxpayer's right to an amount
Act as has not been paid may be certified by the Minister
or amounts, immediately or in the future, out of or under a
(a) where there has been a direction by the Minister superannuation or pension fund or plan,
under subsection (2) of section 51, forthwith after such
(a) if the rights provided for in the document or contract
direction, and are rights provided for by the superannuation or pension
(h) otherwise, upon the exxîration of 30 days after the plan or are rights to a payment or payments out of the
default."
superannuation or pension fund, any payment under
the document or contract is a payment out of or under
85. Subsection (9) of section 123 of the said Act is
the superannuation or pension fund or plan and the
repealed and the following substituted therefor: taxpayer shall be deemed not to have received, by the
"(9) Every person who has failed to remit or pay issuance of the document or entering into the contract,
(a) an amount deducted or withheld as required by this an amount out of or under the superannuation or
Act or a regulation, or
pension fund or plan, and
(h) an amount of tax that he is, by a regulation made (b) if the rights created or established by the document
under subsection (4) of section 109, required to pay, or contract are not rights provided for by the super
is liable to a penalty of 10% of that amount or SIO, which annuation or pension plan or a right to payments
ever is the greater, in addition to the amount itself, together out of the superannuation or pension fund, an amount
with interest on the amount at the rate of 10% per annum." equal to the value of the rights created or established
by the document or contract shall be deemed to have
80. Subsection (1) of section 129 of the said Act is been received by the taxpayer out of or under the
repealed and the following substituted therefor: superannuation or pension fund or plan when the
"129. (1) Every person who has failed to make a return document was issued or the contract was entered into."
as and when required by regulation under subsection (4) (4) Subsections (1) and (2) are applicable to the 1953
of section 109, by regulation under section 117 or by sub and subsequent taxation years.
section (2) of section 123 is liable to a penalty of $10 a day (5) Nothing in subsection (10) of section 139 of the said
for each day of default but not exceeding in all $2,500." Act as enacted by this section Ls applicable in respect of any
matter in respect of which an appeal is pending before
87. (1) Paragraph (f) of subsection (1) of section 139 the Income Tax Appeal Board or a court when section 42
of the said Act is rejêaled and the following substituted of this Act comes into force.
therefor:
'Y/) 'child quahfied for family alWance' means a child 88. Section 141 of the said Act is amended by adding s. 53 of c. 25
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who, in the last month of the taxation year in respect the following subsections thereto: ^
i

This legal fact corroborates with the Department of Finance’s Notes on Proposed
Amendments to the ITA76 (ITA s.3 to s.3.1) that it is not up to the taxpayer (if he consents
to being deemed an officer) “to prove the unreasonableness of their profit expectations”:
Asymmetrical: No Rule on Income

Proposed subsection 3.1(1) is not symmetrical, in that it does not address the circumstances under
which income will be considered to be from a source. This is intentional, and the provision should
not be construed as suggesting that a taxpayer has a source of income only where the taxpayer has
a reasonable expectation of profit from that source. A system that allowed taxpayers to prove the
unreasonableness of their profit expectations in an effort to have, on that basis, untaxed
income, would be inappropriate.
Individuals of full capacity lack the legal power to convert private property into or to receive
it as “office profit” that is also public money; they just pay themselves what is left over
after other expenses are paid 77 . Such a taxpayer can then argue 78 that there is no
“accounting profit” (See Appendix) left after paying expenses and oneself and then have,
as the Department of Finance says, “untaxed income (which) would be inappropriate”.
To prevent this “untaxed income”, the ITA deems an individual taxpayer to be an ITA
“officer” and disallows expenses for earning ITA “exempt income” (see Appendix). In
Canderel Ltd. v. Canada79 the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that ‘profit’ for the ITA
can be, but is not limited to the accounting definition of profit. “Office profit” could be
what the Supreme Court of Canada said could be other than “accounting profit”. ITA
‘income’ for individuals could then be (see Appendix for sample calculations):
ITA ‘income’ for an individual taxpayer =
“office profit” (Canada’s public money)

+
private property income (the individual’s private property)

13 ‘Sources’ of ‘Income’: Deemed to be “Office Profit” for Her Majesty’s Office
The words ‘source’ and ‘income’ are not defined in the ITA, so three ‘sources’ of ‘income’
listed in ITA s.3 (a) - employment, business, and property could be either for Her
Majesty’s office, or for an individual not as an officer. From Chapter 10 earlier, ITA 6(3)

76
Notes on Proposed Amendments to the Income Tax Act, Proposed section 3.1, Department of Finance
Canada,http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/webarchives/20071124194314/http://www.fin.gc.ca/news03/d
ata/03-055_2e.html, published October 31, 2003
77
Liberum corpus aestimationem non recipit – “The body of a freeman does not admit of valuation.”
78
HMTQ v. Doug Amell et al 2010 SKPC 107, at [119]: www.canlii.ca/t/2c05t. Amell gave evidence that
he had ‘non-taxable income’, an undefined term but used by CRA and the courts to mean “office profit”,
and he did not testify that he was not an ITA “officer”, although his private contract stated as such.
Canderel Ltd. v. Canada, [1998] 1 SCR 147, http://canlii.ca/t/1fqv8
79
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deems office and employment ‘sources’ of ‘income’ to be as an officer. (See diagram,
“Individual Deemed as Officer”). For the other two ‘sources’ of ‘income’, ITA s.9(1) says:

9 (1) Subject to this Part, a taxpayer’s income for a taxation year from a business or property is
the taxpayer’s profit from that business or property for the year.
Since an individual lacks the legal power to turn consideration into or to receive it as
“office profit”, it is logical to conclude that a business individual for ‘profit’ in ITA s.9(1) is
an officer. This corroborates with CRA’s T2125 form80, “Statement of Business Income”
which uses the all-lower-case ‘social insurance number’ that identifies Her Majesty’s office.
A property ‘source’ of ‘income’ could be shareholder dividends, which can only be “office
profit”. As an individual lacks the legal power to turn any consideration into or to receive it
as “office profit”, one could conclude that a shareholder must be an officer. This
corroborates with CRA’s T2SCH50 (Schedule 50)81 “Shareholder Information”, which uses
the all-lower-case ‘social insurance number’ that identifies Her Majesty’s office.
14 Office/Officer: Conceptually Divisible But Legally Indivisible
With Her Majesty, as in any corporation sole, the office (the Crown) and the officer (the
monarch) are "conceptually divisible but legally indivisible... the office cannot exist without
the office-holder"82. From Chapter 8 earlier, Industry Canada’s website83 says, “Once the
corporation (sole) is established, there is no distinction between the person who holds the
office and the office itself.” Therefore, an individual that forms a corporation sole as an
officer of Her Majesty’s office is, in the eyes of the law, "conceptually divisible but legally
indivisible” since “there is no distinction between the person who holds the office and the
office itself.” The all-lower-case ‘social insurance number’ can then identify Her Majesty’s
office and/or the individual as an officer that represents that office.
15 Office/Officer: Has Power to Convert ‘Income’ Into Taxable “Office Profit”
The 1967 Tax Appeal Board decision Rossman et al v. MNR84, at page 274, said:

…income that had attached to the money that came into the appellants’ hands.

Jesus changed water into wine85; how do mere mortals change money “in its hands” to
“office profit”? If the individual is (as in the case of Arnegard86 in Chapter 7), “clothed with
all the powers” of Her Majesty’s office as a CPP/ITA “officer”, and since an office is a

CRA’s T2125 form: http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/E/pbg/tf/t2125/README.html.
80
81
CRA’s T2 Schedule 50: http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/E/pbg/tf/t2sch50/t2sch50-06e.pdf
82
The Queen's Other Realms, Peter Boyce (2008a), Canberra: Federation Press, page 5
83
84
Rossman et al v. MNR, 67 DTC 273, page 274
85
The Holy Bible, John 2:1-25
86
Arnegard v. Board of Trustees of the Barons Consolidated School District, Alberta, 1917, page 306
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corporation sole, and all corporations are created initially for profit, and any office has the
legal power to convert all ‘income’ into “office profit”, and since in a corporation sole the
office and officer are “conceptually divisible but legally indivisible87”, then that individual
holding such a position as that officer also has the legal power to convert any ‘income’ into
net taxable “office profit” (after allowable expenses are deducted) for Her Majesty’s office.
16 Quality of ‘Income’
88
In the case of Shiu Keung Franklin Wong v. MNR , the Tax Court stated:

[19] A determination of the nature of these payments is a question of fact. In the 1949 Tax
Appeal Board decision in the Reference Re Income War Tax Act and Walter Crassweller (1949),
1 Tax A.B.C. 1, 1949 Carswell Nat 20, the principle was advanced that the true character and
taxability of a payment is determined not by the payer’s own description of that character but,
rather, by reference to the substance of the facts and the provisions in the IT Act. In the 1967
Tax Appeal Board decision in Rossman et al v. M.N.R., 67 D.T.C. 273, the same principle was
applied and, at page 274, the following was stated:
…no process of accounting subsequently employed by the company’s auditors could

change the quality of income that had attached to the money that came into the
appellants’ hands.
[20] In Farm Business Consultants Inc. v. The Queen, 95 D.T.C. 200, Bowman J., as he was then,
reiterated that the true nature of a payment is determined not by an assigned description but,
rather, by the totality of the facts and by the underlying legal relationships of the parties. At
page 203, he stated:

… The essential nature of a transaction cannot be altered for income tax purposes by
calling it by a different name. It is the true legal relationship, not its nomenclature, that
governs.
If the individual is “clothed with all the powers” of Her Majesty’s office as that officer, then
its ‘income’ is “office profit” and is public money that is taxable by the ITA, irrespective of
its description by the taxpayer, and irrespective of what ‘profit’ is for the ITA, as that quality
of ‘income’ had attached to the money in the individual’s hands as such an officer. If the
individual is not working for Her Majesty’s office, but as an individual of full capacity, then
the quality of ‘income’ attached to the money in that individual’s hands while not as such
an officer is not “office profit” and stays as private property.

