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Budget Implementation Act, 2009 (S.C. 2009, c. 2)

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Assented to 2009-03-12

PART 1AMENDMENTS IN RESPECT OF INCOME TAX

R.S., c. 1 (5th Supp.)Income Tax Act

  •  (1) Paragraph 60(i) of the Act is replaced by the following:

    • Marginal note:Premium or payment under RRSP or RRIF

      (i) any amount that is deductible under section 146 or 146.3 or subsection 147.3(13.1) in computing the income of the taxpayer for the year;

  • (2) Subsection (1) applies in respect of a registered retirement income fund in respect of which the last payment out of the fund is made after 2008.

  •  (1) The Act is amended by adding the following after section 60.02:

    Marginal note:Additions to clause 60(l)(v)(B.2) for 2008
    • 60.021 (1) In determining the amount that may be deducted because of paragraph 60(l) in computing a taxpayer’s income for the 2008 taxation year, clause 60(l)(v)(B.2) shall be read as follows:

      • (B.2) the total of all amounts each of which is

        • (I) the taxpayer’s eligible amount (within the meaning assigned by subsection 146.3(6.11)) for the year in respect of a registered retirement income fund,

        • (II) the taxpayer’s eligible RRIF withdrawal amount (within the meaning assigned by subsection 60.021(2)) for the year in respect of a registered retirement income fund, or

        • (III) the taxpayer’s eligible variable benefit withdrawal amount (within the meaning assigned by subsection 60.021(3)) for the year in respect of an account of the taxpayer under a money purchase provision of a registered pension plan,

    • Marginal note:Meaning of eligible RRIF withdrawal amount

      (2) A taxpayer’s eligible RRIF withdrawal amount for a taxation year in respect of a registered retirement income fund under which the taxpayer is the annuitant at the beginning of the taxation year is

      • (a) except where paragraph (b) applies, the amount determined by the formula

        A – B

        where

        A
        is the lesser of
        • (i) the total of all amounts included, because of subsection 146.3(5), in computing the income of the taxpayer for the taxation year in respect of amounts received out of or under the fund (other than an amount paid by direct transfer from the fund to another fund or to a registered retirement savings plan), and

        • (ii) the amount that would, in the absence of subsection 146.3(1.1), be the minimum amount under the fund for the taxation year, and

        B
        is the minimum amount under the fund for the taxation year; and
      • (b) if the taxpayer attained 70 years of age in 2007, nil.

    • Marginal note:Meaning of eligible variable benefit withdrawal amount

      (3) A taxpayer’s eligible variable benefit withdrawal amount for a taxation year in respect of an account of the taxpayer under a money purchase provision of a registered pension plan is the amount determined by the formula

      A – B – C

      where

      A
      is the lesser of
      • (a) the total of all amounts each of which is the amount of a retirement benefit (other than a retirement benefit permissible under any of paragraphs 8506(1)(a) to (e) of the Regulations) paid from the plan in the taxation year in respect of the account and included, because of paragraph 56(1)(a), in computing the taxpayer’s income for the taxation year, and

      • (b) the amount that would, in the absence of paragraph 8506(7)(b) of the Regulations, be the minimum amount for the account for the taxation year;

      B
      is the minimum amount for the account for the taxation year; and
      C
      is the total of all contributions made by the taxpayer under the provision and designated for the purposes of subsection 8506(10) of the Regulations.
    • Marginal note:Expressions used in this section

      (4) For the purposes of this section,

      • (a) the term “money purchase provision” has the meaning assigned by subsection 147.1(1);

      • (b) the term “retirement benefit” has the meaning assigned by subsection 8500(1) of the Regulations; and

      • (c) the minimum amount for an account of a taxpayer under a money purchase provision of a registered pension plan is the amount determined in accordance with subsection 8506(5) of the Regulations.

