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(a.1) in computing the income from a
business other than an active business for a
taxation year of a foreign affiliate of a
taxpayer there shall be included the income
of the affiliate for the year from the sale of
property (which, for the purposes of this
paragraph, includes the income of the
affiliate for the year from the performance
of services as an agent in relation to a
purchase or sale of property) where
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(i) it is reasonable to conclude that the
cost to any person of the property (other
than property that was manufactured,
produced, grown, extracted or processed
in Canada by the taxpayer or a person
with whom the taxpayer does not deal at
arm's length in the course of carrying on
a business in Canada and that was sold to
non-resident persons other than the
affiliate or sold to the affiliate for sale to
non-resident persons) is relevant in
computing the income from a business
carried on by the taxpayer or a person
resident in Canada with whom the
taxpayer does not deal at arm's length or
is relevant in computing the income from
a business carried on in Canada by a
non-resident person with whom the
taxpayer does not deal at arm's length,
and
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(ii) the property was not manufactured,
produced, grown, extracted or processed
in the country under whose laws the
affiliate was formed or continued and
exists and is governed and in which the
affiliate's business is principally carried
on,
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unless more than 90% of the gross revenue
of the affiliate for the year from the sale of
property is derived from the sale of such
property (other than a property described in
subparagraph (ii) the cost of which to any
person is a cost referred to in subparagraph
(i)) to persons with whom the affiliate deals
at arm's length (which, for this purpose,
includes a sale of property to a non-resident
corporation with which the affiliate does
not deal at arm's length for sale to persons
with whom the affiliate deals at arm's
length) and, where this paragraph applies to
include income of the affiliate from the sale
of property in the income of the affiliate
from a business other than an active
business,
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(iii) the sale of such property shall be
deemed to be a separate business, other
than an active business, carried on by the
affiliate, and
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(iv) any income of the affiliate that
pertains to or is incident to that business
shall be deemed to be income from a
business other than an active business;
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(a.2) in computing the income from a
business other than an active business for a
taxation year of a foreign affiliate of a
taxpayer there shall be included the income
of the affiliate for the year from the
insurance of a risk (which, for the purposes
of this paragraph, includes income of the
affiliate for the year from the reinsurance of
a risk) where the risk was in respect of
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(i) a person resident in Canada,
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(ii) a property situated in Canada, or
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(iii) a business carried on in Canada
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unless more than 90% of the gross premium
revenue of the affiliate for the year from the
insurance of risks (net of reinsurance ceded)
was in respect of the insurance of risks
(other than risks in respect of a person, a
property or a business described in
subparagraphs (i) to (iii)) of persons with
whom the affiliate deals at arm's length and,
where this paragraph applies to include
income of the affiliate from the insurance of
risks in the income of the affiliate from a
business other than an active business,
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(iv) the insurance of those risks shall be
deemed to be a separate business, other
than an active business, carried on by the
affiliate, and
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(v) any income of the affiliate that
pertains to or is incident to that business
shall be deemed to be income from a
business other than an active business;
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(a.3) in computing the income from a
business other than an active business for a
taxation year of a foreign affiliate of a
taxpayer there shall be included the income
of the affiliate for the year derived directly
or indirectly from indebtedness (other than
a specified deposit with a prescribed
financial institution) and lease obligations
(which, for the purposes of this paragraph,
includes the income of the affiliate for the
year from the purchase and sale of
indebtedness and lease obligations on its
own account)
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(i) of persons resident in Canada, or
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(ii) in respect of businesses carried on in
Canada
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unless more than 90% of the gross revenue
of the affiliate derived directly or indirectly
from indebtedness (other than a specified
deposit with a prescribed financial
institution) and lease obligations was
derived directly or indirectly from
indebtedness and lease obligations of
non-resident persons with whom the
affiliate deals at arm's length and, where
this paragraph applies to include income of
the affiliate for the year in the income of the
affiliate from a business other than an active
business,
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(iii) those activities carried out to earn
such income shall be deemed to be a
separate business, other than an active
business, carried on by the affiliate, and
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(iv) any income of the affiliate that
pertains to or is incident to that business
shall be deemed to be income from a
business other than an active business;
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(a.4) in computing the income from a
business other than an active business for a
taxation year of a foreign affiliate of a
taxpayer there shall be included (to the
extent not included under paragraph (a.3) in
such income of the affiliate for the year) that
proportion of the income of the affiliate for
the year derived directly or indirectly from
indebtedness and lease obligations (which,
for the purposes of this paragraph, includes
the income of the affiliate for the year from
the purchase and sale of indebtedness and
lease obligations on its own account) in
respect of a business carried on outside
Canada by a partnership (any portion of the
income or loss of which for fiscal periods of
the partnership that end in the year is
included or would, if the partnership had an
income or loss for such fiscal periods, be
included directly or indirectly in computing
the income or loss of the taxpayer or a
person resident in Canada with whom the
taxpayer does not deal at arm's length) that
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(i) the total of all amounts each of which
is the income or loss of the partnership for
fiscal periods of the partnership that end
in the year that are included directly or
indirectly in computing the income or
loss of the taxpayer or a person resident
in Canada with whom the taxpayer does
not deal at arm's length
