Technical Tax Amendments Act, 2012 (S.C. 2013, c. 34)
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Assented to 2013-06-26
PART 5OTHER AMENDMENTS TO THE INCOME TAX ACT AND RELATED LEGISLATION
R.S., c. 1 (5th Supp.)Income Tax Act
281. (1) Subsection 134.1(2) of the Act is replaced by the following:
Marginal note:Application
(2) For the purposes of applying subsections 104(10) and (11) and 133(6) to (9) (other than the definition “non-resident-owned investment corporation” in subsection 133(8)), section 212 and any tax treaty, a corporation described in subsection (1) is deemed to be a non-resident-owned investment corporation in its first non-NRO year in respect of dividends paid in that year on shares of its capital stock to a non-resident person, to a trust for the benefit of non-resident persons or their unborn issue or to a non-resident-owned investment corporation.
(2) Subsection (1) applies to a corporation that ceases to be a non-resident-owned investment corporation because of a transaction or an event that occurs, or a circumstance that arises, in a taxation year of the corporation that ends after February 27, 2000.
282. (1) Subsection 135.1(7) of the Act is replaced by the following:
Marginal note:Withholding on redemption
(7) A person or partnership (in this subsection referred to as the “redeeming entity”) that redeems, acquires or cancels a shareholder’s share shall withhold and forthwith remit to the Receiver General, on account of the shareholder’s tax liability, 15% from the amount otherwise payable on the redemption, acquisition or cancellation, if
(a) the share was, at the time it was issued, a tax deferred cooperative share;
(b) the redeeming entity is the corporation that issued the share, or a person or partnership with whom the corporation does not deal at arm’s length; and
(c) the shareholder is not a trust whose taxable income is exempt from tax under this Part because of paragraph 149(1)(r) or (x).
(2) Section 135.1 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (8):
Marginal note:Application of subsection (10)
(9) Subsection (10) applies in respect of the disposition, after September 28, 2009, by a taxpayer of a tax deferred cooperative share (in this subsection and subsection (10) referred to as the “old share”) of an agricultural cooperative corporation if
(a) the disposition results from the acquisition, cancellation or redemption of the old share in the course of a reorganization of the capital of the corporation;
(b) in exchange for the old share the corporation issues to the taxpayer a share (in this subsection and subsection (10) referred to as the “new share”) that is described in all of paragraphs (b) to (d) of the definition “tax deferred cooperative share” in subsection (1); and
(c) the amount of paid-up capital, and the amount, if any, that the taxpayer is entitled to receive on a redemption, acquisition or cancellation, of the new share are equal to those amounts, respectively, in respect of the old share.
Marginal note:Shares issued on corporate reorganizations
(10) If this subsection applies in respect of an exchange of a taxpayer’s old share for a new share, for the purposes of this section (other than subsection (9)),
(a) the new share issued in exchange for the old share is deemed to have been issued, pursuant to an allocation in proportion to patronage, at the time the old share was issued; and
(b) provided that no person or partnership receives at any time any consideration (other than the new share) in exchange for the old share, for the purposes of subsections (2) and (7) the taxpayer is deemed to have disposed of the old share for nil proceeds.
(3) Subsection (1) applies to redemptions, acquisitions and cancellations that occur after 2007.
(4) Subsection (2) is deemed to have come into force on September 29, 2009, except that in its application to an exchange of shares described by subparagraph 87(2)(s)(ii) of the Act, as enacted by subsection 223(8), that occurs before October 31, 2011,
(a) with respect to a new share received on the exchange that has been disposed of before October 31, 2011, paragraph 135.1(10)(a) of the Act, as enacted by subsection (2), is to be read as follows:
(a) the new share issued in exchange for the old share is deemed to have been issued at the time the old share was issued; and
and
(b) paragraph 135.1(10)(b) of the Act, as enacted by subsection (2), is to be read as follows:
(b) for the purposes of subsections (2) and (7) the taxpayer is deemed to have disposed of the old share for nil proceeds.