87
The Queen's Other Realms, Peter Boyce (2008), Canberra: Federation Press, page 5.
88
Shiu Keung Franklin Wong v. MNR, 2011 TCC 30, www.canlii.ca/t/2flrd
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17 Office/Officer’s Legal Indivisibility: Legal Basis for Worldwide Taxation?
Further corroborating this theory is that the legal indivisibility between the person who
holds the office and the office itself could be the legal basis for taxation of worldwide
‘income’ of Canadians. Both Her Majesty’s office and the officer are domiciled 89 in
Canada. Her Majesty’s officer is the “res” (thing) that is res-ident (resident), or “thing
identified”. Being “conceptually divisible” from Her Majesty’s office, the officer90 can hold or
perform duties of Her Majesty’s office anywhere in the world. The “office profit” and public
money generated by the officer from anywhere in the world, however, is “legally indivisible”
from Her Majesty’s office that remains domiciled in Canada. One could conclude this is
how the ITA taxes the worldwide ‘income’ of Her Majesty’s office.
18 Office/Officer: Also Determines CPP, GST, EI
To further corroborate the theory that the ITA deems an individual to be an officer of Her
Majesty who receives public money, we next analyze when one has to pay CPP, GST, and
EI, as it involves Her Majesty’s office/officer identified with the social insurance number.
19 Office/Officer: CPP Mandatory
From Chapter 11 earlier, the definitions of both “office” and “officer” in the ITA s.248(1) and
the CPP s.2(1) are almost identical 91 . As both use the same all lower case ‘social
insurance number’ and both deal with the CRF, one would conclude that an individual,
whether as an ITA or CPP officer, deals with only one office with Her Majesty.
From ITA s.248(1):
“employed” means performing the duties of an office or employment;
An officer performs the duties of an office. But what is “employment” as defined in the ITA?
“employment” means the position of an individual in the service of some other person (including
Her Majesty …) …
From Chapter 11 earlier, the definition of ITA “officer” is “the position of an individual” in the
service of Her Majesty in “any other office”. The definition of ITA “employment” is “the
position of an individual in the service of some other person (including Her Majesty…). One
could conclude that ITA “employment” then could be the position of an individual in the

89 Any corporation, as a creation of law, is domiciled in the place of its creator. Since the office and the
officer are “legally indivisible” in a corporation sole, both are domiciled in the same place of its creator.
90
A corporation is resident where its central management and control lies: De Beers Consolidated Mines
Ltd. v. Howe, [1906] A.C. 455, (House of Lords).
91
Canada Pension Plan except it includes “the office of a lieutenant-governor”.
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service of Her Majesty as an officer. A possible interpretation of “employed” is: performing
the duties of an ITA “office” by an ITA “officer” (see diagram, “Individual with ITA
“Employment” Source Determines CPP, EI, GST”) or ITA “employment” by the same
officer (see diagram, “Individual with ITA “Office” Source Determines CPP, EI, GST”).
Simplifying, ITA “employed” means the performance of duties, whether of an ITA “office” or
“employment”, are both could be an officer for Her Majesty’s office related to a ‘social
insurance number’ (see diagram, ITA “Officer”= ITA “Employment” Still Determines
CPP, EI, GST”). This is corroborated by the definition of ITA “employee” that we analyzed
in Chapter 12: an ITA “employee” could be an ITA “officer”.
As CPP “pensionable employment” is paid to the same officer, if that officer is ITA
“employed” (performing the duties of an office), then CPP is mandatory, whether the officer
is ITA “employed” in his own business (files a T2125), performing the duties of an office
(files a T1), or performing ITA “employment” (files a T1). (It is helpful to also refer to the
diagram, “Summary: Individual as ITA “Officer” Determines CPP, EI, GST”).
20 Office/Officer: Determines GST
Part IX of the Excise Tax Act92 deals with GST; the ETA, Section 123.(1) says:
“office” has the meaning assigned by subsection 248(1) of the Income Tax Act,…
“officer” means a person who holds an office;
Clearly, the definition of “office” and “officer” for GST is identical to their definitions in the
ITA, and which, we concluded earlier, is the same as “office” and “officer” for CPP.
If the individual is ITA “employed” in his own business and “performing the duties of an
office”, GST is payable, since the individual is performing duties, as a service has been
provided.
If the individual has an “office” ‘source’ of ‘income’, since ITA “office” is defined as “the
position of an individual (as an officer)”, no GST is payable as no service was provided nor
any goods made.
If the individual has an “employment” ‘source’ of ‘income’, since ITA “employment” is

defined as could be the position of an individual in the service of Her Majesty as an officer,
then no GST is payable as no service was provided nor any goods made.

92
Excise Tax Act, RSC 1985, c E-15, http://canlii.ca/t/527q8
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Office/Officer: Determines Employment Insurance

This office also determines whether EI must be paid. From Employment Insurance Act93:

5(4)(g) “insurable employment”: the tenure of an office as defined in subsection 2(1) of the
Canada Pension Plan.
“office” has the meaning assigned by subsection 248(1) of the Income Tax Act …
Tenure is defined as a position held by an individual. If the individual is ITA “employed” in

his own business (performing the duties of an office), no EI is payable, as the individual is
performing the duties of, but not holding an office needed to have insurable employment.
If the individual has an office ‘source’ of ‘income’, since ITA “office” is defined as the
position of an individual as an officer, EI is payable as the individual is holding that office. If
the individual has an employment ‘source’ of ‘income’, since ITA “employment” could be
the position of an individual in the service of Her Majesty as an officer, EI is payable if the
individual is holding that office.
22 Employment Insurance Act: Recognizes Employment Not As an Officer
The EIA and the ITA definitions of “employer” and “employment” are different:
Employment Insurance Act s.2(1)
“employer” includes a person who has been an employer and, in respect of remuneration of an individual
referred to as sponsor or coordinator of a project in paragraph 5(1)(e), it includes that individual;
“employment” means the act of employing or the state of being employed;

Income Tax Act s.248(1)
“employer”, in relation to an officer, means the person from whom the officer receives the
officer’s remuneration;
“employment” means the position of an individual in the service of some other person (including
Her Majesty…”

The EIA’s definitions of “employer” and “employment” lack reference to any officer, while
ITA “employment” means the position of an individual in the service of some other person,
including Her Majesty (as an officer). Recall ITA “employee” is defined as someone who
works for somebody else either as an officer or not (there is no definition of “employee” in
the EIA). Furthermore, the ITA definition of “employer” has two meanings; its ordinary
meaning, and, “in relation to an officer, means the person from whom the officer receives

Employment Insurance Act, SC 1996, c 23, http://canlii.ca/t/52664
93
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the officer’s remuneration”. Is this because it is the payee’s freewill choice to work as an
officer or not as an officer, and not the employer’s choice?
The fact that the EIA’s definition of “employer” and “employment” have no reference to any
officer, and that an ITA “employer” is someone paying a payee as an officer (or not), and
the dual meaning of ITA “employment” all suggest it is possible under the ITA to work as a
payee who is not an officer, i.e. an individual of full capacity. One could conclude that an
individual can have dual individual capacity – not as an officer, and as an officer identified
with the all-lower-case ‘social insurance number’.
23 Income Tax Act: Individual Deemed to Have Dual Legal Capacity
One way to have a dual legal capacity is by being a trustee. Jurisprudence94 says:
“It often happens that a single human being possesses a double personality. He is one man,
but two persons. Every contract, debt, obligation, or assignment requires two persons; but these
two persons may be the same human being. This double personality exists chiefly in the case
of trusteeship. A trustee, therefore, is for many purposes two persons in the eye of the law.”
Another way an individual can have a dual legal capacity by forming a corporation sole by
“filling an office95”. Recall from Chapter 7 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation96:

35 …When Parliament names Her Majesty in a statute means Her Majesty, not in her capacity as
a natural person but in her capacity as a corporation sole, a persona ficta (artificial person). In
Salmond on Jurisprudence, 9th ed. at p. 444, the author refers to this dual capacity as follows:
“He (the King) has a double capacity, being not only a natural person but a body politic, that is
to say, a corporation sole. The visible wearer of the crown is merely the living representative and
agent for the time being of this invisible and underlying persona ficta, in whom the powers and
prerogatives of the government of this realm are vested.”
The (UK) Law Commission in its paper, The Execution of Deeds and Documents by or on
Behalf of Bodies Corporate also concurs that a corporation sole has a dual capacity97:

Corporations sole
4.25 A corporation sole consists of one person and his or her successors in some particular office or
station, who are incorporated by law in order to give them certain legal capacities and advantages
which they would not have in their natural person. Unlike a corporation aggregate, a corporation
sole has a dual capacity, namely its corporate capacity, and its individual or natural capacity.

94 th
Jurisprudence, Sir John Salmond, 9 Ed. By J.L. Parker, M.A., p. 424
95
The Queen v. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, [1957] O.J. No. 655
96
97
The Execution of Deeds and Documents by or on Behalf of Bodies Corporate, The Law Commission,
http://lawcommission.justice.gov.uk/docs/cp143_Execution_of_Deeds_and_Documents_Consultation.pdf
The United Kingdom’s Law Commission is a statutory independent body created by the Law
Commissions Act of 1965 to keep the law under review and to recommend reform where it is needed.
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The formation of a corporation sole by “filling an office” is one way an individual can have
dual legal capacity. By creating a corporation sole, such an individual, while an officer of
her Majesty’s office associated with the all-lower-case ‘social insurance number’, is in the
eyes of the law not only "conceptually divisible but legally indivisible”, but also “has a dual
capacity, namely its corporate capacity (officer/office), and its individual or natural
capacity”. Both persons are also, per Stanchfield 98 , “[28]…directly included in the
definition of “person” contained at subsection 248(1) of the Act”, because such an
individual is deemed by the ITA (from Chapter 13 earlier) to have a dual capacity. This is
also expressed by the legal maxim:

“Quando duo juro concurrunt in und persons, aequum est as si essent in diversis”
- Bouvier’s Maxim of Law, 1856 4 Co. 118
“When two rights concur in one person, it is the same as if they were two separate persons”
Finally, HER MAJESTY lays charges in court as an officer - a corporation sole. It will be
ironic for agent for Crown (as Crown Prosecutor) to argue that an individual deemed by the
ITA as an officer cannot have dual capacity, while that same agent for Crown, the judge,
and HER MAJESTY are all in court with their respective dual individual capacities!
24 Income Tax Act: Jurisdiction Over Both Individual Capacities

In MNR v. Cory Stanchfield, the Federal Court also said:

“[27] If (the difficulty of meeting the legal requirements for creation) is true for a corporation,
purportedly created by a legislature, it even more so for a natural person. Cory Stanchfield’s
attempt to argue before this Court that his body comprises two persons which act in different
capacities is of one of two things: (1) an inadmissible division of his indivisible entity, or (2) an
attempted creation of a second entity in a fashion which is not recognized by law, the result of
which amounts to nothing in the eyes of the law.
[28] Thus, natural persons, whether described as acting in their own private capacity for their
own private benefit or not, are directly included in the definition of “person” contained at
subsection 248(1) of the Act.”
The dual capacity of an individual through a corporation sole means the ITA protects the
right of a individual to his private property that is not “office profit”, while income for Her
Majesty’s office is “public money” and is “office profit”. The ITA has jurisdiction over both
individual capacities as ITA “persons”.

