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Technical Tax Amendments Act, 2012 (S.C. 2013, c. 34)

Assented to 2013-06-26

  •  (1) The portion of subsection 93.1(1) of the Act before paragraph (a) is replaced by the following:

    Marginal note:Shares held by partnership
    • 93.1 (1) For the purposes of determining whether a non-resident corporation is a foreign affiliate of a corporation resident in Canada for the purposes of subsections (2), 20(12) and 39(2.1), sections 90, 93 and 113, paragraph 128.1(1)(d), (and any regulations made for the purposes of those provisions), section 95 (to the extent that it is applied for the purposes of those provisions), paragraph 95(2)(g.04) and section 126, if, based on the assumptions contained in paragraph 96(1)(c), at any time shares of a class of the capital stock of a corporation are owned by a partnership or are deemed under this subsection to be owned by a partnership, then each member of the partnership is deemed to own at that time the number of those shares that is equal to the proportion of all those shares that

  • (2) Section 93.1 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (2):

    • Marginal note:Tiered partnerships

      (3) A person or partnership that is (or is deemed by this subsection to be) a member of a particular partnership that is a member of another partnership is deemed to be a member of the other partnership, and the person or partnership is deemed to have, directly, rights to the income or capital of the other partnership to the extent of the person or partnership’s direct and indirect rights to that income or capital, for the purposes of applying

      • (a) except to the extent that the context otherwise requires, a provision of this subdivision;

      • (b) any of paragraphs 13(21.2)(a), 14(12)(a), 18(13)(a), 40(2)(e.1), (e.3) and (g) and (3.3)(a); and

      • (c) subsections 39(2.1) and 40(3.6).

  • (3) Subsection (1) is deemed to have come into force on August 20, 2011.

  • (4) Subsection (2) applies in respect of taxation years of a foreign affiliate of a taxpayer that end after August 19, 2011.

  •  (1) The formula in the definition “foreign accrual property income” in subsection 95(1) of the Act is replaced by the following:

    (A + A.1 + A.2 + B + C) – (D + E + F + F.1 + G + H)

  • (2) The description of B in the definition “foreign accrual property income” in subsection 95(1) of the Act is replaced by the following:

    B 
    is the total of all amounts each of which is the portion of the affiliate’s income (to the extent that the income is not included under the description of A) for the year, or of the affiliate’s taxable capital gain for the year that can reasonably be considered to have accrued after its 1975 taxation year, from a disposition of property
    • (a) that is not, at the time of disposition, excluded property of the affiliate, or

    • (b) that is, at the time of disposition, excluded property of the affiliate, if any of paragraphs (2)(c), (d) and (d.1), subparagraph (2)(e)(i) and paragraph 88(3)(a) applies to the disposition,

  • (3) The description of E in the definition “foreign accrual property income” in subsection 95(1) of the Act is replaced by the following:

    E 
    is the lesser of
    • (a) the amount of the affiliate’s allowable capital losses for the year from dispositions of property (other than excluded property and property in respect of which an election is made by the taxpayer under subsection 88(3.3)) that can reasonably be considered to have accrued after its 1975 taxation year, and

    • (b) the total of all amounts each of which is the portion of a taxable capital gain of the affiliate that is included in the amount determined for B in respect of the affiliate for the year,

  • (4) The definition “foreign accrual property income” in subsection 95(1) of the Act is amended by adding the following after the description of F:

    F.1 
    is the lesser of
    • (a) the prescribed amount for the year, and

    • (b) the amount, if any, by which

      • (i) the total of all amounts each of which is the portion of a taxable capital gain of the affiliate that is included in the amount determined for B in respect of the affiliate for the year

      exceeds

      • (ii) the amount determined for E in respect of the affiliate for the year,

  • (5) Paragraph (b) of the description of G in the definition “foreign accrual property income” in subsection 95(1) of the Act is replaced by the following:

    • (b) the total of all amounts determined for D to F.1 in respect of the affiliate for the year, and

  • (6) Subparagraph (b)(i) of the definition “participating percentage” in subsection 95(1) of the Act is replaced by the following:

    • (i) the percentage that would be the taxpayer’s equity percentage in the affiliate at the end of that taxation year on the assumption that the taxpayer owned no shares other than the particular share (but in no case shall that assumption be made for the purpose of determining whether or not a corporation is a foreign affiliate of the taxpayer) if

      • (A) the affiliate and each corporation that is relevant to the determination of the taxpayer’s equity percentage in the affiliate have, at that time, only one class of issued shares, and

      • (B) no foreign affiliate (referred to in this clause as the “upper-tier affiliate”) of the taxpayer that is relevant to the determination of the taxpayer’s equity percentage in the affiliate has, at that time, an equity percentage in a foreign affiliate (including, for greater certainty, the affiliate) of the taxpayer that has an equity percentage in the upper-tier affiliate, and

  • (7) Subsection 95(1) of the Act is amended by adding the following in alphabetical order:

    “designated liquidation and dissolution”

    « liquidation et dissolution désignées »

    “designated liquidation and dissolution”, of a foreign affiliate (referred to in this definition as the “disposing affiliate”) of a taxpayer, means a liquidation and dissolution of the disposing affiliate in respect of which

    • (a) the taxpayer had, immediately before the time of the earliest distribution of property by the disposing affiliate in the course of the liquidation and dissolution, a surplus entitlement percentage in respect of the disposing affiliate of not less than 90%,

    • (b) both

      • (i) the percentage determined by the following formula is greater than or equal to 90%:

