Examples of common transfers

Farm or fishing property

When you sell or transfer farm or fishing property, you may have a capital gain. If you transfer farm or fishing property to your child, spouse or common-law partner or spousal or common-law partner trust, you may be able to postpone any taxable capital gain or recapture of capital cost allowance. For more information on these types of transfers and other rules that apply to farm or fishing property, see the following guides:

• T4002, Self-employed Business, Professional, Commission, Farming, and Fishing Income
• RC4060, Farming Income and the AgriStability and AgriInvest Programs Guide
• RC4408, Farming Income and the AgriStability and AgriInvest Programs Harmonized Guide

Elections

You can postpone reporting a capital gain when you transfer property:

• from an individual or partnership to a Canadian corporation
• from an individual to a Canadian partnership

For information on transfers to a Canadian corporation, see IC76-19R3, Transfer of Property to a Corporation under section 85.

For information on transfers to a Canadian partnership, see IT-413R, Election by Members of a Partnership under subsection 97(2).