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(ii) the total of all amounts each of which
is the income or loss of the partnership for
fiscal periods of the partnership that end
in the year
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unless more than 90% of the gross revenue
of the affiliate derived directly or indirectly
from indebtedness and lease obligations
was derived directly or indirectly from
indebtedness and lease obligations of
non-resident persons with whom the
affiliate deals at arm's length (other than
indebtedness and lease obligations of a
partnership described in this paragraph) and
where this paragraph applies to include a
proportion of the income of the affiliate for
the year in the income of the affiliate from
a business other than an active business
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(iii) those activities carried out to earn
such income of the affiliate for the year
shall be deemed to be a separate business,
other than an active business, carried on
by the affiliate, and
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(iv) any income of the affiliate that
pertains to or is incident to that business
shall be deemed to be income from a
business other than an active business
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and for the purpose of this paragraph, where
the income or loss of a partnership for a
fiscal period that ends in the year is nil, the
proportion of the income of the affiliate that
is to be included in the income of the
affiliate for the year from a business other
than an active business shall be determined
as if the partnership had income of
$1,000,000 for that fiscal period;
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(5) Subsection 95(2) of the Act is amended
by striking out the word ``and'' at the end of
paragraph (i) and by adding the following
after paragraph (j):
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(k) where, in a particular taxation year, a
foreign affiliate of a taxpayer
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(i) carries on an investment business
outside Canada and, in the preceding
taxation year, that business was not an
investment business of the affiliate (or
the definition ``investment business'' in
subsection (1) did not apply in respect of
the business in the preceding taxation
year), or
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(ii) is deemed by paragraph (a.1), (a.2),
(a.3) or (a.4) to carry on a separate
business, other than an active business,
and, in the preceding taxation year, that
paragraph did not apply to deem the
affiliate to be carrying on that separate
business,
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for the purpose of computing the income of
the affiliate from the investment business or
the separate business as the case may be (in
this subsection referred to as the ``foreign
business'') for the particular year and each
subsequent taxation year in which the
foreign business is carried on,
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(iii) the affiliate shall be deemed
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(A) to have begun to carry on the
foreign business in Canada at the later
of the time the particular year began or
the time that it began to carry on the
foreign business, and
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(B) to have carried on the foreign
business in Canada throughout that
part of the particular year and each
such subsequent taxation year in which
the foreign business was carried on by
it,
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(iv) where the foreign business of the
affiliate is a business in respect of which,
if the foreign business were carried on in
Canada, the affiliate would be required
by law to report to a regulating authority
in Canada such as the Superintendent of
Financial Institutions or a similar
authority of a province, the affiliate shall
be deemed to have been required by law
to report to and to have been subject to the
supervision of such regulating authority,
and
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(v) paragraphs 138(11.91)(c) to (f) apply
to the affiliate for the particular year in
respect of the foreign business as if
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(A) the affiliate were the insurer
referred to in subsection 138(11.91),
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(B) the particular year of the affiliate
were the particular year of the insurer
referred to in that subsection, and
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(C) the foreign business of the affiliate
were the business of the insurer
referred to in that subsection;
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(l) in computing the income from property
for a taxation year of a foreign affiliate of a
taxpayer there shall be included the income
of the affiliate for the year from a business
(other than an investment business of the
affiliate) the principal purpose of which is
to derive income from trading or dealing in
indebtedness (which for the purpose of this
paragraph includes the earning of interest
on indebtedness) other than
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(i) indebtedness owing by persons with
whom the affiliate deals at arm's length
who are resident in the country in which
the affiliate was formed or continued and
exists and is governed and in which the
business is principally carried on, or
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(ii) trade accounts receivable owing by
persons with whom the affiliate deals at
arm's length,
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(iii) the business is carried on by the
affiliate as a foreign bank, a trust
company, a credit union, an insurance
corporation or a trader or dealer in
securities or commodities, the activities
of which are regulated in the country
under whose laws the affiliate was
formed or continued and exists and is
governed and in which the business is
principally carried on, and
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(A) a bank, a trust company, a credit
union, an insurance corporation or a
trader or dealer in securities or
commodities resident in Canada, the
business activities of which are subject
by law to the supervision of a
regulating authority such as the
Superintendent of Financial
Institutions or a similar authority of a
province,
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(B) a subsidiary wholly-owned
corporation of a corporation described
in clause (A), or
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(C) a corporation of which a
corporation described in clause (A) is
a subsidiary wholly-owned
corporation; and
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(m) a taxpayer has a qualifying interest in
respect of a foreign affiliate of the taxpayer
at any time if, at that time, the taxpayer
owned
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(i) not less than 10% of the issued and
outstanding shares (having full voting
rights under all circumstances) of the
affiliate, and
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(ii) shares of the affiliate having a fair
market value of not less than 10% of the
fair market value of all the issued and
outstanding shares of the affiliate
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and for the purpose of this paragraph
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(iii) where, at any time, shares of a
corporation are owned or are deemed for
the purposes of this paragraph to be
owned by another corporation (in this
