Budget and Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2007 (S.C. 2007, c. 35)

Marginal note:Beneficiaries’ taxable capital gain — QFP taxable capital gain

(21.21) If clause (21.2)(b)(ii)(A) applies to deem, for the purpose of section 110.6, the beneficiary to have a taxable capital gain (referred to in this subsection as the “QFP taxable capital gain”) from a disposition of capital property that is qualified farm property of the beneficiary, for the beneficiary’s taxation year that includes March 19, 2007 and in which the designation year of the trust ends, for the purpose of subsection 110.6(2.3), the beneficiary is, where the trust complies with the requirements of subsection (21.24), deemed to have a taxable capital gain from the disposition of qualified farm property of the beneficiary on or after March 19, 2007 equal to the amount determined by the formula

Marginal note:Beneficiaries’ taxable capital gain — QSBC taxable capital gain

(21.22) If clause (21.2)(b)(ii)(B) applies to deem, for the purpose of section 110.6, the beneficiary to have a taxable capital gain (referred to in this subsection as the “QSBC taxable capital gain”) from a disposition of capital property that is a qualified small business corporation share of the beneficiary, for the beneficiary’s taxation year in which the designation year of the trust ends, for the purpose of subsection 110.6(2.3), the beneficiary, where the trust complies with requirements of subsection (21.24), is deemed to have a taxable capital gain from the disposition of a qualified small business corporation share of the beneficiary on or after March 19, 2007 equal to the amount determined by the formula

Marginal note:Beneficiaries’ taxable capital gain — QFFP taxable capital gain

(21.23) If clause (21.2)(b)(ii)(C) applies to deem, for the purpose of section 110.6, the beneficiary to have a taxable capital gain (referred to in this subsection as the “QFFP taxable capital gain”), from a disposition of capital property that is qualified fishing property of the beneficiary, for the beneficiary’s taxation year in which the designation year of the trust ends, for the purpose of subsection 110.6(2.3), the beneficiary, where the trust complies with requirements of subsection (21.24), is deemed to have a taxable capital gain from the disposition of qualified fishing property on or after March 19, 2007 equal to the amount determined by the formula

Marginal note:Trusts to designate amounts

(21.24) A trust shall determine and designate, in its return of income under this part for a designation year of the trust, the following amounts in respect of a beneficiary:

• (a) the amount that is, under subsection (21.21), determined to be the beneficiary’s taxable capital gain from the disposition, on or after March 19, 2007, of qualified farm property of the beneficiary,

• (b) the amount that is, under subsection (21.22), determined to be the beneficiary’s taxable capital gain from the disposition, on or after March 19, 2007, of qualified small business corporation share of the beneficiary, and

• (c) the amount that is, under subsection (21.23), determined to be the beneficiary’s taxable capital gain from the disposition, on or after March 19, 2007, of qualified fishing property of the beneficiary.

(vi) where the trust would not be a unit trust at the particular time if this paragraph were read without reference to this subparagraph and subparagraph (iii) were read without reference to clause (F), the units of the trust are listed at any time in the current year or in the following taxation year on a designated stock exchange in Canada, or

(d.01) subject to subsection (2.1), if the taxpayer disposes of a security acquired in the year by the taxpayer under an agreement referred to in subsection 7(1) by making a gift of the security to a qualified donee, an amount in respect of the disposition of the security equal to 1/2 of the lesser of the benefit deemed by paragraph 7(1)(a) to have been received by the taxpayer in the year in respect of the acquisition of the security and the amount that would have been that benefit had the value of the security at the time of its acquisition by the taxpayer been equal to the value of the security at the time of the disposition, if

Marginal note:Gifts of medicine

(a.1) the total of all amounts in respect of property that is the subject of an eligible medical gift made by the corporation in the taxation year or in any of the five preceding taxation years, each of which is the lesser of

• (i) the cost to the corporation of the property, and

• (ii) 50% of the amount, if any, by which the corporation’s proceeds of disposition of the property in respect of the gift exceeds the cost to the corporation of the property.

Marginal note:Eligible medical gift

(8) For the purpose of paragraph (1)(a.1), a gift referred to in paragraph (1)(a) is an eligible medical gift of a corporation if

• (a) the corporation has directed the donee to apply the gift to charitable activities outside of Canada;

• (b) in the case of a gift made on or before October 2, 2007, the property that is the subject of the gift is medicine;

• (c) in the case of a gift made after October 2, 2007, the property that is the subject of the gift is a medicine that qualifies as a drug, within the meaning of the Food and Drugs Act, and the drug

  • (i) meets the requirements of that Act, or would meet those requirements if that Act were read without reference to its subsection 37(1), and

  • (ii) is not a food, cosmetic or device (as those terms are defined in that Act), a natural health product (as defined in the Natural Health Products Regulations) or a veterinary drug;

• (d) the property was, immediately before the making of the gift, described in an inventory in respect of a business of the corporation; and

• (e) the donee is a registered charity that has received a disbursement under a program of the Canadian International Development Agency.