        A/B

        where

        A 
        is the amount, if any, by which
        • (A) the total of all amounts each of which is the fair market value, at the time at which it is distributed, of a property that is distributed by the disposing affiliate, in respect of shares of the capital stock of the disposing affiliate, in the course of the liquidation and dissolution to one particular shareholder of the disposing affiliate that was, immediately before the time of the distribution, a foreign affiliate of the taxpayer

        exceeds

        • (B) the total of all amounts each of which is an amount owing (other than an unpaid dividend) by, or an obligation of, the disposing affiliate that was assumed or cancelled by the particular shareholder in consideration for a property referred to in clause (A), and

        B 
        is the amount, if any, by which
        • (A) the total of all amounts each of which is the fair market value, at the time at which it is distributed, of a property that is distributed by the disposing affiliate, in respect of shares of the capital stock of the disposing affiliate, to a shareholder of the disposing affiliate in the course of the liquidation and dissolution

        exceeds

        • (B) the total of all amounts each of which is an amount owing (other than an unpaid dividend) by, or an obligation of, the disposing affiliate that was assumed or cancelled by a shareholder of the disposing affiliate in consideration for a property referred to in clause (A), and

      • (ii) at the time of each distribution of property by the disposing affiliate in the course of the liquidation and dissolution in respect of shares of the capital stock of the disposing affiliate, the particular shareholder holds shares of that capital stock that would, if an annual general meeting of the shareholders of the disposing affiliate were held at that time, entitle it to 90% or more of the votes that could be cast under all circumstances at the meeting, or

    • (c) one particular shareholder of the disposing affiliate that was, throughout the liquidation and dissolution, a foreign affiliate of the taxpayer owns not less than 90% of the issued shares of each class of the capital stock of the disposing affiliate throughout the liquidation and dissolution;

    “taxable Canadian business”

    « entreprise canadienne imposable »

    “taxable Canadian business”, at any time, of a foreign affiliate of a taxpayer resident in Canada or of a partnership of which a foreign affiliate of a taxpayer resident in Canada is a member (which foreign affiliate or partnership is referred to in this definition as the “operator”), means a business the income from which

    • (a) is, or would be if there were income from the business for the operator’s taxation year or fiscal period that includes that time, included in computing the foreign affiliate’s taxable income earned in Canada for a taxation year under subparagraph 115(1)(a)(ii), and

    • (b) is not, or would not be if there were income from the business for the operator’s taxation year or fiscal period that includes that time, exempt, because of a tax treaty with a country, from tax under this Part;

  • (8) Paragraph 95(2)(c) of the Act is replaced by the following:

    • (c) if a foreign affiliate (referred to in this paragraph as the “disposing affiliate”) of a taxpayer has, at any time, disposed of capital property (other than property the adjusted cost base of which, at that time, is greater than the amount that would, in the absence of this paragraph, be the disposing affiliate’s proceeds of disposition of the property in respect of the disposition) that was shares (referred to in this paragraph as the “shares disposed of”) of the capital stock of another foreign affiliate of the taxpayer to any other corporation that was, immediately after that time, a foreign affiliate (referred to in this paragraph as the “acquiring affiliate”) of the taxpayer for consideration that includes shares of the capital stock of the acquiring affiliate,

      • (i) the cost to the disposing affiliate of any property (other than shares of the capital stock of the acquiring affiliate) receivable by the disposing affiliate as consideration for the disposition is deemed to be the fair market value of the property at that time,

      • (ii) the cost to the disposing affiliate of each share of a class of the capital stock of the acquiring affiliate that is receivable by the disposing affiliate as consideration for the disposition is deemed to be the amount determined by the formula

        (A – B) × C/D

        where

        A 
        is the total of all amounts each of which is the relevant cost base to the disposing affiliate at that time, in respect of the taxpayer, of a share disposed of,
        B 
        is the fair market value at that time of the consideration receivable for the disposition (other than shares of the capital stock of the acquiring affiliate),
        C 
        is the fair market value, immediately after that time, of the share, and
        D 
        is the fair market value, immediately after that time, of all shares of the capital stock of the acquiring affiliate receivable by the disposing affiliate as consideration for the disposition,
      • (iii) the disposing affiliate’s proceeds of disposition of the shares are deemed to be an amount equal to the cost to it of all shares and other property receivable by it from the acquiring affiliate as consideration for the disposition, and

      • (iv) the cost to the acquiring affiliate of the shares acquired from the disposing affiliate is deemed to be an amount equal to the disposing affiliate’s proceeds of disposition referred to in subparagraph (iii);

  • (9) Subparagraph 95(2)(d)(iv) of the Act is replaced by the following:

    • (iv) “adjusted cost bases” were read as “relevant cost bases, in respect of the taxpayer,”;

  • (10) Paragraphs 95(2)(d.1) to (e.1) of the Act are replaced by the following:

    • (d.1) if there has been a foreign merger of two or more predecessor foreign corporations to form a new foreign corporation that is, immediately after the merger, a foreign affiliate of a taxpayer and one or more of the predecessor foreign corporations (each being referred to in this paragraph as a “foreign affiliate predecessor”) was, immediately before the merger, a foreign affiliate of the taxpayer,

      • (i) each property of the new foreign corporation that was a property of a foreign affiliate predecessor immediately before the merger is deemed to have been

        • (A) disposed of by the foreign affiliate predecessor immediately before the merger for proceeds of disposition equal to the relevant cost base of the property to the foreign affiliate predecessor, in respect of the taxpayer, at that time, and

        • (B) acquired by the new foreign corporation, at that time, at a cost equal to the amount determined under clause (A),

      • (ii) the new foreign corporation is deemed to be the same corporation as, and a continuation of, each foreign affiliate predecessor for the purposes of applying

