Excise Tax Act

Marginal note:Proof of service by mail

• 335 (1) Where, under this Part or a regulation made under this Part, provision is made for sending by mail a request for information, a notice or a demand, an affidavit of an officer of the Agency, sworn before a commissioner or other person authorized to take affidavits, setting out that the officer has knowledge of the facts in the particular case, that such a request, notice or demand was sent by registered or certified mail on a named day to the person to whom it was addressed (indicating the address), and that the officer identifies as exhibits attached to the affidavit the post office certificate of registration of the letter or a true copy of the relevant portion thereof and a true copy of the request, notice or demand, is evidence of the sending and of the request, notice or demand.

• Marginal note:Proof of personal service

  (2) Where, under this Part or a regulation made under this Part, provision is made for personal service of a request for information, a notice or a demand, an affidavit of an officer of the Agency, sworn before a commissioner or other person authorized to take affidavits, setting out that the officer has knowledge of the facts in the particular case, that such a request, notice or demand was served personally on a named day on the person to whom it was directed, and that the officer identifies as an exhibit attached to the affidavit a true copy of the request, notice or demand, is evidence of the personal service and of the request, notice or demand.

• Marginal note:Proof of failure to comply

  (3) Where, under this Part or a regulation made under this Part, a person is required to make a return, an application, a statement, an answer or a certificate, an affidavit of an officer of the Agency, sworn before a commissioner or other person authorized to take affidavits, setting out that the officer has charge of the appropriate records and that after a careful examination and search of the records the officer has been unable to find in a given case that the return, application, statement, answer or certificate, as the case may be, has been made by that person, is evidence that in that case the person did not make the return, application, statement, answer or certificate, as the case may be.

• Marginal note:Proof of time of compliance

  (4) Where, under this Part or a regulation made under this Part, a person is required to make a return, an application, a statement, an answer or a certificate, an affidavit of an officer of the Agency, sworn before a commissioner or other person authorized to take affidavits, setting out that the officer has charge of the appropriate records and that after careful examination of the records the officer has found that the return, application, statement, answer or certificate, as the case may be, was filed or made on a particular day, is evidence that it was filed or made on that day and not before.

• Marginal note:Proof of documents

  (5) An affidavit of an officer of the Agency, sworn before a commissioner or other person authorized to take affidavits, setting out that the officer has charge of the appropriate records and that a document annexed to the affidavit is a document or true copy of a document, or a print-out of an electronic document, made by or on behalf of the Minister or a person exercising the powers of the Minister or by or on behalf of a person, is evidence of the nature and contents of the document.

• Marginal note:Proof of no appeal

  (6) An affidavit of an officer of the Agency, sworn before a commissioner or other person authorized to take affidavits, setting out that the officer has charge of the appropriate records and has knowledge of the practice of the Agency and that an examination of the records shows that a notice of assessment was mailed or otherwise sent to a person on a particular day under this Part and that, after careful examination and search of the records, the officer has been unable to find that a notice of objection or of appeal from the assessment, as the case may be, was received within the time allowed therefor, is evidence of the statements contained therein.

• Marginal note:Presumption

  (7) Where evidence is offered under this section by an affidavit from which it appears that the person making the affidavit is an officer of the Agency, it is not necessary to prove the signature of the person or that the person is such an officer, nor is it necessary to prove the signature or official character of the person before whom the affidavit was sworn.

• Marginal note:Proof of documents

  (8) Every document purporting to have been executed under or in the course of the administration or enforcement of this Part over the name in writing of the Minister, the Deputy Minister of National Revenue, the Commissioner or an officer authorized to exercise the powers or perform the duties of the Minister under this Part, shall be deemed to be a document signed, made and issued by the Minister, the Deputy Minister, the Commissioner or the officer, unless it has been called in question by the Minister or a person acting for the Minister or for Her Majesty in right of Canada.

• (9) [Repealed, 1994, c. 13, s. 9]

• Marginal note:Mailing date

  (10) Where any notice or demand that the Minister is required or authorized under this Part to send or mail to a person is mailed to the person, the day of mailing shall be presumed to be the date of the notice or demand.

• Marginal note:Date when assessment made

  (11) Where a notice of assessment has been sent by the Minister as required under this Part, the assessment shall be deemed to have been made on the day of mailing of the notice of assessment.

• Marginal note:Proof of return

  (12) In any prosecution for an offence under this Part, the production of a return, an application, a certificate, a statement or an answer required under this Part or a regulation made under this Part, purporting to have been filed or delivered by or on behalf of the person charged with the offence or to have been made or signed by or on behalf of that person, is evidence that the return, application, certificate, statement or answer, as the case may be, was filed or delivered by or on behalf of that person or was made or signed by or on behalf of that person.

• Marginal note:Proof of return

  (12.1) For the purposes of this Part, a document presented by the Minister purporting to be a print-out of the information in respect of a person received under section 278.1 by the Minister shall be received as evidence and, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, is proof of the return filed by the person under that section.

• Marginal note:Idem

  (13) In any proceedings under this Part, the production of a return, an application, a certificate, a statement or an answer required under this Part or a regulation made under this Part, purporting to have been filed, delivered, made or signed by or on behalf of a person, is evidence that the return, application, certificate, statement or answer, as the case may be, was filed, delivered, made or signed by or on behalf of that person.

• Marginal note:Idem

  (14) In any prosecution for an offence under this Part, an affidavit of an officer of the Agency, sworn before a commissioner or other person authorized to take affidavits, setting out that the officer has charge of the appropriate records and that an examination of the records shows that an amount required under this Part to be remitted to the Receiver General on account of tax, net tax, penalty or interest has not been received by the Receiver General, is evidence of the statements contained therein.