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Income Tax Amendments Act, 2000 (S.C. 2001, c. 17)

Assented to 2001-06-14

  •  (1) Subsection 45(1) of the Act is amended by striking out the word “and” at the end of paragraph (b), by adding the word “and” at the end of paragraph (c) and by adding the following after paragraph (c):

    • (d) in applying this subsection in respect of a non-resident taxpayer, a reference to “gaining or producing income” shall be read as a reference to “gaining or producing income from a source in Canada”.

  • (2) Subsection (1) applies after October 1, 1996.

  •  (1) The portion of subsection 46(1) of the Act before paragraph (a) is replaced by the following:

    Marginal note:Personal-use property
    • 46. (1) Where a taxpayer has disposed of a personal-use property (other than an excluded property disposed of in circumstances to which subsection 110.1(1), or the definition “total charitable gifts”, “total cultural gifts” or “total ecological gifts” in subsection 118.1(1), applies) of the taxpayer, for the purposes of this subdivision

  • (2) The portion of subsection 46(2) of the Act before paragraph (a) is replaced by the following:

    • Marginal note:Where part only of property disposed of

      (2) Where a taxpayer has disposed of part of a personal-use property (other than a part of an excluded property disposed of in circumstances to which subsection 110.1(1), or the definition “total charitable gifts”, “total cultural gifts” or “total ecological gifts” in subsection 118.1(1), applies) owned by the taxpayer and has retained another part of the property, for the purposes of this subdivision

  • (3) Section 46 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (4):

    • Marginal note:Excluded property

      (5) For the purpose of this section, “excluded property” of a taxpayer means property acquired by the taxpayer, or by a person with whom the taxpayer does not deal at arm’s length, in circumstances in which it is reasonable to conclude that the acquisition of the property relates to an arrangement, plan or scheme that is promoted by another person or partnership and under which it is reasonable to conclude that the property will be the subject of a gift to which subsection 110.1(1), or the definition “total charitable gifts”, “total cultural gifts” or “total ecological gifts” in subsection 118.1(1), applies.

  • (4) Subsections (1) to (3) apply to property acquired after February 27, 2000.

  •  (1) Section 47 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (2):

    • Marginal note:Securities acquired by employee

      (3) For the purpose of subsection (1), a security (within the meaning assigned by subsection 7(7)) acquired by a taxpayer after February 27, 2000 is deemed not to be identical to any other security acquired by the taxpayer if

      • (a) the security is acquired in circumstances to which any of subsections 7(1.1), (1.5) or (8) or 147(10.1) applies; or

      • (b) the security is a security to which subsection 7(1.31) applies.

  • (2) Subsection (1) applies after 1999.

  •  (1) Subparagraph 48.1(1)(a)(ii) of the Act is replaced by the following:

    • (ii) immediately after that time, ceases to be a small business corporation because a class of its or another corporation’s shares is listed on a prescribed stock exchange, and

  • (2) Subsection (1) applies to corporations that cease to be small business corporations after 1999.

  • (3) Where a corporation ceases to be a Canadian-controlled private corporation in a taxation year solely because of the application of subsection 113(2) of this Act, an election under subsection 48.1(1) of the Act, as enacted by subsection (1), that is made by an individual in respect of the 1999 or 2000 taxation year is deemed to have been made on time if the election is made on or before the individual’s filing-due date for the taxation year in which this Act receives royal assent.

  •  (1) Paragraph 49(5)(b) of the Act is replaced by the following:

    • (b) for the purposes of subsections (2) to (4) and subparagraph (b)(iv) of the definition “disposition” in subsection 248(1), the original option and each extension or renewal of it is deemed to be the same option; and

  • (2) Subsection (1) applies to options granted after December 23, 1998.

  •  (1) Subsections 52(1) and (1.1) of the Act are replaced by the following:

    Marginal note:Cost of certain property the value of which included in income
    • 52. (1) Where

      • (a) a taxpayer acquired property after 1971 (other than an annuity contract, a right as a beneficiary under a trust to enforce payment of an amount by the trust to the taxpayer, property acquired in circumstances to which subsection (2) or (3) applies or property acquired from a trust in satisfaction of all or part of the taxpayer’s capital interest in the trust), and

      • (b) an amount in respect of its value was

        • (i) included, otherwise than under section 7, in computing

          • (A) the taxpayer’s taxable income or taxable income earned in Canada, as the case may be, for a taxation year during which the taxpayer was non-resident, or

          • (B) the taxpayer’s income for a taxation year throughout which the taxpayer was resident in Canada, or

        • (ii) for the purpose of computing the tax payable under Part XIII by the taxpayer, included in an amount that was paid or credited to the taxpayer,

      for the purposes of this subdivision, the amount so included shall be added in computing the cost to the taxpayer of the property, except to the extent that the amount was otherwise added to the cost or included in computing the adjusted cost base to the taxpayer of the property.

