Budget Implementation Act, 2016, No. 2 (S.C. 2016, c. 12)

inventory

inventory means a description of property the cost or value of which is relevant in computing a taxpayer’s income from a business for a taxation year or would have been so relevant if the income from the business had not been computed in accordance with the cash method and includes

• (a) with respect to a farming business, all of the livestock held in the course of carrying on the business, and

• (b) an emissions allowance; (inventaire)

• (a) if the taxpayer is a trust,

  • (i) in the case where the time at which the taxation year ends is determined under paragraph 249(4)(a), the day that is

    • (A) in the case where that time occurs in a calendar year after the end of the trust’s particular taxation year that ends on December 15 of that calendar year because of an election made under paragraph 132.11(1)(a), the balance-due day of the trust for the particular taxation year,

    • (B) in the case where clause (A) does not apply and the trust’s particular taxation year that begins immediately after that time ends in the calendar year that includes that time, the balance-due day of the trust for the particular taxation year, and

    • (C) in any other case, 90 days after the end of the calendar year that includes that time, and

  • (ii) in any other case, the day that is 90 days after the end of the taxation year,

• (e) the goodwill of a business, as referred to in subsection 13(34); (biens)

• (b) property used or held by the taxpayer in, property included in Class 14.1 of Schedule II to the Income Tax Regulations in respect of, or property described in an inventory of, a business carried on in Canada, other than

emissions allowance

emissions allowance means an allowance, credit or similar instrument that represents a unit of emissions that can be used to satisfy a requirement under the laws of Canada or a province governing emissions of a regulated substance, such as greenhouse gas emissions; (droit d’émissions)

emissions obligation

emissions obligation means an obligation to surrender an emissions allowance, or an obligation that can otherwise be satisfied through the use of an emissions allowance, under a law of Canada or a province governing emissions of a regulated substance; (obligation d’émissions)

• Marginal note:Substantive gift

  (39) If a taxpayer disposes of a property (in this subsection referred to as the substantive gift) that is a capital property of the taxpayer, to a recipient that is a registered party, a registered association or a candidate, as those terms are defined in the Canada Elections Act, or that is a qualified donee, subsection (35) would have applied in respect of the substantive gift if it had been the subject of a gift by the taxpayer to a qualified donee, and all or a part of the proceeds of disposition of the substantive gift are (or are substituted, directly or indirectly in any manner whatever, for) property that is the subject of a gift or monetary contribution by the taxpayer to the recipient or any person dealing not at arm’s length with the recipient, the following rules apply:

• (b) subject to paragraph 128(1)(d), section 128.1 and paragraphs 142.6(1)(a) and 149(10)(a), and notwithstanding subsections (1) and (3), if the taxpayer is a corporation and the taxpayer’s taxation year that would, but for this subsection, have been its last taxation year that ended before that time, would, but for this paragraph, have ended within the seven-day period that ended immediately before that time, that taxation year is, except if the taxpayer is subject to a loss restriction event within that period, deemed to end immediately before that time, provided that the taxpayer so elects in its return of income under Part I for that taxation year.

investment fund

investment fund, at any time, means a trust, if

• (a) at all times throughout the period that begins at the later of March 21, 2013 and the end of the calendar year in which it is created and that ends at that time, the trust has a class of units outstanding that complies with the conditions prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 132(6)(c) determined without reference to paragraph 4801(b) of the Income Tax Regulations; and

• (b) at all times throughout the period that begins at the later of March 21, 2013 and the time of its creation and that ends at that time, the trust

  • (i) is resident in Canada,

  • (ii) has no beneficiaries who may for any reason receive directly from the trust any of the income or capital of the trust, other than beneficiaries whose interests as beneficiaries under the trust are fixed interests described by reference to units of the trust,

  • (iii) follows a reasonable policy of investment diversification,

  • (iv) limits its undertaking to the investing of its funds in property,

  • (v) does not alone, or as a member of a group of persons, control a corporation, and

  • (vi) does not hold

    • (A) property that the trust, or a person with which the trust does not deal at arm’s length, uses in carrying on a business,

    • (B) real or immovable property, an interest in real property or an immovable, or a real right in an immovable,

    • (C) Canadian resource property, foreign resource property, or an interest or right in Canadian resource property or foreign resource property, or

    • (D) more than 20% of the securities of any class of securities of a person (other than an investment fund or a mutual fund corporation that would meet the conditions in this paragraph, other than in subparagraph (ii), if it were a trust), unless at that time

      • (I) the securities (other than liabilities) of the person held by the trust have a total fair market value that is no more than 10% of the equity value of the person, and

      • (II) the liabilities of the person held by the trust have a total fair market value that is no more than 10% of the fair market value of all of the liabilities of the person. (fiducie de placement déterminée)

majority-interest beneficiary

majority-interest beneficiary has the same meaning as in subsection 251.1(3) read without reference to the expression “, if any,” in the definition majority-interest beneficiary in that subsection. (bénéficiaires détenant une participation majoritaire)

• (f) the acquisition or disposition of equity of the particular trust at any time if

  • (i) the particular trust is an investment fund immediately before that time, and

  • (ii) the acquisition or disposition, as the case may be, is not part of a series of transactions or events that includes the particular trust ceasing to be an investment fund.