98
Canada (National Revenue) v. Stanchfield, 2009 FC 99 (CanLII), http://canlii.ca/t/22g7x Ironically, the
judge could only make the ruling as an officer of the court and not in his private capacity!
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25 Dual Legal Capacities: Explains Why Partnerships Are Not an ITA “Person”?
RA CRA Voluntary Disclosure Program
DP gives ITA “exempt income” of the ITA
“person” to the ITA “taxpayer” as
Although a partnership is a person in law, and many provinces have partnership Acts, a
“taxable income” via Form RC199
partnership is not recognized as a person99 in the ITA. From the CRA website100:
“Generally, a Partnership does not pay income tax on its income and does not file an income tax
return. Instead, each partner files an income tax return to report their share of the partnership's net
income or loss.”
If each partner has dual capacity and can work as an officer or not as an officer, one could
conclude the ITA cannot tax a partnership because to do so forces all such partners to
work only for Her Majesty’s office and for public money, in contravention to their right to
freewill choice, and so could put Her Majesty into a position of dishonour by not protecting
individual private property and liberty rights.

ITA, R.S.C. 1985, c. 1 (5th Supp.), s.248(1), definition of “person”
99
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CRA website, http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tx/bsnss/tpcs/slprtnr/prtnrshp/rprtng-eng.html
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26 Property Rights Between Persons
Property rights are between persons and other persons, and not between persons and
things101. Just as an individual is distinct from an officer, private property is distinct from
public money. A brief summary of persons, property, ‘income’ and ‘profit’ then is:
ITA/CPP Officer Individual not as ITA/CPP officer
Public money Private property

‘Income’ for office = “office profit” ‘Income’ cannot be “office profit”
“Office profit” is taxable by ITA $0 “office profit” to tax (see Appendix)
27 Private Property could be ITA “Exempt Income”
An individual of full capacity is one that is not claiming to be a person exempt102 from tax
nor claiming to have income that is tax-exempt103, or have ITA s.126.(1.1) “tax-exempt
income”, but instead to have ITA “exempt income”:

248(1) “exempt income” means property received or acquired by a person in such circumstances
that it is, because of any provision of Part I, not included in computing the person’s income, but
does not include a dividend on a share or a support amount (as defined in subsection 56.1(4));
By substituting “private property” for property, and “individual” for person, private property
made by a individual could be ITA “exempt income” since it fits into the definition:

“exempt income” means (private) property received or acquired by a (individual) in such
circumstances (declined to be converted into public money) that it is, because of any
provision of Part I (Sections 6(3) and 9(1)), not included in computing the income (of Her
Majesty’s office and/or of the individual), but does not include a dividend on a share (as
can only be received by the officer for Her Majesty’s office) or a support amount as defined
in subsection 56.1(4) (being deductible, such a payee can only be by an officer104).
28 ITA: Protecting Private Property = Upholding the Honour of the Crown

Since the ITA has jurisdiction over the private property of an individual of full capacity made
while the individual was not “clothed with the powers” of Her Majesty’s office, such private
property must be protected by the ITA, or it would otherwise be illegally converted into
public money without the owner’s consent and put Her Majesty in dishonour105. ITA states,

101
The Right to Private Property, Jeremy Waldron, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988), page 267
102
ITA, R.S.C. 1985, c. 1 (5th Supp.), s. 149.(1)
103
ITA, R.S.C. 1985, c. 1 (5th Supp.), s. 81.(1). The term “tax-exempt” is used by HTG-54
Types of exempt income, Halsbury's Laws of Canada - Income Tax (2012 Reissue), Vern Krishna
104
ITA s.18(1)(c): Cannot deduct an outlay or expense if used to produce exempt income (see Appendix)
105
Manitoba Metis Federation Inc. v. Canada (Attorney General), 2013 SCC 14 highlighted the concept of
“honour of the Crown”: http://canlii.ca/t/fwfft
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3. The income of a taxpayer for a taxation year for the purposes of this Part is the taxpayer’s income for
the year determined by the following rules:

(a) determine the total of all amounts each of which is the taxpayer’s income for the year (other
than a taxable capital gain from the disposition of a property) from a source inside or outside
Canada, including, without restricting the generality of the foregoing, the taxpayer’s income for
the year from each office, employment, business and property,
(b) determine the amount, if any, by which
(i) the total of
(A) all of the taxpayer’s taxable capital gains for the year from dispositions of
property other than listed personal property, and
(B) the taxpayer’s taxable net gain for the year from dispositions of listed
personal property,
exceeds
(ii) the amount, if any, by which the taxpayer’s allowable capital losses for the
year from dispositions of property other than listed personal property exceed
the taxpayer’s allowable business investment losses for the year,
(c) determine the amount, if any, by which the total determined under paragraph (a) plus the
amount determined under paragraph (b) exceeds the total of the deductions permitted by
subdivision e in computing the taxpayer’s income for the year (except to the extent that those
deductions, if any, have been taken into account in determining the total referred to in paragraph
(a), and
(d) determine the amount, if any, by which the amount determined under paragraph (c) exceeds
the total of all amounts each of which is the taxpayer’s loss for the year from an office,
employment, business or property or the taxpayer’s allowable business investment loss for the
year,
and for the purposes of this Part,
(e) where an amount is determined under paragraph (d) for the year in respect of the taxpayer, the
taxpayer’s income for the year is the amount so determined, and
(f) in any other case, the taxpayer shall be deemed to have income for the year in an amount
equal to zero.
An individual who is not an officer lacks the legal power to receive any capital gains (office
profit) and also is not permitted, per ITA s.18(1)(c) 106 (see Appendix), to deduct any
expenses, capital losses, or business investment losses since it receives ITA “exempt
income”. Note that ITA s.3 does not use the term private property but instead uses
“personal property”, obfuscating that it could be private property and/or public money.
For an individual not as an officer, after applying (a) to (e), then:
(f) in any other case, the taxpayer shall be deemed to have income for the year in an amount equal
to zero.

ITA s.3(f) prevents a individual’s private property from being converted into public money
on a T1, which, from earlier, seems to be for reporting only the income of Her Majesty’s
office as it uses the all-lower-case ‘social insurance number’. The protection of private

ITA, R.S.C. 1985, c. 1 (5th Supp.), s.18.(1)(c)
106
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property in the ITA, made possible by the dual capacity of an individual as a corporation
sole, corroborates with what was said about the ITA in Stanchfield107:

“[29] This in no way conflicts with the provisions of the Bill of Rights. Individuals in Canada are
afforded human rights and fundamental freedoms by the Bill of Rights, one of which is the right
to the enjoyment of property. However, this right is not unconditional, as individuals may be
deprived of this right by due process of law.

By having a dual legal capacity through a corporation sole, such an individual, while in a
representative capacity as an officer for Her Majesty’s office, “may be deprived of this right
(enjoyment of property) by due process of law (accepting the deeming in the ITA that the
individual is an officer earning “office profit” that is public money). The same individual,
while of full capacity, has his right to enjoyment of private property recognized by the
Canadian Bill of Rights108 and earns private property that is not “office profit” that could
be ITA “exempt income109”.

29 ITA: Unrebutted Deeming Consensually Converts Private Property to Public Money
An individual can consensually convert his private property into public money either by
being “clothed with all the powers” of Her Majesty’s office as such an officer, or by
donating it to the public. We saw earlier that it is a CCC offence to convert private property
into public money without the property owner’s consent110; therefore, to not dishonour the
Crown, the ITA has to legitimize the conversion by deeming111 an individual to be such an
officer; if the deeming is not rebutted, the ITA then legally converts private property into
public money through the owner’s consent through silence.
30 ITA: Deeming Private Property to be Public Money must be Rebuttable

As we saw earlier how the ITA must protect private property rights, the ITA’s deeming that
the individual receives public money as an officer must also be rebuttable.

Recall earlier from Chapter 19 that ITA “employment” could mean the position of an
individual in the service of Her Majesty (as an officer), and ITA “employee” could mean
officer. By replacing in ITA s.6(3), “in the employment” with “as an officer”, and
“employee” with “officer”, ITA s.6(3) then becomes:

107
Canadian Bill of Rights, SC 1960, c.44 http://canlii.ca/t/j05x
108
109
ITA, R.S.C. 1985, c. 1 (5th Supp.), s.248(1)
110
373409 ALBERTA LTD. v. BANK OF MONTREAL, 2002 SCC 81, para. [9]: “An owner’s right of
possession includes the right to authorize others to deal with his chattel in any manner specified… No
action lies in conversion or trespass to chattels for consensual interferences with goods…”
111
ITA, R.S.C. 1985, c. 1 (5th Supp.), s.6(3) and 9(1)
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6(3) An amount received by one person from another
(a) during a period while the payee was an officer of, or in the employment as an officer of, the
payer, or
the payee was an officer of, or in the employment as an officer of, the payer, shall be deemed,
for the purposes of section 5, to be remuneration for the payee’s services rendered as an officer
or during the period of employment as an officer, unless it is established that, irrespective of
when the agreement, if any, under which the amount was received was made or the form or
legal effect thereof, it cannot reasonably be regarded as having been received
(c) as consideration or partial consideration for accepting the office or entering into the contract
of employment as an officer,
(d) as remuneration or partial remuneration for services as an officer or under the contract of
employment as an officer, or
(e) in consideration or partial consideration for a covenant with reference to what the officer
or employee officer is, or is not, to do before or after the termination of the employment as an
officer.

Removing the words that have been crossed out, ITA s.6(3) could then be simplified to:
6(3) An amount received by one person from another

(a) during a period while the payee was an officer of, the payer, or
the payee was an officer of, the payer, shall be deemed, for the purposes of section 5, to be
remuneration for the payee’s services rendered as an officer, unless it is established that,
irrespective of when the agreement, if any, under which the amount was received was made or
the form or legal effect thereof, it cannot reasonably be regarded as having been received
(c) as consideration for accepting the office or entering into the contract as an officer,
(d) as remuneration for services as an officer or under the contract as an officer, or
(e) in consideration for a covenant with reference to what the officer is, or is not, to do before or
after the termination as an officer.
In a nutshell, ITA s.6(3) says a payee is deemed to be an officer “unless it is established…

that it cannot reasonably be regarded as having been received” as an officer.
When does the deeming have to be rebutted? It is irrelevant; ITA s.6(3) says, “irrespective
of when the agreement” (is made). Does the rebuttal have to be in writing? No; ITA s.6(3)
says the agreement is, “if any”. Why does ITA s.6(3) say, “if any”? What if the payer does
not want to hire a payee who does not wish to work as an officer? That could be a
violation of the payee’s right of liberty under s.8 of the Charter112 to not work as an officer;
therefore, ITA s.6(3) says “if any” to protect that right by stating that no agreement is
needed between the payer and such a payee, so a payer cannot force a payee to be an
officer. That corroborates with the dual meaning of the ITA definition of “employer”:

248(1) “employer”, in relation to an officer, means the person from whom the officer receives
the officer’s remuneration;

