Excise Tax Act

Marginal note:Improvement to passenger vehicle

• 202 (1) Where the consideration paid or payable by a registrant for an improvement to a passenger vehicle of the registrant increases the cost to the registrant of the vehicle to an amount that exceeds the amount deemed under paragraph 13(7)(g) or (h) of the Income Tax Act to be, for the purposes of section 13 of that Act, the capital cost to a taxpayer of a passenger vehicle in respect of which that paragraph applies, the tax calculated on that excess shall not be included in determining an input tax credit of the registrant for any reporting period of the registrant.

• Marginal note:Input tax credit on passenger vehicle or aircraft

  (2) Where a registrant who is an individual or a partnership acquires or imports a passenger vehicle or aircraft or brings it into a participating province for use as capital property of the registrant, the tax payable (other than tax deemed to be payable under subsection (4)) by the registrant in respect of that acquisition, importation or bringing in, as the case may be, shall not be included in determining an input tax credit of the registrant unless the vehicle or aircraft was acquired or imported, or brought in, as the case may be, by the registrant for use exclusively in commercial activities of the registrant.

• Marginal note:Improvement to passenger vehicle or aircraft

  (3) Where a registrant who is an individual or a partnership acquires, imports or brings into a participating province an improvement to a passenger vehicle or aircraft that is capital property of the registrant, the tax payable by the registrant in respect of the improvement shall not be included in determining an input tax credit of the registrant unless, throughout the period

  • (a) beginning on the later of the day the vehicle or aircraft, as the case may be, was originally acquired or imported by the registrant and the day the individual or partnership becomes a registrant, and

  • (b) ending on the day tax in respect of the improvement becomes payable or is paid without having become payable,

  the vehicle or aircraft was used exclusively in commercial activities of the registrant.

• Marginal note:Non-exclusive use of passenger vehicle or aircraft

  (4) Notwithstanding subsections (2) and (3), where a registrant who is an individual or a partnership at any time acquires or imports a passenger vehicle or aircraft, or brings it into a participating province, for use as capital property of the registrant but not for use exclusively in commercial activities of the registrant and tax is payable by the registrant in respect of the acquisition, importation or bringing in, as the case may require, for the purpose of determining an input tax credit of the registrant, the registrant is deemed

  • (a) to have acquired the vehicle or aircraft on the last day of each taxation year of the registrant ending after that time; and

  • (b) to have paid, on that day, tax in respect of the acquisition of the vehicle or aircraft equal to the amount determined by the formula

    A × B

    where

    A

    is

    • (i) in the case of an acquisition or importation in respect of which tax is payable only under subsection 165(1) or section 212 or 218, as the case may require, and in the case of an acquisition deemed to have been made under subsection (5) of a vehicle or aircraft in respect of which no tax under subsection 165(2) was payable by the registrant, the amount determined by the formula

      C/D

      where

      C

      is the rate set out in subsection 165(1), and

      D

      is the total of 100% and the percentage determined for C,

    • (ii) in the case of the bringing into a participating province of the vehicle or aircraft from a non-participating prov­ince and in the case of an acquisition in respect of which tax under section 220.06 is payable, the amount determined by the formula

      E/F

      where

      E

      is the tax rate for the participating province, and

      F

      is the total of 100% and the percentage determined for E, and

    • (iii) in any other case, the amount determined by the formula

      G/H

      where

      G

      is the total of the rate set out in subsection 165(1) and the tax rate for a participating province, and

      H

      is the total of 100% and the percentage determined for G, and

    B

    is

    • (i) where an amount in respect of the vehicle or aircraft is required by paragraph 6(1)(e) or subsection 15(1) of the Income Tax Act to be included in computing the income of an individual for a taxation year of the individual ending in that taxation year of the registrant, nil, and

    • (ii) in any other case, the capital cost allowance in respect of the vehicle or aircraft that was deducted under the Income Tax Act in computing the income

    of the registrant from those commercial activities for that taxation year of the registrant.

• Marginal note:Deemed acquisition

  (5) For the purpose of subsection (4), where at any time a registrant is deemed under section 203 to have made a taxable supply of a passenger vehicle or aircraft,

  • (a) the registrant shall be deemed to have acquired the vehicle or aircraft at that time; and

  • (b) tax shall be deemed to be payable at that time by the registrant in respect of the vehicle or aircraft.