Income Tax Act

Marginal note:Person deemed resident

• 250 (1) For the purposes of this Act, a person shall, subject to subsection 250(2), be deemed to have been resident in Canada throughout a taxation year if the person

  • (a) sojourned in Canada in the year for a period of, or periods the total of which is, 183 days or more;

  • (b) was, at any time in the year, a member of the Canadian Forces;

  • (c) was, at any time in the year,

    • (i) an ambassador, minister, high commissioner, officer or servant of Canada, or

    • (ii) an agent-general, officer or servant of a province,

    and was resident in Canada immediately prior to appointment or employment by Canada or the province or received representation allowances in respect of the year;

  • (d) performed services, at any time in the year, in a country other than Canada under a prescribed international development assistance program of the Government of Canada and was resident in Canada at any time in the 3 month period preceding the day on which those services commenced;

  • (d.1) was, at any time in the year, a member of the overseas Canadian Forces school staff who filed his or her return for the year on the basis that the person was resident in Canada throughout the period during which the person was such a member;

  • (e) [Repealed, 1999, c. 22, s. 82(1)]

  • (f) was at any time in the year a child of, and dependent for support on, an individual to whom paragraph (b), (c), (d) or (d.1) applies and the person’s income for the year did not exceed the amount used under paragraph (c) of the description of B in subsection 118(1) for the year;

  • (g) was at any time in the year, under an agreement or a convention with one or more other countries that has the force of law in Canada, entitled to an exemption from an income tax otherwise payable in any of those countries in respect of income from any source (unless all or substantially all of the person’s income from all sources was not so exempt), because at that time the person was related to or a member of the family of an individual (other than a trust) who was resident in Canada.

• Marginal note:Idem

  (2) Where at any time in a taxation year a person described in paragraph (1)b), (c) or (d) ceases to be a person so described, or a person described in paragraph (1)(d.1) ceases to be a member of the overseas Canadian Forces school staff, that person shall be deemed to have been resident in Canada throughout the part of the year preceding that time and the spouse or common-law partner and child of that person who by reason of paragraph (1)(e) or (f) would, but for this subsection, be deemed to have been resident in Canada throughout the year shall be deemed to have been resident in Canada throughout that part of the year.

• Marginal note:Ordinarily resident

  (3) In this Act, a reference to a person resident in Canada includes a person who was at the relevant time ordinarily resident in Canada.

• Marginal note:Corporation deemed resident

  (4) For the purposes of this Act, a corporation shall be deemed to have been resident in Canada throughout a taxation year if

  • (a) in the case of a corporation incorporated after April 26, 1965, it was incorporated in Canada;

  • (b) in the case of a corporation that

    • (i) was incorporated before April 9, 1959,

    • (ii) was, on June 18, 1971, a foreign business corporation (within the meaning of section 71 of the Income Tax Act, chapter 148 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1952, as it read in its application to the 1971 taxation year) that was controlled by a corporation resident in Canada,

    • (iii) throughout the 10 year period ending on June 18, 1971, carried on business in any one particular country other than Canada, and

    • (iv) during the period referred to in subparagraph 250(4)(b)(iii), paid dividends to its shareholders resident in Canada on which its shareholders paid tax to the government of the country referred to in that subparagraph,

    it was incorporated in Canada and, at any time in the taxation year or at any time in any preceding taxation year commencing after 1971, it was resident in Canada or carried on business in Canada; and

  • (c) in the case of a corporation incorporated before April 27, 1965 (other than a corporation to which subparagraphs 250(4)(b)(i) to 250(4)(b)(iv) apply), it was incorporated in Canada and, at any time in the taxation year or at any time in any preceding taxation year of the corporation ending after April 26, 1965, it was resident in Canada or carried on business in Canada.

• Marginal note:Deemed non-resident

  (5) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act (other than paragraph 126(1.1)(a)), a person is deemed not to be resident in Canada at a time if, at that time, the person would, but for this subsection and any tax treaty, be resident in Canada for the purposes of this Act but is, under a tax treaty with another country, resident in the other country and not resident in Canada.

• Marginal note:Continued corporation

  (5.1) Where a corporation is at any time (in this subsection referred to as the “time of continuation”) granted articles of continuance (or similar constitutional documents) in a particular jurisdiction, the corporation shall

  • (a) for the purposes of applying this Act (other than subsection 250(4)) in respect of all times from the time of continuation until the time, if any, of continuation in a different jurisdiction, be deemed to have been incorporated in the particular jurisdiction and not to have been incorporated in any other jurisdiction; and

  • (b) for the purpose of applying subsection 250(4) in respect of all times from the time of continuation until the time, if any, of continuation in a different jurisdiction, be deemed to have been incorporated in the particular jurisdiction at the time of continuation and not to have been incorporated in any other jurisdiction.

• Marginal note:Residence of international shipping corporation

  (6) For the purposes of this Act, a corporation that was incorporated or otherwise formed under the laws of a country other than Canada or of a state, province or other political subdivision of such a country shall be deemed to be resident in that country throughout a taxation year and not to be resident in Canada at any time in the year, where

  • (a) the corporation

    • (i) has as its principal business in the year the operation of ships that are used primarily in transporting passengers or goods in international traffic (determined on the assumption that the corporation is non-resident and that, except where paragraph (c) of the definition international traffic in subsection 248(1) applies, any port or other place on the Great Lakes or St. Lawrence River is in Canada), or

    • (ii) holds throughout the year shares of one or more other corporations, each of which

      • (A) is a subsidiary wholly-owned corporation of the corporation as defined by subsection 87(1.4), and

      • (B) is deemed by this subsection to be resident in a country other than Canada throughout the year,

      and at no time in the year is the total of the cost amounts to the corporation of all those shares less than 50% of the total of the cost amounts to it of all its property;

  • (b) all or substantially all of the corporation’s gross revenue for the year consists of

    • (i) gross revenue from the operation of ships in transporting passengers or goods in that international traffic,

    • (ii) dividends from one or more other corporations each of which

      • (A) is a subsidiary wholly-owned corporation of the corporation, as defined by subsection 87(1.4), and

      • (B) is deemed by this subsection to be resident in a country other than Canada throughout each of its taxation years that began after February 1991 and before the last time at which it paid any of those dividends, or

    • (iii) a combination of amounts described in subparagraph 250(6)(b)(i) or 250(6)(b)(ii); and

  • (c) the corporation was not granted articles of continuance in Canada before the end of the year.

• Marginal note:Residence of inter vivos trusts

  (6.1) For the purposes of provisions of this Act that apply to a trust for a taxation year only where the trust has been resident in Canada throughout the year, where a particular trust ceases at any time to exist and the particular trust was resident in Canada immediately before that time, the particular trust is deemed to be resident in Canada throughout the period that begins at that time and ends at the end of the year.

• (7) [Repealed, 2011, c. 24, s. 74]