现在的问题是,返佣是否属于加拿大税务局网站说的不用纳税列表里面的一种:
Amounts that are not taxed
You do not have to report certain amounts in your income, including the following:
•lottery winnings;
•most gifts and inheritances;
•amounts paid by Canada or an ally (if the amount is not taxable in that country) for disability or death due to war service;
•most amounts received from a life insurance policy following someone's death;
•most payments of the type commonly referred to as strike pay you received from your union, even if you perform picketing duties as a requirement of membership;
我看来看去,只有Gifts and other voluntary payments和Windfalls比较接近,在五花八门的收据(
Miscellaneous Receipts)里面,针对自愿支付有详细介绍,我这里不再重复。而windfalls则表述如下:
Windfalls
1.2 Subject to the comments in ¶1.3 and ¶
1.11 - 1.29, an amount received as a
windfall is not subject to tax. Factors indicating that a particular receipt is a windfall include the following:
a) the taxpayer had no enforceable claim to the payment,
b) the taxpayer made no organized effort to receive the payment,
c) the taxpayer neither sought after nor solicited the payment,
d) the taxpayer had no customary or specific expectation to receive the payment,
e) the taxpayer had no reason to expect the payment would recur,
f) the payment was from a source that is not a customary source of income for the taxpayer,
g) the payment was not in consideration for or in recognition of property, services or anything else provided or to be provided by the taxpayer, and
h) the payment was not earned by the taxpayer as a result of any activity or pursuit of gain carried on by the taxpayer and was not earned in any other manner.
The factors above are based on those set out in the decision of
The Queen v. Cranswick, [1982] CTC 69, 82 DTC 6073 (F.C.A.).
但是,买主可能在买房子时要求了返佣,上述有些条款可能不符合。所以,要针对买主各自的情况,要套用返佣属于那种收入。
有一点,我100%肯定,经纪发T4A是大错特错,具体请查询加拿大税务局网站关于T4A的表述,我用一句话归纳就是,是买家雇佣经纪,不是经纪雇佣买家,给T4A是雇佣的方向性错误。