The Kathryn Kossow v. Her Majesty The Queen application for leave to appeal was dismissed with costs by the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) on May 15, 2014. The Federal Court of Appeal released its adverse decision against the taxpayers in December 2013. The taxpayers filed Leave to Appeal against this decision at the Supreme Court of Canada on March 7, 2014. Leave to Appeal was dismissed with costs on May 15, 2014. Marechaux and Kossow are the two big decisions that the SCC has denied leave to appeal dealing with abusive charity gifting tax schemes.
We have covered Kossow before in a number of posts:
- Kossow appeal dismissed by Federal Court of Appeal – another abusive donation scheme crashes
- When will the Kossow charity donation receipting case get some coverage?
- Kossow vs. The Queen – abusive charity gifting tax scheme -TCC decides for CRA
- Kossow case -CRA wins motion to stop delay in Ideas Canada Foundation tax shelter scheme
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