Excise Tax Act

Marginal note:Refund of payment

• 230 (1) Where a person has paid instalments or interim net tax for a reporting period of the person, or any other amounts on account of the person’s net tax for the period, that exceed the amount of the net tax remittable by the person for the period and the person claims a refund of the excess in a return (other than an interim return) for the period filed under this Division by the person, the Minister shall refund the excess to the person with all due dispatch after the return is filed.

• Marginal note:Restriction

  (2) An amount paid on account of net tax for a reporting period of a person shall not be refunded to the person under subsection (1) at any time, unless all returns of which the Minister has knowledge and that are required to be filed at or before that time by the person under this Act, the Income Tax Act, the Air Travellers Security Charge Act, the Excise Act, 2001 and the Underused Housing Tax Act have been filed with the Minister.

• Marginal note:Interest on refund

  (3) If a refund of an amount that was paid on account of net tax for a reporting period of a person is paid to the person under subsection (1), interest at the prescribed rate shall be paid to the person on the refund for the period beginning on the day that is 30 days after the later of the day the return for the reporting period is filed with the Minister and the day following the last day of the reporting period and ending on the day the refund is paid.

• (4) [Repealed, 2006, c. 4, s. 140]