283. (1) Subsection 136(1) of the Act is replaced by the following:
Marginal note:Cooperative not private corporation
136. (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, a cooperative corporation that would, if this Act were read without reference to this section, be a private corporation is deemed not to be a private corporation except for the purposes of sections 15.1, 123.4, 125, 125.1, 127, 127.1, 152 and 157, the definition “mark-to-market property” in subsection 142.2(1) and the definition “small business corporation” in subsection 248(1) as it applies for the purpose of paragraph 39(1)(c).
(2) Subsection 136(2) of the Act is amended by striking out “and” at the end of paragraph (b) and by replacing paragraph (c) with the following:
(c) at least 90% of its members are individuals, other cooperative corporations, or corporations or partnerships that carry on the business of farming; and
(d) at least 90% of its shares, if any, are held by members described in paragraph (c) or by trusts governed by registered retirement savings plans, registered retirement income funds, TFSAs or registered education savings plans, the annuitants, holders or subscribers under which are members described in that paragraph.
(3) Subsection (1) applies to the 2001 and subsequent taxation years.
(4) Subsection (2) applies to the 1998 and subsequent taxation years, except that, in its application to taxation years that end before 2009, paragraph 136(2)(d) of the Act, as enacted by subsection (2), is to be read as follows:
(d) at least 90% of its shares, if any, are held by members described in paragraph (c) or by trusts governed by registered retirement savings plans, registered retirement income funds or registered education savings plans, the annuitants or subscribers under which are members described in that paragraph.
284. (1) Paragraph 137(4.3)(a) of the Act is replaced by the following:
(a) the preferred-rate amount of a corporation at the end of a taxation year is an amount equal to the total of its preferred-rate amount at the end of its immediately preceding taxation year and 100/17 of the amount deductible under section 125 from the tax for the year otherwise payable by it under this Part;
(2) The definition “member” in subsection 137(6) of the Act is replaced by the following:
“member”
« membre »
“member”, of a credit union, means
(a) a person who is recorded as a member on the records of the credit union and is entitled to participate in and use the services of the credit union, and
(b) a registered retirement savings plan, a registered retirement income fund, a TFSA or a registered education savings plan, the annuitant, holder or subscriber under which is a person described in paragraph (a).
(3) Subsection 137(7) of the Act is replaced by the following:
Marginal note:Credit union not private corporation
(7) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, a credit union that would, if this Act were read without reference to this section, be a private corporation is deemed not to be a private corporation except for the purposes of sections 123.1, 123.4, 125, 127, 127.1, 152 and 157 and the definition “small business corporation” in subsection 248(1) as it applies for the purpose of paragraph 39(1)(c).
(4) Subsection (1) applies to the 2008 and subsequent taxation years, except that, in the application of paragraph 137(4.3) of the Act, as amended by subsection (1), to a particular taxation year of a credit union that began in 2007 and ended in 2008, the preferred-rate amount of the credit union at the end of the particular taxation year is equal to the total of
(a) the preferred-rate amount of the credit union at the end of the taxation year that immediately preceded the particular taxation year; and
(b) the total of
(i) that proportion of the amount obtained by multiplying 25/4 by the amount deductible under section 125 of the Act for the particular taxation year, that the number of days in the particular taxation year that are in 2007 is of the number of days in the particular taxation year, and
(ii) that proportion of the amount obtained by multiplying 100/17 by the amount deductible under section 125 of the Act for the particular taxation year, that the number of days in the particular taxation year that are in 2008 is of the number of days in the particular taxation year.
(5) Subsection (2) applies to the 1996 and subsequent taxation years except that, in its application to taxation years that end before 2009, paragraph (b) of the definition “member” in subsection 137(6) of the Act, as enacted by subsection (2), is to be read as follows:
(b) a registered retirement savings plan, a registered retirement income fund or a registered education savings plan, the annuitant or subscriber under which is a person described in paragraph (a).
