His Excellency the Governor General recommends to the House of Commons the appropriation of public revenue under the circumstances, in the manner and for the purposes set out in a measure entitled “A second Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 22, 2016 and other measures”.

Part 1 implements certain income tax measures proposed in the March 22, 2016 budget by

Part 1 implements other income tax measures confirmed in the March 22, 2016 budget by

Part 1 also amends the Employment Insurance Act and various regulations to replace the term “child tax benefit” with “Canada child benefit”.

Part 2 implements certain goods and services tax and harmonized sales tax (GST/HST) measures proposed or confirmed in the March 22, 2016 budget by

Part 3 implements an excise measure confirmed in the March 22, 2016 budget by clarifying that the Canada Revenue Agency and the courts may increase or adjust an amount included in an assessment that is under objection or appeal at any time, provided the total amount of the assessment does not increase.

Division 1 of Part 4 amends the Employment Insurance Act to specify what does not constitute suitable employment for the purposes of certain provisions of the Act.

Division 2 of Part 4 amends the Old Age Security Act to provide that, in the case of low-income couples who have to live apart for reasons not attributable to either of them, the amount of the allowance is to be based on the income of the allowance recipient only.

Division 3 of Part 4 amends the Canada Education Savings Act to replace the term “child tax benefit” with “Canada child benefit”. It also amends that Act to change the manner in which the eligibility for the Canada Learning Bond is established, including by eliminating the national child benefit supplement as an eligibility criterion and by adding an eligibility formula based on income and number of children.

Division 4 of Part 4 amends the Canada Disability Savings Act to replace the term “child tax benefit” with “Canada child benefit”. It also amends the definition “phase-out income”.

Division 5 of Part 4 amends the Bank Act to consolidate and streamline provisions that apply to a bank or an authorized foreign bank in relation to the protection of customers and the public. It sets out the principles upon which the provisions are based as well as their purpose, and implements enhancements in the areas of corporate governance, access to basic banking services, disclosure of information, business practices and public reporting. It also makes a consequential amendment to the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada Act.

Division 6 of Part 4 amends the Royal Canadian Mint Act to enable the Royal Canadian Mint to anticipate profit with respect to the provision of goods or services, to clarify the powers of the Royal Canadian Mint, to confirm the current and legal tender status of all non-circulation $350 coins dated between 1999 and 2006 and to remove the requirement that the directors of the Royal Canadian Mint have experience in respect of metal fabrication or production, industrial relations or a related field.

Division 7 of Part 4 amends the Financial Administration Act, the Bank of Canada Act and the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation Act to clarify certain powers of the Minister of Finance in relation to the sound and efficient management of federal funds and the operation of Crown corporations. It amends the Financial Administration Act to provide that the Minister of Finance may lend, by way of auction, excess funds out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund and, with the authorization of the Governor in Council, may enter into contracts and agreements of a financial nature for the purpose of managing risks related to the financial position of the Government of Canada. It also amends the Bank of Canada Act to provide that the Minister of Finance may delegate to the Bank of Canada the management of the lending of money to agent corporations. Finally, it amends the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation Act to provide that the Bank of Canada may act as a custodian of the financial assets of the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

Derivatives

(15) For the purposes of this section, property of a taxpayer that is a swap agreement, a forward purchase or sale agreement, a forward rate agreement, a futures agreement, an option agreement, or any similar agreement is deemed not to be inventory of the taxpayer.

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  (d) any amount that would, if this Act were read without reference to this subsection, be included in the cost of a property of the transferor included in Class 14.‍1 of Schedule II to the Income Tax Regulations (including a deemed acquisition under subsection (35)) or included in the proceeds of disposition of a property of the transferee included in that Class (including a deemed disposition under subsection (37)) in respect of the disposition or termination of the former property by the transferor is deemed to be

  • (i) neither included in the cost nor the proceeds of disposition of property included in that Class,

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Deemed capital cost

(7.‍41) Subsection (38) applies in respect of an amount repaid after 2016 as if that amount was repaid immediately before 2017, if

• (a) the amount is repaid by the taxpayer under a legal obligation to repay all or part of an amount the taxpayer received or was entitled to receive that was assistance from a government, municipality or other public authority (whether as a grant, subsidy, forgivable loan, deduction from tax, investment allowance or as any other form of assistance) in respect of, or for the acquisition of, property the cost of which was an eligible capital expenditure of the taxpayer in respect of the business;

• (b) the amount of an eligible capital expenditure of the taxpayer in respect of the business was reduced by paragraph 14(10)‍(c) because of the assistance referred to in paragraph (a); and

• (c) paragraph 20(1)‍(hh.‍1) does not apply in respect of the amount repaid.

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Timing of deduction

(7.‍42) No amount may be deducted under paragraph 20(1)‍(a) in respect of an amount of repaid assistance referred to in subsection (7.‍41) for any taxation year prior to the taxation year in which the assistance is repaid.

Goodwill

(34) Where a taxpayer carries on a particular business,

• (a) there is deemed to be a single goodwill property in respect of the particular business;

• (b) if at any time the taxpayer acquires goodwill as part of an acquisition of all or a part of another business that is carried on, after the acquisition, as part of the particular business — or is deemed by subsection (35) to acquire goodwill in respect of the particular business — the cost of the goodwill is added at that time to the cost of the goodwill property in respect of the particular business;

• (c) if at any time the taxpayer disposes of goodwill as part of the disposition of part of the particular business, receives proceeds of disposition a portion of which is attributable to goodwill and continues to carry on the particular business or is deemed by subsection (37) to dispose of goodwill in respect of the particular business,

  • (i) the taxpayer is deemed to dispose at that time of a portion of the goodwill property in respect of the particular business having a cost equal to the lesser of the cost of the goodwill property in respect of the particular business otherwise determined and the portion of the proceeds attributable to goodwill, and

  • (ii) the cost of the goodwill property in respect of the particular business is reduced at that time by the amount determined under subparagraph (i); and

• (d) if paragraph (c) applies to more than one disposition of goodwill at the same time, that paragraph and subsection (39) apply as if each disposition had occurred separately in the order designated by the taxpayer or, if the taxpayer does not designate an order, in the order designated by the Minister.

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Outlays not relating to property

(35) If at any time a taxpayer makes or incurs an outlay or expense on account of capital for the purpose of gaining or producing income from a business carried on by the taxpayer, the taxpayer is deemed to acquire at that time goodwill in respect of the business with a cost equal to the amount of the outlay or expense if no portion of the amount is

• (a) the cost, or any part of the cost, of a property;

• (b) deductible in computing the taxpayer’s income from the business (determined without reference to this subsection);

• (c) not deductible in computing the taxpayer’s income from the business because of any provision of this Act (other than paragraph 18(1)‍(b)) or the Income Tax Regulations;

• (d) paid or payable to a creditor of the taxpayer as, on account of or in lieu of payment of, any debt, or on account of the redemption, cancellation or purchase of any bond or debenture; or

• (e) where the taxpayer is a corporation, partnership or trust, paid or payable to a person as a shareholder, partner or beneficiary, as the case may be, of the taxpayer.

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No addition to goodwill

(36) For greater certainty, no amount paid or payable may be included in Class 14.‍1 of Schedule II to the Income Tax Regulations, if the amount is

• (a) in consideration for the purchase of shares; or

• (b) in consideration for the cancellation or assignment of an obligation to pay consideration referred to in paragraph (a).

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Receipts not relating to property

(37) If at any time in a taxation year a taxpayer has or may become entitled to receive an amount (in this subsection referred to as the receipt) on account of capital in respect of a business that is or was carried on by the taxpayer, the taxpayer is deemed to dispose, at that time, of goodwill in respect of the business for proceeds of disposition equal to the amount by which the receipt exceeds the total of all outlays or expenses that were made or incurred by the taxpayer for the purpose of obtaining the receipt and that were not otherwise deductible in computing the taxpayer’s income, if the following conditions are satisfied (determined without reference to this subsection):

• (a) the receipt is not included in computing the taxpayer’s income, or deducted in computing, for the purposes of this Act, any balance of undeducted outlays, expenses or other amounts for the taxation year or a preceding taxation year;

• (b) the receipt does not reduce the cost or capital cost of a property or the amount of an outlay or expense; and

• (c) the receipt is not included in computing any gain or loss of the taxpayer from a disposition of a capital property.

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Class 14.‍1 — transitional rules

(38) If a taxpayer has incurred an eligible capital expenditure in respect of a business before January 1, 2017,

• (a) at the beginning of that day, the total capital cost of all property of the taxpayer included in Class 14.‍1 of Schedule II to the Income Tax Regulations in respect of the business, each of which was an eligible capital property of the taxpayer immediately before that day or is the goodwill property in respect of the business, is deemed to be the amount determined by the formula

  4/3 × (A + B – C)

  where

  A

  is the amount that is the cumulative eligible capital in respect of the business at the beginning of that day,

  B

  is the amount determined for F in the definition cumulative eligible capital in subsection 14(5) (as that subsection applied immediately before that day) in respect of the business at the beginning of that day, and

  C

  is the amount by which the total of all amounts determined, in respect of the business, for E or F in the definition cumulative eligible capital in subsection 14(5) (as that subsection applied immediately before that day), exceeds the total of all amounts determined for A to D.‍1 in that definition in respect of the business at the beginning of that day, including any adjustment required by subparagraph (d)‍(i);

• (b) at the beginning of that day, the capital cost of each property of the taxpayer included in the class in respect of the business, each of which was an eligible capital property of the taxpayer immediately before that day or is the goodwill property in respect of the business, is to be determined as follows:

  • (i) the taxpayer shall designate the order in which the capital cost of each property that is not the goodwill property is determined and, if the taxpayer does not designate an order, the Minister may designate the order,

  • (ii) the capital cost of a particular property that is not the goodwill property in respect of the business is deemed to be the lesser of the eligible capital expenditure of the taxpayer in respect of the particular property and the amount by which the total capital cost of the class determined under paragraph (a) exceeds the total of all amounts each of which is an amount deemed by this subparagraph to be the capital cost of a property that is determined in advance of the determination of the capital cost of the particular property, and

  • (iii) the capital cost of the goodwill property is deemed to be the amount by which the total capital cost of the class exceeds the total of all amounts each of which is an amount deemed by subparagraph (ii) to be the capital cost of a property;

• (c) an amount is deemed to have been allowed to the taxpayer in respect of property of the class under regulations made under paragraph 20(1)‍(a) in computing the taxpayer’s income for taxation years ending before that day equal to the amount by which

  • (i) the total of the total capital cost of the class and the amount determined for C in paragraph (a)

exceeds

• (ii) the amount determined for A in paragraph (a); and

• (d) if no taxation year of the taxpayer ends immediately before that day and the taxpayer would have had a particular amount included, because of paragraph 14(1)‍(b) (as that paragraph applied immediately before that day), in computing the taxpayer’s income from the business for the particular taxation year that includes that day if the particular year had ended immediately before that day,

  • (i) for the purposes of the formula in paragraph (a), 3/2 of the particular amount is to be included in computing the amount for B of the definition cumulative eligible capital in subsection 14(5) (as that subsection applied immediately before that day),

  • (ii) the taxpayer is deemed to dispose of a capital property in respect of the business immediately before that day for proceeds of disposition equal to twice the particular amount,

  • (iii) if the taxpayer elects in writing to have this subparagraph apply and files that election with the Minister on or before the filing-due date for the particular year, subparagraph (ii) does not apply and an amount equal to the particular amount is to be included in computing the taxpayer’s income from the business for the particular year,

  • (iv) if, on or after that day and in the particular year, the taxpayer acquires a property included in the class in respect of the business, or is deemed by subsection (35) to acquire goodwill in respect of the business, and the taxpayer elects in writing to have this subparagraph apply and files that election with the Minister on or before the filing-due date for the particular year,

    • (A) for the purposes of subparagraphs (ii) and (iii), the particular amount is to be reduced by the lesser of the particular amount otherwise determined and 1/2 of the capital cost of the property or goodwill acquired (determined without reference to clause (B)), and

    • (B) the capital cost of the property or goodwill acquired, as the case may be, is to be reduced by twice the amount by which the particular amount is reduced under clause (A), and

  • (v) if, in the particular year and before that day, the taxpayer disposed of a qualified farm or fishing property (as defined in subsection 110.‍6(1)) that was an eligible capital property of the taxpayer, the capital property disposed of under subparagraph (ii), if any, is deemed to be a qualified farm or fishing property to the extent of the lesser of

    • (A) the proceeds of disposition of the capital property, and

    • (B) the amount by which the proceeds of disposition of the qualified farm or fishing property exceed its cost.

