Income Tax Act

Marginal note:Agreement respecting liability for tax

• 191.3 (1) Where a corporation (in this section referred to as the “transferor corporation”) and a taxable Canadian corporation (in this section referred to as the “transferee corporation”) that was related (otherwise than because of a right referred to in paragraph 251(5)(b) or because of the control of any corporation by Her Majesty in right of Canada or a province) to the transferor corporation

  • (a) throughout a particular taxation year of the transferor corporation (or, where the transferee corporation came into existence in that year, throughout the part of that year in which the transferee corporation was in existence), and

  • (b) throughout the last taxation year of the transferee corporation ending at or before the end of the particular taxation year (or, where the transferor corporation came into existence in that last taxation year of the transferee corporation, throughout that part of that last year in which the transferor corporation was in existence)

  file as provided in subsection 191.3(2) an agreement or amended agreement with the Minister under which the transferee corporation agrees to pay all or any portion, as is specified in the agreement, of the tax for that taxation year of the transferor corporation that would, but for the agreement, be payable under this Part by the transferor corporation (other than any tax payable by the transferor corporation by reason of another agreement made under this section), the following rules apply, namely,

  • (c) the amount of tax specified in the agreement is an amount determined for that taxation year of the transferor corporation in respect of the transferor corporation for the purpose of paragraph 191.1(1)(b),

  • (d) the amount of tax specified in the agreement is an amount determined in respect of the transferee corporation for its last taxation year ending at or before the end of that taxation year of the transferor corporation for the purpose of subparagraph 191.1(1)(a)(iv), and

  • (e) the transferor corporation and the transferee corporation are jointly and severally liable to pay the amount of tax specified in the agreement and any interest or penalty in respect thereof.

• Marginal note:Consideration for agreement

  (1.1) For the purposes of Part I of this Act, where property is acquired at any time by a transferee corporation as consideration for entering into an agreement with a transferor corporation that is filed under this section,

  • (a) where the property was owned by the transferor corporation immediately before that time,

    • (i) the transferor corporation shall be deemed to have disposed of the property at that time for proceeds equal to the fair market value of the property at that time, and

    • (ii) the transferor corporation shall not be entitled to deduct any amount in computing its income as a consequence of the transfer of the property, except any amount arising as a consequence of subparagraph 191.3(1.1)(a)(i);

  • (b) the cost at which the property was acquired by the transferee corporation at that time shall be deemed to be equal to the fair market value of the property at that time;

  • (c) the transferee corporation shall not be required to add an amount in computing its income solely because of the acquisition at that time of the property; and

  • (d) no benefit shall be deemed to have been conferred on the transferor corporation as a consequence of the transferor corporation entering into an agreement filed under this section.

• Marginal note:Manner of filing agreement

  (2) An agreement or amended agreement referred to in subsection 191.3(1) between a transferor corporation and a transferee corporation shall be deemed not to have been filed with the Minister unless

  • (a) it is in prescribed form;

  • (b) it is filed on or before the day on or before which the transferor corporation’s return for the year in respect of which the agreement is filed is required to be filed under this Part or within the 90-day period beginning on the day of sending of a notice of assessment of tax payable under this Part or Part I by the transferor corporation for the year or by the transferee corporation for its taxation year ending in the calendar year in which the taxation year of the transferor corporation ends or the sending of a notification that no tax is payable under this Part or Part I for that taxation year;

  • (c) it is accompanied by,

    • (i) where the directors of the transferor corporation are legally entitled to administer its affairs, a certified copy of their resolution authorizing the agreement to be made,

    • (ii) where the directors of the transferor corporation are not legally entitled to administer its affairs, a certified copy of the document by which the person legally entitled to administer the corporation’s affairs authorized the agreement to be made,

    • (iii) where the directors of the transferee corporation are legally entitled to administer its affairs, a certified copy of their resolution authorizing the agreement to be made, and

    • (iv) where the directors of the transferee corporation are not legally entitled to administer its affairs, a certified copy of the document by which the person legally entitled to administer the corporation’s affairs authorized the agreement to be made; and

  • (d) where the agreement is not an agreement to which subsection 191.3(4) applies, an agreement amending the agreement has not been filed in accordance with this section.

  • (e) [Repealed, 1994, c. 7, Sch. II, s. 163(1)]

• Marginal note:Assessment

  (3) Where an agreement or amended agreement between a transferor corporation and a transferee corporation has been filed under this section with the Minister, the Minister shall, notwithstanding subsections 152(4) and 152(5), assess or reassess the tax, interest and penalties payable under this Act by the transferor corporation and the transferee corporation for any relevant taxation year in order to take into account the agreement or amended agreement.

• Marginal note:Related corporations

  (4) Where, at any time, a corporation has become related to another corporation and it may reasonably be considered, having regard to all the circumstances, that the main purpose of the corporation becoming related to the other corporation was to transfer, by filing an agreement or an amended agreement under this section, the benefit of a deduction under paragraph 110(1)(k) to a transferee corporation, the amount of the tax specified in the agreement shall, for the purposes of paragraph 191.3(1)(c), be deemed to be nil.

• Marginal note:Assessment of transferor corporation

  (5) The Minister may at any time assess a transferor corporation in respect of any amount for which it is jointly and severally liable by reason of paragraph 191.3(1)(e) and the provisions of Division I of Part I are applicable in respect of the assessment as though it had been made under section 152.

• Marginal note:Payment by transferor corporation

  (6) Where a transferor corporation and a transferee corporation are by reason of paragraph 191.3(1)(e) jointly and severally liable in respect of tax payable by the transferee corporation under subparagraph 191.1(1)(a)(iv) and any interest or penalty in respect thereof, the following rules apply:

  • (a) a payment by the transferor corporation on account of the liability shall, to the extent thereof, discharge the joint liability; and

  • (b) a payment by the transferee corporation on account of its liability discharges the transferor corporation’s liability only to the extent that the payment operates to reduce the transferee corporation’s liability under this Act to an amount less than the amount in respect of which the transferor corporation was, by paragraph 191.3(1)(e), made jointly and severally liable.