Excise Tax Act

Marginal note:Adjustment if invalid use of export distribution centre certificate

• 236.3 (1) If a registrant has received a supply of property (other than a supply that is included in any provision of Schedule VI other than section 1.2 of Part V of that Schedule) from a supplier to whom the registrant has provided an export distribution centre certificate (within the meaning of section 273.1) for the purpose of that supply and an authorization of the registrant to use the certificate was not in effect at the time the supply was made or the property was not acquired by the registrant for use or supply as domestic inventory or as added property (as those expressions are defined in subsection 273.1(1)) in the course of commercial activities of the registrant, the registrant shall, in determining the net tax for the reporting period of the registrant that includes the earliest day on which tax in respect of the supply became payable or would have become payable if the supply were not a zero-rated supply, add an amount equal to interest, at the prescribed rate, on the total amount of tax in respect of the supply that was payable or that would have been payable in respect of the supply if the supply were not a zero-rated supply, computed for the period beginning on that earliest day and ending on the day on or before which the return under section 238 for that reporting period is required to be filed.

• Marginal note:Adjustment if export distribution centre conditions not met

  (2) If an authorization granted to a registrant under subsection 273.1(7) is in effect at any time in a fiscal year of the registrant and the export revenue percentage of the registrant (as defined in subsection 273.1(1)) for that year is less than 90% or the circumstances described in paragraph 273.1(11)(a) or (b) exist with respect to the year, the registrant shall, in determining the net tax for the first reporting period of the registrant following the year, add the amount determined by the formula

  A × B/12

  where

  A

  is the total of

  • (a) the product obtained when the rate set out in subsection 165(1) is multiplied by the total of all amounts each of which is consideration paid or payable by the registrant for a supply made in a non-participating province of property acquired by the registrant in the year that is a zero-rated supply only because it is included in section 1.2 of Part V of Schedule VI, other than a supply in respect of which the registrant is required under subsection (1) to add an amount in determining net tax for any reporting period,

  • (b) the total of all amounts each of which is the product obtained when the consideration paid or payable by the registrant for a supply made in a participating province of property acquired by the registrant in the year that is a zero-rated supply only because it is included in section 1.2 of Part V of Schedule VI, other than a supply in respect of which the registrant is required under subsection (1) to add an amount in determining net tax for any reporting period, is multiplied by the total of the rate set out in subsection 165(1) and the tax rate for that participating province, and

  • (c) the product obtained when the rate set out in subsection 165(1) is multiplied by the total of all amounts each of which is the value that is or would be, but for subsection 215(2), deemed under subsection 215(1) to be the value, for the purposes of Division III, of a good that was imported by the registrant in the year and in respect of which, by reason only of section 11 of Schedule VII, tax under that Division did not apply, and

  B

  is the prescribed rate of interest that is in effect on the last day of that first reporting period following the year.