Excise Tax Act

Marginal note:Extension for returns

• 281 (1) The Minister may at any time extend in writing the time for filing a return, or providing information, under this Part.

• Marginal note:Effect of extension

  (2) Where the Minister extends the time within which a return of a person shall be filed,

  • (a) the return shall be filed, or information shall be provided, within the time as so extended;

  • (b) any tax or net tax payable that the person is required to report in the return shall be paid or remitted within the time so extended;

  • (c) interest is payable under section 280 as if the time had not been extended; and

  • (d) any penalty under section 280 on any tax or net tax payable that the person is required to report in the return is payable only from the expiration of the time as so extended.