Income Tax Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. 1 (5th Supp.))
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Act current to 2024-12-15 and last amended on 2024-07-01. Previous Versions
Marginal note:Gain or loss deemed that of lender or transferor
74.2 (1) Where an individual has lent or transferred property (in this section referred to as “lent or transferred property”), either directly or indirectly, by means of a trust or by any other means whatever, to or for the benefit of a person (in this subsection referred to as the “recipient”) who is the individual’s spouse or common-law partner or who has since become the individual’s spouse or common-law partner, the following rules apply for the purposes of computing the income of the individual and the recipient for a taxation year:
(a) the amount, if any, by which
(i) the total of the recipient’s taxable capital gains for the year from dispositions of property (other than listed personal property) that is lent or transferred property or property substituted therefor occurring in the period (in this subsection referred to as the “attribution period”) throughout which the individual is resident in Canada and the recipient is the individual’s spouse or common-law partner
exceeds
(ii) the total of the recipient’s allowable capital losses for the year from dispositions occurring in the attribution period of property (other than listed personal property) that is lent or transferred property or property substituted therefor
shall be deemed to be a taxable capital gain of the individual for the year from the disposition of property other than listed personal property;
(b) the amount, if any, by which the total determined under subparagraph 74.2(1)(a)(ii) exceeds the total determined under subparagraph 74.2(1)(a)(i) shall be deemed to be an allowable capital loss of the individual for the year from the disposition of property other than listed personal property;
(c) the amount, if any, by which
(i) the amount that the total of the recipient’s gains for the year from dispositions occurring in the attribution period of listed personal property that is lent or transferred property or property substituted therefor would be if the recipient had at no time owned listed personal property other than listed personal property that was lent or transferred property or property substituted therefor
exceeds
(ii) the amount that the total of the recipient’s losses for the year from dispositions of listed personal property that is lent or transferred property or property substituted therefor would be if the recipient had at no time owned listed personal property other than listed personal property that was lent or transferred property or property substituted therefor,
shall be deemed to be a gain of the individual for the year from the disposition of listed personal property;
(d) the amount, if any, by which the total determined under subparagraph 74.2(1)(c)(ii) exceeds the total determined under subparagraph 74.2(1)(c)(i) shall be deemed to be a loss of the individual for the year from the disposition of listed personal property; and
(e) any taxable capital gain or allowable capital loss or any gain or loss taken into account in computing an amount described in paragraph 74.2(1)(a), 74.2(1)(b), 74.2(1)(c) or 74.2(1)(d) shall, except for the purposes of those paragraphs and to the extent that the amount so described is deemed by virtue of this subsection to be a taxable capital gain or an allowable capital loss or a gain or loss of the individual, be deemed not to be a taxable capital gain or an allowable capital loss or a gain or loss, as the case may be, of the recipient.
Marginal note:Deemed gain or loss
(2) Where an amount is deemed by subsection 74.2(1) or 75(2) or section 75.1 of this Act, or subsection 74(2) of the Income Tax Act, chapter 148 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1952, to be a taxable capital gain or an allowable capital loss of an individual for a taxation year,
(a) for the purposes of sections 3 and 111, as they apply for the purposes of section 110.6, such portion of the gain or loss as may reasonably be considered to relate to the disposition of a property by another person in the year shall be deemed to arise from the disposition of that property by the individual in the year; and
(b) for the purposes of section 110.6, that property shall be deemed to have been disposed of by the individual on the day on which it was disposed of by the other person.
Marginal note:Election for subsection (1) to apply
(3) Subsection (1) does not apply to a disposition at any particular time (in this subsection referred to as the “emigration disposition”) under paragraph 128.1(4)(b), by a taxpayer who is a recipient referred to in subsection (1), unless the recipient and the individual referred to in that subsection, in their returns of income for the taxation year that includes the first time, after the particular time, at which the recipient disposes of the property, jointly elect that subsection (1) apply to the emigration disposition.
Marginal note:Application of subsection (3)
(4) For the purpose of applying subsection (3) and notwithstanding subsections 152(4) to (5), any assessment of tax payable under this Act by the recipient or the individual referred to in subsection (1) shall be made that is necessary to take an election under subsection (3) into account except that no such assessment shall affect the computation of
(a) interest payable under this Act to or by a taxpayer in respect of any period that is before the taxpayer’s filing-due date for the taxation year that includes the first time, after the particular time referred to in subsection (3), at which the recipient disposes of the property referred to in that subsection; or
(b) any penalty payable under this Act.
- [NOTE: Application provisions are not included in the consolidated text
- see relevant amending Acts and regulations.]
- R.S., 1985, c. 1 (5th Supp.), s. 74.2
- 1994, c. 7, Sch. II, s. 51
- 1995, c. 3, s. 20
- 2000, c. 12, s. 142
- 2001, c. 17, s. 54
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