Technical Tax Amendments Act, 2012 (S.C. 2013, c. 34)
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Assented to 2013-06-26
161. The definition “security interest” in subsection 224(1.3) of the Act is replaced by the following:
“security interest”
« garantie »
“security interest” means any interest in, or for civil law any right in, property that secures payment or performance of an obligation and includes an interest, or for civil law a right, created by or arising out of a debenture, mortgage, hypothec, lien, pledge, charge, deemed or actual trust, assignment or encumbrance of any kind whatever, however or whenever arising, created, deemed to arise or otherwise provided for;
162. Section 224.2 of the Act is replaced by the following:
Marginal note:Acquisition of debtor’s property
224.2 For the purpose of collecting debts owed by a person to Her Majesty under this Act or under an Act of a province with which the Minister of Finance has entered into an agreement for the collection of taxes payable to the province under that Act, the Minister may purchase or otherwise acquire any interest in, or for civil law any right in, the person’s property that the Minister is given a right to acquire in legal proceedings or under a court order or that is offered for sale or redemption and may dispose of any interest or right so acquired in such manner as the Minister considers reasonable.
163. (1) Subsection 225(1) of the Act is replaced by the following:
Marginal note:Seizure of goods, chattels or movable property
225. (1) If a person has failed to pay an amount as required by this Act, the Minister may give 30 days notice to the person by registered mail addressed to the person’s latest known address of the Minister’s intention to direct that the person’s goods and chattels, or movable property, be seized and sold, and, if the person fails to make the payment before the expiration of the 30 days, the Minister may issue a certificate of the failure and direct that the person’s goods and chattels, or movable property, be seized.
(2) Subsection 225(5) of the Act is replaced by the following:
Marginal note:Exemptions from seizure
(5) Goods and chattels, or movable property, of any person in default that would be exempt from seizure under a writ of execution issued out of a superior court of the province in which the seizure is made are exempt from seizure under this section.
164. Subsection 226(2) of the Act is replaced by the following:
Marginal note:Seizure in case of default of payment
(2) If a taxpayer fails to pay, as required, any tax, interest or penalties demanded under this section, the Minister may direct that the goods and chattels, or movable property, of the taxpayer be seized and subsections 225(2) to (5) apply, with respect to the seizure, with any modifications that the circumstances require.
165. (1) The portion of paragraph 227(5)(b) of the English version of the Act before subparagraph (i) is replaced by the following:
(b) is jointly and severally, or solidarily, liable with the payer to pay to the Receiver General
(2) Subsection 227(8.1) of the English version of the Act is replaced by the following:
Marginal note:Joint and several, or solidary, liability
(8.1) If a particular person has failed to deduct or withhold an amount as required under subsection 153(1) or section 215 in respect of an amount that has been paid to a non-resident person, the non-resident person is jointly and severally, or solidarily, liable with the particular person to pay any interest payable by the particular person pursuant to subsection (8.3) in respect thereof.
(3) Subsection 227(10.2) of the English version of the Act is replaced by the following:
Marginal note:Joint and several, or solidary, liability re contributions to RCA
(10.2) If a non-resident person fails to deduct, withhold or remit an amount as required by subsection 153(1) in respect of a contribution under a retirement compensation arrangement that is paid on behalf of the employees or former employees of an employer with whom the non-resident person does not deal at arm’s length, the employer is jointly and severally, or solidarily, liable with the non-resident person to pay any amount payable under subsection (8), (8.2), (8.3), (9), (9.2) or (9.4) by the non-resident person in respect of the contribution.
166. (1) Subparagraphs (a)(i) and (ii) of the definition “bien étranger déterminé” in subsection 233.3(1) of the French version of the Act are replaced by the following:
(i) les fonds ou le bien intangible ou, pour l’application du droit civil, le bien incorporel situés, déposés ou détenus à l’étranger,
(ii) le bien tangible ou, pour l’application du droit civil, le bien corporel situé à l’étranger,
(2) Subparagraph (a)(viii) of the definition “bien étranger déterminé” in subsection 233.3(1) of the French version of the Act is replaced by the following:
(viii) l’intérêt ou, pour l’application du droit civil, le droit sur un bien (sauf celui appartenant à une société ou une fiducie autre que la personne) qui est un bien étranger déterminé ou le droit à un tel bien, immédiat ou futur, absolu ou conditionnel et prévu par un contrat, en equity ou autrement,
(3) Subparagraph (b)(viii) of the definition “bien étranger déterminé” in subsection 233.3(1) of the French version of the Act is replaced by the following:
(viii) l’intérêt ou, pour l’application du droit civil, le droit sur un bien visé à l’un des sous-alinéas (i) à (vii) ou le droit d’acquérir un tel bien.
(4) Paragraphs (a) and (b) of the definition “specified foreign property” in subsection 233.3(1) of the English version of the Act are replaced by the following:
(a) funds or intangible property, or for civil law incorporeal property, situated, deposited or held outside Canada,
(b) tangible property, or for civil law corporeal property, situated outside Canada,
(5) Paragraph (h) of the definition “specified foreign property” in subsection 233.3(1) of the English version of the Act is replaced by the following:
(h) an interest in, or for civil law a right in, or a right — under a contract in equity or otherwise either immediately or in the future and either absolutely or contingently — to, any property (other than any property owned by a corporation or trust that is not the person) that is specified foreign property, and
(6) Paragraph (q) of the definition “specified foreign property” in subsection 233.3(1) of the English version of the Act is replaced by the following:
(q) an interest in, or for civil law a right in, or a right to acquire, a property that is described in any of paragraphs (j) to (p).