• (c) if, at any time as part of a series of transactions or events a person acquires a security (as defined in subsection 122.1(1)) and it can reasonably be concluded that one of the reasons for the acquisition, or for making any agreement or undertaking in respect of the acquisition, is to cause a condition in subparagraph (b)(v) or clause (b)(vi)(D) of the definition investment fund in subsection (1) to be satisfied at a particular time in respect of a trust, the condition is deemed not to be satisfied at the particular time in respect of the trust.

• Marginal note:Filing and other deadlines

  (7) If at any time a trust is subject to a loss restriction event, in respect of the trust for its taxation year that ends immediately before that time,

  • (a) the reference in paragraph 132(2.1)(a) to “the day that is 90 days after the end of the year” is to be read as “the balance-due day of the trust for the year”;

  • (b) the reference in subsection 132(6.1) to “before the 91st day after the end of” is to be read as “on or before the balance-due day of the trust for”;

  • (c) the reference in paragraph 150(1)(c) to “within 90 days from the end of” is to be read as “on or before the balance-due day of the trust for”;

  • (d) the reference in subsection 204.7(1) to “Within 90 days from the end of each taxation year commencing after 1980” is to be read as “On or before the balance-due day of the trust for each taxation year”;

  • (e) the reference in subsection 210.2(5), and in subsection 221(2) of the Income Tax Regulations, to “within 90 days after the end of” is to be read as “on or before the balance-due day of the trust for”; and

  • (f) the references in subsections 202(8) and 204(2) of the Income Tax Regulations to “within 90 days from the end of” are to be read as “on or before the balance-due day of the trust for”.

Marginal note:Investments in limited partnerships

• 253.1 (1) For the purposes of subparagraph 108(2)(b)(ii), paragraphs 130.1(6)(b), 131(8)(b), 132(6)(b) and 146.1(2.1)(c), subsection 146.2(6), paragraph 146.4(5)(b), subsection 147.5(8), paragraph 149(1)(o.2), the definition private holding corporation in subsection 191(1), the definition investment fund in subsection 251.2(1) and regulations made for the purposes of paragraphs 149(1)(o.3) and (o.4), if a trust or corporation holds an interest as a member of a partnership and, by operation of any law governing the arrangement in respect of the partnership, the liability of the member as a member of the partnership is limited, the member shall not, solely because of its acquisition and holding of that interest, be considered to carry on any business or other activity of the partnership.

• Marginal note:Corporations associated through a third corporation

  (2) For the purposes of

  • (a) this Act, subject to paragraph (b), two corporations are deemed to be associated with each other at a particular time if

    • (i) they would, but for this subsection, not be associated with each other at the particular time, and

    • (ii) each corporation is associated with, or is deemed by this subsection to be associated with, the same corporation (in this subsection referred to as the third corporation) at the particular time; and

  • (b) section 125,

    • (i) if the third corporation is not a Canadian-controlled private corporation at the particular time, the two corporations are deemed not to be associated with each other at the particular time, and

    • (ii) if the third corporation is a Canadian-controlled private corporation that elects in prescribed form to apply this subparagraph in its taxation year that includes the particular time, the two corporations are deemed not to be associated with each other at the particular time and the business limit of the third corporation for its taxation year that includes the particular time is deemed to be nil.

• Marginal note:Présomption d’exercice de droit

  (8) Pour ce qui est de déterminer, d’une part, si le contrôle d’une société a été acquis pour l’application des paragraphes 10(10) et 13(24), de l’article 37, des paragraphes 55(2), 66(11), (11.4) et (11.5), 66.5(3) et 66.7(10) et (11), de l’article 80, de l’alinéa 80.04(4)h), du sous-alinéa 88(1)c)(vi), de l’alinéa 88(1)c.3), des paragraphes 88(1.1) et (1.2), des articles 111 et 127, des paragraphes 181.1(7), 190.1(6) et 249(4) et de l’alinéa 251.2(2)a) et, d’autre part, si une société est contrôlée par une personne ou par un groupe de personnes pour l’application de l’article 251.1, de l’alinéa b) de la définition de fiducie de placement déterminée au paragraphe 251.2(1) et des alinéas 251.2(3)c) et d), le contribuable qui a acquis un droit visé à l’alinéa 251(5)b) afférent à une action est réputé être dans la même position relativement au contrôle de la société que si le droit était immédiat et absolu et que s’il l’avait exercé au moment de l’acquisition, dans le cas où il est raisonnable de conclure que l’un des principaux motifs de l’acquisition du droit consistait :

• (b) to avoid the application of subsection 10(10) or 13(24), paragraph 37(1)(h) or subsection 55(2) or 66(11.4) or (11.5), paragraph 88(1)(c.3) or subsection 111(4), (5.1) or (5.3), 181.1(7), 190.1(6) or 251.2(2),

the taxpayer is deemed to be in the same position in relation to the control of the corporation as if the right were immediate and absolute and as if the taxpayer had exercised the right at that time for the purpose of determining whether control of a corporation has been acquired for the purposes of subsections 10(10) and 13(24), section 37, subsections 55(2), 66(11), (11.4) and (11.5), 66.5(3), 66.7(10) and (11), section 80, paragraph 80.04(4)(h), subparagraph 88(1)(c)(vi), paragraph 88(1)(c.3), subsections 88(1.1) and (1.2), sections 111 and 127, subsections 181.1(7), 190.1(6) and 249(4) and paragraph 251.2(2)(a) and in determining for the purposes of section 251.1, paragraph (b) of the definition investment fund in subsection 251.2(1) and paragraphs 251.2(3)(c) and (d) and 256(7)(i) whether a corporation is controlled by any other person or group of persons.