112
The Constitution Act, 1982, Schedule B to the Canada Act 1982 (UK), 1982, c 11, http://canlii.ca/t/ldsx
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Since there is a comma after “employer”, an ITA ”employer” could be (if no relation to an
officer) the person from whom the individual receives the individual’s consideration, or it
could be (if relation to an officer) the person from whom the officer receives the officer’s
remuneration. This also corroborates this theory that an individual for the ITA has a dual
legal capacity - as an individual and as an officer for Her Majesty.
In addition, an employer may be fined $100 per day for failing “to try to get”113 a worker’s
all-lower-case ‘social insurance number’. I am unaware of any case law fining an employer
for such an offence. Given the severity of penalties in the ITA, it is unusual that this ITA fine
uses the word “may” and not the mandatory word “shall”. This also corroborates that a
payer cannot force a payee to be such an officer.
CRA’s P-182R Policy Statement on determining whether an agency exists says:

Agency exists where one person (the principal) authorizes another person (the agent) to represent
it and take certain actions on its behalf. The authority granted by the principal may be express or
implied. In other words, an agency relationship may be created where one person explicitly
consents to having another act on its behalf or behaves in such a way that consent is implied.
It follows that the deeming in the ITA to be an officer/agent of Her Majesty must be
rebuttable in case one does not “explicitly consent” to be Her Majesty’s officer/agent, per
the legal maxim114, “It is to the intention that all law applies”.
In The Motive, Not the Deed Lionel Smith115 says a fiduciary relationship is best understood
as premised on a voluntary undertaking to assume an office to which the law attaches
fiduciary obligations, or, outside of that, on a voluntary undertaking to put another’s
interests ahead of one’s own. It follows that an officer of Her Majesty owes a similar duty of
loyalty to that office.
The Supreme Court of Canada says, just because a person owes a duty of loyalty in
respect of some things which he does, it does not follow that he owes a duty of loyalty in
respect of everything that he does116.

Taking all these into account, one could conclude that an individual has a right to receive
income in some circumstances as his private property and not as Canada’s public money
and, in other circumstances, receives income as public money as a CPP/EIA/ETA/ITA
officer as “office profit”.

113
CRA website: http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tx/bsnss/tpcs/pyrll/hwpyrllwrks/pnlty/pnlts/sin-nas-eng.html
114
“It is to the intention that all law applies”: Animus ad se omne jus ducit.
115
The Motive, Not the Deed, Lionel Smith,
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=118243; his biography is at
http://www.mcgill.ca/law/about/profs/smith-lionel
116
Hodgkinson v. Simms [1994] 3 SCR 377, at page 464: “not every act in a so-called fiduciary
relationship is encumbered with a fiduciary obligation…” http://canlii.ca/t/1frpl
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31 Superior Title: The Third Missing Essential Element
In Canadian law, a claim of right (title) is so predominant that a private person can “use as
much force as necessary” under the Criminal Code to defend his private property:
Criminal Code of Canada, s. 25. (1): Protection of Persons Acting Under Authority:
25. (1) Every one who is required or authorized by law to do anything in the administration or
enforcement of the law (a) as a private person, is, if he acts on reasonable grounds, justified in
doing what he is required or authorized to do and in using as much force as is necessary for that
purpose.
As the ITA protects private property rights, Canada’s income tax system must be based
on self-assessment; it is up to the individual to state whether he wants to, or not to,
work as an officer (and, consequently, whether his income is public money or his private
property). If an individual states, verbally consents, or signs an agreement to decline the
deeming in the ITA that he works as an officer for Her Majesty’s office, that individual has a
superior claim to his income as his private property. Alternatively, if the individual accepts
by silent acquiescence117 the deeming in the ITA or consents that he received income
and/or benefits as an officer for Her Majesty’s office, then Canada establishes a superior
title claim to that property as Canada’s public money. It is about who has a higher title
claim (see attached diagram, “Superior (Higher) Property Title”).
32 ITA “Assessment”, “Re-Assessment”, and “(Re)Assessment”

Corroborating that it is up to the individual to decide whether to work as an officer or not
are the CRA forms, “Notice of Assessment”, “Notice of Re-Assessment”, and “Notice of
(Re)Assessment”. The ITA s.248(1) definition of “assessment” is:

248(1) “assessment” includes reassessment;

The second possible meaning of “includes” from The Composition of Legislation 118 is,
“rather than add a meaning, it serves to settle the doubt”. Therefore, according to this legal
reference written for the Department of Justice, ITA “assessment” can mean only a
reassessment, and not an initial assessment. If so, then a “Notice of Assessment” (“NOA”)
issued by CRA is really a notice of a reassessment. Who then did the initial assessment?
The individual taxpayer did when he or she filed. So a typical sequence with the ITA, which
is administrative law, is: taxpayer’s initial assessment => CRA issues a reassessment titled
“Notice of Assessment” => if audited, CRA re-issues a Notice of Re-Assessment (which is
really a re-reassessment).

117
Her Majesty’s claim can be as weak as a presumptive declaration by a third party, i.e. a Contractor
Payroll Reporting System T5018, but it is still a higher title (claim) if not rebutted by the contractor.
The Composition of Legislation, Driedger, 2nd Ed., 1976, The Department of Justice Ottawa, p. 46
118
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Superior (Higher) Property Title

Any level is superior to all levels below it
Written title claim, i.e. RC199 Oral evidence in court under

5
Voluntary Disclosure (as public oath explaining intent of any
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property for Her Majesty’s written title claim
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individual taxpayers) Worst

Corroborating even further that the ITA definition of “assessment” means only a
reassessment are CRA forms with the unusual heading, “Notice of (Re)Assessment”.
These are issued only when CRA has records that the individual has signed for but still
ignored registered mail demands to file, and/or promised by phone to file but still has not
filed, etc. In other words, the deemed officer/agent has failed in fulfilling its fiduciary duty to
report that office’s income. Only then does CRA step in, as another agent of Her Majesty,
and file for the deemed officer. As the ITA “legal representative” never made the initial
assessment, CRA’s initial assessment is on a “Notice of (Re)Assessment”. The (re) is a
negative and cancels out the re in the ITA definition of “assessment”, so a CRA “Notice of
(Re)Assessment” is a Notice of (Re)Reassessment = an initial assessment by CRA.

33 Fiduciary Duty to Report All Income
An individual taxpayer with dual legal capacity, who could be an officer making “office
profit” for Her Majesty's office that is public money, and/or an individual making income
that is not “office profit” and that is private property, fits the ITA definition of “taxpayer”:
248(1) “taxpayer” includes any person whether or not liable to pay taxes
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An individual with the all-lower-case ‘social insurance number’ (“SIN”) and the upper-and-
lower case Social Insurance Number (also119 called “SIN” by CRA120) has a fiduciary duty,
as officer/agent of Her Majesty’s office (see diagram, “ITA Fiduciary Duty: Due to
Agency”), to report all of the individual’s income in both capacities; public money for that
office, and all private property received not for that office. One concludes (see Appendix):
‘income’ for the ITA of an individual with a SIN =

“public money” (by officer) for Her Majesty’s office (‘social insurance number’) as:
taxable income + ‘non-taxable income’
+
private property (by individual of full capacity) with (Social Insurance Number) as:
ITA “exempt income”
34 T1: For Filing Only Canada’s Public Money?
As there is no line on a T1 to file any private property that is ITA “exempt income” which is
deemed by ITA s.3(f) to be equal to zero, and a T1 does not use the upper-and-lower case
Social Insurance Number but the all-lower-case ‘social insurance number’, it seems a T1 is
designed by CRA for filing only the “office profit” of Her Majesty’s office (public money)
made by the officer, and not the ITA “exempt income” of an individual’s private property.
How then can one avoid being charged with failing to report all ‘income’, if one earned
‘income’ not as such an officer? I propose a possible solution is by filing such ‘income’ not
on CRA’s T1, but instead by letter with the proper SIN.

35 Filing Private Property by Letter
Up until 1990 T1 forms said, “Form authorized by the Minister of National Revenue”. Since
1991121 T1 forms no longer say that the Minister authorizes them (see the earlier forms, “T1
GENERAL for 1990” and “T1 GENERAL for 1991”). Does that mean a taxpayer can file a
return on something other than on CRA’s T1 form?

In the case of Sandra June Gibbs v. Regina122, the court ruled:

[45] The appellant submits that there is no such prescribed form under the Act and that for this
reason she is not able to comply with the legal requirement that she file her return of income on
such a form. She argues that the T-1 form is not a prescribed form.
[46] This issue was considered by Silverman J. in R v. Watson 2005 BCSC 1225 (CanLII), 2005
BCSC 1225. … The Crown conceded that there was no regulation prescribing the T-1 form and
that there was no documentation whereby the Minister expressly authorized the form.

119
The dual meaning of SIN allows a bank account with a SIN to be either income earned by an officer, or
income earned by a individual, or both; the individual self-assesses whose money it is.
120
CRA started using SIN for both Social Insurance Number and ‘social insurance number’ in 2001.
121
From Chapter 10, 1991 was also when the T1 switched to using the ‘social insurance number’.
122
Sandra June Gibbs v. Regina, 2006 BCSC 481 (CanLII), http://canlii.ca/t/1mwxt
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ITA Fiduciary Duty: Due to Agency

‘social insurance
SCC: Fiduciary duty is number’ (‘SIN’)
to secure the
paramountcy of one ITA CPP
side’s interests…
legal officer:
representative Beneficiary
Trustee
Principal-Agent gets “Participation is ITA

voluntary”
SIN* - SIN Application officer &
( CPP officer = ITA officer ) Agent
*Social person
The “officer”, through HM’s Insurance ITA officer has
Fiduciary Duty as
office, and CRA both have Number
also an Agent to
fiduciary duties as both are office of the Principal
agents of Her Majesty Her Majesty
Birth
Certificate
or Principal
Between Two Agents Citizenship
Paramountcy of fiduciary duty Consents to CRA has Fiduciary

Social
as agents overwhelms any Contract
Duty to Principal
possible residual duty of care
between the CRA and the CPP/ human CRA: No Fiduciary Duty to ITA officer
ITA officer/agent being Agent as agent

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In Hart Electronics , the Manitoba Court of Appeal ruled:

“Under the provisions of section 126(2), the Minister notified the respondent company that it was
required to file income tax returns on form T2. An officer of the company sent a letter to the
Department enclosing unsigned T2 forms, showing no tax payable, on which certain remarks and
comments had been filled in. No documents were attached. The company was charged with
failure to file the returns required. When a magistrate dismissed the charge, the Crown appealed
to the Manitoba Court of Appeal, where it was stated that T2 forms had been enclosed in a letter
to the Department and that these forms 'although not signed contained certain information'.
Held: The appeal was dismissed. In the Court's opinion, a T2 form, which gave certain
information sent by letter though the form was not signed, constituted an income tax return.”
Since T1 forms no longer say that the Minister authorizes them, and in Gibbs, “The Crown
conceded that there was no regulation prescribing the T-1 form and that there was no
documentation whereby the Minister expressly authorized the form”, and in Hart, “a T2
form, which gave certain information sent by letter though the form was not signed,

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The Queen v. Hart Electronics Limited, 59 DTC 1192 http://ownlife.com/tax/hrte591.htm
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constituted an income tax return”, it seems that one could file ITA “exempt income” of a
individual (private property) by letter124 with the upper-and-lower case Social Insurance
Number. As such ITA “exempt income” is deemed = 0 by ITA s.3(f), reasons to file such
ITA “exempt income” by letter are so the accounting and bank records correlate with the
tax filings to Her Majesty by the individual taxpayer in all legal capacities, and for the
individual to establish a written title claim to his private property so it is a superior claim to
Her Majesty’s deeming125 in the ITA that it is Canada’s public money (see diagram, “Public
Money vs. Private Property in Canada”.)

