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Excise Tax Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. E-15)

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Act current to 2024-02-20 and last amended on 2024-01-01. Previous Versions

PART IXGoods and Services Tax (continued)

DIVISION VCollection and Remittance of Division II Tax (continued)

SUBDIVISION DRegistration (continued)

Marginal note:Registration

  •  (1) The Minister may register any person that applies for registration and, upon doing so, must assign a registration number to the person and notify the person in writing of the registration number and the effective date of the registration.

  • Marginal note:Group registration

    (1.1) If a person applies to register a group of selected listed financial institutions that is prescribed for the purposes of subsection 240(1.3), the Minister may register the group and, upon doing so, the following rules apply:

    • (a) the Minister must assign a registration number to the group and notify in writing the person that is prescribed in respect of the group for the purpose of paragraph 240(1.3)(b) and each financial institution listed on the application of the registration number and the effective date of the registration of the group;

    • (b) for each member of the group that is registered under this Subdivision on the day preceding the effective date, that registration is cancelled as of the effective date of the registration of the group; and

    • (c) each member of the group is deemed, for the purposes of this Part other than section 242, to be registered under this Subdivision as of the effective date of the registration of the group and to have a registration number that is the same as the registration number of the group.

  • Marginal note:Addition of new member to group registration

    (1.2) If an application is made to add a selected listed financial institution to the registration of a group under paragraph 240(1.4)(b), the Minister may add the financial institution to the registration and, upon doing so, the following rules apply:

    • (a) the Minister must notify in writing the person that is prescribed in respect of the group for the purpose of paragraph 240(1.3)(b) and the financial institution of the effective date of the addition to the registration;

    • (b) if the financial institution is registered under this Subdivision on the day preceding the effective date, that registration of the financial institution is cancelled as of the effective date; and

    • (c) the financial institution is deemed, for the purposes of this Part other than section 242, to be registered under this Subdivision as of the effective date and to have a registration number that is the same as the registration number of the group.

  • Marginal note:Notice of intent

    (1.3) If the Minister has reason to believe that a person that is not registered under this Subdivision is required to be registered for the purposes of this Part and has failed to apply for registration under this Subdivision as and when required, the Minister may send a notice in writing (in this section referred to as a “notice of intent”) to the person that the Minister proposes to register the person under subsection (1.5).

  • Marginal note:Representations to Minister

    (1.4) Upon receipt of a notice of intent, a person shall apply for registration under this Subdivision or establish to the satisfaction of the Minister that the person is not required to be registered for the purposes of this Part.

  • Marginal note:Registration by Minister

    (1.5) If, after 60 days after the particular day on which a notice of intent was sent by the Minister to a person, the person has not applied for registration under this Subdivision and the Minister is not satisfied that the person is not required to be registered for the purposes of this Part, the Minister may register the person and, upon doing so, shall assign a registration number to the person and notify the person in writing of the registration number and the effective date of the registration, which effective date is not to be earlier than 60 days after the particular day.

  • Marginal note:Taxi business

    (2) Where, on the day on which the registration under subsection (1) of a person becomes effective or is varied under subsection 242(2.1), the person is a small supplier carrying on a taxi business and an approval under subsection 240(3.1) in respect of the registration does not become effective on that day, the registration does not apply to any other commercial activity engaged in by the person in Canada throughout the period commencing on that day and ending on the earlier of the first day thereafter that the person ceases to be a small supplier and the day, specified in a notice issued under subsection 240(3.1) in respect of that registration or varied registration, as the case may be, from which the registration is to apply to all commercial activities engaged in by the person in Canada.

  • [NOTE: Application provisions are not included in the consolidated text
  • see relevant amending Acts and regulations.]
  • 1990, c. 45, s. 12
  • 1993, c. 27, s. 101
  • 2012, c. 31, s. 83
  • 2014, c. 20, s. 47

Marginal note:Cancellation

  •  (1) The Minister may, after giving a person who is registered under this Subdivision reasonable written notice, cancel the registration of the person if the Minister is satisfied that the registration is not required for the purposes of this Part.

  • Marginal note:Cancellation of group registration

    (1.1) The Minister may, after giving reasonable written notice to each member of a group that is registered under this Subdivision and to the person that is prescribed in respect of the group for the purposes of paragraph 240(1.3)(b), cancel the registration of the group if the Minister is satisfied that the registration is not required for the purposes of this Part.

  • Marginal note:Cancellation of group registration

    (1.2) The Minister must cancel the registration of a group in prescribed circumstances.

  • Marginal note:Removal from group registration

    (1.3) The Minister may, after giving reasonable written notice to a particular person that is a member of a group that is registered under this Subdivision and to the person that is prescribed in respect of the group for the purposes of paragraph 240(1.3)(b), remove the particular person from the registration of the group if the Minister is satisfied that the particular person is not required to be included in the registration for the purposes of this Part.

