Ninepoint Flow-Through Limited Partnerships

Flow-Through Limited Partnerships

Investors can access the flow-through market by purchasing shares directly or by investing in a flowthrough limited partnership. Flow-through limited partnerships are investment vehicles that add three important benefits to the tax advantages of flow-through investing: 1) professional management, 2) access to a broad range of flow-through issues, 3) diversification.

The risk of investing in smaller resource companies may be reduced when experienced, professional investment managers select a well-diversified portfolio of companies.

How do flow-through limited partnerships work?

Flow-through limited partnerships provide the same tax benefits as investing in flow-through shares directly. The amounts invested are generally fully or almost fully deductible against taxable income in the year the investment is made.

The illustration below shows how flow-through limited partnerships work.

Investors purchase units of a flow-through limited partnership and the net proceeds are used by the limited partnership to purchase the flow-through shares of resource companies. The resource companies relinquish their CEE rights to the limited partnership, which then allocates the CEE to its investors. The investors can then deduct the CEE against their income.

Most flow-through limited partnerships have a life span of one to two years, enough time to allocate most of the tax deductions to investors. The adjusted cost base of the units (ACB) is reduced by the tax deductions and increased by any capital gains from the investments sold within the limited partnership portfolio. Those capital gains are allocated to investors annually.

At termination, the flow-through limited partnership unitholders receive shares of a corporate class mutual fund and the rollover transaction is completed without triggering an immediate tax liability. This allows investors the option to defer their tax liability further, until they redeem the mutual fund.