paragraph referred to as the ``holding
corporation''), those shares shall be
deemed to be owned at that time by each
shareholder of the holding corporation in
a proportion equal to the proportion of all
such shares that
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(A) the fair market value of the shares
of the holding corporation owned at
that time by the shareholder
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(B) the fair market value of all the
issued shares of the holding
corporation outstanding at that time,
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(iv) where, at any time, shares of a
corporation are property of a partnership
or are deemed for the purposes of this
paragraph to be property of a partnership,
those shares shall be deemed to be owned
at that time by each member of the
partnership in a proportion equal to the
proportion of all such shares that
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(A) the member's share of the income
or loss of the partnership for its fiscal
period that includes that time
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(B) the income or loss of the
partnership for its fiscal period that
includes that time
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and for the purpose of this subparagraph,
where the income and loss of the
partnership for its fiscal period that
includes that time are nil, that proportion
shall be computed as if the partnership
had income for the period in the amount
of $1,000,000, and
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(v) where, at any time, a person is a
holder of convertible property issued by
the affiliate before June 23, 1994 the
terms of which confer on the holder the
right to exchange the convertible
property for shares of the affiliate and the
taxpayer elects in its return of income for
its first taxation year that ends after 1994
to have the provisions of this
subparagraph apply to the taxpayer in
respect of all the convertible property
issued by the affiliate and outstanding at
that time, each holder shall, in respect of
the convertible property held by it at that
time, be deemed to have, immediately
before that time,
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(A) exchanged the convertible
property for shares of the affiliate, and
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(B) acquired shares of the affiliate in
accordance with the terms and
conditions of the convertible property.
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(6) Section 95 of the Act is amended by
adding the following after subsection (2):
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Rule for
definition
``investment
business''
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(2.1) For the purposes of the definition
``investment business'' in subsection (1), a
foreign affiliate of a taxpayer, the taxpayer
and, where the taxpayer is a corporation all the
issued shares of which are owned by a
corporation described in subparagraph (a)(i),
such corporation described in subparagraph
(a)(i) shall be considered to be dealing with
each other at arm's length in respect of the
entering into of agreements that provide for
the purchase, sale or exchange of currency and
the execution of such agreements where
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(i) a bank, a trust company, a credit union,
an insurance corporation or a trader or
dealer in securities or commodities
resident in Canada, the business
activities of which are subject by law to
the supervision of a regulating authority
such as the Superintendent of Financial
Institutions or a similar authority of a
province, or
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(ii) a subsidiary wholly-owned
corporation of a corporation described in
subparagraph (i);
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(b) the agreements are swap agreements,
forward purchase or sale agreements,
forward rate agreements, futures
agreements, options or rights agreements or
similar agreements;
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(c) the agreements are entered in the course
of a business carried on by the affiliate
principally with persons with whom the
affiliate deals at arm's length in the country
under whose laws the affiliate was formed
or continued and exists and is governed and
in which the business is principally carried
on; and
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(d) the terms and conditions of such
agreements are substantially the same as the
terms and conditions of similar agreements
made by persons dealing at arm's length.
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Rule for para-
graph (2)(a)
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(2.2) For the purpose of paragraph (2)(a),
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(a) a non-resident corporation that was not
a foreign affiliate of a taxpayer in respect of
which the taxpayer had a qualifying interest
throughout a particular taxation year shall
be deemed to be a foreign affiliate of a
taxpayer in respect of which the taxpayer
had a qualifying interest throughout that
year where
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(i) a person has, in that year, acquired or
disposed of shares of that non-resident
corporation or any other corporation and,
because of that acquisition or disposition,
that non-resident corporation became or
ceased to be a foreign affiliate of the
taxpayer in respect of which the taxpayer
had a qualifying interest, and
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(ii) at the beginning of that year or at the
end of that year, the non-resident
corporation was a foreign affiliate of the
taxpayer in respect of which the taxpayer
had a qualifying interest; and
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(b) a non-resident corporation that was not
related to a foreign affiliate of a taxpayer
and the taxpayer throughout a particular
taxation year shall be deemed to be related
to the foreign affiliate of the taxpayer and
that taxpayer throughout that year where
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(i) a person has, in that year, acquired or
disposed of shares of that non-resident
corporation or any other corporation and,
because of that acquisition or disposition,
that non-resident corporation became or
ceased to be a non-resident corporation
that was related to the foreign affiliate of
the taxpayer and the taxpayer, and
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(ii) at the beginning of that year or at the
end of that year, the non-resident
corporation was related to the foreign
affiliate of the taxpayer and the taxpayer.
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Application of
paragraph
(2)(a.1)
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(2.3) Paragraph (2)(a.1) does not apply to a
foreign affiliate of a taxpayer in respect of a
sale or exchange of property that is currency
or a right to purchase, sell or exchange
currency where
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(i) a bank, a trust company, a credit union,
an insurance corporation or a trader or
dealer in securities or commodities
resident in Canada, the business
activities of which are subject by law to
the supervision of a regulating authority
such as the Superintendent of Financial
Institutions or a similar authority of a
province, or
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(ii) a subsidiary wholly-owned
corporation of a corporation described in
subparagraph (i);
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