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Class 14.‍1 — transitional rule

(39) If at any time a taxpayer disposes of a particular property included in Class 14.‍1 of Schedule II to the Income Tax Regulations in respect of a business and none of subsections 24(2), 70(5.‍1), 73(3.‍1), 85(1), 88(1), 98(3) and (5), 107(2) and 107.‍4(3) apply to the disposition, then for the purpose of determining the undepreciated capital cost of the class, the taxpayer is deemed to have acquired a property of the class immediately before that time with a capital cost equal to the least of 1/4 of the proceeds of disposition of the particular property, 1/4 of the capital cost of the particular property and

• (a) if the particular property is not goodwill and is acquired before January 1, 2017 by the taxpayer, 1/4 of the capital cost of the particular property;

• (b) if the particular property is not goodwill, is acquired on or after that day by the taxpayer and subsection (40) deems an amount to have been allowed under paragraph 20(1)‍(a) in respect of the taxpayer’s acquisition of the particular property, that amount;

• (c) if the particular property (other than a property to which paragraph (b) applies) is not goodwill and is acquired on or after that day by the taxpayer — in circumstances under which any of subsections 24(2), 70(5.‍1), 73(3.‍1), 85(1), 88(1), 98(3) and (5), 107(2) and 107.‍4(3) apply — from a person or partnership that would have been deemed under this subsection to have acquired a property if none of those subsections had applied, the capital cost of the property that would have been deemed under this subsection to have been acquired by the person or partnership;

• (d) if the particular property is goodwill, the amount by which

  • (i) the total of all amounts each of which is

    • (A) 1/4 of the amount determined under subparagraph (38)‍(b)‍(iii) in respect of the business,

    • (B) if goodwill is acquired on or after that day by the taxpayer and subsection (40) deems an amount to have been allowed under paragraph 20(1)‍(a) in respect of the taxpayer’s acquisition of the goodwill, that amount, or

    • (C) if goodwill is acquired (other than an acquisition in respect of which clause (B) applies) on or after that day by the taxpayer — in circumstances under which any of subsections 24(2), 70(5.‍1), 73(3.‍1), 85(1), 88(1), 98(3) and (5), 107(2) and 107.‍4(3) apply — from a person or partnership that would have been deemed under this subsection to have acquired a property if none of those subsections had applied, the capital cost of the property that would have been deemed under this subsection to have been acquired by the person or partnership

exceeds

• (ii) the total of all amounts each of which is the capital cost of a property deemed by this subsection to have been acquired by the taxpayer at or before that time in respect of another disposition of goodwill in respect of the business; and

• (e) in any other case, nil.

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Class 14.‍1 — transitional rule

(40) If at any time a taxpayer acquires a particular property included in Class 14.‍1 of Schedule II to the Income Tax Regulations in respect of a business, the acquisition of the particular property is part of a transaction or series of transactions or events that includes a disposition (in this subsection referred to as the prior disposition) at or before that time of the particular property, or a similar property, by the taxpayer or a person or partnership that does not deal at arm’s length with the taxpayer and subsection (39) applies in respect of the prior disposition, then for the purpose of determining the undepreciated capital cost of the class, an amount is deemed to have been allowed under paragraph 20(1)‍(a) to the taxpayer in respect of the particular property in computing the taxpayer’s income for taxation years ending before the acquisition equal to the lesser of the capital cost of the property deemed by subsection (39) to be acquired in respect of the prior disposition and 1/4 of the capital cost of the particular property.

Class 14.‍1 — transitional rule

(41) For the purposes of subsections (38) to (40) and (42), paragraph 20(1)‍(hh.‍1), subsections 40(13) to (16) and paragraph 79(4)‍(b), cumulative eligible capital, eligible capital expenditure, eligible capital property and exempt gains balance have the meanings that would be assigned to those expressions if the Act read as it did immediately before 2017.

Class 14.‍1 — transitional rules

(42) If a taxpayer owns property included in Class 14.‍1 of Schedule II to the Income Tax Regulations in respect of a business at the beginning of 2017, that was an eligible capital property in respect of the business immediately before 2017,

• (a) for the purposes of the Act and its regulations (other than this section, section 20 and any regulations made for the purposes of paragraph 20(1)‍(a)), if the amount determined for A in the definition cumulative eligible capital in subsection 14(5) would have been increased immediately before 2017 if the property had been disposed of immediately before that time, the capital cost of the property is deemed to be increased by 4/3 of the amount of that increase;

• (b) for purposes of this section, section 20 and any regulations made for the purposes of paragraph 20(1)‍(a), if the taxpayer was deemed by subsection 14(12) to continue to own eligible capital property in respect of the business and not to have ceased to carry on the business until a time that is after 2016, the taxpayer is deemed to continue to own the property and to continue to carry on the business until the time that is immediately before the first time one of the events that would be described in any of paragraphs 14(12)‍(c) to (g) (as they read immediately before 2017, if the reference to “eligible capital property” in paragraph 14(12)‍(d) were read as “eligible capital property or capital property”) occurs;

• (c) for the purposes of the descriptions of D.‍1 and K in the definition undepreciated capital cost in subsection (21), the taxpayer is deemed not to have paid or received any amounts before 2017 as or on account of an existing or proposed countervailing or anti-dumping duty in respect of depreciable property of the class; and

• (d) subsection (7.‍1) does not apply to assistance that a taxpayer received or is entitled to receive before 2017 in respect of a property that was an eligible capital property immediately before 2017.

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Back-to-back arrangement — application

(2.‍16) Subsection (2.‍17) applies at any time if

• (a) at that time, a person or partnership (referred to in this subsection and subsections (2.‍17) to (2.‍192) as the intended borrower) has an amount outstanding as or on account of a debt or other obligation to pay an amount (in this subsection and subsections (2.‍17) to (2.‍192) referred to as the shareholder debt) to a person or partnership (in this subsection and subsections (2.‍17) to (2.‍192) referred to as the immediate funder);

• (b) subsection (2) would not, in the absence of this subsection and subsection (2.‍17), apply to the shareholder debt;

• (c) at that time, a funder, in respect of a particular funding arrangement,

  • (i) has an amount outstanding as or on account of a debt or other obligation to pay an amount (other than a debt or other obligation to pay an amount to which subsection (2) applies or would apply if it were not a pertinent loan or indebtedness, as defined in subsection (2.‍11)) to a person or partnership that meets either of the following conditions:

    • (A) recourse in respect of the debt or other obligation is limited in whole or in part, either immediately or in the future and either absolutely or contingently, to a funding arrangement, or

    • (B) it can reasonably be concluded that all or a portion of the particular funding arrangement was entered into or was permitted to remain outstanding because

      • (I) all or a portion of the debt or other obligation was entered into or was permitted to remain outstanding, or

      • (II) the funder anticipated that all or a portion of the debt or other obligation would become owing or remain outstanding, or

  • (ii) has a specified right in respect of a particular property that was granted directly or indirectly by a person or partnership and

    • (A) the existence of the specified right is required under the terms and conditions of the particular funding arrangement, or

    • (B) it can reasonably be concluded that all or a portion of the particular funding arrangement was entered into, or was permitted to remain in effect, because

      • (I) the specified right was granted, or

      • (II) the funder anticipated that the specified right would be granted; and

• (d) at that time, one or more funders is an ultimate funder.

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Back-to-back arrangement — consequences

(2.‍17) If this subsection applies at a particular time, then for the purposes of this section and section 80.‍4, the intended borrower is deemed to receive a loan from each particular ultimate funder at the particular time, the amount of which is equal to the amount determined by the formula

Back-to-back arrangement — conditions for deemed repayment

(2.‍18) Subsection (2.‍19) applies in respect of an intended borrower and a particular ultimate funder at a particular time if

• (a) prior to the particular time, subsection (2.‍17) has applied in respect of a shareholder debt to deem one or more loans to have been received by the intended borrower from the particular ultimate funder; and

• (b) at the particular time,

  • (i) an amount owing in respect of the shareholder debt is repaid in whole or in part,

  • (ii) an amount owing in respect of a debt or other obligation owing to the particular ultimate funder by a funder (other than an ultimate funder) under a funding arrangement in respect of the shareholder debt is repaid in whole or in part, or

  • (iii) either

    • (A) there is a decrease in the fair market value of a property in respect of which a specified right was granted by the particular ultimate funder to a funder (other than an ultimate funder) under a funding arrangement in respect of the shareholder debt, or

    • (B) a right described in clause (A) is extinguished.

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Back-to-back arrangement — deemed repayment

(2.‍19) If this subsection applies in respect of an intended borrower and a particular ultimate funder at a particular time,

• (a) the intended borrower is deemed, for the purposes of this section, paragraph 20(1)‍(j), section 80.‍4 and subsection 227(6.‍1), to repay, in whole or in part, one or more of the deemed loans referred to in paragraph (2.‍18)‍(a) at the particular time; and

• (b) the total amount of the deemed repayments referred to in paragraph (a) is to be determined by the following formula:

  A – B – C

  where

  A

  is the total of all amounts, each of which is the amount of a loan deemed by subsection (2.‍17) to have been received, at any time before the particular time, by the intended borrower from the particular ultimate funder in respect of the shareholder debt,

  B

  is the total of all amounts deemed by this subsection to have been repaid, at any time before the particular time, by the intended borrower in respect of any loans referred to in the description of A, and

  C

  is the amount determined by the formula

  D × E/F

  where

  D

  is the lesser of

  (i) the amount outstanding as or on account of the shareholder debt, immediately after the particular time, and

  (ii) the total of all amounts, each of which is, immediately after the particular time,

  (A) an amount outstanding as or on account of a debt or other obligation that is owed by a funder (other than an ultimate funder) to an ultimate funder under a funding arrangement in respect of the shareholder debt, or

  (B) the fair market value of a particular property in respect of which an ultimate funder has granted a specified right to a funder (other than an ultimate funder) under a funding arrangement in respect of the shareholder debt,

  E

  is the total of all amounts, each of which is, immediately after the particular time

  (i) an amount outstanding as or on account of a debt or other obligation that is owed by a funder (other than an ultimate funder) to the particular ultimate funder under a funding arrangement in respect of the shareholder debt, or

  (ii) the fair market value of a particular property in respect of which the particular ultimate funder has granted a specified right to a funder (other than an ultimate funder) under a funding arrangement in respect of the shareholder debt, and

  F

  is the amount determined under subparagraph (ii) in the description of D.

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Negative amounts

(2.‍191) If, in the absence of section 257, the formula in subsection (2.‍17) would result in a negative amount at a particular time,

• (a) the intended borrower is deemed, for the purposes of this section, paragraph 20(1)‍(j), section 80.‍4 and subsection 227(6.‍1), to repay, in whole or in part, one or more of the loans deemed by subsection (2.‍17) to have been received by the intended borrower from the particular ultimate funder before the particular time; and

• (b) the total amount of the deemed repayments referred to in paragraph (a) is equal to the absolute value of that negative amount.

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Back-to-back arrangement — definitions

(2.‍192) The following definitions apply in this subsection and subsections (2.‍16) to (2.‍191).

funder, in respect of a funding arrangement, means

• (a) if the funding arrangement is described in paragraph (a) of the definition funding arrangement, the immediate funder;

• (b) if the funding arrangement is described in paragraph (b) of the definition funding arrangement, the creditor in respect of the debt or other obligation or the grantor of the specified right, as the case may be; and

• (c) a person or partnership that does not deal at arm’s length with a person or partnership referred to in paragraph (a) or (b). (bailleur de fonds)

funding arrangement means

• (a) the shareholder debt; and

• (b) each debt or other obligation or specified right, owing by or granted to a funder, in respect of a particular funding arrangement, if the debt or other obligation or specified right meets the conditions in subparagraph (2.‍16)‍(c)‍(i) or (ii) in respect of a funding arrangement. (mécanisme de financement)

specified right has the same meaning as in subsection 18(5). (droit déterminé)

ultimate funder means a funder, if subsection (2) would apply to the shareholder debt if the creditor under the shareholder debt were the funder instead of the immediate funder. (bailleur de fonds ultime)

• Derivatives — lower of cost and market

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  (x) any reduction in a taxation year in the value of a property if

  • (i) the method used by the taxpayer to value the property at the end of the year for purposes of computing the taxpayer’s profit from a business or property is the cost at which the taxpayer acquired it or its fair market value at the end of the year, whichever is lower,

  • (ii) the property is described in subsection 10(15), and

  • (iii) the property is not disposed of by the taxpayer in the year; and

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• Payment for shares

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  (y) an amount referred to in subsection 13(36).

