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Capital Dividend Account

The capital dividend account (“CDA”) is calculated at a particular point of time, other than additions as a result of dispositions of good-will. The account is calculated for the period commencing with the first taxation year after the corporation last became a private corporation and that ended after 1971.

A change in the status of a corporation as a Canadian Controlled Private Corporation (CCPC) will have negative consequences on the CDA account balance.

Basic Components of the CDA are:

  • Untaxed portion of capital gains minus capital losses;
  • Capital dividend received;
  • Portion of proceeds on sale of eligible capital property;
  • Portion of life insurance proceeds; and
  • Capital dividends paid.
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