Marginal note:Additional capital gains deduction — taxation year that includes March 19, 2007

(2.3) In computing the taxable income of an individual (other than a trust) for the individ-ual’s taxation year that includes March 19, 2007 (referred to in this subsection as the “transition year”), there may be deducted, where that individual was resident in Canada throughout the transition year and that individual disposed of in the transition year, and on or after March 19, 2007, a qualified small business corporation share of the individual, a qualified farm property of the individual, or a qualified fishing property of the individual, such amount as the individual may claim not exceeding the least of

• (a) $125,000,

• (b) the amount, if any, by which the individual’s cumulative gains limit at the end of the transition year exceeds the total of all amounts each of which is an amount deducted by the individual under subsection (2), (2.1) or (2.2) in computing the individ-ual’s taxable income for the transition year,

• (c) the amount, if any, by which the individual’s annual gains limit for the transition year exceeds the total of all amounts each of which is an amount deducted by the individual under subsection (2), (2.1) or (2.2) in computing the individual’s taxable income for the transition year, and

• (d) the amount that would be determined in respect of the individual for the transition year under paragraph 3(b) in respect of capital gains and capital losses if the only properties referred to in that paragraph were qualified small business corporation shares of the individual, qualified farm properties of the individual, and qualified fishing properties of the individual, disposed of by the individual on or after March 19, 2007.

Marginal note:Maximum capital gains deduction

(4) Notwithstanding subsections (2), (2.1) and (2.2), the total amount that may be deducted under this section in computing an individual’s income for a taxation year shall not exceed the total of the amount determined by the formula in paragraph 2(a) and the amount that may be deducted under subsection (2.3), in respect of the individual for the year.

Marginal note:Deemed resident in Canada

(5) For the purposes of subsections (2) to (2.3), an individual is deemed to have been resident in Canada throughout a particular taxation year if

Marginal note:Failure to report capital gain

(6) Notwithstanding subsections (2) to (2.3), no amount may be deducted under this section in respect of a capital gain of an individual for a particular taxation year in computing the individual’s taxable income for the particular taxation year, if

Marginal note:Deduction not permitted

(7) Notwithstanding subsections (2) to (2.3), no amount may be deducted under this section in computing an individual’s taxable income for a taxation year in respect of a capital gain of the individual for the taxation year if the capital gain is from a disposition of property which disposition is part of a series of transactions or events

• (a) that includes a dividend received by a corporation to which dividend subsection 55(2) does not apply but would apply if this Act were read without reference to paragraph 55(3)(b); or

Marginal note:Deduction not permitted

(8) Notwithstanding subsections (2) to (2.3), where an individual has a capital gain for a taxation year from the disposition of a property and it can reasonably be concluded, having regard to all the circumstances, that a significant part of the capital gain is attributable to the fact that dividends were not paid on a share (other than a prescribed share) or that dividends paid on such a share in the taxation year or in any preceding taxation year were less than 90% of the average annual rate of return on that share for that year, no amount in respect of that capital gain shall be deducted under this section in computing the individual’s taxable income for the year.

Marginal note:Conditions for the application of subsection (32)

(31) Subsection (32) applies to an individual for a taxation year that begins after March 19, 2007 if

• (a) in the taxation year the individual has a taxable capital gain from the disposition, before March 19, 2007, of a qualified small business corporation share of the individual, a qualified farm property of the individual or a qualified fishing property of the individual; and

• (b) the total of all amounts each of which is an amount of a taxable capital gain of the individual described in paragraph (a) exceeds the amount that would be determined under paragraph (2)(a) in respect of the individual for the taxation year were the reference to “$375,000” in that paragraph read as a reference to “$250,000” (the amount of which excess is referred to in subsection (32) as the “denied excess”).

Marginal note:Deduction denied

(32) Notwithstanding subsections (2) to (2.3), if this subsection applies to an individual for a taxation year, no amount may be deducted under this section for the taxation year by the individual in respect of the individual’s taxable capital gains for the year described in paragraph (31)(a) to the extent of the denied excess.