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• Incorporation expenses

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  (b) the lesser of

  • (i) the portion of the amount (that is not otherwise deductible in computing the income of the taxpayer) that is an expense incurred in the year for the incorporation of a corporation, and

  • (ii) $3,000 less the total of all amounts each of which is an amount deducted by another taxpayer in respect of the incorporation of the corporation;

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• Repayment of obligation

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  (hh.‍1) 3/4 of any amount repaid by the taxpayer in the year (on or after the time the taxpayer ceases to carry on a business) under a legal obligation to repay all or part of an amount the taxpayer received or was entitled to receive that was assistance from a government, municipality or other public authority (whether as a grant, subsidy, forgivable loan, deduction from tax, investment allowance or as any other form of assistance) in respect of, or for the acquisition of, property the cost of which was an eligible capital expenditure of the taxpayer in respect of the business if the amount of the eligible capital expenditure of the taxpayer in respect of the business was reduced by paragraph 14(10)‍(c) because of the amount of the assistance the taxpayer received or was entitled to receive;

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Former eligible capital property

(4.‍2) If an amount is deductible under subsection (4) in respect of the disposition of a depreciable property and subsection 13(39) applied to the disposition of the depreciable property, the amount deductible under subsection (4) is equal to 3/4 of the amount that would be deductible without reference to this subsection.

Sales of linked notes

(14.‍2) For the purposes of subsection (14), the amount determined by the following formula is deemed to be interest that accrued on an assigned or otherwise transferred debt obligation — that is, at any time, described in paragraph 7000(1)‍(d) of the Income Tax Regulations — to which the transferee has become entitled to for a period commencing before the time of the transfer and ending at that particular time that is not payable until after that particular time:

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  (c) in respect of a taxation year in respect of property included in Class 14.‍1 of Schedule II to the Income Tax Regulations unless the taxpayer has ceased to carry on the business to which the class relates.

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Business carried on by spouse or common-law partner or controlled corporation

(2) If, at any time, an individual ceases to carry on a business and the individual’s spouse or common-law partner, or a corporation controlled directly or indirectly in any manner whatever by the individual, carries on the business and acquires all of the property included in Class 14.‍1 of Schedule II to the Income Tax Regulations in respect of the business owned by the individual immediately before that time and that had value at that time, the following rules apply:

• (a) the individual is deemed to have, immediately before that time, disposed of the property and received proceeds of disposition equal to the lesser of the capital cost and the cost amount to the individual of the property immediately before the disposition;

• (b) the spouse, common-law partner or corporation, as the case may be, is deemed to have acquired the property at a cost equal to those proceeds; and

• (c) if the amount that was the capital cost to the individual of the property exceeds the amount determined under paragraph 70(5)‍(b) to be the cost to the person that acquired the property, for the purposes of sections 13 and 20 and any regulations made for the purpose of paragraph 20(1)‍(a),

  • (i) the capital cost to the person of the property is deemed to be the amount that was the capital cost to the individual of the property, and

  • (ii) the excess is deemed to have been allowed to the person in respect of the property under regulations made for the purposes of paragraph 20(1)‍(a) in computing income for taxation years that ended before the person acquired the property.

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Dispositions in extended fiscal period

(3)  Insertion start If Insertion end subsection (1) applies in respect of a fiscal pe­riod of a business of an individual, for the purpose of computing the individual’s income for the fiscal period, section 13 Insertion start is to Insertion end be read without reference to Insertion start its Insertion end subsection (8).

Emissions allowances

27.‍1 (1) Notwithstanding section 10, for the purpose of computing a taxpayer’s income from a business, an emissions allowance shall be valued at the cost at which the taxpayer acquired it.

Determination of cost of emissions allowances

(2) If at any particular time a taxpayer that owns one emissions allowance, or two or more identical emissions allowances (for the purposes of this subsection two or more emissions allowances will be considered identical if they could be used to settle the same emissions obligations), acquires one or more other emissions allowances (in this subsection referred to as newly acquired emissions allowances), each of which is identical to each of the previously-acquired emissions allowances, for the purposes of computing, at any subsequent time, the cost of the taxpayer of each of the identical emissions allowances,

• (a) the taxpayer is deemed to have disposed of each of the previously-acquired emissions allowances immediately before the particular time for proceeds equal to its cost to the taxpayer immediately before the particular time; and

• (b) the taxpayer is deemed to have acquired each of the identical emissions allowances at the particular time at a cost equal to the amount determined by the formula

  (A + B)/C

  where

  A

  is the total cost to the taxpayer immediately before the particular time of the previously-acquired emissions allowances,

  B

  is the total cost to the taxpayer (determined without reference to this section) of the newly-acquired emissions allowances, and

  C

  is the number of the identical emissions allowances owned by the taxpayer immediately after the particular time.

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Expense restriction

(3) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, in computing a taxpayer’s income from a business for a taxation year, the total amount deductible in respect of a particular emissions obligation for a taxation year shall not exceed the amount determined by the formula

Income inclusion in following year

(4) There shall be included in computing the income of a taxpayer for a taxation year as income from a business the amount deducted in respect of an emissions obligation referred to in subsection (3) for the immediately preceding taxation year to the extent that the emissions obligation was not settled in the immediately preceding taxation year.

Proceeds of disposition

(5) If a taxpayer surrenders an emissions allowance to settle an emissions obligation, the taxpayer’s proceeds from the disposition of the emissions allowance are deemed to be equal to the taxpayer’s cost of the emissions allowance.

Loss restriction event

(6) Notwithstanding subsection (1), each emissions allowance held at the end of the taxpayer’s taxation year that ends immediately before the time at which the taxpayer is subject to a loss restriction event is to be valued at the cost at which the taxpayer acquired the property, or its fair market value at the end of the year, whichever is lower, and after that time the cost at which the taxpayer acquired the property is, subject to a subsequent application of this subsection and subsection (2), deemed to be that lower amount.

• (d) the total of all amounts each of which is an amount included in computing the taxpayer’s income for the year from the business because of subsection 13(1), 80(13) or 80.‍3(3) or (5),

• (g) the total of all amounts each of which is an amount deducted for the year under paragraph 20(1)‍(a) or (uu), subsection 20(16), section 30 or subsection 80.‍3(2) or (4) in respect of the business,

• (B) the subject of a gift to which subsection 118.‍1(5.‍1) applies and that is made by the taxpayer’s estate to a qualified donee, or

• (B) the subject of a gift to which subsection 118.‍1(5.‍1) applies and that is made by the taxpayer’s estate to a qualified donee (other than a private foundation);

• (B) the disposition is deemed by section 70 to have occurred and the object is the subject of a gift to which subsection 118.‍1(5.‍1) applies and that is made by the taxpayer’s estate to an institution that would be described in clause (A) if the disposition were made at the time the estate makes the gift,

• (ii) property described in any of subparagraphs 39(1)‍(a)‍(ii) to (iii) and (v); and

Deemed gain — parked obligation

(2.‍01) For the purposes of subsection (2), if a debt obligation owing by a taxpayer (referred to in this subsection and subsections (2.‍02) and (2.‍03) as the debtor) is denominated in a foreign currency and the debt obligation has become a parked obligation at a particular time, the debtor is deemed at that time to have made the gain, if any, that the debtor otherwise would have made if it had paid an amount at the particular time in satisfaction of the debt obligation equal to

• (a) if the debt obligation has become a parked obligation at the particular time as a result of its acquisition by the holder of the debt obligation, the amount paid by the holder to acquire the debt obligation; and

• (b) in any other case, the fair market value of the debt obligation at the particular time.

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Parked obligation

(2.‍02) For the purposes of subsection (2.‍01), a debt obligation owing by a debtor is a parked obligation at a particular time if

• (a) both

  • (i) at that time, the holder of the debt obligation does not deal at arm’s length with the debtor or, if the debtor is a corporation, has a significant interest in the debtor, and

  • (ii) at any previous time, a person who held the debt obligation dealt at arm’s length with the debtor and, where the debtor is a corporation, did not have a significant interest in the debtor; and

• (b) it can reasonably be considered that one of the main purposes of the transaction or event or series of transactions or events that resulted in the debt obligation meeting the condition in subparagraph (a)‍(i) is to avoid the application of subsection (2).

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Interpretation

(2.‍03) For the purposes of subsections (2.‍01) and (2.‍02),

• (a) paragraph 80(2)‍(j) applies for the purpose of determining whether two persons are related to each other or whether any person is controlled by any other person; and

• (b) paragraph 80.‍01(2)‍(b) applies for the purpose of determining whether a person has a significant interest in a corporation.

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Class 14.‍1 — transitional rules

(13) Subsection (14) applies in respect of a disposition by a taxpayer of a property that is included in Class 14.‍1 of Schedule II to the Income Tax Regulations in respect of a business of the taxpayer if

• (a) the property was an eligible capital property of the taxpayer immediately before January 1, 2017;

• (b) the amount determined for Q in the definition cumulative eligible capital in subsection 14(5) in respect of the business immediately before January 1, 2017 is greater than nil;

• (c) the amount determined for B in that definition in respect of the business immediately before January 1, 2017 is nil; and

• (d) no amount is included in the taxpayer’s income for a taxation year because of paragraph 13(38)‍(d).

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Class 14.‍1 — transitional rules

(14) If this subsection applies in respect of a disposition at any time by a taxpayer of a property, the taxpayer’s capital gain from the disposition is to be reduced by such amount as the taxpayer claims, not exceeding the amount by which

• (a) 2/3 of the amount determined for Q in the definition cumulative eligible capital in subsection 14(5) in respect of the business immediately before 2017

exceeds

• (b) the total of all amounts each of which is an amount claimed under this subsection in respect of another disposition at or before that time.

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Class 14.‍1 — transitional rules

(15) Subsection (16) applies in respect of a disposition by an individual of a property that is included in Class 14.‍1 of Schedule II to the Income Tax Regulations in respect of a business of the individual if

• (a) the property was an eligible capital property of the individual immediately before January 1, 2017; and

• (b) the individual’s exempt gains balance in respect of the business is greater than nil for the taxation year that includes January 1, 2017.

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Class 14.‍1 — transitional rules

(16) If this subsection applies in respect of a disposition at any time by an individual of a property, the individual’s capital gain from the disposition is to be reduced by such amount as the individual claims, not exceeding the amount by which

• (a) twice the amount of the individual’s exempt gains balance in respect of the business for the taxation year that includes January 1, 2017

exceeds

• (b) the total of

  • (i) if paragraph 13(38)‍(d) applies in respect of the business for the individual’s taxation year that includes January 1, 2017, the amount determined for D in paragraph 14(1)‍(b) for the purposes of paragraph 13(38)‍(d), and

  • (ii) the total of all amounts each of which is an amount claimed under this subsection in respect of another disposition at or before that time.