  • (2) Amounts paid by a taxpayer, to a registered retirement savings plan or registered retirement income fund under which the taxpayer is the annuitant, during the period that begins on March 2, 2009 and that ends on the day that is 30 days after the day on which this Act is assented to, are deemed for the purpose of paragraph 60(l) of the Act to have been made on March 1, 2009, and not when they were actually made, except that the amounts so deemed shall not exceed the total of all amounts each of which is

    • (a) the taxpayer’s eligible RRIF withdrawal amount for 2008 in respect of a registered retirement income fund, or

    • (b) the taxpayer’s eligible variable benefit withdrawal amount for 2008 in respect of an account of the taxpayer under a money purchase provision of a registered pension plan.

  •  (1) Subparagraph 62(1)(c)(i) of the Act is replaced by the following:

    • (i) in any case described in subparagraph (a)(i) of the definition “eligible relocation” in subsection 248(1), the total of all amounts, each of which is an amount included in computing the taxpayer’s income for the taxation year from the taxpayer’s employment at a new work location or from carrying on the business at the new work location, or because of subparagraph 56(1)(r)(v) in respect of the taxpayer’s employment at the new work location, and

  • (2) Subsection (1) applies to the 2008 and subsequent taxation years.

  •  (1) Section 80.01 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (5):

    • Marginal note:Deemed settlement on SIFT trust wind-up event

      (5.1) If a trust that is a SIFT wind-up entity is the only beneficiary under another trust (in this subsection referred to as the “subsidiary trust”), and a capital property that is a debt or other obligation (in this subsection referred to as the “subsidiary trust’s obligation”) of the subsidiary trust to pay an amount to the SIFT wind-up entity is, as a consequence of a distribution from the subsidiary trust that is a SIFT trust wind-up event, settled at a particular time without any payment of an amount or by the payment of an amount that is less than the principal amount of the subsidiary trust’s obligation

      • (a) paragraph (b) applies if

        • (i) the payment is less than the amount that would have been the adjusted cost base to the SIFT wind-up entity of the subsidiary trust’s obligation immediately before the particular time, and

        • (ii) the SIFT wind-up entity elects, in prescribed form on or before the SIFT wind-up entity’s filing-due date for the taxation year that includes the particular time, to have paragraph (b) apply;

      • (b) if this paragraph applies, the amount paid at the particular time in satisfaction of the principal amount of the subsidiary trust’s obligation is deemed to be equal to the amount that would be the adjusted cost base to the SIFT wind-up entity of the subsidiary trust’s obligation immediately before the particular time if that adjusted cost base included amounts added in computing the SIFT wind-up entity’s income in respect of the portion of the indebtedness representing unpaid interest, to the extent that the SIFT wind-up entity has not deducted any amounts as bad debts in respect of that unpaid interest; and

      • (c) for the purposes of applying section 80 to the subsidiary trust’s obligation, the subsidiary trust’s obligation is deemed to have been settled immediately before the time that is immediately before the distribution.

  • (2) Subsection (1) applies after July 14, 2008.

  •  (1) Section 85.1 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (6):

    • Marginal note:Application of subsection (8)

      (7) Subsection (8) applies in respect of the disposition before 2013 by a taxpayer of SIFT wind-up entity equity (referred to subsection (8) as the “particular unit”) to a taxable Canadian corporation if

      • (a) the disposition occurs during a period (referred to in this subsection and subsection (8) as the “exchange period”) of no more than 60 days at the end of which all of the equity in the SIFT wind-up entity is owned by the corporation;

      • (b) the taxpayer receives no consideration for the disposition other than a share (referred to in this subsection and subsection (8) as the “exchange share”) of the capital stock of the corporation that is issued during the exchange period to the taxpayer by the corporation;

      • (c) neither of subsections 85(1) and (2) applies to the disposition; and

      • (d) all of the exchange shares issued to holders of equity in the SIFT wind-up entity are shares of a single class of the capital stock of the corporation.