Corroborating that an individual can file by letter are the CRA letters (see, “REQUEST TO
FILE AN INCOME TAX AND BENEFIT RETURN” and “DEMAND FOR INCOME TAX
AND BENEFIT RETURN”). The first one says, “2013 T1 Return”, then below that, “We
have not received your income tax and benefit return for the tax year shown above. We
request that you complete this return and mail it to…” Most Canadians would conclude
that CRA is requesting a 2013 T1 Return be filled, but this is NOT the case; the letter says,
“we have not received your return”; not “we have not received the above return”. It goes
on to say, “We request that you complete the return”, but “the” now refers only to your
return for the year shown above. In the second CRA letter, “DEMAND FOR INCOME TAX
AND BENEFIT RETURN”, it says “We are sending you this demand to file your income
tax return in accordance to subsection 150(2) of the ITA”; however, the ITA never says that
a return of income is only a T1.
36 Tax Evasion: A Breach of Fiduciary Duty to Report all Public Money
If the agent/officer fails to report all ‘income’ that is deemed and not rebutted to be
Canada’s public money, it could be seen as a breach of fiduciary duty by an agent of
Her Majesty to have made secret profits and committed a fraud against public money,
which, from Chapter 3 earlier, fits exactly the definition of tax evasion.
37 Remedies in Equity for Breach of Fiduciary Duty
As mentioned earlier in Chapter 3, tax evasion is legally similar to breach of trust by a

“public officer”. Remedies for breach of fiduciary duty are available in equity, as per the
Supreme Court of Canada case of Canson Enterprises Ltd. v. Boughton & Co.126:
Operating as a court of conscience, equity … acted in a wide range of cases where there was misrepresentation
or failure to give information, not amounting to actual fraud, where a person was under a fiduciary duty …to
inform another. As a court of conscience, it would act in personam to prevent persons from acting against the

124
Electronic filing (E-filing), introduced in 1992, is for filing only with a ‘social insurance number’ and not
a Social Insurance Number: http://netfile.gc.ca/rdy-eng.html and has no provision for filing by letter to
report tax exempt income: http://netfile.gc.ca/rstrctns-eng.html. CRA form letters (T1114 E (06)) that urge
individuals to file electronically also only use the ‘social insurance number’. It appears one cannot e-file
ITA “exempt income”.
ITA, R.S.C. 1985, c. 1 (5th Supp.), s.6(3) and 9(1)
125
126
Canson Enterprises Ltd. v. Boughton & Co., [1991] 3 SCR 534 http://canlii.ca/t/1fsh7
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dictates of conscience as defined by the court, i.e., where there was "equitable fraud". Equity's remedies, the Lord
Chancellor stated, were more elastic than those available at common law. "Operating in personam", he
continued, equity "could order the defendant… to pay damages . . . but to (also) make restitution, or to
compensate the plaintiff by putting him in as good a position pecuniarily”.
Black’s Law Dictionary, 9th Edition defines “disgorgement” as:
Disgorgement: The act of giving up something (such as profits illegally obtained) on demand or
by legal compulsion.
One could conclude that an income tax reassessment adjudicated in Tax Court of Canada
is a disgorgement of the public money illegally obtained from Her Majesty’s office, of
which payment can be demanded (CRA “Demand to Pay”) or legally compelled (CRA liens
and/or garnishees). This further corroborates that an officer identified with the all-lower-
case ‘social insurance number’ is also an agent of Canada handling public money.

In addition to disgorgement, deterrence is also allowed in equity, as stated also by the
Supreme Court of Canada in the case of Hodgkinson v. Simms127:

This was a case of material non‑disclosure in which the appellant alleged breach of fiduciary duty and breach
of contract against the respondent in the performance of a contract for investment advice and other tax‑related
financial services.
The respondent's behaviour calls for strict legal censure. The remedy of disgorgement is not sufficient to
guard against the type of abusive behaviour engaged in by the respondent. The law of fiduciary duties has
always contained within it an element of deterrence.
I make this point because an allegation of breach of fiduciary duty carries with it the stench of
dishonesty -- if not of deceit, then of constructive fraud. See Nocton v. Lord Ashburton, [1914]
A.C. 932 (H.L.).

One could conclude that ITA fines and penalties are “elements of deterrence” also from the
law of fiduciary duties on the agent/officer for breach of its fiduciary duty (fraud) to report
accurately, and on time, all of Canada’s public money. (See “ITA Liability: Due to Debt”).
38 No Breach of Fiduciary Duty
In most tax evasion cases, Canadians accept by silence the ITA’s deeming of earning
income as an agent/officer for Her Majesty’s office; therefore, Canada has a superior claim
that such income is her public money, and the breach in that agent/officer’s fiduciary duty
to report all public money is a fraud against the public, i.e. tax evasion. If one declared that
his income stays as his private property, there is no breach of fiduciary duty as that income
never became Canada’s public money, nor is it office profit”.

127
Hodgkinson v. Simms, 1994 CanLII 70 (SCC), [1994] 3 SCR 377 http://canlii.ca/t/1frpl
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ITA Liability: Due to Debt Equitable Title

‘social insurance
number’ (‘SIN’)
ITA s.159(1): Jointly Fiduciary Duty
Jointly & Severally Liable and severally liable to CPP officer
ITA CPP
for debt of ITA office due to ITA Trust officer:
The legal representative is legal
representative Beneficiary
jointly & severally liable to Her Trustee
Majesty for debts of Her office Debt due
Legal Title to
gets *Social Insurance ITA
office officer:
Priority in Debt Collection SIN* Number ‘rent’
owed position
CRA has priority in collection “Participation by ITA of profit;
due to fiduciary duty of ITA
is voluntary” person officer Debtor;
- SIN Agent
officer to Her Majesty, the Application
principal, and with the legal ITA officer has

office of Fiduciary Duty
representative through its Her Majesty as also an
Birth Agent to the
fiduciary duty to that officer Certificate Principal Principal
or Creditor
Citizenship
Title to Property
Consents to CRA has Fiduciary
The person with both SINs Social Duty to Principal SCC: Fiduciary
holds complete title to Contract (also a Creditor) duty is to
property ( unless registered secure the
human CRA paramountcy
with Her Majesty: i.e. land, being Agent of one side’s
motor vehicles, firearms, etc.) interests…
39 Superior Title Claim: ‘Income’ Never Became Public Money
As tax evasion is a property offence, only someone without superior title can commit such
an offence. One who has declined the deeming to be an officer for Her Majesty’s office,
such as by stamping deposit checks with such intent, has a superior claim to one’s
property to remain private (versus Her Majesty, who only has a deemed claim to title, and
which has now been rebutted). Such a person could not commit a property offence such
as tax evasion because the private property never became public money. As a consequence,
there cannot be any fraud against the public either. This is the third essential element of
tax evasion that CRA and Crown is silent on.
40 Private Property Claim: Lawful Tax Avoidance

The ITA describes what taxable income is, and that tax payable is on the taxable income:

2. (1) An income tax shall be paid, as required by this Act, on the taxable income for each
taxation year of every person resident in Canada at any time in the year.
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(2) The taxable income of a taxpayer for a taxation year is the taxpayer’s income for the year plus
the additions and minus the deductions permitted by Division C.

117(2) The tax payable under this Part by an individual on the individual’s taxable income or
taxable income earned in Canada, as the case may be (in this subdivision referred to as the
“amount taxable”) for a taxation year is … (various tax rates follow)
“Accounting profit” (see Appendix) is zero if one pays himself everything so one’s private
property is ITA “exempt income” and is deemed by ITA 3(f) to be = 0 when calculating
one’s total income. As one is not holding or performing the duties or accepting any
benefits of Her Majesty’s office, one lacks the legal power to convert one’s income into
“office profit” that is taxable income or one’s private property into public money.

41 No Tax Evasion: No Actus Rea
Tax evasion requires proof of both actus rea (guilty act) done with a guilty mind (mens rea).
There could be no actus rea for these reasons:

1) A filing by letter is evidence that one declined the deeming in the ITA to be “clothed
with all the powers” of Her Majesty’s office receiving public money, and so has a
superior title claim to one’s income as one’s private property.

2) No fraud can occur against the public if one never consented to convert one’s
private property into public money for Canada.

3) CRA often demands the individual return be filed on a T1 form. Public money for
Her Majesty’s office can be filed on a T1, but it has is no line to file private property
which is ITA “exempt income” earned by an individual who is not an officer.
4) Private property, as ITA “exempt income”, is deemed = 0 by ITA s.3 (f).

5) It is therefore impossible to file on a T1 the income of both taxpayers: the
individual and Her Majesty’s office. As the judge said in Stanchfield128 at paragraph
27, “It is an attempt at the impossible and the respondent cannot do the
impossible”, as also expressed by the legal maxim, ‘Lex non cogit ad impossibia’129.
42 No Tax Evasion: Mens Rea Irrelevant

As it is trite that mens rea (guilty mind) must precede actus rea (guilty act), there is no need
to discuss mens rea if there is no actus rea. Such a taxpayer has, in fact and in law, a
superior title claim to his property as his private property, and which is not public money.

128
129
Channel Guide India Ltd v. ACIT (Mum.) (Trib.) (www.itatonline.org); an income tax case in India
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43 Lack of Full Disclosure for Agents of Her Majesty?
Recall Crown’s position is that the individual is indivisible; all ‘income’ (not defined by the
ITA) from a ‘source’ (not defined by the ITA) by such an indivisible individual is subject to,
and taxable, by the ITA as ‘profit’ (also not defined by the ITA). However, Crown’s position
does not protect private property rights, nor can it explain how the ITA taxes worldwide
‘income’, nor can it explain why the ITA cannot tax a partnership. (See diagram: “Crown’s
Position on the ‘Income’ Tax Act”; undefined words are in orange).
First, the ITA has no definition of ‘income130’ for individuals. Is this to obfuscate that an
individual through a corporation sole has dual legal capacity with both public and private
property rights, and so can have private property income that is not taxed by the ITA?