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• (iii) the taxpayer’s share of the amount, if any, by which

  • (A) any proceeds of a life insurance policy received by the partnership after 1971 and before that time in consequence of the death of any person whose life was insured under the policy,

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exceeds the total of all amounts each of which is
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• (B) the adjusted cost basis ( Insertion start in this subparagraph as defined in Insertion end subsection 148(9)), immediately before the death, of

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    (I) if the death occurs before March 22, 2016, the policy to the partnership, and

  • (II) if the death occurs after March 21, 2016, a policyholder’s interest in the policy,

• (C) the amount by which the fair market value of consideration given in respect of a disposition of an interest in the policy exceeds the greater of the amount determined under subparagraph 148(7)‍(a)‍(i) in respect of the disposition and the adjusted cost basis to the policyholder of the interest immediately before the disposition, if

  • (I) the death occurs after March 21, 2016, and

  • (II) the disposition was by a policyholder (other than a taxable Canadian corporation) after 1999 and before March 22, 2016, or

• (D) if the death occurs after March 21, 2016, an interest in the policy was disposed of by a policyholder (other than a taxable Canadian corporation) after 1999 and before March 22, 2016 and subsection 148(7) applied to the disposition, the amount, if any, determined by the formula

  A − B

  where

  A

  is the amount, if any, by which the lesser of the adjusted cost basis to the policyholder of the interest immediately before the disposition and the fair market value of consideration given in respect of the disposition exceeds the amount determined under subparagraph 148(7)‍(a)‍(i) in respect of the disposition, and

  B

  is the absolute value of the negative amount, if any, that would be, in the absence of section 257, the adjusted cost basis, immediately before the death, of the interest in the policy,

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• (k) any amount that would otherwise be proceeds of disposition of property of a taxpayer to the extent that the amount is deemed by subsection 84.‍1(1), 212.‍1( Insertion start 1.‍1 Insertion end ) or 212.‍2(2) to be a dividend paid to the taxpayer; (produit de disposition)

goodwill amount, of a taxpayer, is an amount the taxpayer has or may become entitled to receive that Insertion start would, if this Act were read without reference to this section, be Insertion end required Insertion start to be included in the proceeds of disposition of a property included in Class 14.‍1 of Schedule II to the Income Tax Regulations, or is an amount to which subsection 13(38) applies Insertion end , in respect of a business carried on by the taxpayer through a permanent establishment located in Canada. (montant pour achalandage)

• (b) the amount would, if this Act were read without reference to this section, be required Insertion start to be included in the proceeds of disposition of a property included in Class 14.‍1 of Schedule II to the Income Tax Regulations, or is an amount to which subsection 13(38) applies Insertion end , in respect of the business to which the restrictive covenant relates, and the particular taxpayer elects (or if the amount is payable by the purchaser in respect of a business carried on in Canada by the purchaser, the particular taxpayer and the purchaser jointly elect) in prescribed form to apply this paragraph in respect of the amount; or

• (b) if an election has been made under paragraph (3)‍(b) in respect of the amount, to be considered to be incurred by the purchaser on account of capital for the purpose of Insertion start determining the cost of the property or for the purposes of subsection 13(35), as the case may be Insertion end , and not to be an amount paid or payable for all other purposes of the Act; and

• (d) subsections 13(21.‍2), 18(15) and 40(3.‍4) and (3.‍6) do not apply in respect of any property disposed of on the winding-up.

Exception

(3.‍1) For the purposes of this section, rights or things do not include an interest in a life insurance policy (other than an annuity contract of a taxpayer where the payment therefor was deductible in computing the taxpayer’s income because of paragraph 60(l) or was made in circumstances in which subsection 146(21) applied), land included in the inventory of a business, a Canadian resource property or a foreign resource property.

Transfer or distribution — Class 14.‍1

(5.‍1) Notwithstanding subsection Insertion start (6), if Insertion end property Insertion start included in Class 14.‍1 of Schedule II to the Income Tax Regulations of the Insertion end taxpayer in respect of a business carried on by the taxpayer immediately before Insertion start the taxpayer’s death that is a property to which subsection (5) would otherwise apply is Insertion end , as a consequence of the death, Insertion start transferred or distributed Insertion end (otherwise than by way of a distribution of property by a trust that claimed a deduction under paragraph 20(1) Insertion start (a) or Insertion end (b) in respect of the property or in circumstances to which subsection 24(2) applies) to any person (in this subsection referred to as the beneficiary), Insertion start the following rules apply Insertion end :

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  (a) paragraphs (5)‍(a) and (b) do not apply in respect of the property;

• (b) the taxpayer is deemed to have, immediately before the taxpayer’s death, disposed of the property and received proceeds of disposition equal to the lesser of the capital cost and the cost amount to the taxpayer of the property immediately before the death;

• (c) the beneficiary is deemed to have acquired the property at the time of the death at a cost equal to those proceeds; and

• (d) paragraph (5)‍(c) applies as if the references to “paragraph (a)” were read as references to “paragraph (5.‍1)‍(b)” and the reference to “paragraph (b)” were read as reference to “paragraph (5.‍1)‍(c)”.

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Election

(6.‍2) Subsection Insertion start (5.‍1) Insertion end , (6) or (6.‍1) does not apply to any property of a deceased taxpayer in respect of which the taxpayer’s legal representative elects, in the taxpayer’s return of income under this Part (other than a return of income filed under subsection (2) or 104(23), paragraph 128(2)‍(e) or subsection 150(4)) for the year in which the taxpayer died, to have subsection (5) or (5.‍4), as the case may be, apply.

Leased farm or fishing property

(9.‍8) For the purposes of subsections (9) and 73(3) and paragraph (d) of the definition qualified farm or fishing property in subsection 110.‍6(1), a property of an individual is, at a particular time, deemed to be used by the individual in a farming or fishing business carried on in Canada if, at that particular time, the property is being used, principally in the course of carrying on a farming or fishing business in Canada, by

• (a) the property was, before the transfer, land in Canada or depreciable property in Canada of a prescribed class, of the taxpayer;

• (b) paragraph 20(1)‍(hh.‍1) applies, where the cost of the property to the person was an eligible capital expenditure Insertion start at the time the property was acquired Insertion end ;

• (c) subsections (3) to (5) and Insertion start (8) Insertion end to (13) apply in numerical order to the forgiven amount in respect of a commercial obligation;

Reductions of adjusted cost bases of capital properties

(9)  Insertion start If Insertion end a commercial obligation issued by a debtor is settled at any time and amounts have been designated under subsections (5) and (8) to the maximum extent permitted in respect of the settlement, subject to subsection (18)

Reduction of adjusted cost bases of certain shares and debts

(10)  Insertion start If Insertion end a commercial obligation issued by a debtor is settled at any time in a taxation year and amounts have been designated by the debtor under subsections (5), (8) and (9) to the maximum extent permitted in respect of the settlement, subject to subsection (18) the remaining unapplied portion of that forgiven amount shall be applied (to the extent that it is designated in a prescribed form filed with the debtor’s return of income under this Part for the year) to reduce immediately after that time the adjusted cost bases to the debtor of capital properties, owned by the debtor immediately after that time, that are shares of the capital stock of corporations of which the debtor is a specified shareholder at that time and debts issued by corporations of which the debtor is a specified shareholder at that time (other than shares of the capital stock of corporations related to the debtor at that time, debts issued by corporations related to the debtor at that time and excluded properties).

Reduction of adjusted cost bases of certain shares, debts and partnership interests

(11)  Insertion start If Insertion end a commercial obligation issued by a debtor is settled at any time in a taxation year and amounts have been designated by the debtor under subsections (5), (8), (9) and (10) to the maximum extent permitted in respect of the settlement, subject to subsection (18) the remaining unapplied portion of that forgiven amount shall be applied (to the extent that it is designated in a prescribed form filed with the debtor’s return of income under this Part for the year) to reduce immediately after that time the adjusted cost bases to the debtor of

Capital gain where current year capital loss

(12)  Insertion start If Insertion end a commercial obligation issued by a debtor (other than a partnership) is settled at any time in a taxation year and amounts have been designated by the debtor under subsections (5), (8) and (9) to the maximum extent permitted in respect of the settlement,

• (c) amounts were designated under subsections (5), (8), (9) and (10) by each of those directed persons to the maximum extent permitted in respect of the settlement of each of those notional obligations; and

• (b) for the purpose of paragraph (a), the relevant limit in respect of the partnership obligation is the amount that would be included in computing the member’s income for the year as a consequence of the application of subsection (13) and section 96 to the settlement of the partnership obligation if the partnership had designated amounts under subsections (5), (8), (9) and (10) to the maximum extent permitted in respect of each obligation settled in that fiscal period and if income arising from the application of subsection (13) were from a source of income separate from any other sources of partnership income; and

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  (e) the total of

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  • ( Insertion start i Insertion end ) the amount of interest for the year paid on all such loans and debts ( Insertion start other than loans deemed to have been made under subsection 15(2.‍17) Insertion end ) not later than 30 days after the end of the year, and

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    (ii) the specified interest amounts, for the year, in respect of all such loans that are deemed to have been made under subsection 15(2.‍17).

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specified interest amount, for a year, in respect of a loan (referred to in this definition as the deemed loan) deemed to have been made under subsection 15(2.‍17) by an ultimate funder (as defined in subsection 15(2.‍192)), means the amount determined by the formula

• (i) on the issuance of shares of that class or shares of another class for which the shares of that class were substituted (other than an issuance to which section 51, 66.‍3, 84.‍1, 85, 85.‍1, 86 or 87 Insertion start or Insertion end subsection 192(4.‍1), 194(4.‍1) or 212.‍1 Insertion start (1.‍1) Insertion end applied),

• (e.‍1) where two or more properties, each of which is a property described in paragraph (e), are disposed of at the same time, paragraph (e) applies as if each property so disposed of had been separately disposed of in the order designated by the taxpayer before the time referred to in subsection (6) for the filing of an election in respect of those properties or, if the taxpayer does not so designate any such order, in the order designated by the Minister;

• (e.‍3) where, under any of paragraphs (c.‍1) and (e), the amount that the taxpayer and the corporation have agreed on in their election in respect of the property (in this paragraph referred to as the elected amount) would be deemed to be an amount that is greater or less than the amount that would be deemed, subject to paragraph (c), to be the elected amount under paragraph (b), the elected amount Insertion start is Insertion end deemed to be the greater of

  • (i) the amount deemed by paragraph (c.‍1) or (e), as the case may be, to be the elected amount, and

• (g.‍3) for the purposes of applying subsections 13(21.‍2), 18(15) and 40(3.‍4) to any property that was disposed of by a predecessor corporation before the amalgamation, the new corporation is deemed to be the same corporation as, and a continuation of, each predecessor corporation;

• (d.‍1) subsection 84(2) and section 21 of the Income Tax Application Rules do not apply to the winding-up of the subsidiary, and Insertion start subsection Insertion end 13(21.‍2) Insertion start does Insertion end not apply to the winding-up of the subsidiary with respect to property acquired by the parent on the winding-up;

• (i) 1/2 of the total of all amounts each of which is an amount required by paragraph 14(1)‍(b) ( Insertion start as it read before 2017 Insertion end ) to be included in computing the corporation’s income in respect of a business carried on by the corporation for a taxation year that is included in the period and that ended after February 27, 2000 and before October 18, 2000,

• (i) the total of all amounts each of which is an amount required by paragraph 14(1)‍(b) ( Insertion start as it read before 2017) or subparagraph 13(38)‍(d)‍(iii) Insertion end to be included in computing the corporation’s income in respect of a business carried on by the corporation for a taxation year that is included in the period and that ends after October 17, 2000,

• (iii) the adjusted cost basis ( Insertion start in this paragraph as defined in Insertion end subsection 148(9)), immediately before the death, of

  • Insertion start (A) Insertion end Insertion start   Insertion end Insertion start if the death occurs before March 22, 2016 Insertion end , a policy referred to in subparagraph (i) or (ii) to the corporation, Insertion start and Insertion end

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    (B) if the death occurs after March 21, 2016, a policyholder’s interest in a policy referred to in subparagraph (i) or (ii),

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  (v) if the death occurs after March 21, 2016, an interest in the policy was disposed of by a policyholder (other than a taxable Canadian corporation) after 1999 and before March 22, 2016 and subsection 148(7) applied to the disposition, the total of

  • (A) the amount, if any, by which the fair market value of consideration given in respect of the disposition exceeds the total of

    • (I) the greater of the amount determined under subparagraph 148(7)‍(a)‍(i) in respect of the disposition and the adjusted cost basis to the policyholder of the interest immediately before the disposition, and

    • (II) the amount by which the paid-up capital of any class of the capital stock of a corporation resulting from the disposition is reduced at the beginning of March 22, 2016 because of the application of paragraphs 148(7)‍(c) and (f) in respect of the disposition, and

  • (B) if the paid-up capital in respect of a class of shares of the capital stock of a corporation was increased before March 22, 2016 as described in subparagraph 148(7)‍(f)‍(iii) in respect of the disposition, the amount, if any, by which the total reduction in the paid-up capital in respect of that class — not exceeding the amount of that increase — after that increase and before March 22, 2016 (except to the extent that the amount of the reduction was deemed by subsection 84(4) or (4.‍1) to be a dividend received by a taxpayer) exceeds the amount determined under subparagraph 148(7)‍(a)‍(i) in respect of the disposition, or