167. (1) Paragraph (c) of the definition “foreign resource property” in subsection 248(1) of the Act is replaced by the following:
(c) an oil or gas well in that country or real or immovable property in that country the principal value of which depends on its petroleum or natural gas content (but not including depreciable property),
(2) Paragraphs (f) and (g) of the definition “foreign resource property” in subsection 248(1) of the Act are replaced by the following:
(f) a real or immovable property in that country the principal value of which depends upon its mineral resource content (but not including depreciable property),
(g) a right to or an interest in — or for civil law a right to or in — any property described in any of paragraphs (a) to (e), other than a right or an interest that the taxpayer has because the taxpayer is a beneficiary under a trust or a member of a partnership, or
(h) an interest in real property described in paragraph (f) or a real right in an immovable described in that paragraph, other than an interest or a right that the taxpayer has because the taxpayer is a beneficiary under a trust or a member of a partnership;
(3) The portion of the definition “former business property” in subsection 248(1) of the Act after paragraph (d) is replaced by the following:
and for the purpose of this definition, “rental property” of a taxpayer means real or immovable property owned by the taxpayer, whether jointly with another person or otherwise, and used by the taxpayer in the taxation year in respect of which the expression is being applied principally for the purpose of gaining or producing gross revenue that is rent (other than property leased by the taxpayer to a person related to the taxpayer and used by that related person principally for any other purpose), but, for greater certainty, does not include a property leased by the taxpayer or the related person to a lessee, in the ordinary course of a business of the taxpayer or the related person of selling goods or rendering services, under an agreement by which the lessee undertakes to use the property to carry on the business of selling or promoting the sale of the goods or services of the taxpayer or the related person;
(4) The portion of the definition “property” in subsection 248(1) of the Act before paragraph (a) is replaced by the following:
“property”
« biens »
“property” means property of any kind whatever whether real or personal, immovable or movable, tangible or intangible, or corporeal or incorporeal and, without restricting the generality of the foregoing, includes
(5) Subsection 248(4) of the Act is replaced by the following:
Marginal note:Interest in real property
(4) In this Act, an interest in real property includes a leasehold interest in real property but does not include an interest as security only derived by virtue of a mortgage, agreement for sale or similar obligation.
Marginal note:Real right in immovables
(4.1) In this Act, a real right in an immovable includes a lease but does not include a security right derived by virtue of a hypothec, agreement for sale or similar obligation.
(6) Subsections 248(20) and (21) of the Act are replaced by the following:
Marginal note:Partition of property
(20) Subject to subsections (21) to (23), for the purposes of this Act, if at any time a property owned by two or more persons is the subject of a partition, the following rules apply, notwithstanding any retroactive or declaratory effect of the partition:
(a) each such person who had, immediately before that time, an interest in, or for civil law a right in, the property (which interest or right in the property is referred to in this subsection and subsection (21) as an “interest” or a “right”, as the case may be) is deemed not to have disposed at that time of that proportion, not exceeding 100%, of the interest or right that the fair market value of that person’s interest or right in the property immediately after that time is of the fair market value of that person’s interest or right in the property immediately before that time,
(b) each such person who has an interest or a right in the property immediately after that time is deemed not to have acquired at that time that proportion of the interest or right that the fair market value of that person’s interest or right in the property immediately before that time is of the fair market value of that person’s interest or right in the property immediately after that time,
(c) each such person who had an interest or a right in the property immediately before that time is deemed to have had until that time, and to have disposed at that time of, that proportion of the person’s interest or right to which paragraph (a) does not apply,
(d) each such person who has an interest or a right in the property immediately after that time is deemed not to have had before that time, and to have acquired at that time, that proportion of the person’s interest or right to which paragraph (b) does not apply, and
(e) paragraphs (a) to (d) do not apply if the interest or right of the person is an interest or a right in fungible tangible property, or for civil law fungible corporeal property described in that person’s inventory,
and, for the purposes of this subsection, if an interest or a right in the property is an undivided interest or right, the fair market value of the interest or right at any time is deemed to be equal to that proportion of the fair market value of the property at that time that the interest or right is of all the undivided interests or rights in the property.
Marginal note:Subdivision of property
(21) If a property that was owned by two or more persons is the subject of a partition among those persons and, as a consequence of it, each such person has, in the property, a new interest or right the fair market value of which immediately after the partition, expressed as a percentage of the fair market value of all the new interests or rights in the property immediately after the partition, is equal to the fair market value of that person’s undivided interest or right immediately before the partition, expressed as a percentage of the fair market value of all the undivided interests or rights in the property immediately before the partition,
(a) subsection (20) does not apply to the property, and
(b) the new interest or right of each such person is deemed to be a continuation of that person’s undivided interest or right in the property immediately before the partition,
and, for the purposes of this subsection,
(c) subdivisions of a building or of a parcel of land that are established in the course of, or in contemplation of, a partition and that are co-owned by the same persons who co-owned the building or the parcel of land, or by their assignee, shall be regarded as one property, and
(d) if an interest or a right in the property is or includes an undivided interest or right, the fair market value of the interest or right shall be determined without regard to any discount or premium that applies to a minority or majority interest or right in the property.
(7) The portion of subsection 248(23.1) of the Act before paragraph (a) is replaced by the following:
Marginal note:Transfers after death
(23.1) If, as a consequence of the laws of a province relating to spouses’ or common-law partners’ interests or rights in respect of property as a result of marriage or common-law partnership, property is, after the death of a taxpayer,
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