  • Marginal note:Removal from group registration

    (1.4) The Minister must remove a person from the registration of a group in prescribed circumstances.

  • Marginal note:Request for cancellation

    (2) The Minister shall cancel the registration of a person who is not carrying on a taxi business, effective after the last day of a fiscal year of the person, where

    • (a) the person is a small supplier and has filed with the Minister in prescribed manner a request, in prescribed form containing prescribed information, to do so; and

    • (b) the person has been registered for a period of not less than one year ending on that day.

  • Marginal note:Request for variation

    (2.1) Where a small supplier carrying on a taxi business files with the Minister in prescribed manner a request, in prescribed form containing prescribed information, to have the registration of the person varied to apply only to that business, the Minister shall so vary the registration, effective on a day that is the first day of a fiscal year of the person and that is at least one year after the registration of the person last became applicable to all commercial activities engaged in by the person in Canada.

  • Marginal note:Request for cancellation

    (2.2) Where at any time that an approval granted under subsection 178.2(3) in respect of a direct seller is in effect, an independent sales contractor (within the meaning assigned by section 178.1) of the direct seller would be a small supplier if the approval had been in effect at all times before that time and the contractor files with the Minister in prescribed manner a request, in prescribed form containing prescribed information, to have the registration of the contractor cancelled, the Minister shall cancel the registration of the contractor.

  • Marginal note:Request for cancellation

    (2.3) If, at any time when an approval granted under subsection 178(5) in respect of a network seller (as defined in subsection 178(1)) and each of its sales representatives (as defined in that subsection) is in effect, a sales representative of the network seller would be a small supplier if the approval had been in effect at all times before that time and the sales representative files with the Minister in prescribed manner a request, in prescribed form containing prescribed information, to have the registration of the sales representative cancelled, the Minister shall cancel the registration of the sales representative.

  • Marginal note:Notice of cancellation or variation

    (3) If the Minister cancels or varies the registration of a person, the Minister must notify the person in writing of the cancellation or variation and its effective date.

  • Marginal note:Group registration — notice of cancellation

    (4) If the Minister cancels the registration of a group,

    • (a) the Minister must notify in writing each member of the group and the person that is prescribed in respect of the group for the purposes of paragraph 240(1.3)(b) of the cancellation and its effective date; and

    • (b) each member of the group is deemed, for the purposes of this Part, to no longer be registered under this Subdivision as of the effective date of the cancellation.

  • Marginal note:Group registration — notice of removal

    (5) If the Minister removes a particular person from the registration of a group,

    • (a) the Minister must notify in writing the particular person and the person that is prescribed in respect of the group for the purposes of paragraph 240(1.3)(b) of the removal and its effective date; and

    • (b) the particular person is deemed, for the purposes of this Part, to no longer be registered under this Subdivision as of the effective date of the removal.

  • [NOTE: Application provisions are not included in the consolidated text
  • see relevant amending Acts and regulations.]
  • 1990, c. 45, s. 12
  • 1993, c. 27, s. 102
  • 2010, c. 12, s. 74
  • 2012, c. 31, s. 84

SUBDIVISION EFiscal Periods and Reporting Periods

Fiscal Periods

Marginal note:Determination of fiscal quarters

  •  (1) For the purposes of this Part, the fiscal quarters in a fiscal year of a person shall be determined in accordance with the following rules:

    • (a) there shall not be more than four fiscal quarters in the year;

    • (b) the first fiscal quarter in the year shall begin on the first day of that year, and the last fiscal quarter in the year shall end on the last day of that year;

    • (c) each fiscal quarter shall be shorter than one hundred and twenty days; and

    • (d) except for the first and last fiscal quarters in the year, each fiscal quarter shall be longer than eighty-three days.

  • Marginal note:Determination of fiscal months

    (2) For the purposes of this Part, the fiscal months in a fiscal year of a person shall be determined in accordance with the following rules:

    • (a) the first fiscal month in each fiscal quarter in the year shall begin on the first day of that fiscal quarter, and the last fiscal month in each fiscal quarter shall end on the last day of that fiscal quarter;

    • (b) each fiscal month shall be shorter than thirty-six days except that the Minister may, on request in writing made in prescribed form containing prescribed information and filed with the Minister in prescribed manner, allow the person to have one fiscal month that is longer than thirty-five days in a fiscal quarter; and

    • (c) each fiscal month shall be longer than twenty-seven days unless

      • (i) that fiscal month is the first or last fiscal month in a fiscal quarter, or

      • (ii) the Minister, on request in writing made in prescribed form containing prescribed information and filed with the Minister in prescribed manner, allows the person to have that fiscal month shorter than twenty-eight days.