        • (A) this subsection and the definition “foreign accrual property income” in subsection (1) with respect to any disposition by the new foreign corporation of any property to which subparagraph (i) applied,

        • (B) subsections 13(21.2), 14(12), 18(15) and 40(3.4) in respect of any property that was disposed of, at any time before the merger, by a foreign affiliate predecessor, and

        • (C) paragraph 40(3.5)(c) in respect of any share that was deemed under that paragraph to be owned, at any time before the merger, by a foreign affiliate predecessor, and

      • (iii) for the purposes of the description of A.2 in the definition “foreign accrual property income” in subsection (1), the total of all amounts each of which is the amount determined for G in respect of a foreign affiliate predecessor for its last taxation year that ends on or before the time of the merger is deemed to be the amount determined for G in respect of the new foreign corporation for its taxation year that immediately precedes its first taxation year;

    • (e) notwithstanding subsection 69(5), if at any time a foreign affiliate (referred to in this paragraph as the “shareholder affiliate”) of a taxpayer receives a property (referred to in this paragraph as the “distributed property”) from another foreign affiliate (referred to in this paragraph as the “disposing affiliate”) of the taxpayer on a liquidation and dissolution of the disposing affiliate and the distributed property is received in respect of shares of the capital stock of the disposing affiliate that are disposed of on the liquidation and dissolution,

      • (i) the distributed property is deemed to have been disposed of at that time by the disposing affiliate to the shareholder affiliate for proceeds of disposition equal to the relevant cost base to the disposing affiliate of the distributed property in respect of the taxpayer, immediately before that time, if

        • (A) the liquidation and dissolution is a designated liquidation and dissolution of the disposing affiliate, or

        • (B) the distributed property is a share of the capital stock of another foreign affiliate of the taxpayer that was, immediately before that time, excluded property of the disposing affiliate,

      • (ii) if subparagraph (i) does not apply to the distributed property, the distributed property is deemed to have been disposed of at that time by the disposing affiliate to the shareholder affiliate for proceeds of disposition equal to the distributed property’s fair market value at that time,

      • (iii) the distributed property is deemed to have been acquired, at that time, by the shareholder affiliate at a cost equal to the amount determined under subparagraph (i) or (ii) to be the disposing affiliate’s proceeds of disposition of the distributed property,

      • (iv) each share of a class of the capital stock of the disposing affiliate that is disposed of by the shareholder affiliate on the liquidation and dissolution of the disposing affiliate is deemed to be disposed of for proceeds of disposition equal to

        • (A) if the liquidation and dissolution is a designated liquidation and dissolution of the disposing affiliate

          • (I) where the amount that would, if clause (B) applied, be determined under that clause in respect of the share is greater than or equal to the adjusted cost base of the share to the shareholder affiliate immediately before the disposition, that adjusted cost base, or

          • (II) where the adjusted cost base of the share to the shareholder affiliate immediately before the disposition exceeds the amount that would, if clause (B) applied, be determined under that clause in respect of the share

            1. if the share is not excluded property of the shareholder affiliate, that adjusted cost base, and

            2. in any other case, the amount that would be determined under clause (B), and

        • (B) in any other case, the amount determined by the formula

          (A – B)/C

          where

          A 
          is the total of all amounts each of which is the cost to the shareholder affiliate of a distributed property, as determined under subparagraph (iii), received, at any time, in respect of the class,
          B 
          is the total of all amounts each of which is an amount owing (other than an unpaid dividend) by, or an obligation of, the disposing affiliate that was assumed or cancelled by the shareholder affiliate in consideration for the distribution of a distributed property referred to in the description of A, and
          C 
          is the total number of issued and outstanding shares of the class that are owned by the shareholder affiliate during the liquidation and dissolution, and
      • (v) if the liquidation and dissolution is a designated liquidation and dissolution of the disposing affiliate,

        • (A) the shareholder affiliate is deemed to be the same corporation as, and a continuation of, the disposing affiliate for the purposes of applying

          • (I) this subsection and the definition “foreign accrual property income” in subsection (1) with respect to any disposition by the shareholder affiliate of any property to which clause (i)(A) applied,

          • (II) subsections 13(21.2), 14(12), 18(15) and 40(3.4) in respect of any property that was disposed of, at any time before the liquidation and dissolution, by the disposing affiliate, and

          • (III) paragraph 40(3.5)(c) in respect of any share that was deemed under that paragraph to be owned, at any time before the liquidation and dissolution, by the disposing affiliate, and

        • (B) for the purposes of the description of A.2 in the definition “foreign accrual property income” in subsection (1), the amount, if any, determined for G in respect of the disposing affiliate for its first taxation year that ends after the beginning of the liquidation and dissolution is to be added to the amount otherwise determined for G in respect of the shareholder affiliate for its taxation year that immediately precedes its taxation year that includes the time at which the liquidation and dissolution began;

  • (11) Subparagraph 95(2)(f.11)(i) of the Act is replaced by the following:

    • (i) if the amount is described in subparagraph (f)(i), this Act is to be

      • (A) read without reference to section 26 of the Income Tax Application Rules, and

      • (B) applied as if, in respect of any debt obligation owing by the foreign affiliate or a partnership of which the foreign affiliate is a member (which foreign affiliate or partnership is referred to in this clause as the “debtor”), each capital gain or loss of the debtor that is deemed to arise under subsection 39(2) or (3) in respect of the debt obligation were from a disposition of property that was held by the debtor throughout the period during which the debt obligation was owed by the debtor and, for greater certainty, at the time of the disposition,