  • (2) Subsection 52(6) of the Act is repealed.

  • (3) Subsection (1) applies after 1999 except that, in respect of property acquired before 2000 and disposed of before March 2000, paragraph 52(1)(a) of the Act, as enacted by that subsection, shall be read as follows:

    • (a) a taxpayer acquired property after 1971 (other than an annuity contract or property acquired as described in subsection (2), (3) or (6)), and

  • (4) Subsection (2) applies after 1999, but not to rights that were acquired before 2000 and disposed of before March 2000.

  •  (1) Clauses 53(1)(e)(i)(A) and (A.1) of the Act are replaced by the following:

    • (A) the fractions set out in subsection 14(5), paragraphs 38(a) to (a.2), subsection 41(1) and in the formula in paragraph 14(1)(b),

    • (A.1) paragraph 18(1)(l.1),

    • (A.2) the description of C in the formula in paragraph 14(1)(b), and

  • (2) Paragraph 53(1)(j) of the Act is replaced by the following:

    • Marginal note:Share or fund unit taxed as stock option benefit

      (j) if the property is a security (within the meaning assigned by subsection 7(7)) and, in respect of its acquisition by the taxpayer, a benefit was deemed by section 7 to have been received in any taxation year that ends after 1971 and begins before that time by the taxpayer or by a person that did not deal at arm’s length with the taxpayer or, if the security was acquired after February 27, 2000, would have been so deemed if section 7 were read without reference to subsections 7(1.1) and (8), the amount of the benefit that was, or would have been, so deemed to have been received;

  • (3) Subparagraph (ii) of the description of A in paragraph 53(1)(r) of the Act is amended by replacing the reference to the expression “4/3 of” with a reference to the word “twice”.

  • (4) Paragraph 53(2)(a) of the Act is amended by striking out the word “and” at the end of subparagraph (iii), by adding the word “and” at the end of subparagraph (iv) and by adding the following after subparagraph (iv):

    • (v) any amount required by paragraph 44.1(2)(b) to be deducted in computing the adjusted cost base to the taxpayer of the share;

  • (5) Clauses 53(2)(c)(i)(A) and (A.1) of the Act are replaced by the following:

    • (A) the fractions set out in subsection 14(5), paragraph 38(b) and in the formula in paragraph 14(1)(b),

    • (A.1) paragraph 18(1)(l.1),

    • (A.2) the description of C in the formula in paragraph 14(1)(b),

  • (6) Clause 53(2)(c)(ii)(B) of the Act is replaced by the following:

    • (B) the Canadian exploration and development expenses and foreign resource pool expenses, if any, incurred by the partnership in the fiscal period,

  • (7) The portion of paragraph 53(2)(h) of the Act before subparagraph (i) is replaced by the following:

    • (h) where the property is a capital interest of the taxpayer in a trust (other than an interest in a personal trust that has never been acquired for consideration or an interest of a taxpayer in a trust described in any of paragraphs (a) to (e.1) of the definition “trust” in subsection 108(1)),

  • (8) Subclause 53(2)(h)(i.1)(B)(I) of the Act is amended by striking out the reference to the expression “1/3 of”.

  • (9) The portion of paragraph 53(2)(i) of the Act before subparagraph (i) is replaced by the following:

    • (i) where the property is a capital interest in a trust (other than a unit trust) not resident in Canada that was purchased after 1971 and before that time by the taxpayer from a non-resident person at a time (in this paragraph referred to as the “purchase time”) when the property was not taxable Canadian property and the fair market value of such of the trust property as was

  • (10) The portion of paragraph 53(2)(i) of the Act after subparagraph (v) is replaced by the following:

    was not less than 50% of the fair market value of all the trust property, that proportion of the amount, if any, by which

