Coin Inheritance Taxable?

It wouldn't really bother me to not pay taxes on something like that, and i'd consider you pretty safe if you're worried about getting caught.

There is no inheritance tax in Canada.

Cheers, Bill

Am I misreading this

Step 1: OP - Inherits the collection of coins
Step 2: OP - Decides to sell the collection of coins

Therefore,

Step 1: $0 taxes owed due (no inheritance tax in canada)
Step 2: Taxes may be owed depending on value/type/nature of transaction/.

Just because you inherited something, does not necessarily mean you can then sell the asset tax free at a later date, you might be responsible for the gain in value from the time you acquire the asset to the time you sell it.

My understanding is that a potential taxable situation occurs when you sell the asset, as coins are considered Listed Personal Property (LPP) by Revenue Canada. How the OP acquired the assets is irrelevant, the only thing that is relevant from the time of acquisition is the value of the asset. Which is what will determine if you are going to recognize a gain/loss on the LPP.

For example, assume the assets had a value of $5000 at time of inheritance, OP does not owe any taxes. OP then goes to sell the assets, if the sale price is greater than the original value, the OP might have a taxable situation (depends on nature of transaction(s)). If the sale is for less than $5000, the OP might have a loss they can use against other LPP income.

Chances are the coins are worth no more now than at the time they were gifted. So probably no tax should be paid by the current owner as there is probably no gain, although he should properly go through the exercise of trying to find out if there was a gain or not.

The former owner might have had a gain or a loss at the time of the gift, but that taxable event was 10 years ago and the individual is dead. So CRA is quite unlikely to pursue it. Regardless the current owner has no need to report it or worry about whether that event was correctly reported or not.

Best example, let's say you took a flyer on 1000 Amazon stock 10 years ago, and today it's worth a small fortune, there are probate rules that apply or else everyone would just gift their estates away with no taxes. Trudeau did grant family trusts for the super wealthy many years ago to avoid this tax, but that's another story. The OP collection could include key dates, like 21 5 cents or 50 cents pieces which are hard to sell without records, call a good accountant for up to date advice on this situation.

To the OP, my opinion, it depends if you reference to your "large" collection in terms of value or by quantity.

The information on the link below might be helpful. Private coin collections, when one doesn't make it a business of buying and selling coin, are considered Listed Personal Property.
http://blog.taxresource.ca/is-there...al-property/
"When a gain is realized form the sale of personal use property the Income Tax Act provides that the proceeds of the sale are deemed to be the greater of $1,000 or the amount of the actual proceeds. Similarly the adjusted cost base is deemed to be the greater of $1,000 and the actual proceeds of disposition. These rules effectively ensure that larger gains are taxes and small transactions are excluded from taxation..."

My understanding is if a coin from a private collection is sold for greater than $1000, only then are the proceeds taxable as capable gains (at 50% of the profit less $1000 adjusted cost base).

But you'd want to seek professional advise from a tax specialist.

While I've never sold any of my collection my situation might be similar to the OPs. The collection given to me from my father was quite large in quantity, not individual value. My personal but unprofessional opinion based on that, given my research and a discussion with an accountant a few years back, this is an example when disposing of a typical private collection. 100 various circulated coins are sold for between $5 to $10 dollars each. I file my tax return and the adjusted cost base listing each one totals 100 x $1000 or $100,000.00. My sale proceeds were $700, but I declare a gain of $100,000 which equals zero. Knowing that, do I really want waste time to list the details of 100 coins, since if I'm ever audited my $700 sale proceeds are not taxable? Probably not but because what's the point, it just seems silly. (The only reason I might is if I had Capital Gains in future or preceding years, then I'd certainly seek out a tax specialist)

Again, this is only my opinion but CRA implications for the majority of private collections, are nothing to sweat over.

Adding another reference:
http://www.taxplanningguide.ca/tax-...al-property/

In the logic of income tax, there is no taxes for inheritance or gift. If the gift or inheritance is a coin collection, I would estimate the value of the coin collection at the moment you received it. Then, when you sell, you must pay taxes for the amount that is over of the estimate value. That is the way I understand it.