  • (12) Subparagraph 95(2)(f.11)(ii) of the Act is amended by striking out “and” at the end of clause (A), adding “and” at the end of clause (B) and adding the following after clause (B):

    • (C) this Act is to be applied as if, in respect of any debt obligation owing by the foreign affiliate or a partnership of which the foreign affiliate is a member (which foreign affiliate or partnership is referred to in this clause as the “debtor”), each amount of income or loss of the debtor — from a property, from a business other than an active business or from a non-qualifying business — in respect of the debt obligation were from such a property that was held, or such a business that was carried on, as the case may be, by the debtor throughout the period during which the debt obligation was owed by the debtor and at the time at which the debt obligation was settled or extinguished;

  • (13) Subparagraph 95(2)(f.12)(i) of the Act is replaced by the following:

    • (i) subject to paragraph (f.13), each capital gain, capital loss, taxable capital gain and allowable capital loss (other than a gain or loss in respect of a debt referred to in subparagraph (i)(i) or (ii)) of the foreign affiliate for the taxation year from the disposition, at any time, of a property that, at that time, was an excluded property of the foreign affiliate,

  • (14) Paragraphs 95(2)(f.14) and (f.15) of the Act are replaced by the following:

    • (f.14) a foreign affiliate of a taxpayer is to determine using Canadian currency each amount of its income, loss, capital gain, capital loss, taxable capital gain or allowable capital loss for a taxation year, other than an amount to which paragraph (f.12), (f.13) or (f.15) applies;

    • (f.15) for the purposes of applying subparagraph (f)(i) in respect of a debt obligation owing by a foreign affiliate of a taxpayer, or a partnership of which the foreign affiliate is a member, that is a debt referred to in subparagraph (i)(i) or (ii), the references in subsection 39(2) to “Canadian currency” are to be read as references to “the taxpayer’s calculating currency”;

  • (15) Subparagraph 95(2)(g)(ii) of the Act is replaced by the following:

    • (ii) the redemption, acquisition or cancellation of, or a qualifying return of capital (within the meaning assigned by subsection 90(3)) in respect of, a share of the capital stock of a qualified foreign affiliate by the qualified foreign affiliate, or

  • (16) Paragraph 95(2)(g.02) of the Act is repealed.

  • (17) Subsection 95(2) of the Act is amended by adding the following after paragraph (g.03):

    • (g.04) if at any time a corporation resident in Canada or a partnership of which such a corporation is a member (such corporation or partnership referred to in this paragraph as the “borrowing party”) has received a loan from, or become indebted to, a creditor that is a foreign affiliate (referred to in this paragraph as a “creditor affiliate”) of the borrowing party or that is a partnership (referred to in this paragraph as a “creditor partnership”) of which such an affiliate is a member, the loan or indebtedness is at a later time repaid, in whole or in part, and the amount of the borrowing party’s capital gain or capital loss determined, in the absence of subsection 39(2.1), under subsection 39(2) in respect of the repayment is equal to the amount of the creditor affiliate’s or creditor partnership’s capital loss or capital gain, as the case may be, determined, in respect of the borrowing party and in the absence of this paragraph, in respect of the repayment, then that capital loss or capital gain is deemed to be nil;

  • (18) Subparagraph 95(2)(k)(iv) of the Act is replaced by the following:

    • (iv) if the foreign business of the affiliate is a business in respect of which the affiliate would, if the foreign business were carried on in Canada, be required by law to report to a regulating authority in Canada such as the Superintendent of Financial Institutions or a similar authority of a province,

      • (A) the affiliate is deemed to be required by law to report to and to be subject to the supervision of such regulating authority, and

      • (B) if the affiliate is a life insurer and the foreign business of the affiliate is a life insurance business, the life insurance policies issued in the conduct of that business are deemed to be life insurance policies in Canada, and

  • (19) Paragraph 95(2)(k) of the Act, as amended by subsection (18), is replaced by the following:

    • (j.1) paragraph (j.2) applies if, in a particular taxation year of a foreign affiliate of a taxpayer or in a particular fiscal period of a partnership (which foreign affiliate or partnership is referred to in this paragraph and paragraph (j.2) as the “operator” and which particular taxation year or particular fiscal period is referred to in this paragraph and paragraph (j.2) as the “specified taxation year”) a member of which is, at the end of the period, a foreign affiliate of a taxpayer,

      • (i) the operator carries on a business,

      • (ii) the business includes the insuring of risks,

      • (iii) the business is not, at any time, a taxable Canadian business,

      • (iv) the business is

        • (A) an investment business,

        • (B) a non-qualifying business, or

        • (C) a business whose activities include activities deemed by paragraph (a.2) or (b) to be a separate business, other than an active business, carried on by the affiliate, and

      • (v) in respect of the investment business, non-qualifying business or separate business (each of these businesses being referred to in this subparagraph and paragraph (j.2) as a “foreign business”), as the case may be, the operator would, if it were a corporation carrying on the foreign business in Canada, be required by law to report to, and be subject to the supervision of, a regulatory authority that is the Superintendent of Financial Institutions or is a similar authority of a province;

    • (j.2) if this paragraph applies, in computing the operator’s income or loss from the foreign business for the specified taxation year and each subsequent taxation year or fiscal period in which the foreign business is carried on by the operator

      • (i) the operator is deemed to carry on the foreign business in Canada throughout that part of the specified taxation year, and of each of those subsequent taxation years or fiscal periods, in which the foreign business is carried on by the operator, and