Second, the ITA has no definition of ‘profit’. If an individual received all ‘income’ as private
property, there can be no “office profit”, and there would be no “accounting profit” left
to tax (see Appendix). However, if ‘income’ is for Her Majesty’s office as public money,
regardless of what that “office profit” is called by the officer, whether the officer has an
intent to ‘profit’ or not, and even if there is zero “accounting profit”, Her Majesty, as the
office/officer’s creator, has full jurisdiction via CRA and/or the courts131 to determine their
office’s ‘profit’ picture. Is this why the ITA definition of “office” was not debated in the
House of Commons132 when the current ITA definitions for “employee” and “employer”
were retroactively amended133 in 1953 to the 1952 ITA134?
Third, the ITA has no definition of ‘source’. Is this to obfuscate that there can be two
‘sources’ of ‘income’: “office profit” for Her Majesty’s office that is taxable, and ‘income’
for a individual of full capacity that cannot be “office profit”, “accounting profit” equals
zero, is ITA “exempt income”, and so is unable to be taxed by the ITA?
Fourth, there is no definition of the all-lower-case ‘social insurance number’ in any statute
or regulation. Is this to obfuscate and not draw attention to Her Majesty’s office and/or its
officer that seems to be both identified with that all-lower-case ‘social insurance number’?
Fifth, the ITA has no definition of ‘non-taxable income’, thus allowing the courts to decide
what it means. Is this to obfuscate that private property income of an individual is not
‘non-taxable income’, unless it is qualified that it is not for Her Majesty’s office?

130
Income is defined in ITA s.129(4), but that definition applies only to private corporations.
See, for example, Stewart v. Canada, [2002] 2 SCR 645, 2002 SCC 46 (CanLII), http://canlii.ca/t/51sg
131
and the nearly 200 cases that subsequently referenced Stewart.

132
Canada Pension Plan except it includes “the office of a lieutenant-governor”. Despite the considerable
debate in the House of Commons with regard to the 1948 amendments to the Act, none concerned the
definition of office.”
An Act to amend The Income Tax Act, 1-2 Elizabeth II, Chapter 40, assented to May 14, 1953
133
134
ITA, 1952, amended in 1953 retroactive to 1952 Statutes of Canada
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Sixth, the acronym “SIN” have been used since 2001 by CRA to denote both the upper-
and-lower case Social Insurance Number and the all-lower-case ‘social insurance
number’. Is this to obfuscate that an individual with the upper-and-lower case Social
Insurance Number still has to file and is still liable as an ITA “legal representative”, even if
he did not consent, for that taxation year, to be an officer for Her Majesty’s office with the
all-lower-case ‘social insurance number’? This also corroborates with Chapter 9’s analysis
of CRA’s CPT1 and CPT100 forms, and also with CRA’s computers using “Surname” and
“SIN” to identify individual taxpayers135 as ITA “legal representatives” but not as “officers”. If
individuals were indivisible, which is Crown’s position, then there would be no need for
CRA to have two different definitions on their web site136 for the acronym “SIN”.
Seventh, a T1 uses the all-lower-case ‘social insurance number’ to denote it is a filing of

the office’s income. There is no legislative requirement137 to file on a T1, but CRA often
sends requests and demands to file on a T1, and even has charged taxpayers with failure
to file on a T1. Is this so CRA can charge even a taxpayer who is not an officer with failure
to file and with tax evasion?
Eighth, T1 forms no longer say that the Minister authorizes them. Is this because a
taxpayer who declines to work for Her Majesty’s office can file instead a return by letter, as
I have done here, without using the all-lower-case ‘social insurance number’ that identifies
that office?
One could conclude why ‘income’, ‘profit’, ‘source138’, ‘social insurance number’, ‘non-
taxable income’ are not statutorily defined, and that “SIN” and the ITA individual “taxpayer”
have two meanings, and that CRA insists taxpayers file on T1 and T2125 forms that are
not mandated by the ITA, and that Crown does not say in court the three missing
essential elements of tax evasion (how the individual becomes an officer/agent of Her
Majesty, how that office converts ‘income’ received in the officer’s hands to “office
profit”, and who has title to the property in question), is because all that could expose an
individual taxpayer has a choice to receive in its hands, as an individual who is not an ITA
“officer”, private property that is deemed by the ITA to be an amount equal to zero.
However, such lack of full disclosure runs counter to a principal’s fundamental duty; it
must give its agents full disclosure139 so they can fulfill their fiduciary duties.

The Tax Collector’s Bible, Alan Baggett, http://www.taxcollectorsbible.com ISBN 978-1-55483-913-1
135
136
CRA’s definitions for Social Insurance Number: Definitions for letter S: http://www.cra-
arc.gc.ca/tx/bsnss/glssry/s-gn-eng.html and for ‘social insurance number’: http://www.cra-
arc.gc.ca/tx/ndvdls/tpcs/ncm-tx/rtrn/cmpltng/prsnl-nf/sin-nas/menu-eng.html
Sandra June Gibbs v. Regina, 2006 BCSC 481 (CanLII), at [46], http://canlii.ca/t/1mwxt
137
138
CRA Audit Manual, 2012 Release, page 87: ‘“source” is defined as taxable and non-taxable income’. If
this is true, why not define it in the ITA? Or is it obfuscating that an ITA individual is deemed by the ITA to
have two legal capacities?
The Law of Trusts, Eileen Gillese, Irwin Law Books, http://www.irwinlaw.com/titles/law-trusts-2e: Trusts
139
do not require full disclosure, but agency and contract do require full disclosure.
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44 Compare to CRA Alert on Tax Protestors: Theory Validated?

In November 2011, CRA issued140 a Tax Alert on “tax protestors” (see attached, “CRA
Alert: Tax Protestors”). This Tax Alert seems to be based on a CRA News release for
September 2010, but which was never released (see attached, “The CRA takes action
against tax protest movement”). The released November 2011 version says:

Don't buy into illegal tax protester schemes
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) warns all Canadians to beware of individuals that try to
convince you that Canadians do not have to pay tax on the income they earn. These individuals,
also known as tax protesters, not only fail to report their own earnings, but they also conspire,
counsel, and promote these tax schemes.
Natural vs. Legal Person
One of the most common false arguments tax protesters use is the natural vs. legal person
argument, in which they treat themselves as two separate people for income tax purposes. They
define the natural person as the individual that performs the labour required to earn income, and
the legal person as the legal entity that the federal government creates through the issuance and
use of the social insurance number (SIN). Tax protesters allege that the legal person has to file an
income tax and benefit return, and that income received belongs to the natural person and is
therefore not subject to Canadian income tax.
The wording is virtually identical except the unreleased version says, “treat themselves as
two persons” instead of the released Tax Alert which says, “treat themselves as two
separate people”. If these are false claims by “tax protestors”, then the reverse should be
how the ITA works. Compare each false claim against this theory paper’s conclusions:

CRA Position #1: Canadians have to pay tax on the income they earn.
My Conclusion: Agreed; Canadians have to pay tax on the ‘income’ they earn.
CRA Position #2: Canadians have to report their own earnings.
My Conclusion: Agreed; Canadians have to report their own earnings.
CRA Position #3: Canadians cannot treat themselves as two separate people for income
tax purposes.

My Conclusion: Agreed; Canadians cannot treat themselves as two separate people for
income tax purposes, but rather as two separate (legal) persons.
CRA Position #4: Tax protestors define the natural person as the individual that performs
the labour required to earn income.

140
CRA Newsroom, http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/nwsrm/lrts/2011/l111130-eng.html
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My Conclusion: Agreed; labour can be provided by someone other than a natural person,
such as by children not of legal age, or adults lacking mental competency.
CRA Position #5: Tax protestors define the legal person as the legal entity that the federal
government creates through the issuance and use of the social insurance number (SIN).

My Conclusion: Agreed; the legal person (Her Majesty’s office) is not created by the
federal government but by the individual by “filling an office”, and it is not created through
issuance of the social insurance number, but by the individual’s use of the same number
originally issued by Services Canada as a Social Insurance Number.
CRA Position #6: Tax protestors allege that the legal person has to file an income and
benefit return.

My Conclusion: Agreed; the legal person (Her Majesty’s office) cannot file an income and
benefit return as the officer is an artificial person. It is the individual in the capacity of ITA
“legal representative” that files, and often signs, that office’s return.
CRA Position #7: Tax protestors allege that income received belongs to the natural
person and is therefore not subject to Canadian income tax.

My Conclusion: Agreed; that income received is deemed by the ITA to belong to a legal
person, Her Majesty, and is therefore subject to Canadian income tax.
CRA Position #8: Tax protestors allege the ITA is valid, but it does not apply to natural
persons.

My Conclusion: Agreed; the ITA does apply to natural persons.
CRA Position #9: Tax protestors allege the ITA only applies to a legal representative of the
legal person that is created through a SIN.
My Conclusion: Agreed; the ITA applies to both persons identified with a SIN: the officer
for Her Majesty’s office with the ‘social insurance number’ (SIN) and to the individual as a
legal representative with the Social Insurance Number (also SIN).

CRA Position #10: Tax protestors do not define themselves as persons under the ITA.

My Conclusion: Agreed; persons under the ITA comprise of every one who consents to
Canada’s social contract, including natural persons or individuals.
In summary, this theory does not disagree with ANY of CRA’s ten so-called “tax protestor”
positions.