(6) Subsection (3) applies to the 2001 and subsequent taxation years.
285. (1) Subsection 137.1(2) of the Act is replaced by the following:
Marginal note:Amounts not included in income
(2) The following amounts shall not be included in computing the income of a deposit insurance corporation for a taxation year:
(a) any premium or assessment received, or receivable, by the corporation in the year from a member institution; and
(b) any amount received by the corporation in the year from another deposit insurance corporation to the extent that that amount can reasonably be considered to have been paid out of amounts referred to in paragraph (a) received by that other deposit insurance corporation in any taxation year.
(2) Subsection 137.1(4) of the Act is amended by striking out “or” at the end of paragraph (c) and by adding the following after paragraph (c):
(d) any amount paid by it to another deposit insurance corporation that is, because of paragraph (2)(b), not included in computing the income of that other deposit insurance corporation; or
(3) Subsections (1) and (2) apply to the 1998 and subsequent taxation years.
286. (1) Subsection 138(2) of the Act is replaced by the following:
Marginal note:Insurer’s income or loss
(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act,
(a) if a life insurer resident in Canada carries on an insurance business in Canada and in a country other than Canada in a taxation year, its income or loss for the year from carrying on an insurance business is the amount of its income or loss for the taxation year from carrying on the insurance business in Canada;
(b) if a life insurer resident in Canada carries on an insurance business in Canada and in a country other than Canada in a taxation year, for greater certainty,
(i) in computing the insurer’s income or loss for the taxation year from the insurance business carried on by it in Canada, no amount is to be included in respect of the insurer’s gross investment revenue for the taxation year derived from property used or held by it in the course of carrying on an insurance business that is not designated insurance property for the taxation year of the insurer, and
(ii) in computing the insurer’s taxable capital gains or allowable capital losses for the taxation year from dispositions of capital property (referred to in this subparagraph as “insurance business property”) that, at the time of the disposition, was used or held by the insurer in the course of carrying on an insurance business,
(A) there is to be included each taxable capital gain or allowable capital loss of the insurer for the taxation year from a disposition in the taxation year of an insurance business property that was a designated insurance property for the taxation year of the insurer, and
(B) there is not to be included any taxable capital gain or allowable capital loss of the insurer for the taxation year from a disposition in the taxation year of an insurance business property that was not a designated insurance property for the taxation year of the insurer;
(c) if a non-resident insurer carries on an insurance business in Canada in a taxation year, its income or loss for the taxation year from carrying on an insurance business is the amount of its income or loss for the taxation year from carrying on the insurance business in Canada; and
(d) if a non-resident insurer carries on an insurance business in Canada in a taxation year,
(i) in computing the non-resident insurer’s income or loss for the taxation year from the insurance business carried on by it in Canada, no amount is to be included in respect of the non-resident insurer’s gross investment revenue for the taxation year derived from property used or held by it in the course of carrying on an insurance business that is not designated insurance property for the taxation year of the non-resident insurer, and
(ii) in computing the non-resident insurer’s taxable capital gains or allowable capital losses for the taxation year from dispositions of capital property (referred to in this subparagraph as “insurance business property”) that, at the time of the disposition, was used or held by the non-resident insurer in the course of carrying on an insurance business,
(A) there is to be included each taxable capital gain or allowable capital loss of the non-resident insurer for the taxation year from a disposition in the taxation year of an insurance business property that was a designated insurance property for the taxation year of the non-resident insurer, and
(B) there is not to be included any taxable capital gain or allowable capital loss of the non-resident insurer for the taxation year from a disposition in the taxation year of an insurance business property that was not a designated insurance property for the taxation year of the non-resident insurer.
