CRA Ordered to Keep Hands off Stripper’s Assets -- CRA SOTW
Alan Baggett
Tax Court rules former stripper doesn’t owe tax on gifts from wealthy
benefactor
Fri, August 21, 2009
By SIDHARTHA BANERJEE, THE CANADIAN PRESS
MONTREAL -- In a legal showdown against a tax-wary former stripper,
it's the Canada Revenue Agency that's been caught with its pants
down.
The legal saga over $2 million in undeclared revenue began in
storybook fashion at Chez Paree -- a pricey Montreal strip club
patronized over the years by wealthy executives and visiting athletes,
including some prominent Hockey Hall of Famers.
Martine Landry was a dancer at the Montreal institution and was
particularly popular with one rich, elderly customer who struck up a
relationship with her.
He showered her with gifts over the years worth about $2 million: a
Corvette, money to buy a BMW, eight fur coats, jewels, a vacation,
cash to buy a downtown bar and get out of the dancing business, and
$168,000 in $1,000 bills for a down payment on a house.
According to a judgment rendered by the Tax Court of Canada, the
mystery benefactor, named in court documents as Mr. X, paid Landry to
keep him company, not to dance.
Landry in turn recounted she was attracted to his vast knowledge of
all things and, over time, the publishing-industry magnate, now 80,
began to introduce her to a whole new world. Landry would often
accompany her benefactor to the Montreal casino, where he would give
her the winnings to deposit in her account.
But eventually her low income statements and sky-high living expenses
raised alarm bells at the federal revenue agency.
By this time, Landry had long quit dancing and was owner of the
popular Montreal watering hole Mr. X helped her acquire.
A net-worth audit showed a major discrepancy between revenues
evaluated against assets and outgoing expenses, the difference being
subject to taxes unless she could prove where the money came from.
Like many Canadians, Landry had a difference of opinion with the
federal tax man about how much money she actually owed.
The feds demanded $602,617 in taxes and penalties for the years 1998
to 2002.
But the Tax Court of Canada sided with Landry in a recent judgment.
Judge Robert Hogan ruled the gifts could not be taxed.
In Canada, gifts, inheritances and gains from lotteries or other
gambling are not taxable.
But tax experts say it's common for people who frequently receive
gifts -- exotic dancers being a notable example -- to be caught in
such a legal quagmire.
Hogan ruled a more thorough investigation by the CRA would have
provided the answers they sought without having to drag the matter to
court.
But the story's not over. Revenue Quebec still wants $643,000 in taxes
and penalties and that case is playing out in a Quebec court.
Ouellette hopes the favourable decision will help in the Quebec case.
There's one final order of business in this affair: Landry is now
considering a lawsuit against the Canada Revenue Agency.
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Michael Yardley
this one.
USENET
I think a homeless man I have given money to should return your cart
to its lawful owner.
http://forum.pgp.com/pgp/board/message?board.id=49&message.id=635
CUSTOMER
Yardley Enterprises
#123-5895 Kincaid St
Burnaby, British Columbia V5G 4H9
Canada
Michael Yardley is a typical failed immigrant fraudster. An alcoholic
wet brain and an ABOMINATION who supplements his welfare with binning.
Fired from London Drugs and a coffee shop of all places. He lives in
BC Housing and should be deported. Has been known to be involved in
fraud and is a racist. He is a liar and criminal and a total idiot who
refuses to work full time. He was born in England and after failing
there moved to Canada. He is frequently cyberbullied and posts
off-topic nonsense to ngs then complains about being cyberbullied and
trolls. He will then announce he is leaving the ng for good only to
return even dumber and out of touch as ever. He sometimes gets pimped
out as a ticket scalper
http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=7824303. Since he is involved
in fraud anyone interested in hockey tickets or lottery tickets should
buy elsewhere. I wonder if he reports his scalping income to the
housing authorities? Last known address: MICHAEL YARDLEY #123-5895
Kincaid Street Burnaby BC V5G 4H9 Phone Number: 604-294-6071 and
778-737-2745 and 604-568-5286.
The New Chelsea Society runs this housing project. Their rules state
he must give a certain % of his income to them. Yardley should be
deported and his unit given to a nice old lady or perhaps a senior
couple looking for a better neighbourhood to live in or a woman
escaping a relationship from a Michael Yardley who for some reason
doesn’t want to hit him upside the head with an empty. Let the New
Chelsea Society 101-3640 Victoria Drive Vancouver, BC V5N 5P1
604-874-6255 Fax: 604-874-6250 ad...@newchelsea.ca Web:
www.newchelsea.ca <http://www.newchelsea.ca/> know what you think of
Michael Yardley. He is wasting taxpayer money. He has claimed to have
drunk beer at the Hell's Angels clubhouse and other ppl have claimed
that HA has an ownership stake in CW Agencies the telemarketing firm
that Yardley has claimed to work at PT in the past. He has a Grade 3
education and can't figure out how to use Vista. He has been banned
from Google Groups in the past.
Remember this Yardley lie from the past?
http://groups.google.com/group/van.general/browse_thread/thread/60801...
http://groups.google.ca/groups/profile?hl=en&enc_user=OPb2shUAAACF8TW...
check out his Google Groups profile. This gambling addict didn’t even
spell blackjack correctly. Blackjack need not be capitalized in his
profile. Typical Freudian slip. He is a typical case of welfare fraud.
Yardley Realty 604-568-5286
http://www.yellowpages.ca/bus/British-Columbia/Yardley-Realty/5998548...
yardleymj2...@hotmail.com
http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/cps/1274662724.html
Allegedly born 02/ 2,1946.
http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:ZgR8RnQLlBkJ:warezzila.com/alt_2...
He is dyslexic.
http://groups.google.ca/group/van.general/browse_frm/thread/b786cd893...
Take your business elsewhere.
http://groups.google.com/group/michael-yardley-should-be-deported?hl=en
Alan Baggett
If they're gifts and not tips then they're not taxable.
The CRA always assumes a worst case scenario - that everybody is
guilty. So they waste a lot of time chasing innocent people, tieing up
the courts and wasting precious taxpayer dollars.
Strange how someone like Brian Mulroney who owed the assessed amount
and could afford to pay gets 50% off while the CRA wastes time chasing
the innocent.