Income Tax Act

Marginal note:Cost of certain property the value of which included in income

• 52 (1) Where

  • (a) a taxpayer acquired property after 1971 (other than an annuity contract, a right as a beneficiary under a trust to enforce payment of an amount by the trust to the taxpayer, property acquired in circumstances to which subsection (2) or (3) applies or property acquired from a trust in satisfaction of all or part of the taxpayer’s capital interest in the trust), and

  • (b) an amount in respect of its value was

    • (i) included, otherwise than under section 7, in computing

      • (A) the taxpayer’s taxable income or taxable income earned in Canada, as the case may be, for a taxation year during which the taxpayer was non-resident, or

      • (B) the taxpayer’s income for a taxation year throughout which the taxpayer was resident in Canada, or

    • (ii) for the purpose of computing the tax payable under Part XIII by the taxpayer, included in an amount that was paid or credited to the taxpayer,

    for the purposes of this subdivision, the amount so included shall be added in computing the cost to the taxpayer of the property, except to the extent that the amount was otherwise added to the cost or included in computing the adjusted cost base to the taxpayer of the property.

• (1.1) [Repealed, 2001, c. 17, s. 35(1)]

• Marginal note:Cost of property received as dividend in kind

  (2) Where any property has, after 1971, been received by a shareholder of a corporation at any time as, on account or in lieu of payment of, or in satisfaction of, a dividend payable in kind (other that a stock dividend) in respect of a share owned by the shareholder of the capital stock of the corporation, the shareholder shall be deemed to have acquired the property at a cost to the shareholder equal to its fair market value at that time, and the corporation shall be deemed to have disposed of the property at that time fore proceeds equal to that fair market value.

• Marginal note:Cost of stock dividend

  (3) Where a shareholder of a corporation has, after 1971, received a stock dividend in respect of a share owned by the shareholder of the capital stock of the corporation, the shareholder shall be deemed to have acquired the share or shares received by the shareholder as a stock dividend at a cost to the shareholder equal to the total of

  • (a) where the stock dividend is a dividend, the amount of the stock dividend,

  • (a.1) where the stock dividend is not a dividend, nil, and

  • (b) where an amount is included in the shareholder’s income in respect of the stock dividend under subsection 15(1.1), the amount so included.

• Marginal note:Cost of property acquired as prize

  (4) Where any property has been acquired by a taxpayer at any time after 1971 as a prize in connection with a lottery scheme, the taxpayer shall be deemed to have acquired the property at a cost to the taxpayer equal to its fair market value at that time.

• (6) [Repealed, 2001, c. 17, s. 35(2)]

• Marginal note:Cost of shares of subsidiary

  (7) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, where a corporation disposes of property to another corporation in a transaction to which paragraph 219(1)(l) applies, the cost to it of any share of a particular class of the capital stock of the other corporation received by it as consideration for the property is deemed to be the lesser of the cost of the share to the corporation otherwise determined immediately after the disposition and the amount by which the paid-up capital in respect of that class increases because of the issuance of the share.

• Marginal note:Cost of shares of immigrant corporation

  (8) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, where at any time a corporation becomes resident in Canada, the cost to any shareholder who is not at that time resident in Canada of any share of the corporation’s capital stock, other than a share that was taxable Canadian property immediately before that time, is deemed to be equal to the fair market value of the share at that time.