(2) Subparagraphs 138(3)(a)(iii) and (iv) of the Act are replaced by the following:
(iii) the amount determined by the following formula:
A – B
where
- A
- is the total of policy dividends (except the portion paid out of segregated funds) that became payable by the insurer after its 1968 taxation year and before the end of the year under its participating life insurance policies, and
- B
- is the total of amounts deductible under this subparagraph (including as determined under subsection (3.1) as it read in its application to the insurer’s last taxation year that began before November 2011) in computing its incomes for taxation years before the year, and
(3) The portion of subsection 138(3) of the Act after paragraph (a) is replaced by the following:
(b) the total of amounts each of which is a policy loan made by the insurer in the year and after 1977; and
(c) the amount of tax under Part XII.3 payable by the insurer in respect of its taxable Canadian life investment income for the year.
(4) Subsection 138(3.1) of the Act is repealed.
(5) Paragraph 138(4)(a) of the Act is replaced by the following:
(a) each amount deducted under paragraph (3)(a), other than under subparagraph (3)(a)(ii.1), (iii) or (v), in computing the insurer’s income for the preceding taxation year;
(6) Subsections 138(4.1) to (4.3) of the Act are repealed.
(7) Paragraph 138(11.5)(j) of the Act is replaced by the following:
(j) for the purpose of determining the income of the transferor and the transferee for their taxation years following their taxation years referred to in paragraph (h), amounts deducted by the transferor as reserves under paragraph (3)(a) (other than under subparagraph (3)(a)(ii.1), (iii) or (v)), paragraphs 20(1)(l) and (l.1) and 20(7)(c) of this Act and section 33 and paragraph 138(3)(c) of the Income Tax Act, chapter 148 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1952, in its taxation year referred to in paragraph (h) in respect of the transferred property referred to in paragraph (b) or the obligations referred to in paragraph (c) are deemed to have been deducted by the transferee, and not the transferor, for its taxation year referred to in paragraph (h),
(8) Paragraph 138(11.5)(k) of the Act is replaced by the following:
(k) for the purposes of this section, sections 12, 12.4, 20, 138.1, 140 and 142, paragraphs 142.4(4)(c) and (d), section 148 and Part XII.3, the transferee is, in its taxation years following its taxation year referred to in paragraph (h), deemed to be the same person as, and a continuation of, the transferor in respect of the business referred to in paragraph (a), the transferred property referred to in paragraph (b) and the obligations referred to in paragraph (c),
(9) Paragraph 138(11.5)(l) of the Act is replaced by the following:
(l) for the purposes of this subsection and subsections (11.7) and (11.9), the fair market value of consideration received by the transferor from the transferee in respect of the assumption or reinsurance of a particular obligation referred to in paragraph (c) is deemed to be the total of the amounts deducted by the transferor as a reserve under paragraph (3)(a) (other than under subparagraph (3)(a)(ii.1), (iii) or (v)) and paragraph 20(7)(c) in its taxation year referred to in paragraph (h) in respect of the particular obligation, and
(10) Paragraph 138(11.91)(d) of the Act is replaced by the following:
(d) for the purposes of paragraph (4)(a), subsection (9), the definition “designated insurance property” in subsection (12) and paragraphs 12(1)(d) and (e), the insurer is deemed to have carried on the business in Canada in that preceding year and to have claimed the maximum amounts to which it would have been entitled under paragraphs (3)(a) (other than under subparagraph (3)(a)(ii.1), (iii) or (v)), 20(1)(l) and (l.1) and 20(7)(c) for that year,
(11) Paragraph 138(11.91)(d) of the French version of the Act is repealed.
(12) Subsection 138(11.91) of the English version of the Act is amended by adding “and” at the end of paragraph (d.1), by striking out “and” at the end of paragraph (e) and by repealing paragraph (f).