• (vi) if the death occurs after March 21, 2016, an interest in the policy was disposed of by a policyholder (other than a taxable Canadian corporation) after 1999 and before March 22, 2016 and subsection 148(7) applied to the disposition, the amount, if any, determined by the formula

  A − B

  where

  A

  is the amount, if any, by which the lesser of the adjusted cost basis to the policyholder of the interest immediately before the disposition and the fair market value of consideration given in respect of the disposition exceeds the amount determined under subparagraph 148(7)‍(a)‍(i) in respect of the disposition, and

  B

  is the absolute value of the negative amount, if any, that would be, in the absence of section 257, the adjusted cost basis, immediately before the death, of the interest in the policy,

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• (iii)  Insertion start if Insertion end the particular time is after March 31, 1977, an amount equal to the paid-up capital in respect of that class of shares at the particular time, computed without reference to the provisions of this Act except subsections 51(3) and 66.‍3(2) and (4), sections 84.‍1 and 84.‍2, subsections 85(2.‍1), 85.‍1(2.‍1) and (8), 86(2.‍1), 87(3) and (9), paragraph 128.‍1(1)‍(c.‍3), subsections 128.‍1(2) and (3), section 135.‍2, subsections 138(11.‍7), 139.‍1(6) and (7), Insertion start 148(7) Insertion end , 192(4.‍1) and 194(4.‍1) and sections 212.‍1 and 212.‍3,

• (b) subsections (8.‍1) and (8.‍2), paragraph (14)‍(a), subsections 70(6) and 73(1), the definition Canadian partnership in subsection 102(1), paragraph 107.‍4(1)‍(c), the definition qualified disability trust in subsection 122(3), paragraph (a) of the definition mutual fund trust in subsection 132(6), the definition eligible trust in subsection 135.‍2(1) Insertion start and subparagraph (b)‍(i) of the definition investment fund in subsection 251.‍2(1) Insertion end ;

• (B) subsections 13(21.‍2), 18(15) and 40(3.‍4) in respect of any property that was disposed of, at any time before the merger, by a foreign affiliate predecessor, and

• (II) subsections 13(21.‍2), 18(15) and 40(3.‍4) in respect of any property that was disposed of, at any time before the liquidation and dissolution, by the disposing affiliate, and

• (A) this Act is to be read without reference to subsections 17(1) and 18(4) and section 91, except that, where the foreign affiliate is a member of a partnership, section 91 is to be applied to determine the income or loss of the partnership and for that purpose subsection 96(1) is to be applied to determine the foreign affiliate’s share of that income or loss of the partnership,

Gains and losses

(1.‍7) Notwithstanding subsection (1) or section 38, Insertion start if Insertion end in a particular taxation year of a taxpayer, the taxpayer is a member of a partnership with a fiscal period that ends in the particular year, the amount of a taxable capital gain, allowable capital loss or allowable business investment loss of the taxpayer for the particular year determined in respect of the partnership is the amount determined by the formula

Agreement or election of partnership members

(3) If a taxpayer who was a member of a partnership at any time in a fiscal period has, for any purpose relevant to the computation of the taxpayer’s income from the partnership for the fiscal period, made or executed an agreement, designation or election under or in respect of the application of any of subsections 13(4), (4.‍2) and (16), section 15.‍2, subsections 20(9) and 21(1) to (4), section 22, subsection 29(1), section 34, clause 37(8)‍(a)‍(ii)‍(B), subsections 44(1) and (6), 50(1) and 80(5) and (9) to (11), section 80.‍04, subsections 86.‍1(2), 88(3.‍1), (3.‍3) and (3.‍5) and 90(3), the definition relevant cost base in subsection 95(4) and subsections 97(2), 139.‍1(16) and (17) and 249.‍1(4) and (6) that, if this Act were read without reference to this subsection, would be a valid agreement, designation or election,

(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act other than subsections (3) and 13(21.‍2), where a taxpayer at any time disposes of any property that is a capital property, Canadian resource property, foreign resource property or inventory of the taxpayer to a partnership that immediately after that time is a Canadian partnership of which the taxpayer is a member, if the taxpayer and all the other members of the partnership jointly so elect in prescribed form within the time referred to in subsection 96(4),

• (b)  Insertion start subject to paragraph (b.‍1) Insertion end , the trust’s income (determined without reference to subsections (6) and (12)) for the particular year is, notwithstanding subsection (24), deemed

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  (b.‍1) paragraph (b) does not apply in respect of the trust for the particular year, unless

  • (i) the individual is resident in Canada immediately before the death,

  • (ii) the trust is, immediately before the death, a testamentary trust that

    • (A) is a post-1971 spousal or common-law partner trust, and

    • (B) was created by the will of a taxpayer who died before 2017, and

  • (iii) an election — made jointly between the trust and the legal representative administering the individual’s graduated rate estate in prescribed form — that paragraph (b) applies is filed with

    • (A) the individual’s return of income under this Part for the individual’s year, and

    • (B) the trust’s return of income under this Part for the particular year; and

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• (i) the references in Insertion start paragraph Insertion end 150(1)‍(c) to “year” and Insertion start in subparagraph (a)‍(ii) Insertion end of the definition balance-due day in subsection 248(1) Insertion start to “taxation year” Insertion end are to be read as “calendar year in which the Insertion start taxation Insertion end year ends”, and

• (c) the property is capital property used in, or property described in the inventory of, a business carried on by the trust through a permanent establishment (as defined by regulation) in Canada immediately before the time of the distribution.

Testamentary trust not disqualified

(1.‍1) For the purpose of the definition testamentary trust in subsection (1), a contribution to a particular trust does not include

• (a) a qualifying expenditure (within the meaning of section 118.‍04 or 118.‍041) of a beneficiary under the trust; or

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  (b) an amount paid to, or on behalf of, the trust by another trust if

  • (i) the trust is an individual’s graduated rate estate (determined without regard to the payment and this subsection),

  • (ii) paragraph 104(13.‍4)‍(b) applies to the other trust, for a taxation year that ends at a time determined by reference to the individual’s death, because of a joint election made under subparagraph 104(13.‍4)‍(b.‍1)‍(iii) by the other trust and the legal representative administering the estate,

  • (iii) the payment is on account of the tax payable by the individual, for the individual’s taxation year that includes the day on which the individual dies, under

    • (A) this Part, or

    • (B) the law of the province, in which the individual was resident immediately before the individual’s death, that imposes a tax on the taxable income of individuals resident in that province, and

  • (iv) the amount of the payment does not exceed the amount by which that tax payable is greater than it would have been if paragraph 104(13.‍4)‍(b) did not apply to the other trust in respect of the taxation year referred to in subparagraph (ii).

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• (d)  Insertion start a property included in Class 14.‍1 of Schedule II to the Income Tax Regulations Insertion end , used by a person or partnership referred to in any of subparagraphs (a)‍(i) to (v), or by a personal trust from which the individual acquired the property, in the course of carrying on a farming or fishing business in Canada; (bien agricole ou de pêche admissible)

Certificates for dispositions

(5.‍2) If a non-resident person has, in respect of a disposition, or a proposed disposition, in a taxation year to a taxpayer of property (other than excluded property) that is a life insurance policy in Canada, a Canadian resource property, a property (other than capital property) that is real property, or an immovable, situated in Canada, a timber resource property, depreciable property that is a taxable Canadian property or any interest in, or for civil law any right in, or any option in respect of, a property to which this subsection applies (whether or not that property exists),

• (C) by the individual’s estate if subsection (5.‍1) applies to the gift and the particular year is the taxation year in which the individual dies or the preceding taxation year, or

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  (B) by the trust if

  • (I) the trust is an individual’s estate,

  • (II) subsection (5.‍1) applies to the gift, and

  • (III) the particular year is a taxation year

    • 1 in which the estate is the individual’s graduated rate estate, and

    • 2 that precedes the taxation year in which the gift is made, or

• (C) by the trust if

  • (I) the end of the particular year is determined by paragraph 104(13.‍4)‍(a) because of an individual’s death,

  • (II) the gift is made after the particular year and on or before the trust’s filing-due date for the particular year, and

  • (III) the subject of the gift is property that is held by the trust at the time of the individual’s death or is property that was substituted for that property; (total des dons de bienfaisance)

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• (C) by the individual’s estate if subsection (5.‍1) applies to the gift and the particular year is the taxation year in which the individual dies or the preceding taxation year, or

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  (B) by the trust if

  • (I) the trust is an individual’s estate,

  • (II) subsection (5.‍1) applies to the gift, and

  • (III) the particular year is a taxation year

    • 1 in which the estate is the individual’s graduated rate estate, and

    • 2 that precedes the taxation year in which the gift is made, or

• (C) by the trust if

  • (I) the end of the particular year is determined by paragraph 104(13.‍4)‍(a) because of an individual’s death,

  • (II) the gift is made after the particular year and on or before the trust’s filing-due date for the particular year, and

  • (III) the subject of the gift is property that is held by the trust at the time of the individual’s death or is property that was substituted for that property; (total des dons de biens culturels)

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• (A) by the individual, or the individual’s spouse or common-law partner, in the particular year or any of the Insertion start 10 Insertion end preceding taxation years,

• (C) by the individual’s estate if subsection (5.‍1) applies to the gift and the particular year is the taxation year in which the individual dies or the preceding taxation year, or

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  (B) by the trust if

  • (I) the trust is an individual’s estate,

  • (II) subsection (5.‍1) applies to the gift, and

  • (III) the particular year is a taxation year

    • 1 in which the estate is the individual’s graduated rate estate, and

    • 2 that precedes the taxation year in which the gift is made, or

• (C) by the trust if

  • (I) the end of the particular year is determined by paragraph 104(13.‍4)‍(a) because of an individual’s death,

  • (II) the gift is made after the particular year and on or before the trust’s filing-due date for the particular year, and

  • (III) the subject of the gift is property that is held by the trust at the time of the individual’s death or is property that was substituted for that property; (total des dons de biens écosensibles)

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Gifts by graduated rate estate

(5.‍1) This subsection applies to a gift made by an individual’s graduated rate estate ( Insertion start determined without reference to paragraph (a) of the definition graduated rate estate in subsection 248(1)) if the gift is made no more than 60 months after the individual’s death Insertion end , the death occurs after 2015 and either

• (c)  Insertion start either Insertion end ,

  • Insertion start (i) Insertion end  if the taxpayer Insertion start is an individual’s graduated rate estate, Insertion end

    • Insertion start (A) Insertion end Insertion start   Insertion end Insertion start the individual dealt Insertion end at arm’s length with the donee Insertion start immediately before the individual’s death, and Insertion end

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      (B) the graduated rate estate deals at arm’s length with the donee (determined without reference to paragraph 251(1)‍(b)), or

  • (ii) if subparagraph (i) does not apply, the taxpayer deals at arm’s length with the donee; and

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Annual adjustment

(5) Each amount expressed in dollars in subsection (1) shall be adjusted so that, where the base taxation year in relation to a particular month is after 2018, the amount to be used under that subsection for the month is the total of

• (a) the amount that would, but for subsection (7), be the relevant amount used under subsection (1) for the month that is one year before the particular month, and

• (b) the product obtained by multiplying

  • (i) the amount referred to in paragraph (a)

by

• (ii) the amount, adjusted in such manner as is prescribed and rounded to the nearest one-thousandth or, where the result obtained is equidistant from 2 such consecutive one-thousandths, to the higher thereof, that is determined by the formula

  (A/B) − 1

  where

  A

  is the Consumer Price Index (within the meaning assigned by subsection 117.‍1(4)) for the 12- month period that ended on September 30 of the base taxation year, and

  B

  is the Consumer Price Index for the 12 month period preceding the period referred to in the description of A.

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Rounding

(7) If an amount referred to in subsection (1), when adjusted as provided in subsection (5), is not a multiple of one dollar, it shall be rounded to the nearest multiple of one dollar or, where it is equidistant from 2 such consecutive multiples, to the higher thereof.