      • (ii) for the purposes of Part XIV of the Income Tax Regulations,

        • (A) the operator is deemed to be required by law to report to, and to be subject to the supervision of, the regulatory authority referred to in subparagraph (j.1)(v), and

        • (B) if the operator is a life insurer and the foreign business is part of a life insurance business, the life insurance policies issued in the conduct of the foreign business are deemed to be life insurance policies in Canada;

    • (k) paragraph (k.1) applies if

      • (i) in a particular taxation year of a foreign affiliate of a taxpayer or in a particular fiscal period of a partnership (which foreign affiliate or partnership is referred to in this paragraph and paragraph (k.1) as the “operator” and which particular taxation year or particular fiscal period is referred to in this paragraph and paragraph (k.1) as the “specified taxation year”) a member of which is, at the end of the period, a foreign affiliate of a taxpayer,

        • (A) the operator carries on a business,

        • (B) the business is not, at any time, a taxable Canadian business, and

        • (C) the business is

          • (I) an investment business,

          • (II) a non-qualifying business,

          • (III) a business whose activities include activities deemed by any of paragraphs (a.1) to (b) to be a separate business, other than an active business, carried on by the affiliate, or

          • (IV) a business the income from which is included by paragraph (l) in computing the affiliate’s income from property for the specified taxation year, and

      • (ii) in the taxation year of the affiliate or the fiscal period of the partnership that includes the day that is immediately before the beginning of the specified taxation year,

        • (A) the affiliate or partnership carried on the business, or the activities so deemed to be a separate business, as the case may be,

        • (B) the business was not, or the activities were not, as the case may be, at any time, part of a taxable Canadian business, and

        • (C) the business was not described in any of subclauses (i)(C)(I), (II) and (IV), or the activities were not described in subclause (i)(C)(III), as the case may be;

    • (k.1) if this paragraph applies, in computing the operator’s income or loss from the investment business, non-qualifying business, separate business or business described in paragraph (l) (each of these businesses being referred to in this paragraph as a “foreign business”), as the case may be, and the operator’s capital gain or capital loss from the disposition of property used or held in the course of carrying on the foreign business, for the specified taxation year and each subsequent taxation year or fiscal period in which the foreign business is carried on by the operator

      • (i) the operator is deemed

        • (A) to begin to carry on the foreign business in Canada at the beginning of the specified taxation year, and

        • (B) to carry on the foreign business in Canada throughout that part of the specified taxation year, and of each of those subsequent taxation years or fiscal periods, in which the foreign business is carried on by the operator,

      • (ii) where, in respect of the foreign business, the operator would, if it were a corporation carrying on the foreign business in Canada, be required by law to report to, and be subject to the supervision of, a regulatory authority that is the Superintendent of Financial Institutions or a similar authority of a province,

        • (A) the operator is deemed to be required by law to report to, and to be subject to the supervision of, the regulatory authority, and

        • (B) if the operator is a life insurer and the foreign business is part of a life insurance business, the life insurance policies issued in the conduct of the foreign business are deemed to be life insurance policies in Canada, and

      • (iii) paragraphs 138(11.91)(c) to (e) apply to the operator for the specified taxation year in respect of the foreign business as if

        • (A) the operator were the insurer referred to in subsection 138(11.91),

        • (B) the specified taxation year of the operator were the particular taxation year of the insurer referred to in that subsection,

        • (C) the foreign business of the operator were the business of the insurer referred to in that subsection, and

        • (D) the reference in paragraph 138(11.91)(e) to “property owned by it at that time that is designated insurance property in respect of the business” were read as a reference to “property owned or held by it at that time that is used or held by it in the particular taxation year in the course of carrying on the insurance business”;

    • (k.2) for the purposes of paragraphs (j.1) to (k.1) and the definition “taxable Canadian business” in subsection (1), any portion of a business carried on by a person or partnership that is carried on in Canada is deemed to be a business that is separate from any other portion of the business carried on by the person or partnership;

  • (20) Paragraph 95(2)(u) of the Act is replaced by the following:

    • (u) if any entity is (or is deemed by this paragraph to be) a member of a particular partnership that is a member of another partnership,

      • (i) the entity is deemed to be a member of the other partnership for the purposes of

        • (A) subparagraph (ii),

        • (B) applying the reference, in paragraph (a), to “a member” of a partnership,

        • (C) paragraphs (a.1) to (b), (g.03), (j.1) to (k.1) and (o),

        • (D) paragraphs (b) and (c) of the definition “investment business” in subsection (1), and

        • (E) the definition “taxable Canadian business” in subsection (1), and

      • (ii) in applying paragraph (g.03) and the definition “taxable Canadian business” in subsection (1), the entity is deemed to have, directly, rights to the income or capital of the other partnership to the extent of the entity’s direct and indirect rights to that income or capital;

  • (21) Paragraph 95(2)(u) of the Act, as enacted by subsection (20), is repealed.

