Income Tax Act

Marginal note:Taxable capital gain and allowable capital loss

38 For the purposes of this Act,

• (a) subject to paragraphs (a.1) and (a.2), a taxpayer’s taxable capital gain for a taxation year from the disposition of any property is 1/2 of the taxpayer’s capital gain for the year from the disposition of the property;

• (a.1) a taxpayer’s taxable capital gain for a taxation year from the disposition of a property is equal to zero if

  • (i) the disposition is the making of a gift to a qualified donee of a share, debt obligation or right listed on a designated stock exchange, a share of the capital stock of a mutual fund corporation, a unit of a mutual fund trust, an interest in a related segregated fund trust (within the meaning assigned by paragraph 138.1(1)(a)) or a prescribed debt obligation, or

  • (ii) the disposition is deemed by section 70 to have occurred and the taxpayer is deemed by subsection 118.1(5) to have made a gift described in subparagraph (i) of the property;

• (a.2) a taxpayer’s taxable capital gain for a taxation year from the disposition of a property is equal to zero if

  • (i) the disposition is the making of a gift to a qualified donee (other than a private foundation) of a property described, in respect of the taxpayer, in paragraph 110.1(1)(d) or in the definition total ecological gifts in subsection 118.1(1), or

  • (ii) the disposition is deemed by section 70 to have occurred and the taxpayer is deemed by subsection 118.1(5) to have made a gift described in subparagraph (i) of the property;

• (b) a taxpayer’s allowable capital loss for a taxation year from the disposition of any property is 1/2 of the taxpayer’s capital loss for the year from the disposition of that property; and

• (c) a taxpayer’s allowable business investment loss for a taxation year from the disposition of any property is 1/2 of the taxpayer’s business investment loss for the year from the disposition of that property.