  • Marginal note:Notice by registrant

    (3) Where a person is a registrant at any time in a fiscal year of the person, the person shall specify the first and last day of each of the fiscal quarters and fiscal months in the year in prescribed form containing prescribed information and filed with the Minister in prescribed manner on or before the day that is

    • (a) where the person becomes a registrant in that fiscal year, the later of

      • (i) the day the person files an application for registration under section 240 or, where the person was required under subsection 240(2.1) to file that application on or before an earlier day, that earlier day, and

      • (ii) the effective date of the registration; and

    • (b) in any other case, the first day of that fiscal year.

  • Marginal note:Determination by Minister

    (4) Where a person fails to determine the fiscal quarters or fiscal months in a fiscal year of the person in accordance with subsection (1) or (2), or fails to satisfy the requirements of subsection (3), for the purposes of this Part, the Minister may determine those fiscal quarters or fiscal months and shall notify the person in writing of the determination.

  • [NOTE: Application provisions are not included in the consolidated text
  • see relevant amending Acts and regulations.]
  • 1990, c. 45, s. 12
  • 1993, c. 27, s. 103

Marginal note:Election for fiscal year

  •  (1) Where the taxation year of a person is not a calendar year, the person may elect to have fiscal years that are calendar years, effective on the first day of a calendar year.

  • Marginal note:Idem

    (2) Where the taxation year of an individual or a trust is not a period that is, for the purposes of the Income Tax Act, the fiscal period of a business carried on by the individual or trust, or by a partnership of which the individual or trust is a member, the individual or trust may elect to have the fiscal year of the individual or trust be that fiscal period, effective on the first day of one of those fiscal periods.

  • Marginal note:Revocation of election

    (3) A person who has made an election under this section may revoke the election, effective on the first day of a taxation year of the person that begins more than one year after the day the election became effective.

  • Marginal note:Form and contents of election, etc.

    (4) An election made under this section or a revocation of an election made under this section shall

    • (a) be made in prescribed form containing prescribed information;

    • (b) specify the day the election or revocation is to become effective; and

    • (c) be filed with the Minister not later than the day the election or revocation is to become effective.

  • [NOTE: Application provisions are not included in the consolidated text
  • see relevant amending Acts and regulations.]
  • 1990, c. 45, s. 12
  • 1993, c. 27, s. 104

Marginal note:Fiscal year — selected listed financial institution

  •  (1) If a person is a financial institution described in subparagraph 149(1)(a)(vi) or (ix) that is a selected listed financial institution throughout a particular reporting period in a particular fiscal year of the person that begins in a particular calendar year and the person was not a selected listed financial institution throughout the reporting period immediately before the particular reporting period, the following rules apply:

    • (a) the particular fiscal year ends on the last day of the particular calendar year; and

    • (b) as of the beginning of the first day of the calendar year that is immediately after the particular calendar year, the fiscal years of the person are calendar years and any election made by the person under section 244 ceases to have effect.

  • Marginal note:Fiscal year — selected listed financial institution

    (2) Despite subsection (1), if a person is a financial institution described in subparagraph 149(1)(a)(vi) or (ix) that is a selected listed financial institution throughout a particular reporting period in a particular fiscal year of the person, the following rules apply in prescribed circumstances to determine the fiscal year of the person:

    • (a) the particular fiscal year ends on the day immediately before the prescribed day referred to in paragraph (b); and

    • (b) the following fiscal year of the person begins on a prescribed day.

  • Marginal note:Ceasing to be selected listed financial institution

    (3) If a person is a financial institution described in subparagraph 149(1)(a)(vi) or (ix) that is a selected listed financial institution throughout a reporting period in a particular fiscal year and the person is not a selected listed financial institution throughout a reporting period in the following fiscal year of the person, that following fiscal year ends on the day on which it would end in the absence of this section.

  • Marginal note:Fiscal year — investment limited partnership

    (4) If a particular fiscal year of an investment limited partnership begins in 2018 and includes January 1, 2019 and the investment limited partnership would be a selected listed financial institution throughout a reporting period in the particular fiscal year if the particular fiscal year began on January 1, 2019 and ended on December 31, 2019, the following rules apply:

    • (a) the particular fiscal year ends on December 31, 2018;

    • (b) subject to subsection (2), the fiscal years of the investment limited partnership are calendar years as of January 1, 2019;

    • (c) any election made by the investment limited partnership under section 244 ceases to have effect as of January 1, 2019; and

    • (d) if the first taxation year of the investment limited partnership that begins after 2018 does not begin on January 1, 2019, for the purposes of this Part (other than section 149) the investment limited partnership is deemed, for the period beginning on January 1, 2019 and ending on the day preceding the first day of that taxation year, to be a financial institution, a listed financial institution and a person referred to in subparagraph 149(1)(a)(ix).

  • [NOTE: Application provisions are not included in the consolidated text
  • see relevant amending Acts and regulations.]
  • 2012, c. 31, s. 85
  • 2018, c. 27, s. 46
 

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