• (i) the total of all amounts each of which is Insertion start the amount of Insertion end income of the corporation for the year from an active business carried on in Canada, Insertion start other than an amount that is Insertion end

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    (A) described in paragraph (a) of the description of A in the definition specified partnership income in subsection (7) for the year,

  • (B) described in subparagraph (a)‍(i) of the definition specified corporate income in subsection (7) for the year, or

  • (C) paid or payable to the corporation by another corporation with which it is associated, that is deemed by subsection 129(6) to be income for the year from an active business carried on by the corporation in circumstances where the associated corporation is not a Canadian-controlled private corporation or is a Canadian-controlled private corporation that has made an election under subsection 256(2) in respect of its taxation year in which the amount was paid or payable,

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• (ii) the specified partnership income of the corporation for the year, and

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  (ii.‍1) the specified corporate income of the corporation for the year

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Reduction — business limit

(3.‍1) The business limit for the year of a corporation under subsection (2), (3) or (4) is reduced by the total of all amounts each of which is the portion, if any, of the business limit that the corporation assigns to another corporation under subsection (3.‍2).

Assignment

(3.‍2) For the purpose of this section, a Canadian-controlled private corporation (in this subsection referred to as the first corporation) may assign all or any portion of its business limit under subsection (2), (3) or (4) for a taxation year of the first corporation to another Canadian-controlled private corporation (in this subsection referred to as the second corporation) for a taxation year of the second corporation if

• (a) the second corporation has an amount of income, for its taxation year, referred to in subparagraph (a)‍(i) of the definition specified corporate income in subsection (7) from the provision of services or property directly to the first corporation;

• (b) the first corporation’s taxation year ends in the second corporation’s taxation year;

• (c) the amount assigned does not exceed the amount determined by the formula

  A − B

  where

  A

  is the amount of income referred to in paragraph (a), and

  B

  is the portion of the amount described in A that is deductible by the first corporation in respect of the amount of income referred to in clause (1)‍(a)‍(i)‍(A) or (B) for the year; and

• (d) a prescribed form is filed with the Minister by

  • (i) the first corporation in its return of income for its taxation year, and

  • (ii) the second corporation in its return of income for its taxation year.

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Special rules for business limit

(5) Notwithstanding subsections (2), Insertion start (3) and Insertion end (4),

Business limit reduction

(5.‍1) Notwithstanding subsections (2), Insertion start (3), (4) and Insertion end (5), a Canadian-controlled private corporation’s business limit for a particular taxation year ending in a calendar year is the amount, if any, by which its business limit otherwise determined for the particular year exceeds the amount determined by the formula

designated member, of a particular partnership in a taxation year, means a Canadian-controlled private corporation that provides (directly or indirectly, in any manner whatever) services or property to the particular partnership at any time in the corporation’s taxation year where, at any time in the year,

• (a) the corporation is not a member of the particular partnership, and

• (b) either

  • (i) one of its shareholders holds a direct or indirect interest in the particular partnership, or

  • (ii) if subparagraph (i) does not apply,

    • (A) the corporation does not deal at arm’s length with a person that holds a direct or indirect interest in the particular partnership, and

    • (B) it is not the case that all or substantially all of the corporation’s income for the year from an active business is from providing services or property to

      • (I) persons with which the corporation deals at arm’s length, or

      • (II) partnerships (other than the particular partnership) with which the corporation deals at arm’s length, other than a partnership in which a person that does not deal at arm’s length with the corporation holds a direct or indirect interest; (associé désigné)

specified corporate income, of a corporation for a taxation year, means the lesser of

• (a) the lesser of

  • (i) the total of all amounts each of which is income from an active business of the corporation for the year from the provision of services or property to a private corporation (directly or indirectly, in any manner whatever) if

    • (A) at any time in the year, the corporation (or one of its shareholders) or a person who does not deal at arm’s length with the corporation (or one of its shareholders) holds a direct or indirect interest in the private corporation, and

    • (B) it is not the case that all or substantially all of the corporation’s income for the year from an active business is from the provision of services or property to

      • (I) persons (other than the private corporation) with which the corporation deals at arm’s length, or

      • (II) partnerships with which the corporation deals at arm’s length, other than a partnership in which a person that does not deal at arm’s length with the corporation holds a direct or indirect interest, and

  • (ii) the total of all amounts each of which is the portion, if any, of the business limit of a private corporation described in subparagraph (i) for a taxation year that the private corporation assigns to the corporation under subsection (3.‍2), and

• (b) an amount that the Minister determines to be reasonable in the circumstances; (revenu de société déterminé)

specified partnership business limit, of a person for a taxation year, at any particular time, means the amount determined by the formula

Assignment — specified partnership business limit

(8) For the purpose of the definition specified partnership income in subsection (7), a person that is a member of a partnership in a taxation year may assign to a designated member of the partnership — for a taxation year of the designated member — all or any portion of the person’s specified partnership business limit (determined without reference to this assignment) in respect of the person’s taxation year if

• (a) the person is described in paragraph (b) of the definition designated member in subsection (7) in respect of the designated member in the designated member’s taxation year;

• (b) the specified partnership business limit of the person is in respect of a fiscal period of the partnership that ends in the designated member’s taxation year; and

• (c) a prescribed form is filed with the Minister by

  • (i) the designated member in its return of income for the designated member’s taxation year, and

  • (ii) the person in its return of income for the person’s taxation year.

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Anti-avoidance

(9) If a corporation provides services or property to a person or partnership that holds a direct or indirect interest in a particular partnership or corporation and one of the reasons for the provision of the services or property to the person or partnership, instead of to the particular partnership or corporation, is to avoid the application of subparagraph (1)‍(a)‍(ii) or (ii.‍1) in respect of the income from the provision of the services or property, no amount in respect of the corporation’s income from the provision of the services or property is to be included in the total amount determined under paragraph (1)‍(a).

Computational rule — specified corporate income

(10) For the purpose of determining an amount for a taxation year in respect of a corporation under clause (1)‍(a)‍(i)‍(B) or subparagraph (1)‍(a)‍(ii.‍1), an amount of income is to be excluded if the amount is

• (a) income from an active business of the corporation for the year from the provision of services or property to another corporation with which the corporation is associated (in this subsection referred to as the associated corporation); and

• (b) not deductible by the associated corporation for its taxation year in respect of an amount included in the income of the associated corporation that is

  • (i) referred to in any of clauses (1)‍(a)‍(i)‍(A) to (C), or

  • (ii) reasonable to consider as being attributable to or derived from an amount referred to in clause (1)‍(a)‍(i)‍(C).

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• (a) a disposition or acquisition of property deemed to be made by subsection 10(12) or (13) or 45(1), section 70, 128.‍1 or 132.‍2, subsections 138(11.‍3) or 142.‍5(2), paragraph 142.‍6(1)‍(b) or subsections 142.‍6(1.‍1) or (1.‍2) or 149(10) is not a disposition or acquisition, as the case may be; and

• (iii)  Insertion start property included in Class 14.‍1 of Schedule II to the Income Tax Regulations Insertion end , in respect of a business carried on by the taxpayer in Canada at the time of disposition, and

• (ii) capital property used in, Insertion start property included in Class 14.‍1 of Schedule II to the Income Tax Regulations Insertion end in respect of or property described in the inventory of, a business carried on by the taxpayer through a permanent establishment (as defined by regulation) in Canada at the particular time,

Application of subsections 131(1) to (3.‍2), (4.‍1) and (6)

(2) Where a corporation was an investment corporation throughout a taxation year (other than a corporation that was a mutual fund corporation throughout the year), subsections 131(1) to (3.‍2), Insertion start (4.‍1) Insertion end and (6) apply in respect of the corporation for the year

Sections not applicable

(4.‍1) Sections 51, 85, 85.‍1, 86 and 87 do not apply to a taxpayer that holds a share (in this subsection referred to as the old share) of a class of shares, that is recognized under securities legislation as or as part of an investment fund, of a mutual fund corporation if the taxpayer exchanges or otherwise disposes of the old share for another share (in this subsection referred to as the new share) of a mutual fund corporation, unless

• (a) if the exchange or disposition occurs in the course of a transaction, event or series of transactions or events described in subsections 86(1) or 87(1),

  • (i) all shares of the class (determined without reference to subsection 248(6)) that includes the old share at the time of the exchange or disposition are exchanged for shares of the class that includes the new share,

  • (ii) the old share and the new share derive their value in the same proportion from the same property or group of properties, and

  • (iii) the transaction, event or series was undertaken solely for bona fide purposes and not to cause this paragraph to apply; or

• (b) if the old share and the new share are shares of the same class (determined without reference to subsection 248(6)) of shares of the same mutual fund corporation,

  • (i) the old share and the new share derive their value in the same proportion from the same property or group of properties held by the corporation that is allocated to that class, and

  • (ii) that class is recognized under securities legislation as or as part of a single investment fund.

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Election to be a mutual fund corporation

(8.‍01) A corporation is deemed to be a mutual fund corporation, from the date it was incorporated until the earlier of the date the corporation meets the conditions to qualify as a mutual fund corporation under subsection (8) and December 31, 2017, if the corporation

• (a) was incorporated after 2014 and before March 22, 2016;

• (b) would have been a mutual fund corporation on March 22, 2016 if it could have elected on or before that date to be a public corporation under paragraph (b) of the definition public corporation in subsection 89(1), had the conditions prescribed in paragraph 4800(1)‍(b) of the Income Tax Regulations been satisfied;

• (c) on March 22, 2016, had at least one class of shares that was recognized under securities legislation as an investment fund; and

• (d) elects to have this subsection apply in the corporation’s return of income for the corporation’s first taxation year that ends after March 21, 2016.

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• (b) if the trust’s taxation year ends on December 15 because of paragraph (a), subject to subsection (1.‍1), each subsequent taxation year of the trust is deemed to be the period that begins at the beginning of December 16 of a calendar year and that ends at the end of December 15 of the following calendar year or at any earlier time that is determined under paragraph Insertion start 128.‍1(4)‍(a) Insertion end , 132.‍2(3)‍(b), 142.‍6(1) Insertion start (a) Insertion end or Insertion start 249(4)‍(a) Insertion end ; and

• (b) no amount paid or payable to a stakeholder in connection with the disposition, alteration or dilution of the stakeholder’s ownership rights in the particular corporation Insertion start may be included in Class 14.‍1 of Schedule II to the Income Tax Regulations Insertion end ;

Acquisition of control

(18) For the purposes of subsections 10(10), 13(21.‍2) and (24) and 18(15), sections 18.‍1 and 37, subsection 40(3.‍4), the definition superficial loss in section 54, section 55, subsections 66(11), (11.‍4) and (11.‍5), 66.‍5(3) and 66.‍7(10) and (11), section 80, paragraph 80.‍04(4)‍(h), subsections 85(1.‍2) and 88(1.‍1) and (1.‍2), sections 111 and 127 and subsections 249(4) and 256(7), control of an insurance corporation (and each corporation controlled by it) is deemed not to be acquired solely because of the acquisition of shares of the capital stock of the insurance corporation, in connection with the demutualization of the insurance corporation, by a particular corporation that at a particular time becomes a holding corporation in connection with the demutualization where, immediately after the particular time,

• (c) for the purposes of applying subsection 13(21.‍2), 18(15) and 40(3.‍4) to any property that was disposed of by the affiliate, after the dissolution or winding-up of the affiliate, the entrant bank is deemed to be the same corporation as, and a continuation of, the affiliate.