  • (22) The definition “relevant cost base” in subsection 95(4) of the Act is replaced by the following:

    “relevant cost base”

    « prix de base approprié »

    “relevant cost base”, of a property at any time to a foreign affiliate of a taxpayer, in respect of the taxpayer, means the greater of

    • (a) the amount determined — or, if the taxpayer is not a corporation, the amount that would be determined if the taxpayer were a corporation resident in Canada — by the formula

      A + B – C

      where

      A 
      is the amount for which the property could be disposed of at that time that would not, in the absence of paragraph (2)(f.1), result in any amount being added to, or deducted from, any of the affiliate’s
      • (i) exempt earnings, exempt loss, taxable earnings and taxable loss (all within the meaning of subsection 5907(1) of the Income Tax Regulations), in respect of the taxpayer, for the taxation year of the affiliate that includes that time, and

      • (ii) hybrid surplus and hybrid deficit, in respect of the taxpayer, at that time,

      B 
      is the amount, if any, by which any income or gain from a disposition of the property would, if the property were disposed of at that time for proceeds of disposition equal to its fair market value at that time be reduced under paragraph (2)(f.1), and
      C 
      is the amount, if any, by which any loss from a disposition of the property would, if the property were disposed of at that time for proceeds of disposition equal to its fair market value at that time be reduced under paragraph (2)(f.1), and
    • (b) either

      • (i) if the affiliate is an eligible controlled foreign affiliate of the taxpayer at that time, the amount that the taxpayer elects, in accordance with prescribed rules, in respect of the property not exceeding the fair market value at that time of the property, or

      • (ii) in any other case, nil.

  • (23) Subsection 95(4) of the Act is amended by adding the following in alphabetical order:

    “eligible controlled foreign affiliate”

    « société étrangère affiliée contrôlée admissible »

    “eligible controlled foreign affiliate”, of a taxpayer, at any time, means a foreign affiliate at that time of the taxpayer in respect of which the following conditions are met:

    • (a) the affiliate is a controlled foreign affiliate of the taxpayer at that time and at the end of the affiliate’s taxation year that includes that time, and

    • (b) the total of all amounts each of which would be, if this definition were read without reference to this paragraph, the participating percentage (determined at the end of the taxation year) of a share owned by the taxpayer of the capital stock of a corporation, in respect of the affiliate, is not less than 90%;

  • (24) Subsections (1), (4) and (5) apply in respect of taxation years of a foreign affiliate of a taxpayer that end after August 19, 2011.

  • (25) Subsection (2) applies in respect of taxation years of a foreign affiliate of a taxpayer that end after December 19, 2002. However, paragraph (b) of the description of B in the definition “foreign accrual property income” in subsection 95(1) of the Act, as enacted by subsection (2), is

    • (a) if the taxpayer has elected under subsection (28) but not under subsection (31), to be read as follows:

      • (b) that is, at the time of disposition, excluded property of the affiliate, if any of paragraphs (2)(c) and (d), subparagraph (2)(e)(i) and paragraph 88(3)(a) applies to the disposition,

    • (b) if the taxpayer has elected under subsection (31) but not under subsection (28), to be read as follows:

      • (b) that is, at the time of disposition, excluded property of the affiliate, if any of paragraphs (2)(c) to (e) and 88(3)(a) applies to the disposition,

    • (c) if the taxpayer has elected under neither subsection (28) nor subsection (31), to be read as follows:

      • (b) that is, at the time of disposition, excluded property of the affiliate, if any of paragraphs (2)(c), (d), (e) and 88(3)(a) applies to the disposition,

  • (26) Subsection (3) applies to dispositions of property by a foreign affiliate of a taxpayer that occur after February 27, 2004, except that, in respect of such dispositions of property that occur in taxation years of the foreign affiliate that end on or before August 19, 2011, the description of E in the definition “foreign accrual property income” in subsection 95(1) of the Act, as enacted by subsection (3), is to be read as follows:

    E 
    is the amount of the affiliate’s allowable capital losses for the year from dispositions of property (other than excluded property and property in respect of which an election is made by the taxpayer under subsection 88(3.3)) that can reasonably be considered to have accrued after its 1975 taxation year,
  • (27) Subsection (6) applies in respect of taxation years of a foreign affiliate of a taxpayer that begin after August 19, 2011.

  • (28) The definition “designated liquidation and dissolution” in subsection 95(1) of the Act, as enacted by subsection (7), paragraph 95(2)(e) of the Act, as enacted by subsection (10), and the repeal by subsection (10) of paragraph 95(2)(e.1) of the Act apply in respect of liquidations and dissolutions of foreign affiliates of a taxpayer that begin after August 19, 2011. However, if the taxpayer elects in writing under this subsection in respect of all of its foreign affiliates and files the election with the Minister of National Revenue on or before the day that is the later of the taxpayer’s filing-due date for the taxpayer’s taxation year that includes the day on which this Act receives royal assent and the day that is one year after the day on which this Act receives royal assent, then

    • (a) the definition “designated liquidation and dissolution” in subsection 95(1) of the Act, as enacted by subsection (7), that paragraph 95(2)(e) and that repeal of paragraph 95(2)(e.1) apply to liquidations and dissolutions of all foreign affiliates of the taxpayer that begin after December 20, 2002; and

    • (b) in respect of liquidations and dissolutions of all foreign affiliates of the taxpayer that begin on or before August 19, 2011,

      • (i) the definition “designated liquidation and dissolution” in subsection 95(1) of the Act, as enacted by subsection (7), is to be read without reference to its subparagraph (b)(ii), and

      • (ii) subparagraphs 95(2)(e)(iv) and (v) of the Act, as enacted by subsection (10), are to be read as follows:

        • (iv) each share of a class of the capital stock of the disposing affiliate that is disposed of by the shareholder affiliate on the liquidation and dissolution of the disposing affiliate is deemed to be disposed of for proceeds of disposition equal to

          • (A) if the liquidation and dissolution is a designated liquidation and dissolution of the disposing affiliate, the adjusted cost base of the share to the shareholder affiliate immediately before the disposition, and