(13) The portion of paragraph 138(11.94)(b) of the Act after subparagraph (ii) is replaced by the following:
to a corporation resident in Canada (in this subsection referred to as the “transferee”) that is a qualified related corporation (within the meaning assigned by subsection 219(8)) of the transferor that, immediately after that time, began to carry on that insurance business in Canada for consideration that includes shares of the capital stock of the transferee,
(14) The definitions “1975 branch accounting election deficiency”,“1975-76 excess additional group term reserve”,“1975-76 excess capital cost allowance”, “1975-76 excess investment reserve”, “1975-76 excess policy dividend deduction”, “1975-76 excess policy dividend reserve” and “1975-76 excess policy reserves” in subsection 138(12) of the Act are repealed.
(15) The formula “(A + B + C) – (D + E + F + G + H)” in the definition “surplus funds derived from operations” in subsection 138(12) of the Act is replaced by the following:
(A + B + C) – (D + E + F + G)
(16) The description of B in the definition “surplus funds derived from operations” in subsection 138(12) of the Act is replaced by the following:
- B
- is the total of all amounts each of which is a portion of a non-capital loss that was deemed by subsection 111(7.1) as it read in its application to the 1976 taxation year to have been deductible in computing the insurer’s income for a taxation year that ended before 1977,
(17) The definition “surplus funds derived from operations” in subsection 138(12) of the Act is amended by adding “and” at the end of the description of F, by striking out “and” at the end of the description of G and by repealing the description of H.
(18) The definition “transition year” in subsection 138(12) of the Act is amended by striking out “and” at the end of paragraph (a), by adding “and” at the end of paragraph (b) and by adding the following after paragraph (b):
(c) in respect of the amendment to paragraph 1406(b) of the Income Tax Regulations effective as of the life insurer’s 2012 taxation year, the life insurer’s 2012 taxation year;
(19) Section 138 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (25):
Marginal note:Policy reserve transition — application rules
(26) In applying subsections (16), (17), (18) and (19) to a life insurer for a taxation year of the life insurer,
(a) if the application of one or more of those subsections is in respect of the amendment to paragraph 1406(b) of the Income Tax Regulations effective as of the life insurer’s 2012 taxation year, the life insurer’s reserve transition amount for its transition year in respect of that amendment is to be determined as though the description of A in the definition “reserve transition amount” in subsection (12) read as follows:
- A
- is the maximum amount that the life insurer would be permitted to claim under subparagraph (3)(a)(i) (and that would be prescribed by section 1404 of the Income Tax Regulations for the purposes of subparagraph (3)(a)(i)) as a policy reserve for its base year in respect of its life insurance policies in Canada if paragraph 1406(b) of the Income Tax Regulations were read as it applies to the life insurer’s 2012 taxation year, and;
(b) if one or more of those subsections applies in the same taxation year in respect of both the amendment to paragraph 1406(b) of the Income Tax Regulations effective as of the life insurer’s 2012 taxation year, and the International Financial Reporting Standards adopted by the Accounting Standards Board and effective as of January 1, 2011, then, for the purposes of applying those subsections in respect of a transition year described by paragraph (b) of the definition “transition year” in subsection (12), the reference to “as it reads in respect of its transition year” in paragraph (b) of the description of A in the definition “reserve transition amount” in subsection (12) is to be read as a reference to “as it reads in respect of its transition year (determined without reference to the amendment to paragraph 1406(b) of the Income Tax Regulations effective as of the life insurer’s 2012 taxation year); and
(c) if the life insurer has more than one transition year for the same taxation year of the life insurer
(i) for each transition year, the computation of the reserve transition amount for the transition year, and the requirements to include, or rights to deduct, under any of those subsections an amount in respect of that reserve transition amount, shall be determined as if that transition year were the only transition year of the life insurer for that taxation year, and
(ii) for greater certainty, the references in subsections (16), (17), (18) and (19) to a transition year include each of those transition years.
(20) Subsections (1), (11) and (12) apply to taxation years that end after 1999.
(21) Subsections (2) to (10) and (14) to (17) apply to taxation years that begin after October 31, 2011.
(22) Subsection (13) applies to transfers made after October 2004.
(23) Subsections (18) and (19) apply to the 2012 and subsequent taxation years.
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