When a private company grants one or more loans to a shareholder or its partner in a year of income, it may be merged with that shareholder or partner. Example 6 – The amount of the merged loan that was not repaid at the end of the first year of profit (2014) relates to certain loans from private companies to a shareholder or their associated companies. Many practitioners would be well aware of this approach. A loan agreement will be concluded until March 30, 2013 for a seven-year term. The first annual principal and interest repayment is due until June 30, 2013 and a repayment required for each of the next six years of return to repay the loan in full. The « loan amount » mentioned in the formula is the amount of the merged loan. Payments made can be converted into credits before the private company`s liability date, to avoid the use of a dividend. The balance of a shareholder`s or beneficiary`s loan account on the accounts of companies or trustees may be in a debit or credit at the end of the profit year. Although, at the end of a year of income, a budgetary balance may indicate that there are loans that have not been repaid and that a credit may indicate that no credit is unpaid, no result leads to the automatic conclusion that Division 7A does not apply or not. If no repayment is made before the repayment date, the balance of the cumulative loan that was not repaid before the end of the valuable year of income is the sum of the credit balances constituting at the end of this year.

The repayment of $US 20,000 on August 31, 2014 reduces the credit balance to $US 55,000. The minimum amount of the annual repayment is calculated on the basis of the total loans granted to a shareholder or associated company during the year of earnings, for the same duration or period, called « amalgamated loan. » The alternative approach of our example is the $700,000 loan granted in 2011-12 by stating that where there is a Division 7A credit contract between a private company and a shareholder or partner, Division 7A no longer applies. Contractual terms must be in accordance with the provisions of Division 7A. If the terms are the same, the amount of the corresponding loan is considered by the company as a loan to the shareholder and not as a tax-valuable product. This loan is remunerated and repayments must be made under the terms of the 7A Division loan agreement . . . . .

The « loan amount not repaid at the end of the previous income year » is USD 50,430 ($75,000 Capital – $3,430 interest – $28,000 repayments – $50,430 USD). Any listing on a shareholder`s or beneficiary`s credit account must be analyzed to determine the type of transaction it represents (i.e., whether it is a payment, loan or debt forgiveness to which Division 7A applies). In addition, the elements that constitute credit repayments should be analyzed to determine whether they can be taken into account when developing the amount of a loan repaid or the minimum annual repayment. In this example, the same facts as example 6 are used, except on May 30, 2015, the shareholder paid an additional $8,000 to the private company, or a payment of $4,000 for each loan. No further refunds were made during the 2015 production year. The most insidious side of this common approach is that these additional tax obligations can be swept under the carpet, which are buried in the client`s general tax obligations. Moreover, it conceals the fact that the 30 cent dollar tax that the company pays on its profits is not the end of the business; the 70 cents that the customer takes from the company in the form of a loan are not yet fully freed from income tax.