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Economic Action Plan 2014 Act, No. 2 (S.C. 2014, c. 39)

Assented to 2014-12-16

  •  (1) Paragraph 219.1(3)(b) of the Act is replaced by the following:

    • (b) an amount is required by paragraph 212.3(2)(b) or subsection 212.3(7) to be deducted in computing the paid-up capital in respect of a class of shares of the capital stock of the corporation because of an investment in a subject corporation made by a CRIC that is described in any of paragraphs 212.3(10)(a) to (f);

  • (2) Paragraph 219.1(4)(a) of the Act is replaced by the following:

    • (a) the total of all amounts each of which is an amount by which the paid-up capital of a class of shares of the capital stock of the corporation was required by paragraph 212.3(2)(b) or subsection 212.3(7) to be reduced in respect of an investment in a subject corporation made by the CRIC that is described in any of paragraphs 212.3(10)(a) to (f), and

  • (3) Paragraph 219.1(4)(b) of the Act is amended by striking out “or” at the end of subparagraph (i), by adding “or” at the end of subparagraph (ii) and by adding the following after subparagraph (ii):

    • (iii) the fair market value of a debt obligation, other than a pertinent loan or indebtedness (as defined in subsection 212.3(11)), of a subject corporation that is owned by the corporation immediately before the emigration time.

  • (4) Subsections (1) to (3) apply to corporations that cease to be resident in Canada after March 28, 2012.

  •  (1) Paragraph 220(4.51)(a) of the Act is replaced by the following:

    • (a) the total amount of those taxes that would be payable for the year by a trust resident in Canada (other than a graduated rate estate or a qualified disability trust as defined in subsection 122(3)) the taxable income of which for the year is $50,000, and

  • (2) Subsection (1) applies to the 2016 and subsequent taxation years.

  •  (1) Section 227 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (6.1):

    • Marginal note:Foreign affiliate dumping — late-filed form

      (6.2) If, in respect of an investment described in subsection 212.3(10), a corporation is deemed by subparagraph 212.3(7)(d)(ii) to pay a dividend and the corporation subsequently complies with the requirements of subparagraph 212.3(7)(d)(i) in respect of the investment,

      • (a) subject to paragraph (b), the Minister shall, on written application made on a particular day that is, or is no more than two years after, the day on which the form described in subparagraph 212.3(7)(d)(i) is filed, pay to the corporation an amount equal to the lesser of

        • (i) the total of all amounts, if any, paid to the Receiver General, on or prior to the particular day, on behalf of a person and in respect of the liability of the person to pay an amount under Part XIII in respect of the dividend, and

        • (ii) the amount that the person was liable to pay in respect of the dividend under Part XIII;

      • (b) where the corporation or the person is or is about to become liable to make a payment to Her Majesty in right of Canada, the Minister may apply the amount otherwise payable under paragraph (a) to that liability and notify the corporation, and, if applicable, the person, of that action; and

      • (c) for the purposes of this Part (other than subparagraph (a)(i)), if the amount described in subparagraph (a)(ii) exceeds the amount described in subparagraph (a)(i), the corporation is deemed to pay that excess to the Receiver General on the day on which the form described in subparagraph 212.3(7)(d)(i) is filed.

  • (2) Paragraph 227(8.5)(b) of the Act is replaced by the following:

    • (b) an amount deemed by subparagraph 212.3(7)(d)(ii) or subsection 247(12) to have been paid as a dividend by the corporation.

  • (3) Subsections (1) and (2) apply in respect of transactions and events that occur after March 28, 2012.

  •  (1) Subparagraph 233.4(1)(c)(i) of the Act is replaced by the following:

    • (i) where the total of all amounts, each of which is a share of the partnership’s income or loss for the period of a member that is not resident in Canada or that is a taxpayer all of whose taxable income for the year in which the period ends is exempt from tax under Part I, is less than 90% of the income or loss of the partnership for the period, and, where the income and loss of the partnership are nil for the period, the income of the partnership for the period is deemed to be $1,000,000 for the purpose of determining a member’s share of the partnership’s income for the purpose of this subparagraph, and

  • (2) Subsection 233.4(2) of the Act is amended by striking out “and” at the end of paragraph (b), by adding “and” at the end of paragraph (c) and by adding the following after paragraph (c):

    • (d) if the taxpayer is a member of one or more partnerships described in subparagraph (1)(c)(i) of which a non-resident corporation or trust is a foreign affiliate, and the taxpayer does not have any direct or indirect interest (determined without reference to subsection 93.1(1)) in the non-resident corporation or trust other than through its interest in the partnerships, then the non-resident corporation or trust is deemed not to be a foreign affiliate of the taxpayer.

  • (3) Subsections (1) and (2) apply in respect of taxation years that end after July 11, 2013.

  •  (1) Section 241 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (3.2):

    • Marginal note:Information may be communicated

      (3.3) The Minister of Canadian Heritage may communicate or otherwise make available to the public, in any manner that that Minister considers appropriate, the following taxpayer information in respect of a Canadian film or video production certificate (as defined under subsection 125.4(1)) that has been issued or revoked:

      • (a) the title of the production for which the Canadian film or video production certificate was issued;

      • (b) the name of the taxpayer to whom the Canadian film or video production certificate was issued;

      • (c) the names of the producers of the production;

      • (d) the names of the individuals in respect of whom and places in respect of which that Minister has allotted points in respect of the production in accordance with regulations made for the purpose of section 125.4;

      • (e) the total number of points so allotted; and

      • (f) any revocation of the Canadian film or video production certificate.