Disposition at non-arm’s length and similar cases

(7)  Insertion start If Insertion end an interest of a policyholder in a life insurance policy is, Insertion start at any time (referred to in this subsection as the disposition time) Insertion end , disposed of ( Insertion start other Insertion end than a disposition under paragraph (2)‍(b)) by way of a gift, by distribution from a corporation or by operation of law only to any person, or in any manner whatever to any person with whom the policyholder was not dealing at arm’s length,

• ( Insertion start a Insertion end ) the policyholder Insertion start is Insertion end deemed to become entitled to receive, Insertion start at the disposition time Insertion end , proceeds of the disposition equal to the Insertion start greatest of Insertion end

  • Insertion start (i) Insertion end  the value of the interest at the disposition time,

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    (ii) an amount equal to

    • (A) if the disposition time is before March 22, 2016, nil, and

    • (B) if the disposition time is after March 21, 2016, the fair market value at the disposition time of the consideration, if any, given for the interest, and

  • (iii) an amount equal to

    • (A) if the disposition time is before March 22, 2016, nil, and

    • (B) if the disposition time is after March 21, 2016, the adjusted cost basis to the policyholder of the interest immediately before the disposition time;

• (b) the person that acquires the interest because of the disposition is deemed to acquire it, at the disposition time, at a cost equal to the amount determined under paragraph (a) in respect of the disposition;

• (c) in computing the paid-up capital in respect of each class of shares of the capital stock of a corporation at any time at or after the disposition time there shall be deducted the amount determined by the formula

  (A − B × C/D) × E/A

  where

  A

  is the increase, if any, as a result of the disposition, in the paid-up capital in respect of all the shares of the capital stock of the corporation,

  B

  is the amount determined under paragraph (a) in respect of the disposition,

  C

  is

  (i) if consideration is given for the interest, the fair market value at the disposition time of consideration that is shares of the capital stock of the corporation given for the interest, and

  (ii) if no consideration is given for the interest, 1,

  D

  is

  (i) if consideration is given for the interest, the fair market value at the disposition time of the consideration given for the interest, and

  (ii) if no consideration is given for the interest, 1, and

  E

  is the increase, if any, as a result of the disposition, in the paid-up capital in respect of the class of shares, computed without reference to this paragraph as it applies to the disposition;

• (d) any contribution of capital to a corporation or partnership in connection with the disposition is deemed, to the extent that it exceeds the amount determined under subparagraph (a)‍(i) in respect of the disposition, not to result in a contribution of capital for the purpose of applying paragraphs 53(1)‍(c) and (e) at or after the disposition time;

• (e) any contributed surplus of a corporation that arose in connection with the disposition is deemed, to the extent that it exceeds the amount determined under subparagraph (a)‍(i) in respect of the disposition, not to be contributed surplus for the purpose of applying subsection 84(1) at or after the disposition time; and

• (f) if the disposition time is before March 22, 2016,

  • (i) subparagraphs (ii) and (iii) and paragraphs (c) to (e) apply in respect of the disposition only if the disposition is after 1999 and at least one person whose life was insured under the policy before March 22, 2016 is alive on March 22, 2016,

  • (ii) in applying paragraphs (c) to (e) in respect of the disposition, a reference in those paragraphs to “the disposition time” is to be read as “the beginning of March 22, 2016”,

  • (iii) if at any time (referred to in this subparagraph as the conversion time) before March 22, 2016 the paid-up capital of a class of shares of the capital stock of a corporation was increased, the increase occurred as a result of any action by which the corporation converted any of its contributed surplus into paid-up capital in respect of the class of shares, the contributed surplus arose in connection with the disposition, and subsection 84(1) did not apply to deem the corporation to pay a dividend at the conversion time in respect of the increase, in computing the paid-up capital in respect of that class of shares after March 21, 2016, there shall be deducted the amount determined by the formula

    (A − B × A/D) × C/A

    where

    A

    is the increase, if any, as a result of the conversion, in the paid-up capital in respect of all the shares of the capital stock of the corporation, computed without reference to this paragraph as it applies to the disposition,

    B

    is the amount determined under subparagraph (a)‍(i) in respect of the disposition,

    C

    is the increase, if any, as a result of the conversion, in the paid-up capital in respect of the class of shares, computed without reference to this paragraph as it applies to the disposition, and

    D

    is the total amount of the corporation’s contributed surplus that arose in connection with the disposition, and

  • (iv) if any consideration given for the interest includes a share of the capital stock of a corporation, the share (or a share substituted for the share) is disposed of (referred to in this subparagraph as the share disposition) after March 21, 2016 by a taxpayer and subsection 84.‍1(1) applies in respect of the share disposition, then for the purposes of applying section 84.‍1, the adjusted cost base to the taxpayer of the share immediately before the share disposition is to be reduced by the amount determined by the formula

    (A − B x A/C)/D

    where

    A

    is the total of all amounts each of which is the fair market value at the disposition time of a share of that capital stock given as consideration for the interest,

    B

    is the greater of the amount determined under subparagraph 148(7)‍(a)‍(i) in respect of the disposition and the adjusted cost basis to the policyholder of the interest immediately before the disposition,

    C

    is the fair market value at the disposition time of the consideration, if any, given for the interest, and

    D

    is the total number of shares of that capital stock given as consideration for the interest.

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Alternative basis for assessment

(9) At any time after the normal reassessment period, the Minister may advance an alternative Insertion start basis or Insertion end argument —  Insertion start including that all or any portion of the income to which an amount relates was from a different source Insertion end  — in support of Insertion start all or any portion of the total amount determined on assessment to be payable or remittable by a taxpayer under this Act Insertion end unless, on an appeal under this Act

• (a) knowingly or under circumstances amounting to gross negligence, fails to file an information return as and when required by any of sections 233.‍1 to 233.‍4 Insertion start and 233.‍8 Insertion end , or

Back-to-back loan arrangement

(3.‍1)  Insertion start Subsection Insertion end (3.‍2) Insertion start applies Insertion end at any time in respect of a taxpayer if

• (a) the taxpayer pays or credits a particular amount at that time Insertion start as Insertion end , on account or in lieu of payment of, or in satisfaction of, interest (determined without reference to paragraph 18(6.‍1)‍(b) and subsection 214(16)) in respect of a particular debt or other obligation to pay an amount to a person or partnership (in this subsection Insertion start and subsection (3.‍2) Insertion end referred to as the Insertion start immediate funder Insertion end );

• (b) the Insertion start immediate funder Insertion end is not

  • (i) a person resident in Canada that does not deal at arm’s length with the taxpayer, or

  • (ii) a partnership each member of which is a person described in subparagraph (i);

• (c) at any time in the period during which the interest accrued (in this subsection and subsections (3.‍2) and (3.‍3) referred to as the relevant period), Insertion start a relevant funder, in respect of a particular relevant funding arrangement Insertion end ,

  • (i) has an amount outstanding as or on account of a debt or other obligation to pay an amount to a Insertion start person or partnership Insertion end that meets any of the following conditions:

    • (A) recourse in respect of the debt or other obligation is limited in whole or in part, either immediately or in the future and either absolutely or contingently, to Insertion start a relevant funding arrangement Insertion end , or

    • (B) it can reasonably be concluded that all or a portion of the particular Insertion start relevant funding arrangement was entered into, or was permitted to remain in effect Insertion end , because

      • (I) all or a portion of the debt or other obligation was entered into or was permitted to remain outstanding, or

      • (II) the Insertion start relevant funder Insertion end anticipated that all or a portion of the debt or other obligation would become owing or remain outstanding, or

  • (ii) has a specified right in respect of a particular property that was granted directly or indirectly by a Insertion start person or partnership Insertion end and

    • (A) the existence of the specified right is required under the terms and conditions of the particular Insertion start relevant funding arrangement Insertion end , or

    • (B) it can reasonably be concluded that all or a portion of the particular Insertion start relevant funding arrangement was entered into, or was permitted to remain in effect Insertion end , because

      • (I) the specified right was granted, or

      • (II) the Insertion start relevant funder Insertion end anticipated that the specified right would be granted;

• (d) the tax that would be payable under this Part in respect of the particular amount, if the particular amount were paid or credited to Insertion start any ultimate funder Insertion end rather than the Insertion start immediate funder Insertion end , is greater than the tax payable under this Part (determined without reference to this subsection and subsection (3.‍2)) in respect of the particular amount; and

• (e)  Insertion start at any time during the relevant period Insertion end , the total of all amounts  — each of which is an amount outstanding as or on account of Insertion start a debt or other obligation owed by the immediate funder that is a relevant funding arrangement Insertion end or the fair market value of a particular property Insertion start in respect of which the immediate funder is granted a specified right that is a relevant funding arrangement Insertion end  — is equal to at least 25% of the total of

  • (i) the amount outstanding as or on account of the particular debt or other obligation, and

  • (ii) the total of all amounts each of which is an amount (other than the amount described in subparagraph (i)) that the taxpayer, or a person or partnership that does not deal at arm’s length with the taxpayer, has outstanding as or on account of a debt or other obligation to pay an amount to the Insertion start immediate funder Insertion end under the agreement, or an agreement that is connected to the agreement, under which the particular debt or other obligation was entered into where

    • (A) the Insertion start immediate funder Insertion end is granted a security interest (as defined in subsection 18(5)) in respect of a property that is the Insertion start debt or other obligation owed by the immediate funder Insertion end or the particular property, as the case may be, and the security interest secures the payment of two or more debts or other obligations that include the debt or other obligation and the particular debt or other obligation, and

    • (B) each security interest that secures the payment of a debt or other obligation referred to in clause (A) secures the payment of every debt or other obligation referred to in that clause.

Back-to-back loan arrangement

Insertion start (3.‍2) Insertion end  If this subsection applies at any time in respect of a taxpayer, then for the purposes of paragraph (1)‍(b), the taxpayer is deemed, at that time, to pay interest to Insertion start each ultimate funder Insertion end , the amount of which is determined Insertion start for each particular ultimate funder Insertion end by the formula

Back-to-back arrangement — election

(3.‍21) Subsection (3.‍22) applies in respect of a taxpayer and two or more ultimate funders (referred to in this subsection and subsection (3.‍22) as the electing ultimate funders) at any time if

• (a) at that time, subsection (3.‍2) applies in respect of the taxpayer;

• (b) prior to that time, the taxpayer and the electing ultimate funders have jointly filed an election under this subsection;

• (c) the election designates one of the electing ultimate funders to be the recipient of interest payments that are deemed to be made by the taxpayer under subsection (3.‍22);

• (d) at that time, the tax that would be payable under this Part in respect of an interest payment by the taxpayer to the designated ultimate funder is not less than the tax that would be payable under this Part if the interest payment were made by the taxpayer to any of the other electing ultimate funders; and

• (e) the election has not been revoked prior to that time.

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Back-to-back arrangement — election

(3.‍22) If this subsection applies at any time in respect of a taxpayer and two or more electing ultimate funders, then each interest payment that would, in the absence of this subsection, have been deemed under subsection (3.‍2) to have been made at that time by the taxpayer to an electing ultimate funder, and received by the electing ultimate funder from the taxpayer, is deemed to have instead been

• (a) made by the taxpayer to the designated ultimate funder; and

• (b) received by the designated ultimate funder from the taxpayer.

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Excess funding

(3.‍3) Subsection (3.‍4) applies in respect of a particular relevant funder if the amount determined by the following formula is greater than nil:

Excess funding — deemed funding allocation

(3.‍4) If this subsection applies in respect of a particular relevant funder, for the purposes of subsections (3.‍2) to (3.‍4) (other than for the purpose of applying subsections (3.‍3) and (3.‍4) in respect of the particular relevant funder), each amount that is owed by the particular relevant funder, or that is the fair market value of a property in respect of which the particular relevant funder has been granted a specified right, under a relevant funding arrangement, is deemed to be the amount determined by the formula

Multiple funding arrangements

(3.‍5) If an amount owing by a relevant funder or a specified right held by the relevant funder is a relevant funding arrangement in respect of more than one particular debt or other obligation referred to in paragraph (3.‍1)‍(a), for the purposes of applying subsections (3.‍2) to (3.‍4) in respect of each of the particular debts or other obligations, the amount owing, or the fair market value of the property in respect of which the specified right was granted, as the case may be, is deemed, in respect of each particular debt or other obligation, to be the amount determined by the formula

Back-to-back loan arrangement — character substitution

(3.‍6) Subsection (3.‍7) applies in respect of

• (a) shares (other than specified shares) of the capital stock of a particular relevant funder, in respect of a particular relevant funding arrangement, if — at any time at or after the time when the particular debt or other obligation referred to in paragraph (3.‍1)‍(a) was entered into — the particular relevant funder has an obligation to pay or credit an amount as, on account or in lieu of payment of, or in satisfaction of, a dividend on the shares, either immediately or in the future and either absolutely or contingently, to a person or partnership, and any of the following conditions is met:

  • (i) the amount of the dividend is determined, in whole or in part, by reference to an amount of interest paid or credited, or an obligation to pay or credit interest, under a relevant funding arrangement, or

  • (ii) it can reasonably be concluded that the particular relevant funding arrangement was entered into or was permitted to remain in effect, because

    • (A) the shares were issued or were permitted to remain issued and outstanding, or

    • (B) it was anticipated that the shares would be issued or would be permitted to remain issued and outstanding; or

• (b) a specified royalty arrangement, if — at any time at or after the time when the particular debt or other obligation referred to in paragraph (3.‍1)‍(a) was entered into — a particular relevant funder, in respect of a particular relevant funding arrangement, is a specified licensee that has an obligation to pay or credit an amount under the specified royalty arrangement, either immediately or in the future and either absolutely or contingently, to a person or partnership, and any of the following conditions is met:

  • (i) the amount is determined, in whole or in part, by reference to an amount of interest paid or credited, or an obligation to pay or credit interest, under a relevant funding arrangement, or

  • (ii) it can reasonably be concluded that the particular relevant funding arrangement was entered into or was permitted to remain in effect, because

    • (A) the specified royalty arrangement was entered into or was permitted to remain in effect, or

    • (B) it was anticipated that the specified royalty arrangement would be entered into or remain in effect.

