Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act
Marginal note:Total equalized tax transfer
16 (1) The total equalized tax transfer applicable to a province for a fiscal year is the aggregate of
(a) the total amount, as determined by the Minister, for the fiscal year represented by the federal income tax reduction in the province in respect of the Canada Health and Social Transfer for the fiscal year, and
(b) the amount equal to the lesser of
(i) the equalization payment that would be payable to the province for the fiscal year under Part I, and
(ii) the amount of equalization that would be paid to the province in respect of the federal income tax reduction in all the provinces in respect of the Canada Health and Social Transfer for the fiscal year, if the method of calculation of fiscal equalization payments as set out in Part I, excluding subsections 4(6) and (9), were to be applied to the value of the income tax reduction in all the provinces in respect of the Canada Health and Social Transfer for the fiscal year, except that
(A) for the purposes of the calculation under this subparagraph the relevant revenue bases shall be determined in prescribed manner, and
(B) where subsection 4(6) or (9) applies in the determination of the fiscal equalization payment to the province for the fiscal year, the amount determined under this subparagraph shall be adjusted in prescribed manner.
Marginal note:Federal income tax reduction
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), the amount represented by the federal income tax reduction in a province in respect of the Canada Health and Social Transfer for a fiscal year is an amount equal to the aggregate of
(a) seventy-five per cent of the amount, as determined by the Minister, that would be derived from a tax, computed in accordance with the Income Tax Act,
(i) on the incomes, other than incomes from businesses, of individuals resident in the province on the last day of the taxation year ending in the fiscal year, within the meaning of the Income Tax Act,
(ii) on the incomes, other than incomes from businesses, earned in the province in the taxation year ending in the fiscal year by individuals not resident in Canada at any time during the taxation year, within the meaning of the Income Tax Act, and
(iii) on the incomes from businesses earned in the province in the taxation year ending in the fiscal year by individuals, within the meaning of the Income Tax Act,
equal to the product obtained by multiplying 13.5/(100-9.143) by the “tax otherwise payable under this Part”, within the meaning assigned by subsection 120(4) of the Income Tax Act, on those incomes,
(b) twenty-five per cent of the amount, as determined by the Minister, that would be derived from a tax, computed in accordance with the Income Tax Act,
(i) on the incomes, other than incomes from businesses, of individuals resident in the province on the last day of the taxation year beginning in the fiscal year, within the meaning of the Income Tax Act,
(ii) on the incomes, other than incomes from businesses, earned in the province in the taxation year beginning in the fiscal year by individuals not resident in Canada at any time during the taxation year, within the meaning of the Income Tax Act, and
(iii) on the incomes from businesses earned in the province in the taxation year beginning in the fiscal year by individuals, within the meaning of the Income Tax Act,
equal to the product obtained by multiplying 13.5/(100-9.143) by the “tax otherwise payable under this Part”, within the meaning assigned by subsection 120(4) of the Income Tax Act, on those incomes,
(c) seventy-five per cent of the amount, as determined by the Minister, that would be derived from a tax, computed in accordance with the Income Tax Act, on the income earned in the province by each corporation, other than a non-resident-owned investment corporation within the meaning of that Act or a corporation named in Schedule III to the Financial Administration Act, or a wholly-owned subsidiary within the meaning of that Act of a corporation so named, that is an agent of Her Majesty in right of Canada, that maintained a permanent establishment in the province at any time during its taxation year ending in the calendar year that ends in the fiscal year, at the rate of one per cent of its taxable income earned in the province in that taxation year, and
(d) twenty-five per cent of the amount, as determined by the Minister, that would be derived from a tax, computed in accordance with the Income Tax Act, on the income earned in the province by each corporation, other than a non-resident-owned investment corporation within the meaning of that Act or a corporation named in Schedule III to the Financial Administration Act, or a wholly-owned subsidiary within the meaning of that Act of a corporation so named, that is an agent of Her Majesty in right of Canada, that maintained a permanent establishment in the province at any time during its taxation year ending in the calendar year that begins in the fiscal year, at the rate of one per cent of its taxable income earned in the province in that taxation year.
(3) and (4) [Repealed, 1995, c. 17, s. 49]
- R.S., 1985, c. F-8, s. 16
- 1992, c. 10, s. 6
- 1995, c. 17, s. 49
- 1999, c. 31, s. 238
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