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Agent for Crown’s Version of Canada's ‘Income’ Tax Act Version .7
Four Problems with Agent for Crown’s Theory

1) Does not protect private property rights
2) Violates international human rights treaties
3) Cannot explain how ITA taxes worldwide income
4) Cannot explain why partnerships are not directly taxed
Applies What is ‘Source’ of ‘Income’ ‘Income’

To ‘Profit’? are all from ‘Profit’

ITA “office”
ITA “employment” ITA s.2.(2) “taxable income”
All
or could be
ITA Indivisible Individuals + ‘Income’
‘non-taxable income’
“taxpayer” Entity Officers is
File on T1 with ‘social
‘Profit’ ITA “business” insurance number’
ITA “property”
CRA Alert: “Tax ITA s.248(1): “employee
protestors treat includes officer” is to

Version 4.1 SUMM themselves as two remind us to not forget
Red: private person
, Green: FIA/ITA “person” separate people” the officers (??)
ce Blue: CPP/ITA “officer”
al) Blue: ITA “taxpayer” - from a tax lawyer
activity
not for Words and phrases in orange are not defined
profit
Self-Assessment by the ‘Income’ Tax Act. Could this be because
property For discussion only. Not meant to be a reference
the individual taxpayer could be divisible, so
held not all ‘profit’ paid to
for profit
that there actually are:
the taxpayer is
holding Orange Words = not defined in the statute taxable income and
an office - two kinds of ‘income’?
not for Note: Subject to change & is incomplete. E.& O.E. must be declared
profit - two kinds of ‘sources’?
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- two kinds of ‘profit’?
EI
(optional)
Act “insured person”
thod A: “person” files “exempt

ome” by attaching note to a T1

This Theory Paper’s Version of Canada's ‘Income’ Tax Act Version .7
Applies What is ‘Profit’? ‘Source’ of ‘Income’ ITA“employment” deemed ‘Income’

To for “officer” identified by a
‘social insurance number’
ITA “employment” ITA s.6(3) ITA s.2.(2) “taxable income”

“Office profit”
or ‘non-taxable income’ for
CPP/ITA
(see Appendix)
ITA “office” Her Majesty’s office
/GST File “office profit” on T1 with
“officer” an office is an
‘social insurance number’
artificial person ITA “business”
created for profit ITA s.9(1)
FAA PUBLIC MONEY
ITA “property”
Dual individual
Individual registers
capacity by
forming a
ITA “business” and
Two ‘sources’ of Two ‘sources’ of “property” for profit Two ‘sources’ of ‘profit’
ITA corporation sole;
‘profit’ for an ‘income’ for an with Her Majesty and of ‘income’ for an
office/officer
“taxpayer” individual individual
“conceptually individual taxpayer?
divisible but taxpayer? taxpayer?
legally
indivisible”
“Accounting ITA “employment” T h e I TA d e e m s
profit” = 0 not as CPP/ITA/ private property = $0 PRIVATE PROPERTY
(see Appendix) GST “officer”
private i.e. what is left ITA s.3(f) ITA s.248(1)
person “exempt income”
Version 4.1 SUMM
over is all paid
Red: private person

ITA “business” (No line to file on a T1)
Green: FIA/ITA “person”
to the private
e Blue: CPP/ITA “officer” File by letter with Social
al) Blue: ITA “taxpayer” person ITA “property”
Not as an officer of Her Insurance Number
activity
Majesty’s office with the
not for ‘social insurance number’
profit
Self-Assessment
any ‘profit’ declared Orange words not defined by the ‘Income’ Tax Act. Is
property For discussion only. Not meant to be a reference
held not and not paid to the this because an individual taxpayer is divisible, so:
for profit
Blue = for Her Majesty’s office/officer private person is the - ‘profit’ = “office profit” + “accounting profit”?
holding Red = related to private persons public money of Her
an office Orange Words = not defined in the statute - ‘source’ = for Her Majesty’s office + for a private
not for Majesty’s office as
profit Note: Subject to change & is incomplete. E.& O.E. person?
taxable income or - ‘income’ = FAA public money + private property?
EI
‘non-taxable income’
(optional)
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Act “insured person”
thod A: “person” files “exempt

ome” by attaching note to a T1
A Voluntary Disclosure Program

s ITA “exempt income” of the ITA
rson” to the ITA “taxpayer” as
able income” via Form RC199

CRA Alert: Tax Protestors

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The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) warns all Canadians to beware of individuals that try to convince you
that Canadians do not have to pay tax on the income they earn. These individuals, also known as tax
protesters, not only fail to report their own earnings, but they also conspire, counsel, and promote these tax
schemes.
Natural vs Legal Person

One of the most common false arguments tax protesters use is the natural vs. legal person argument, in
which they treat themselves as two separate people for income tax purposes. They define the natural person
as the individual that performs the labour required to earn income, and the legal person as the legal entity
that the federal government creates through the issuance and use of the social insurance number (SIN). Tax
protesters allege that the legal person has to file an income tax and benefit return, and that income received
belongs to the natural person and is therefore not subject to Canadian income tax.
Canadian courts have repeatedly and consistently rejected all arguments made in these tax protester
schemes.
Serious Consequences
For those involved in tax protester schemes, the CRA will reassess income tax and interest, and charge
45 Conclusions
penalties. In some cases these individuals will be prosecuted for tax evasion. If convicted, they could face
significant fines and possibly jail time.
For example, the courts fined an Ontario tax protester approximately $522,000, which represented 150% of
My theory agrees with all ten points made in CRA’s Tax Alert on “Tax Protestors”. This
the federal taxes evaded. In addition, the individual was given a one year conditional sentence, and was
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rights covenants. Unlike many of the “OPCA Litigants” that the
Associate Chief Justice of Alberta wrote as a 135 page obiter dicta (a statement made in a
The CRA reminds Canadians that, when it comes to their tax affairs, they should get independent
court decision that is not essential to the disposition of the case) in the divorce case of
advice from a reputable professional.
Meads v. Meads141, I conclude that the ITA is legal and constitutional, as it imposes an
indirectMore federal
information tax on individuals that consent to being deemed by the ITA as federal
officersMore of Her Majesty.
information on tax protester schemes is available at www.cra.gc.ca/alert under Tax Protesters.

Stay connected
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141
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The CRA takes action against tax protest movement

Ottawa, Ontario, September xx, 2010_ The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) is always on the lookout for tax
schemes and is taking action to fight them.
On August 25, 2010, the Canada Revenue Agency undertook nine co-ordinated searches— in British Columbia,
Alberta, and Saskatchewan—of individuals associated with the tax protest movement. These individuals (tax
protesters who support the notion that they do not have to pay tax on the income they earn) are believed to be part of
a pyramid scheme that promotes the evading of tax.
"This is the first co-ordinated search action against tax protestors of this magnitude ever conducted by the CRA,"
said the Honourable Keith Ashfield, Minister of National Revenue, Minister of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities
Agency, and Minister for the Atlantic Gateway. "This is an example of how the CRA works hard to identify and
correct non-compliance to keep the system fair for Canadians who comply with the tax laws."
The CRA has evidence that the nine cases are associated with a pyramid scheme promoting the tax protest
movement. The CRA has alleged that the individuals involved have not only failed to report their earnings from the
scheme, but they have also counselled others to participate in the scheme and evade paying taxes.
Under the scheme, tax protesters treat themselves as two separate persons when they prepare their income tax and
benefit returns. They consider a natural person to be the individual who does the labour needed to earn income. And
they consider a legal person to be the legal entity created by the federal government through the issuing of a social
insurance number, and who legally has to file a tax and benefit return. The legal person then hires the natural person
to do the labour needed to earn income. Tax protesters allege that income received as a natural person is not subject
to Canadian income tax. Canadian courts have consistently rejected natural person arguments that have often been
advanced by tax protesters in order to avoid paying taxes.
Paying taxes is the law, and those who fail to follow tax laws could face serious consequences. The CRA has the
authority under the Income Tax Act and the Excise Tax Act to use a number of tools to address non-
compliance. When taxpayers are convicted of tax evasion or tax fraud, they have to repay the full amount of taxes
owing and any amounts fraudulently obtained, plus interest, as well as any civil penalties that may be assessed by
the CRA. If people are convicted, the courts may fine them up to 200% of the federal tax evaded or false refunds
claimed, and sentence them to a jail term of up to two years.
Those who have participating in a scheme and want to come forward to correct their tax affairs can use the
CRA's Voluntary Disclosures Program (VDP). If you make a valid disclosure before you become aware of any
compliance action being started against you by the CRA, you may only have to pay the taxes owing plus interest,
and you will not have to pay penalties or face prosecution in the courts. More information on the VDP is available at
W W W. c r a . g c . c a / v o l u n t a r y d i s c l o s u r e s .
Before participating in a tax scheme, Canadians should seek independent advice from a reputable tax professional or
contact the CRA to ask about a scheme's validity.
Remember, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
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This theory is corroborated by showing that an individual taxpayer pays income tax, CPP,
GST, and EI depending on its relationship with Her Majesty’s office and its officer, which as
a corporation sole is “conceptually divisible but legally indivisible” from the office.
The ITA taxes undefined ‘profit’. If an individual not as an officer in an unregistered activity
pays himself everything left over after other expenses have been paid (no “accounting
profit” - see Appendix), that could be “untaxed income (which) would be
inappropriate142”, so the ITA deems an individual as an officer making “office profit” that is
public money for Her Majesty’s office identified with the all-lower-case ‘social insurance
number’. An individual can also become such an officer by applying for CPP and/or for
GST, as it all involves the same office.

An individual (not as an officer) lacks the legal power to receive or convert private property
into public money. One could conclude that the undefined ITA word ‘income’ for an
individual could be = (public money as “office profit”) + (private property income) - see
Appendix.
An individual filing with the all-lower-case ‘social insurance number’ seems to have the
characteristics in CRA’s P-182R 143 Policy Statement of a principal-agent relationship.
Justice Kovatch said in HMTQ v. Doug Amell et al144 that such an officer is also a
“statutory agent identified with a social insurance number”. The law of fiduciary duty, with
equity principles such as disgorgement and deterrence, could be the legal foundation for
ITA reassessments and civil and criminal penalties. All lead to the same conclusion - an
officer with the all-lower-case ‘social insurance number’ is also an agent of Her Majesty.
Applying for a GST account means one consents to be an agent of Her Majesty collecting
and remitting Canada’s public money. As both the GST “office” and the ITA “office” for an
individual are the same office with Her Majesty, one could conclude that, just like GST,
income tax also involves one as an agent of Her Majesty collecting and remitting Canada’s
public money and not private property (see attached, “CRA Tax Alert: Abuse of Source
Deductions and GST/HST Amounts Held in Trust”).
Corroborating this theory even further is that it also offers plausible explanations as to how
the ITA taxes worldwide income, and why the ITA cannot tax a partnership even though it
is recognized as a person in law. With all this, one would find it hard to conclude that
someone filing with the all-lower-case ‘social insurance number’ is not an officer and agent
of Her Majesty with fiduciary duties since it is then dealing with Canada’s public money.