          • (B) in any other case, the amount determined by the formula

            (A – B)/C

            where

            A 
            is the total of all amounts each of which is the cost to the shareholder affiliate of a distributed property, as determined under subparagraph (iii), received in respect of the class,
            B 
            is the total of all amounts each of which is an amount owing (other than an unpaid dividend) by, or an obligation of, the disposing affiliate that was assumed or cancelled by the shareholder affiliate in consideration for the distribution of a distributed property referred to in the description of A, and
            C 
            is the total number of issued and outstanding shares of the class that are owned by the shareholder affiliate during the liquidation and dissolution, and
        • (v) if the liquidation and dissolution is a designated liquidation and dissolution of the disposing affiliate, for the purposes of this subsection and the definition “foreign accrual property income” in subsection (1), the shareholder affiliate is, with respect to any disposition by it of any property to which clause (i)(A) applied, deemed to be the same corporation as, and a continuation of, the disposing affiliate;

  • (29) The definition “taxable Canadian business” in subsection 95(1) of the Act, as enacted by subsection (7), and subsection (19) apply in respect of taxation years of a foreign affiliate of a taxpayer that begin after December 20, 2002. However,

    • (a) in respect of taxation years of a foreign affiliate of the taxpayer that begin before August 19, 2011,

      • (i) subparagraph 95(2)(j.1)(iv) of the Act, as enacted by subsection (19), is to be read without reference to its clause (B),

      • (ii) subparagraph 95(2)(j.1)(v) of the Act, as enacted by subsection (19), is to be read as follows:

        • (v) in respect of the investment business or separate business (each of these businesses being referred to in this subparagraph and paragraph (j.2) as a “foreign business”), as the case may be, the operator would, if it were a corporation carrying on the foreign business in Canada, be required by law to report to, and be subject to the supervision of, a regulatory authority that is the Superintendent of Financial Institutions or a similar authority of a province;

      • (iii) clause 95(2)(k)(i)(C) of the Act, as enacted by subsection (19), is to be read without reference to its subclause (II),

      • (iv) clause 95(2)(k)(ii)(C) of the Act, as enacted by subsection (19), is to be read as follows:

        • (C) the business was not described in subclause (i)(C)(I) or (IV) or the activities were not described in subclause (i)(C)(III);

      • (v) the portion of paragraph 95(2)(k.1) of the Act before subparagraph (i), as enacted by subsection (19), is to be read as follows:

        • (k.1) if this paragraph applies, in computing the operator’s income or loss from the investment business, separate business or business referred to in paragraph (l) (each of these businesses being referred to in this paragraph as a “foreign business”), as the case may be, and the operator’s capital gain or capital loss from the disposition of property used or held in the course of carrying on the foreign business, for the specified taxation year and each subsequent taxation year or fiscal period in which the foreign business is carried on by the operator

    • (b) if the taxpayer elects in writing under this paragraph in respect of all of its foreign affiliates and files the election with the Minister of National Revenue on or before the day that is the later of the taxpayer’s filing-due date for the taxpayer’s taxation year that includes the day on which this Act receives royal assent and the day that is one year after the day on which this Act receives royal assent,

      • (i) the definition “taxable Canadian business” in subsection 95(1) of the Act, as enacted by subsection (7), and subsection (19), with paragraphs 95(2)(j.1) to (k.1) of the Act, as enacted by that subsection, being read as required by subparagraphs (a)(i) to (v), also apply in respect of taxation years of all foreign affiliates of the taxpayer that begin after 1994 and before December 21, 2002,

      • (ii) in applying paragraph (b) of the definition “taxable Canadian business” in subsection 95(1) of the Act, as enacted by subsection (7), in respect of the 1997 and preceding taxation years of all foreign affiliates of the taxpayer, that paragraph is to be read as follows:

        • (b) is not, or would not be if there were income from the business for the operator’s taxation year or fiscal period that includes that time, exempt — because of a comprehensive agreement or convention for the elimination of double taxation on income, between the Government of Canada and the government of another country, which has the force of law in Canada at that time — from tax under this Part;

      • (iii) in applying subparagraph 95(2)(k)(ii) of the Act, as enacted by subsection (19), in respect of taxation years of all foreign affiliates of the taxpayer that begin after 1994 and before December 21, 2002, that subparagraph is to be read as follows:

        • (ii) both

          • (A) in the taxation year of the affiliate or the fiscal period of the partnership that includes the day that is immediately before the beginning of the specified taxation year,

            • (I) the affiliate or partnership carried on the business, or the activities deemed to be a separate business, as the case may be,

            • (II) the business was not, or the activities were not, as the case may be, at any time, part of a taxable Canadian business, and

            • (III) the business was not described in subclause (i)(C)(IV), or the activities were not described in subclause (i)(C)(III), as the case may be, and

          • (B) in the case of the business, if any,

            • (I) the business was not described in subclause (i)(C)(I) in that taxation year or fiscal period, or

            • (II) the definition “investment business” in subsection (1) did not apply in respect of that taxation year or fiscal period;

  • (30) Subsection (8) applies to dispositions that occur after August 19, 2011.

