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Budget Implementation Act, 2017, No. 2 (S.C. 2017, c. 33)

Assented to 2017-12-14

  •  (1) Clause 94(3)(b)(ii)(A) of the Act is replaced by the following:

    • (A) the trust’s income for the particular taxation year (other than income — not including dividends or interest — from sources in Canada) is deemed to be from sources in that country and not to be from any other source, and

  • (2) Subsection (1) applies to taxation years that end after September 15, 2016.

  •  (1) The definition trust company in subsection 95(1) of the Act is replaced by the following:

    trust company

    trust company includes a corporation that is resident in Canada and that is a loan company as defined in subsection 2(1) of the Canadian Payments Act. (société de fiducie)

  • (2) The portion of paragraph 95(2)(a.1) of the Act after subparagraph (ii) and before subparagraph (iii) is replaced by the following:

    unless more than 90% of the gross revenue of the affiliate for the year from the sale of property (other than a property the income from the sale of which is not included in computing the income from a business other than an active business of the affiliate under this paragraph because of subsection (2.31)) is derived from the sale of such property (other than a property described in subparagraph (ii) the cost of which to any person is a cost referred to in subparagraph (i)) to persons with whom the affiliate deals at arm’s length (which, for this purpose, includes a sale of property to a non-resident corporation with which the affiliate does not deal at arm’s length for sale to persons with whom the affiliate deals at arm’s length) and, where this paragraph applies to include income of the affiliate from the sale of property in the income of the affiliate from a business other than an active business,

  • (3) The portion of paragraph 95(2)(a.23) of the Act before subparagraph (i) is replaced by the following:

    • (a.23) for the purposes of paragraphs (a.2), (a.21) and (a.24), specified Canadian risk means a risk in respect of

  • (4) Subsection 95(2) of the Act is amended by adding the following after paragraph (a.23):

    • (a.24) for the purposes of paragraph (a.2),

      • (i) a risk is deemed to be a specified Canadian risk of a particular foreign affiliate of a taxpayer if

        • (A) as part of a transaction or series of transactions, the particular affiliate insured or reinsured the risk,

        • (B) the risk would not be a specified Canadian risk if this Act were read without reference to this paragraph, and

        • (C) it can reasonably be concluded that one of the purposes of the transaction or series of transactions was to avoid the application of any of paragraphs (a.2) to (a.22), and

      • (ii) if the particular affiliate — or a foreign affiliate of another taxpayer, if that other taxpayer or affiliate, or a partnership of which that other taxpayer or affiliate is a member, does not deal at arm’s length with the particular affiliate — enters into one or more agreements or arrangements in respect of the risk,

        • (A) activities performed in connection with those agreements or arrangements are deemed to be a separate business, other than an active business, carried on by the particular affiliate or other affiliate, as the case may be, and

        • (B) any income of the particular affiliate or other affiliate, as the case may be, from the business (including income that pertains to or is incident to the business) is deemed to be income from a business other than an active business;

  • (5) Paragraph 95(2)(f.13) of the Act is replaced by the following:

    • (f.13) where the calculating currency of a foreign affiliate of a taxpayer is a currency other than Canadian currency, the foreign affiliate shall determine the amount included in computing its foreign accrual property income, in respect of the taxpayer for a taxation year of the foreign affiliate, attributable to its capital gain or taxable capital gain, from the disposition of an excluded property in the taxation year, in Canadian currency by converting the amount of the capital gain, or taxable capital gain, otherwise determined under subparagraph (f.12)(i) using its calculating currency for the taxation year into Canadian currency using the rate of exchange quoted by the Bank of Canada on the day on which the disposition was made, or another rate of exchange that is acceptable to the Minister;

  • (6) Paragraph 95(2)(f.15) of the Act is replaced by the following:

    • (f.15) for the purposes of applying subparagraph (f)(i), the references in subsection 39(2) to “Canadian currency” are to be read as “the taxpayer’s calculating currency”

      • (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), and

      • (ii) in respect of an agreement described in subparagraph (i)(iii) entered into by a foreign affiliate of a taxpayer, or a partnership of which the foreign affiliate is a member;

  • (7) Paragraph 95(2)(g.04) of the Act is replaced by the following:

    • (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 a qualifying entity (in this paragraph within the meaning assigned by subsection 39(2.2)), or that is a partnership (referred to in this paragraph as a “creditor partnership”) of which such an affiliate is a member, and the loan or indebtedness is at a later time repaid, in whole or in part, then the amount of the creditor affiliate’s or creditor partnership’s capital gain or capital loss, as the case may be, determined in the absence of this paragraph, in respect of the repayment, is to be reduced