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Back-to-back loan arrangement — character substitution

(3.‍7) If this subsection applies in respect of a specified royalty arrangement (under which a particular relevant funder is a specified licensee) or shares of the capital stock of a particular relevant funder, then, for the purposes of subsections (3.‍1) to (3.‍8),

• (a) the specified royalty arrangement or the holding of the shares, as the case may be, is deemed to be a relevant funding arrangement;

• (b) the specified licensor or shareholder, as the case may be, in respect of the relevant funding arrangement, is deemed to be a relevant funder, in respect of the relevant funding arrangement;

• (c) the conditions in paragraph (3.‍1)‍(c) are deemed to be met in respect of the relevant funding arrangement; and

• (d) the relevant funder is deemed to be owed, under the relevant funding arrangement and by the particular relevant funder, an amount as or on account of a debt, the outstanding amount of which is determined by the formula

  (A – B) × C/D

  where

  A

  is the total of all amounts each of which is at the particular time,

  (i) an amount outstanding as or on account of a debt or other obligation that is owed to the particular relevant funder under a relevant funding arrangement,

  (ii) the fair market value of a particular property referred to in subparagraph (3.‍1)‍(c)‍(ii) in respect of which the particular relevant funder has granted a specified right under a relevant funding arrangement, or

  (iii) if neither subparagraph (i) nor (ii) applies at that particular time, nil,

  B

  is the total of all amounts each of which is, at the particular time, in respect of a relevant funding arrangement (other than a relevant funding arrangement deemed under paragraph (a)) and is

  (i) an amount outstanding as or on account of a debt or other obligation that is owed by the particular relevant funder under the relevant funding arrangement,

  (ii) the fair market value of a particular property referred to in subparagraph (3.‍1)‍(c)‍(ii) in respect of which the particular relevant funder has been granted a specified right under a relevant funding arrangement, or

  (iii) if neither subparagraph (i) nor (ii) applies at that particular time, nil,

  C

  is the fair market value, at the particular time, of

  (i) if the relevant funding arrangement is described in paragraph (3.‍6)‍(a), the shares, or

  (ii) if the relevant funding arrangement is described in paragraph (3.‍6)‍(b), the specified royalty arrangement, and

  D

  is the total of all amounts each of which is, in respect of a relevant funding arrangement referred to in the description of C, the amount determined for C at the particular time.

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Back-to-back loan arrangement — definitions

(3.‍8) The following definitions apply in this subsection and subsections (3.‍1) to (3.‍7) and (3.‍81).

relevant funder, in respect of a relevant funding arrangement, means

• (a) if the relevant funding arrangement is described in paragraph (a) of the definition relevant funding arrangement, the immediate funder referred to in paragraph (3.‍1)‍(a);

• (b) if the relevant funding arrangement is described in paragraph (b) of the definition relevant funding arrangement, the creditor in respect of the debt or other obligation or the grantor of the specified right, as the case may be; or

• (c) a person or partnership that does not deal at arm’s length with a person or partnership that is referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) and that deals at arm’s length with the taxpayer. (bailleur de fonds considéré)

relevant funding arrangement means

• (a) the particular debt or other obligation referred to in paragraph (3.‍1)‍(a); and

• (b) each debt or other obligation or specified right, owing by or granted to a relevant funder, in respect of a particular relevant funding arrangement, if the debt or other obligation or specified right meets the conditions in subparagraph (3.‍1)‍(c)‍(i) or (ii) in respect of a relevant funding arrangement. (mécanisme de financement considéré)

specified licensee means

• (a) a lessee, licensee or grantee of a right similar to a right granted under a lease or licence, under a specified royalty arrangement;

• (b) an assignee under a specified royalty arrangement; or

• (c) a purchaser under a specified royalty arrangement. (porteur de licence déterminé)

specified licensor means

• (a) a lessor, licensor or grantor of a right similar to a right granted under a lease or licence, under a specified royalty arrangement;

• (b) an assignor under a specified royalty arrangement; or

• (c) a seller under a specified royalty arrangement. (cédant de licence déterminé)

specified right has the same meaning as in subsection 18(5). (droit déterminé)

specified royalty arrangement has the same meaning as in subsection (3.‍94). (mécanisme de redevance déterminé)

specified share means a share of the capital stock of a corporation if, under the terms or conditions of the share, or any agreement or arrangement relating to the share,

• (a) the holder of the share may cause the share to be redeemed, acquired or cancelled;

• (b) the issuing corporation is, or may be, required to redeem, acquire or cancel the share at a specific time; or

• (c) the share is convertible or exchangeable into a share that meets the conditions in paragraph (a) or (b). (action déterminée)

ultimate funder means a relevant funder, in respect of a relevant funding arrangement (other than the immediate funder) that either

• (a) is not a debtor, or a holder of a specified right, under a relevant funding arrangement; or

• (b) is a debtor, or a holder of a specified right, under a relevant funding arrangement, if the amount that would — if the relevant funder were an ultimate funder — be determined for C in the formula in subsection (3.‍2) is greater than nil. (bailleur de fonds ultime)

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Specified shares

(3.‍81) For the purposes of subsections (3.‍1) to (3.‍8),

• (a) specified shares of a relevant funder, in respect of a relevant funding arrangement, held at any time by a person or partnership are deemed to be a debt of the relevant funder owing to the person or partnership; and

• (b) the amount outstanding at that time as or on account of the debt is deemed to be equal to the fair market value of the specified shares at that time.

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Back-to-back arrangement — rents, royalties, similar payments

(3.‍9) Subsection (3.‍91) applies at any time in respect of a taxpayer if

• (a) the taxpayer pays or credits a particular amount at that time as, on account or in lieu of payment of, or in satisfaction of, rent, royalty or similar payment, in respect of a particular lease, licence or similar agreement, to a non-resident person or a partnership any member of which is a non-resident person (in this subsection and subsections (3.‍91) to (3.‍94) referred to as the immediate licensor);

• (b) at any time at or after the time when the particular lease, licence or similar agreement was entered into,

  • (i) a relevant licensor in respect of a particular relevant royalty arrangement has an obligation to pay or credit an amount, either immediately or in the future and either absolutely or contingently, to a person or partnership, in respect of a specified royalty arrangement, and either of the following additional conditions is met:

    • (A) the amount is determined, in whole or in part, by reference to

      • (I) an amount paid or credited, or an obligation to pay or credit an amount, in respect of a relevant royalty arrangement, or

      • (II) one or more of the fair market value of, any revenue, profits, income, or cash flow from, or any other similar criteria in respect of, a particular property, if a right in respect of the property is granted under the particular lease, licence or similar agreement, or

    • (B) it can reasonably be concluded that the particular relevant royalty arrangement was entered into, or was permitted to remain in effect, because

      • (I) the specified royalty arrangement was entered into or was permitted to remain in effect, or

      • (II) it was anticipated that the specified royalty arrangement would be entered into or remain in effect, and

  • (ii) either the person or partnership

    • (A) does not deal at arm’s length with the taxpayer, or

    • (B) deals at arm’s length with the taxpayer, if it can reasonably be concluded that one of the main purposes of the specified royalty arrangement was

      • (I) to reduce or avoid the tax payable under this Part in respect of the particular amount, or

      • (II) to avoid the application of subsection (3.‍91); and

• (c) the tax that would be payable under this Part in respect of the particular amount, if the particular amount were paid or credited to an ultimate licensor rather than the immediate licensor, is greater than the tax payable under this Part (determined without reference to this subsection and subsection (3.‍91)) in respect of the particular amount.

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Back-to-back arrangement — rents, royalties, similar payments

(3.‍91) If this subsection applies at any time in respect of a taxpayer, then, for the purposes of paragraph (1)‍(d), the taxpayer is deemed, at that time, to pay to each ultimate licensor an amount — of the same character as the particular amount referred to in paragraph (3.‍9)‍(a) — determined for each particular ultimate licensor by the formula

Back-to-back arrangement — character substitution

(3.‍92) Subsection (3.‍93) applies in respect of

• (a) shares of the capital stock of a particular relevant licensor, in respect of a particular relevant royalty arrangement, if — at any time at or after the time when a particular lease, license or similar agreement referred to in paragraph (3.‍9)‍(a) was entered into — the particular relevant licensor has an obligation to pay or credit an amount as, on account or in lieu of payment of, or in satisfaction of, a dividend on the shares, either immediately or in the future and either absolutely or contingently, to a person or partnership, and

  • (i) either of the following conditions is met:

    • (A) the amount of the dividend is determined, in whole or in part, by reference to

      • (I) an amount of rent, royalty or similar payment paid or credited, or an obligation to pay or credit rent, royalty or similar payment, under a relevant royalty arrangement, or

      • (II) one or more of the fair market value of, any revenue profits, income or cash flow from, or any other similar criteria in respect of a particular property, if a right in respect of the property is granted under the particular lease, licence or similar agreement, or

    • (B) it can reasonably be concluded that the particular relevant royalty arrangement was entered into or was permitted to remain in effect, because

      • (I) the shares were issued or were permitted to remain issued and outstanding, or

      • (II) it was anticipated that the shares would be issued or would be permitted to remain issued and outstanding, and

  • (ii) either the person or partnership

    • (A) does not deal at arm’s length with the taxpayer referred to in paragraph (3.‍9)‍(a), or

    • (B) deals at arm’s length with that taxpayer, if it can reasonably be concluded that one of the main purposes of the issuance of the shares was

      • (I) to reduce or avoid the tax payable under this Part in respect of the particular amount referred to in paragraph (3.‍9)‍(a), or

      • (II) to avoid the application of subsection (3.‍91); and

• (b) an amount outstanding as or on account of a debt or other obligation to pay an amount, if — at any time at or after the time when a particular lease, license or similar agreement referred to in paragraph (3.‍9)‍(a) was entered into — a particular relevant licensor, in respect of a particular relevant royalty arrangement, has an obligation to pay or credit an amount as, on account or in lieu of payment of, or in satisfaction of, interest under the debt or other obligation, either immediately or in the future and either absolutely or contingently, to a person or partnership, and

  • (i) either of the following conditions is met:

    • (A) the amount of the interest is determined, in whole or in part, by reference to

      • (I) an amount of rent, royalty or similar payment paid or credited, or an obligation to pay or credit rent, royalty or similar payment, under a relevant royalty arrangement, or

      • (II) one or more of the fair market value of, any revenue profits, income or cash flow from, or any other similar criteria in respect of a particular property, if a right in respect of the property is granted under the particular lease, licence or similar agreement, or

    • (B) it can reasonably be concluded that the particular relevant royalty arrangement was entered into or was permitted to remain in effect, because

      • (I) the debt or other obligation was entered into or was permitted to remain in effect, or

      • (II) it was anticipated that the debt or other obligation would be entered into or remain in effect, and

  • (ii) either the person or partnership

    • (A) does not deal at arm’s length with the taxpayer referred to in paragraph (3.‍9)‍(a), or

    • (B) deals at arm’s length with that taxpayer, if it can reasonably be concluded that one of the main purposes of entering into the debt or other obligation was

      • (I) to reduce or avoid the tax payable under this Part in respect of the particular amount referred to in paragraph (3.‍9)‍(a), or

      • (II) to avoid the application of subsection (3.‍91).

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Back-to-back arrangement — character substitution

(3.‍93) If this subsection applies in respect of a debt or other obligation to pay an amount (under which a particular relevant licensor is a borrower) or shares of the capital stock of a particular relevant licensor, then, for the purposes of subsections (3.‍9) to (3.‍94),

• (a) the debt or other obligation or the holding of the shares, as the case may be, is deemed to be a relevant royalty arrangement;

• (b) the creditor or shareholder, as the case may be, in respect of the relevant royalty arrangement, is deemed to be a relevant licensor, in respect of the relevant royalty arrangement; and

• (c) the relevant royalty arrangement is deemed to be a specified royalty arrangement in respect of which the conditions in paragraph (3.‍9)‍(b) are met.

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