  • (31) Subsection (9) and paragraph 95(2)(d.1) of the Act, as enacted by subsection (10), apply in respect of mergers or combinations in respect of a foreign affiliate of a taxpayer that occur after August 19, 2011. However, if the taxpayer elects in writing under this subsection in respect of all of its foreign affiliates and files the election with the Minister of National Revenue on or before the day that is the later of the taxpayer’s filing-due date for the taxpayer’s taxation year that includes the day on which this Act receives royal assent and the day that is one year after the day on which this Act receives royal assent,

    • (a) that paragraph 95(2)(d.1) applies to mergers or combinations in respect of all foreign affiliates of the taxpayer that occur after December 20, 2002; and

    • (b) in respect of such mergers or combinations that occur before August 19, 2011, the portion of that paragraph 95(2)(d.1) after subparagraph (i) is to be read as follows:

      • (ii) for the purposes of this subsection and the definition “foreign accrual property income” in subsection (1), the new foreign corporation is, with respect to any disposition by it of any property to which subparagraph (i) applied, deemed to be the same corporation as, and a continuation of, the foreign affiliate predecessor that owned the property immediately before the merger;

  • (32) Subsections (11) to (16) apply in respect of taxation years of a foreign affiliate of a taxpayer that end after August 19, 2011. However, if the taxpayer so elects in writing under this subsection in respect of all of its foreign affiliates and files the election with the Minister of National Revenue on or before the day that is the later of the taxpayer’s filing-due date for the taxpayer’s taxation year that includes the day on which this Act receives royal assent and the day that is one year after the day on which this Act receives royal assent, then subsections (11) to (16) apply in respect of taxation years of all foreign affiliates of the taxpayer that end after June 2011.

  • (33) Subsection (17) applies in respect of the portions of loans received and indebtedness incurred on or before August 19, 2011 that remain outstanding on that date and that are repaid, in whole or in part, on or before August 19, 2016.

  • (34) Subsection (18) applies in respect of taxation years of a foreign affiliate of a taxpayer that end after 1999.

  • (35) Subsection (20) applies in respect of taxation years of a foreign affiliate of a taxpayer that begin after December 20, 2002. However, if the taxpayer has elected under paragraph (29)(b), subsection (20) also applies in respect of taxation years of all foreign affiliates of the taxpayer that begin after 1994 and before December 21, 2002, except that, if the taxpayer has not elected under subsection 26(40) of the Budget and Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2007, paragraph 95(2)(u) of the Act, as enacted by subsection (20), is, in respect of taxation years of all foreign affiliates of the taxpayer that end before 2000, to be read as follows:

    • (u) if any entity is, or is deemed by this paragraph to be, a member of a particular partnership that is a member of another partnership,

      • (i) the entity is deemed to be a member of the other partnership for the purposes of

        • (A) paragraphs (j.1) to (k.1), and

        • (B) the definition “taxable Canadian business” in subsection (1), and

      • (ii) in applying the definition “taxable Canadian business” in subsection (1), the entity is deemed to have, directly, rights to the income or capital of the other partnership to the extent of the entity’s direct and indirect rights to that income or capital;

  • (36) Subsection (21) applies in respect of taxation years of a foreign affiliate of a taxpayer that end after August 19, 2011.

  • (37) Subsections (22) and (23) apply in respect of determinations made after February 27, 2004 in respect of property of a foreign affiliate of a taxpayer. However,

    • (a) if the taxpayer has elected under subsection (28) or (31), subsections (22) and (23) also apply to such determinations made after December 20, 2002 and before February 28, 2004 but only in respect of

      • (i) where an election is made under subsection (28) but no election is made under subsection (31), property that is subject to the application of paragraph 95(2)(e) of the Act, as enacted by subsection (10),

      • (ii) where no election is made under subsection (28) but an election is made under subsection (31), property that is subject to the application of paragraph 95(2)(d.1) of the Act, as enacted by subsection (10), and

      • (iii) where elections are made under subsections (28) and (31), property that is subject to the application of paragraph 95(2)(d.1) or (e) of the Act, as enacted by subsection (10);

    • (b) in respect of any such determinations made for the purposes of paragraph 88(3)(a) of the Act, as enacted by subsection 65(1),

      • (i) if the determination is made on or before August 19, 2011 and is in respect of property that is a share of the capital stock of a foreign affiliate of the taxpayer that is excluded property (within the meaning assigned by subsection 95(1) of the Act) of the disposing affiliate, the definition “relevant cost base” in subsection 95(4) of the Act, as enacted by subsection (22), is to be read as follows:

        “relevant cost base”

        “relevant cost base”, of a property at any time to a foreign affiliate of a taxpayer, means the adjusted cost base to the affiliate of the property at that time or such greater amount as the taxpayer elects, in accordance with prescribed rules, in respect of the property not exceeding the fair market value at that time of the property.

      • (ii) if the determination is made on or before August 19, 2011 and is in respect of property received in the course of a qualifying liquidation and dissolution of the disposing affiliate, the definition “eligible controlled foreign affiliate” in subsection 95(4) of the Act, as enacted by subsection (23), is to be read as follows:

        “eligible controlled foreign affiliate”

        “eligible controlled foreign affiliate”, of a taxpayer at any time, means a controlled foreign affiliate of the taxpayer at that time.

    • (c) in respect of any such determinations made on or before August 19, 2011 for the purposes of paragraph 95(2)(c), (d) or, if the taxpayer has not elected under subsection (28), paragraph 95(2)(e) of the Act, the definition “relevant cost base” in subsection 95(4) of the Act, as enacted by subsection (22), is to be read in the manner specified in subparagraph (b)(i);

    • (d) if the taxpayer has elected under subsection (31), in respect of any such determinations made on or before August 19, 2011 for the purposes of paragraph 95(2)(d.1) of the Act, as enacted by subsection (10), the definition “eligible controlled foreign affiliate” in subsection 95(4) of the Act, as enacted by subsection (23), is to be read in the manner specified in subparagraph (b)(ii); and

    • (e) if the taxpayer has elected under subsection (28), in respect of any such determinations made on or before August 19, 2011 for the purposes of paragraph 95(2)(e) of the Act, as enacted by subsection (10), the definition “eligible controlled foreign affiliate” in subsection 95(4) of the Act, as enacted by subsection (23), is to be read in the manner specified in subparagraph (b)(ii).

 

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