    • (vi) the fair market value at the purchase time of such of the trust properties as were properties described in any of subparagraphs (i) to (v)

    exceeds

    • (vii) the total of the cost amounts to the trust at the purchase time of such of the trust properties as were properties described in any of subparagraphs (i) to (v),

    that the fair market value at the purchase time of the interest is of the fair market value at the purchase time of all capital interests in the trust;

  • (11) The portion of paragraph 53(2)(j) of the Act before subparagraph (i) is replaced by the following:

    • (j) where the property is a unit of a unit trust not resident in Canada that was purchased after 1971 and before that time by the taxpayer from a non-resident person at a time (in this paragraph referred to as the “purchase time”) when the property was not taxable Canadian property and the fair market value of such of the trust property as was

  • (12) The portion of paragraph 53(2)(j) of the Act after subparagraph (v) is replaced by the following:

    was not less than 50% of the fair market value of all the trust property, that proportion of the amount, if any, by which

    • (vi) the fair market value at the purchase time of such of the trust properties as were properties described in any of subparagraphs (i) to (v)

    exceeds

    • (vii) the total of the cost amounts to the trust at the purchase time of such of the trust properties as were properties described in any of subparagraphs (i) to (v),

    that the fair market value at the purchase time of the unit is of the fair market value at the purchase time of all the issued units of the trust;

  • (13) Subsection 53(3) of the Act is repealed.

  • (14) The portion of subsection 53(4) of the Act before paragraph (a) is replaced by the following:

    • Marginal note:Recomputation of adjusted cost base on transfers and deemed dispositions

      (4) Where at any time in a taxation year a person or partnership (in this subsection referred to as the “vendor”) disposes of a specified property and the proceeds of disposition of the property are determined under paragraph 48.1(1)(c), section 70 or 73, subsection 85(1), paragraph 87(4)(a) or (c) or 88(1)(a), subsection 97(2) or 98(2), paragraph 98(3)(f) or (5)(f), subsection 104(4), paragraph 107(2)(a), (2.1)(a), (4)(d) or (5)(a), 107.4(3)(a) or 111(4)(e) or section 128.1,

  • (15) Subsections (1) and (5) apply in respect of fiscal periods that end after February 27, 2000 and, for fiscal periods that ended after February 18, 1997 and before February 28, 2000, clause 53(1)(e)(i)(A) of the Act, as enacted by subsection (1), shall be read as follows:

    • (A) the fractions set out in subsection 14(5), paragraphs 38(a) and (a.1) and subsection 41(1),

  • (16) Subsection (2) applies after 1999.

  • (17) Subsection (3) applies to taxation years that end after February 27, 2000 except that, in applying paragraph 53(1)(r) of the Act, as enacted by subsection (3), for those years in respect of a taxpayer’s interest in an entity, where a taxation year of the entity that includes February 28, 2000 or October 17, 2000, or began after February 28, 2000 and ended before October 17, 2000, ends in the taxpayer’s taxation year, the reference to the word “twice” in subparagraph (ii) of the description of A in that paragraph shall be read as a reference to the expression “the fraction that is the reciprocal of the fraction in paragraph 38(a), as enacted by subsection 22(1) of the Income Tax Amendments Act, 2000, that applies in respect of the entity for its taxation year, multiplied by”.

  • (18) Subsection (4) applies to dispositions that occur after February 27, 2000.

  • (19) Subsection (6) applies to taxation years that begin after 2000.

  • (20) Subsection (7) applies to amounts that become payable after 1999.

  • (21) Subsection (8) applies to taxation years that end after February 27, 2000 except that, in applying subclause 53(2)(h)(i.1)(B)(I) of the Act, as enacted by subsection (8), for those years in respect of a taxpayer’s interest in a trust, where a taxation year of the trust that includes February 28, 2000 or October 17, 2000, or began after February 28, 2000 and ended before October 17, 2000, ends in the taxpayer’s taxation year, the reference to the expression “that is equal to the” in that subclause shall be read as a reference to the expression “that is equal to the fraction obtained when 1 is subtracted from the reciprocal of the fraction in paragraph 38(a), as enacted by subsection 22(1) of the Income Tax Amendments Act, 2000, that applies to the trust for its taxation year, multiplied by”.

  • (22) Subsections (9) to (12) apply for the purpose of computing the adjusted cost base of property after April 26, 1995.

  • (23) Subsection (13) applies after October 1, 1996.

  • (24) Subsection (14) applies to the 1998 and subsequent taxation years.

 

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