    • Marginal note:Rollover on SIFT unit for share exchange

      (8) If this subsection applies in respect of a disposition by a taxpayer of a particular unit of a SIFT wind-up entity to a corporation for consideration that is an exchange share, the following rules apply:

      • (a) the taxpayer’s proceeds of disposition of the particular unit, and cost of the exchange share, are deemed to be equal to the cost amount to the taxpayer of the particular unit immediately before the disposition;

      • (b) if the particular unit was immediately before the disposition taxable Canadian property of the taxpayer, the exchange share is deemed to be taxable Canadian property of the taxpayer;

      • (c) if the exchange share’s fair market value immediately after the disposition exceeds the particular unit’s fair market value at the time of the disposition, the excess is deemed to be an amount that section 15 requires to be included in computing the taxpayer’s income for the taxpayer’s taxation year in which the disposition occurs;

      • (d) if the particular unit’s fair market value at the time of the disposition exceeds the exchange share’s fair market value immediately after the disposition, and it is reasonable to regard any part of the excess as a benefit that the taxpayer desired to have conferred on a person, or partnership, with whom the taxpayer does not deal at arm’s length, the excess is deemed to be an amount that section 15 requires to be included in computing the taxpayer’s income for the taxpayer’s taxation year in which the disposition occurs;

      • (e) the cost to the corporation of the particular unit is deemed to be the lesser of

        • (i) the fair market value of the particular unit immediately before the disposition, and

        • (ii) the amount determined for B in the formula in paragraph (f) in respect of the particular unit; and

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

        (A – B) × C/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, computed without reference to this paragraph as it applies to the disposition,
        B
        is the amount determined by the formula

        D – E

        where

        D
        is
        • (i) unless subparagraph (ii) applies, the total of all amounts each of which is

          • (A) if the SIFT wind-up entity is a trust, the fair market value of property received by the SIFT wind-up entity on the issuance of the particular unit, or

          • (B) if the SIFT wind-up entity is a partnership,

            • (I) an amount that has at any time been added, in computing the adjusted cost base to any taxpayer of the particular unit on or before the disposition, because of subparagraph 53(1)(e)(iv) or (x), or

            • (II) an amount that would at any time have been added, in computing the adjusted cost base to any taxpayer of the particular unit on or before the disposition, because of subparagraph 53(1)(e)(i) if subsection 96(1) were read without reference to its paragraph (d) and the partnership deducted all amounts otherwise deductible because of that paragraph, and

        • (ii) if the SIFT wind-up entity has on or after the end of the exchange period issued a unit, nil, and

        E
        is the total of all amounts each of which
        • (i) if the SIFT wind-up entity is a trust, has become payable by the SIFT wind-up entity, in respect of the particular unit, to any holder of the unit on or before the disposition, other than an amount that has become payable out of its income (determined without reference to subsection 104(6)) or capital gains, and

        • (ii) if the SIFT wind-up entity is a partnership,

          • (A) has at any time been deducted, in computing the adjusted cost base to any taxpayer of the particular unit on or before the disposition, because of subparagraph 53(2)(c)(iv) or (v), or

          • (B) would have at any time been deducted, in computing the adjusted cost base to any taxpayer of the particular unit on or before the disposition, because of subparagraph 53(2)(c)(i) if subsection 96(1) were read without reference to its paragraph (d) and the partnership deducted all amounts otherwise deductible because of that paragraph, and

        C
        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.
  • (2) Subsection (1) applies to

    • (a) dispositions that occur on or after July 14, 2008; and

    • (b) a disposition, by a taxpayer to a corporation, that occurs on or after December 20, 2007 and before July 14, 2008, if the corporation (jointly with the taxpayer, if the taxpayer and the corporation have validly elected that subsection 85(1) or (2) of the Act apply to the disposition) elects in writing, filed with the Minister of National Revenue on or before the corporation’s filing-due date for its taxation year that includes the day on which this Act is assented to, that this subsection apply to the disposition.

 

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