      • (i) in the case of a capital loss

        • (A) if the creditor is a creditor affiliate, by an amount, not exceeding the amount of that capital loss so determined, that is determined by the formula

          A/B

          where

          A
          is the amount by which the borrowing party’s capital gain is reduced under paragraph 39(2.1)(a) in respect of that repayment, and
          B
          is the total of all participating percentages, determined at the end of the taxation year of the creditor affiliate that includes the later time, of shares of the capital stock of a foreign affiliate that are owned by qualifying entities and on which an amount would be included under subsection 91(1), on the assumptions that
          • (I) the capital loss of the creditor affiliate, determined in the absence of this paragraph, in respect of the repayment of the loan or indebtedness were a capital gain of the creditor affiliate, and

          • (II) neither the creditor affiliate nor any other foreign affiliate of a qualifying entity had any other income, gain or loss for any taxation year, and

        • (B) if the creditor is a creditor partnership, by an amount, not exceeding the capital loss so determined, that is equal to the amount determined by the formula

          A/(B × C)

          where

          A
          is the amount by which the borrowing party’s capital gain is reduced under paragraph 39(2.1)(a) in respect of that repayment,
          B
          is the proportion that the amount of the capital loss of the creditor partnership in respect of the repayment of the loan or indebtedness, determined in the absence of this paragraph, that would be included in the determination of the income, gain or loss of the members of the creditor partnership that are foreign affiliates of qualifying entities is of the amount of the capital loss so determined, and
          C
          is the total of all participating percentages, each of which is the participating percentage in respect of a share of the capital stock of a foreign affiliate of a qualifying entity, and that is owned by a qualifying entity, that is relevant in determining the amount that would be included in computing a qualifying entity’s income under subsection 91(1), on the assumptions that
          • (I) the capital loss of the creditor partnership, determined in the absence of this paragraph, in respect of the repayment of the loan or indebtedness were a capital gain of the creditor partnership, and

          • (II) neither the creditor partnership nor any foreign affiliate of a qualifying entity had any other income, gain or loss for any taxation year, and

      • (ii) in the case of a capital gain,

        • (A) if the creditor is a creditor affiliate, by an amount, not exceeding that capital gain so determined, that is equal to the amount determined by the formula

          A/B

          where

          A
          is the amount by which the borrowing party is required to reduce its capital loss under paragraph 39(2.1)(b) in respect of that repayment, and
          B
          is the total of all participating percentages, determined at the end of the taxation year of the creditor affiliate that includes the later time, of shares of the capital stock of a foreign affiliate that are owned by qualifying entities and on which an amount would be included under subsection 91(1), on the assumption that neither the creditor affiliate nor any foreign affiliate of a qualifying entity had any other income, gain or loss for any taxation year other than its capital gain, determined in the absence of this paragraph, in respect of the repayment of the loan or indebtedness, and
        • (B) if the creditor is a creditor partnership, by an amount, not exceeding the capital loss so determined, that is equal to the amount determined by the following formula

          A/(B × C)

          where

          A
          is the amount by which the borrowing party is required to reduce its capital loss under paragraph 39(2.1)(b) in respect of that repayment,
          B
          is the proportion that the amount of the capital gain of the creditor partnership in respect of the repayment of the loan or indebtedness, determined in the absence of this paragraph, that would be included in the determination of the income, gain or loss of the members of the creditor partnership that are foreign affiliates of qualifying entities is of the amount of the capital gain so determined, and
          C
          is the total of all participating percentages, each of which is the participating percentage in respect of a share of the capital stock of a foreign affiliate of a qualifying entity, and that is owned by a qualifying entity, that is relevant in determining the amount that would be included in computing a qualifying entity’s income under subsection 91(1), on the assumption that neither the creditor partnership nor any foreign affiliate of a qualifying entity had any other income, gain or loss for any taxation year;
  • (8) Subsection (1) is deemed to have come into force on October 24, 2001.

  • (9) Subsection (2) applies in respect of taxation years of a foreign affiliate of a taxpayer that end after October 2012.

  • (10) Subsections (3) and (4) apply to transactions that occur after March 21, 2017.

  • (11) Subsection (5) is deemed to have come into force on March 1, 2017.

  • (12) Subsection (6) applies in respect of taxation years of a foreign affiliate that begin after October 2, 2007.

  • (13) Subsection (7) applies in respect of portions of loans received and indebtedness incurred before August 20, 2011 that remain outstanding on August 19, 2011 and that are repaid, in whole or in part, before August 20, 2016.

 

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