142
Notes on Proposed Amendments to the Income Tax Act, Proposed section 3.1, Department of
Finance,http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/webarchives/20071124194314/http://www.fin.gc.ca/news03/
data/03-055_2e.html, published October 31, 2003
143
GST/HST Policy Statement on Agency, P-182R, Canada Revenue Agency, http://www.cra-
arc.gc.ca/E/pub/gl/p-182r/README.html. While this CRA Policy Statement is for GST, the principles and
duties of an agency relationship should be the same for non-GST matters.
144
HMTQ v. Doug Amell et al 2010 SKPC 107, at [50]: www.canlii.ca/t/2c05t
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Tax alert
Abuse of source deductions and GST/HST amounts
held in trust
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) is warning businesses about the consequences of failing to report and
remit source deductions and goods and services tax/harmonized sales tax (GST/HST) they hold in trust for the
Government of Canada.
Trust funds and your obligations1
The Income Tax Act and the Excise Tax Act require businesses to hold source deductions and GST/HST
amounts in trust for the government. Employers are required to remit these source deductions—amounts
withheld from employee salaries and wages to pay income tax, Canada Pension Plan/Quebec Pension Plan,
and employment insurance premiums—to the federal government by certain dates.2 Businesses that collect
GST/HST must also remit these amounts to the government by specified dates.3
Funds held in trust must not be used as an alternate means of cash for a business. The CRA will use its
legislated powers of recovery to make sure that amounts considered to be held in trust are paid to the
government in full and on time.
There are consequences
Businesses that do not fulfill their obligations or comply with payroll requirements may be assessed penalties
or interest or incur other consequences.4
Businesses have to file their GST/HST returns and make payments on time. Failure to do so may result in
penalties and interest on any returns or amounts the business has not remitted to the government by the filing
due date.5
The Income Tax Act and the Excise Tax Act allow for the recovery of source deductions and GST/HST
amounts by:
• enhanced garnishments to collect amounts considered to be held in trust for the government;
• assessment of the directors of a corporation for the corporation’s failure to remit either source
deductions or GST/HST amounts;
• seizure and sale of assets of a debtor corporation, an assessed director or a sole proprietor; and
• any other means of recovery allowed under federal legislation.
Come to us before we come to you
If you have collected source deductions or GST/HST amounts and have not remitted them on time, please
contact the CRA as soon as possible to make arrangements to pay the outstanding amounts.
Employers or businesses that have failed to file returns, remit source deductions or GST/HST amounts for
current or previous years can voluntarily correct their tax affairs by participating in the Voluntary Disclosures
Program. The Voluntary Disclosures Program allows taxpayers to come forward to correct inaccurate or
incomplete tax information and disclose information they have not reported to the CRA. Taxpayers will not be
penalized or prosecuted if they make valid disclosures before they become aware of any CRA compliance
action against them. These taxpayers may only have to pay the taxes owing, plus interest.
More information
More information is available on the CRA’s Web site at www.cra.gc.ca/voluntarydisclosures.

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Tax evasion in Canada is now a predicate offence to fraud. This could be because the
current EIA uses the CRF, whereas the old Unemployment Insurance Act held its funds
separately from the CRF. With everything now dealing with the CRF, tax evasion is legally
similar to fraud (breach of trust) by a public officer, as I have shown how:

1) An individual becomes an officer of Her Majesty dealing with public money by “filling
an office145” and creating a corporation sole which, the Industry Canada website146
says, “once the corporation (sole) is established, there is no distinction between the
person who holds the office and the office itself.”
2) That office is identified with the all-lower-case ‘social insurance number’.
3) That officer is also an agent of Her Majesty and so has a fiduciary duty to report
Canada’s public money accurately and on time.
4) That officer can breach its fiduciary duties by failing to report all property deemed
or consented to be Canada’s public money accurately and on time.
As the ITA must protect private property rights, the deeming to be an officer must be
rebuttable. While income for any office is “office profit” and taxable by the ITA, to protect
Her Majesty’s honour, an individual’s private property can be ITA “exempt income” which
is deemed by ITA s.3(f) to be equal to zero, so that Her Majesty does not illegally convert
the private property into public money.
CRA often demands individual returns be filed on a T1 or T2125 despite there being no
legal requirement to file on only those forms. The T1 and T2125 both use the all-lower-
case ‘social insurance number’ to denote that they are for filing only the public money of
Her Majesty. As there is no line on a T1 to file any ITA “exempt income”, and it is deemed
by ITA s.3(f) to be equal to zero, filing such private property income of a individual on a T1
is a legal impossibility and so cannot be tax evasion. An alternative is to file such private
property by letter with the upper-and-lower-case Social Insurance Number denoting the
individual’s capacity as an ITA “legal representative”.

(The Appendix follows on page 80 and 81)

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146
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Appendix: Examples of ‘Income’ Calculations for an Individual Taxpayer

Definitions
“Accounting profit” - What is left over from revenue after all expenses are paid, including
payments to individuals as officers of Her Majesty’s office and/or as individuals.

“Office profit” - Profit for Her Majesty’s office/officer with the ‘social insurance number’.
As an office is an artificial person created initially for profit, any compensation for Her
Majesty’s office is office profit, regardless of what it is called. If it is from a business or
property ‘source’ of ‘income’, the taxability depends on whether the officer had an intent
to ‘profit’ (= taxable income) or not (= undefined ‘non-taxable income’).

For Profit Taxpayer
ITA s.18(1)(c)147does not apply as the taxpayer (limited company, sole proprietorship, or
registered partnership) is created for office profit and not for exempt income:

18(1)(c) In computing the income of a taxpayer from a business or property no deduction shall
be made in respect of an outlay or expense to the extent that it may reasonably be regarded as
having been made or incurred for the purpose of gaining or producing exempt income or in
connection with property the income from which would be exempt;
Example 1 – All Paid as ITA “Employee” or as Director’s Fees- $100K Paid to Officer
Office profit = $100K as ITA “employee” or Director’s fees (officer); $0 to individual

Accounting profit = $100K - $100K to officer - $0 to individual = $0
Total profit of for profit taxpayer = accounting profit = $0
Total ‘income’ of individual = (office profit) + (private property ‘income’) = $100K + $0
= $100K as taxable income for Her Majesty’s office with ‘social insurance number’
Individual files $100K on T1 with ‘social insurance number’ of Her Majesty’s office.
Example 2 – All $100K Paid to Individual
Office profit = $0; $100K paid to individual (ITA “exempt income”)

Accounting profit = $100K - $0 to officer - $100K to individual = $0
Total ‘income’ of individual = (office profit) + (private property ‘income’) = $0 + $100K

Private property ‘income’ = $100K as ITA “exempt income” which is deemed = 0 by ITA
s.3(f), and there is no line on T1 to file ITA “exempt income”.
(Optional) individual files by letter with the upper-and-lower case Social Insurance Number.

ITA, R.S.C. 1985, c. 1 (5th Supp.), s.18.(1)(c)
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Example 3 – $100K for Worker; 70% Paid as Director’s Fees; 30% to Individual
Office profit = pays $70K as Director’s fees (officer); $30K to individual

Accounting profit = $100K - $70K to officer - $30K to individual = $0
Total ‘income’ of individual = (office profit) + (private property ‘income’) = ($70K) + ($30K)
= $70K as taxable income for Her Majesty’s office with ‘social insurance number’
+ $30K as ITA “exempt income” for the individual as private property
Individual files $70K on T1 with ‘social insurance number’ of Her Majesty’s office
(Optional) individual files by letter with a Social Insurance Number as there is no line on T1
to file ITA “exempt income”. $30K ITA “exempt income” is deemed = 0 by ITA s.3(f).

Individual Taxpayer

Activity Not Registered for Her Majesty’s Office - $100K paid to the individual
ITA s.18(c) applies as individual produces ITA “exempt income” (see Chapter 27):

18(1)(c) In computing the income of an (individual) from a business or property no deduction
shall be made in respect of an outlay or expense to the extent that it may reasonably be regarded
as having been made or incurred for the purpose of gaining or producing exempt income or in
connection with property the income from which would be exempt (since an individual is
incapable of receiving office profit from Her Majesty’s office identified with the all-lower-case
‘social insurance number’);

Office profit: individuals lack the legal power to receive any ‘income’ as office profit
Accounting profit = $100K - $0 to officer - $100K to individual = $0
Total profit of individual as taxpayer = accounting profit = $0 since individuals are
incapable of receiving profit; also cannot deduct expenses per ITA s.18(1)(c)

Total ‘income’ of individual = (office profit) + (private property ‘income’) = $100K
= $100K as ITA “exempt income” for the individual as private property
NOTE: Filing a T1 with $0 could be ambiguous as it could mean the individual worked as
an officer but made no office profit, or it could mean that the individual worked only as a
individual, made ITA “exempt income” that is deemed = 0 by ITA s.3(f), and since there is
no line on T1 to file ITA “exempt income”, was $0 filed as ITA “exempt income”?
(Optional) individual files by letter with the upper-and-lower case Social Insurance Number
the individual’s ITA “exempt income”.
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Unreported Income

Not on a CRA T1 Form

Is not Always Tax Evasion

Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Ph.D. Jr. (Caltech)

Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2800623

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2 Essential Elements of Tax Evasion: Crown’s Perspective

Former CRA Employee Sentenced for Fraud and Breach of Trust

1) The individual is deemed by the ITA to be an ITA “officer” of Her Majesty,

4 Essential Elements of Tax Evasion/Fraud: The First Two Missing Elements

Translation (if a statutory agent identified with a ‘social insurance number’):

CRA P-182R: Filing of Returns

Translation (if a statutory agent identified with a ‘social insurance number’):

CRA P-182R: Filing Honestly and Completely

CRA P-182R: Audit Representations

Translation (if a statutory agent identified with a ‘social insurance number’):

If an agency relationship, Her Majesty will authorize the officer/agent to provide

6 Officer: Has Legal Powers and Duties Absent from Individual

7 Corporations: Aggregate or Sole

In Regina v. Porisky & Gould30, the Court noted:

8 Corporation Sole: Formed By Filling An Office

A corporation sole is usually formed by Letters Patent or by a direct Act of Parliament or of

9 Identifying Her Majesty’s Office for Income Tax

Government Gouvernement PROTECTED WHEN COMPLETED - B

INFORMATION CONCERNING THE APPLICANT PRINT CLEARLY IN BLUE OR BLACK INK

APPLICANT’S Day Month Year APPLICANT’S Male

APPLICANT’S Number and Street Apartment, suite or unit No.

REMARKS / REASON FOR PRIORITY REQUEST

Application for assignment of Social Insurance Number

Employer to maintain record of Social Insurance Number

Employee to provide Social Insurance Number

Application to be signed by applicant

Agreement respecting assignment of Social Insurance Numbers

Offence and punishment

Social Insurance Number (SIN)

History of the T1 GENERAL

Prescribed Form T1: Still Social Still: One Current Day

1941 1966 1990 1991 2000 2001 2013

T1: Start Use of T1: Changed to Start Use of: Two

Complete the fol lowing

City On December 3 1, Married Widow(er) Divorced Separated Single

PLE ASE DO NOT USE T HIS AREA

TABLE METHOD ONLY

Total Payable (add lines 420 to 434 inclusive)435 (

(attach Schedule 7, complete Parts A and C) 446 1 l

Canada Pension Plan overpayment 448 .

Total @redé% (add lines 437 to 478 inclusive)

PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS AREA

Taxable Income from line 260 on page 2 409 1

TABLE METHOD ONLY

Add lines 417 and 419.Net Federal Tax 420

Total lncome tax deducted (from all information slips) 437 l 0

Employee and Par-merGST rebate (attach form GST-370) 457 l 0

Forward averaging tax credit (from form T581) 478 .

Add lines 437 to 479 inclusive. Total Credits 482

Refufld 484 1,.

Please attach cheque or money order payable to

Canada Customs Agence des douanes

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