Unscientific polling of professionals preparing returns for individual U.S. shareholders resident in the lower mainland of British Columbia has revealed an almost universal reliance on the §962 election.
For individual U.S. shareholders owning shares of CFCs, the relative advantages and disadvantages of the different responses to the high cost of the GILTI tax are largely unchanged by the recent developments. As discussed in this article, forming a domestic corporate blocker now has the added advantage of facilitating investments in U.S. property (including loans to U.S. persons from the CFC) without incurring a tax under §956. Particularly for individual U.S. shareholders residing in the United States, the corporate blocker alternative has become more compelling.
This author’s informal and completely unscientific polling of professionals preparing returns for individual U.S. shareholders resident in the lower mainland of British Columbia has revealed an almost universal reliance on the §962 election. That election is effective to significantly reduce the GILTI tax to which the individual U.S. shareholder would be subject but still leaves the GILTI of the CFC subject to a 10.5% rate. The Canadian corporate rate is often high enough to allow 100% of the GILTI tax to be creditable in computing the Canadian income tax liability of the CFC.30
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Submitted by Robert E. Ward, Managing Partner, WardChisholm, LLP