  • (2) Paragraph 241(4)(d) of the Act is amended by striking out “or” at the end of subparagraph (xiv) and by adding the following after subparagraph (xv):

    • (xvi) to a person employed or engaged in the service of an office or agency, of the Government of Canada or of a province, whose mandate includes the provision of assistance (as defined in subsection 125.4(1) or 125.5(1)) in respect of film or video productions or film or video production services, solely for the purpose of the administration or enforcement of the program under which the assistance is offered, or

    • (xvii) to an official of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, solely for the purpose of the administration or enforcement of a regulatory function of that Commission;

  •  (1) Subparagraph (f)(vi) of the definition “disposition” in subsection 248(1) of the Act is replaced by the following:

    • (vi) if the transferor is an amateur athlete trust, a cemetery care trust, an employee trust, a trust deemed by subsection 143(1) to exist in respect of a congregation that is a constituent part of a religious organization, a related segregated fund trust (in this paragraph having the meaning assigned by section 138.1), a trust described in paragraph 149(1)(o.4) or a trust governed by an eligible funeral arrangement, an employees profit sharing plan, a registered disability savings plan, a registered education savings plan, a registered supplementary unemployment benefit plan or a TFSA, the transferee is the same type of trust, and

  • (2) The portion of the definition “international traffic” in subsection 248(1) of the Act before paragraph (a) is replaced by the following:

    “international traffic”

    « transport international »

    “international traffic” means, in respect of a person or partnership carrying on the business of transporting passengers or goods, a voyage made in the course of that business if the principal purpose of the voyage is to transport passengers or goods

  • (3) Paragraph (a) of the definition “personal trust” in subsection 248(1) of the Act is replaced by the following:

    • (a) a graduated rate estate, or

  • (4) The portion of paragraph (b) of the definition “personal trust” in subsection 248(1) of the Act before subparagraph (i) is replaced by the following:

    • (b) a trust in which no beneficial interest was acquired for consideration payable directly or indirectly to

  • (5) Subparagraph (e)(i) of the definition “taxable Canadian property” in subsection 248(1) of the Act is amended by striking out “and” at the end of clause (A) and by adding the following after clause (B):

    • (C) partnerships in which the taxpayer or a person referred to in clause (B) holds a membership interest directly or indirectly through one or more partnerships, and

  • (6) Subsection 248(1) of the Act is amended by adding the following in alphabetical order:

    “graduated rate estate”

    « succession assujettie à l’imposition à taux progressifs »

    “graduated rate estate”, of an individual at any time, means the estate that arose on and as a consequence of the individual’s death if

    • (a) that time is no more than 36 months after the death,

    • (b) the estate is at that time a testamentary trust,

    • (c) the individual’s Social Insurance Number (or if the individual had not, before the death, been assigned a Social Insurance Number, such other information as is acceptable to the Minister) is provided in the estate’s return of income under Part I for the taxation year that includes that time and for each of its earlier taxation years that ended after 2015,

    • (d) the estate designates itself as the graduated rate estate of the individual in its return of income under Part I for its first taxation year that ends after 2015, and

    • (e) no other estate designates itself as the graduated rate estate of the individual in a return of income under Part I for a taxation year that ends after 2015;

    “international shipping”

    « transport maritime international »

    “international shipping” means the operation of a ship owned or leased by a person or partnership (in this definition referred to as the “operator”) that is used, either directly or as part of a pooling arrangement, primarily in transporting passengers or goods in international traffic — determined as if, except where paragraph (c) of the definition “international traffic” in this subsection applies, any port or other place on the Great Lakes or St. Lawrence River is in Canada — including the chartering of the ship, provided that one or more persons related to the operator (if the operator and each such person is a corporation), or persons or partnerships affiliated with the operator (in any other case), has complete possession, control and command of the ship, and any activity incident to or pertaining to the operation of the ship, but does not include

    • (a) the offshore storing or processing of goods,

    • (b) fishing,

    • (c) laying cable,

    • (d) salvaging,

    • (e) towing,

    • (f) tug-boating,

    • (g) offshore oil and gas activities (other than the transportation of oil and gas), including exploration and drilling activities,

    • (h) dredging, or

    • (i) leasing a ship by a lessor to a lessee that has complete possession, control and command of the ship, unless the lessor or a corporation, trust or partnership affiliated with the lessor has an eligible interest (as defined in subsection 250(6.04)) in the lessee;

  • (7) The portion of subsection 248(25.1) of the Act before paragraph (a) is replaced by the following:

    • Marginal note:Trust-to-trust transfers

      (25.1) If, at any time, a particular trust transfers property to another trust (other than a trust governed by a registered retirement savings plan or by a registered retirement income fund) in circumstances to which paragraph (f) of the definition “disposition” in subsection (1) applies, without affecting the personal liabilities under this Act of the trustees of either trust or the application of subsection 104(5.8),

  • (8) Section 248 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (28):

    • Marginal note:Farming or fishing business

      (29) For the purposes of subsection 40(1.1) and sections 70, 73 and 110.6, if at any time a person or partnership carries on a farming business and a fishing business, a property used at that time principally in a combination of the activities of the farming business and the fishing business is deemed to be used at that time principally in the course of carrying on a farming or fishing business.

  • (9) Subsections (1), (3), (4) and (7) apply to the 2016 and subsequent taxation years.

  • (10) Subsection (2) and the definition “international shipping” in subsection 248(1) of the Act, as enacted by subsection (6), apply to taxation years that begin after July 12, 2013.

  • (11) Subsection (5) applies in determining after July 11, 2013 whether a property is taxable Canadian property of a taxpayer.

  • (12) The definition “graduated rate estate” in subsection 248(1) of the Act, as enacted by subsection (6), comes into force on December 31, 2015.

  • (13) Subsection (8) applies in respect of property disposed of, or transferred, in the 2014 and subsequent taxation years.

 

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