Income Tax Regulations (C.R.C., c. 945)

Tax Deduction Information

210 Every person who makes a payment described in section 153 of the Act (including an amount paid that is described in subparagraph 153(1)(a)(ii) of the Act), or who pays or credits, or is deemed by any of Part I, XIII and XIII.2 of the Act to have paid or credited, an amount described in that section, Part XIII or XIII.2 of the Act, shall, on demand by registered letter from the Minister, make an information return in prescribed form containing the information required in the return and shall file the return with the Minister within such reasonable time as is stipulated in the registered letter.

Accrued Bond Interest

• 211 (1) Every financial company making a payment in respect of accrued interest by virtue of redemption, assignment or other transfer of a bond, debenture or similar security (other than an income bond, an income debenture or an investment contract in respect of which subsection 201(4) applies) shall make an information return in prescribed form.

• (2) The return referred to in subsection (1) shall be forwarded to the Minister on or before the 15th day of the month following the month in which the payment referred to in subsection (1) is made.

• (3) For the purposes of this section, a financial company includes a bank, an investment dealer, a stockbroker, a trust company and an insurance company.

• (4) The provisions of subsection (1) do not apply to a payment made by one financial company to another financial company.

Employees Profit Sharing Plans

• 212 (1) Every trustee of an employees profit sharing plan shall make an information return in prescribed form.

• (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), the return required under this section may be filed by the employer instead of by the trustee.

Pooled Registered Pension Plans

213 An administrator of a PRPP must file with the Minister an information return for each calendar year in prescribed form in respect of the PRPP

• (a) if an agreement concerning annual information returns has been entered into by the Minister and an authority responsible for the supervision of the PRPP under the Pooled Registered Pension Plans Act or a similar law of a province, on or before the day on which an information return required by that authority is to be filed for the calendar year; and

• (b) in any other case, on or before May 1 of the following calendar year.

Registered Retirement Savings Plans

• 214 (1) Every person who pays any of the following amounts shall make an information return in prescribed form:

  • (a) an amount that is required by subsection 146(8) of the Act to be included in computing the income of a taxpayer for a taxation year;

  • (b) an amount that is an eligible amount, within the meaning of subsection 146.01(1) of the Act; or

  • (c) an amount that is an eligible amount, within the meaning of subsection 146.02(1) of the Act.

• (1.1) The issuer of a registered retirement savings plan shall make an information return in prescribed form for each calendar year containing the total fair market value of all property held by the plan at the end of the year.

• (2) If, in a taxation year, subsection 146(7), (9) or (10) of the Act or, in relation to a non-qualified investment, subsection 207.04(1) or (4) of the Act applies in respect of a trust governed by a registered retirement savings plan, the trustee of the plan shall make an information return in prescribed form.

• (3) Where, in respect of an amended plan referred to in subsection 146(12) of the Act, an amount is required to be included in computing the income of a taxpayer for a taxation year, the issuer of the plan shall make an information return in prescribed form.

• (4) Where subsection 146(8.8) of the Act deems an amount to be received by an annuitant as a benefit out of or under a registered retirement savings plan and such amount is required by subsection 146(8) of the Act to be included in computing the income of that annuitant for a taxation year, the issuer of the plan shall make an information return in prescribed form.

• (5) If a payment or transfer of property to which paragraph 146(16)(b) of the Act applies is made from a plan, the issuer of the plan shall make an information return in prescribed form in respect of the payment or transfer.

• (6) Where an amount may be deducted under subsection 146(8.92) of the Act in computing the income of a deceased annuitant under a registered retirement savings plan, the issuer of the plan shall make an information return in prescribed form in respect of the amount.

• (7) In this section, annuitant and issuer have the meanings assigned by subsection 146(1) of the Act.

• 214.1 (1) The issuer of a registered retirement savings plan shall make an information return in prescribed form in respect of the amounts that have been paid by the annuitant, or by the spouse or common-law partner of the annuitant, under the plan in a contribution year

  • (a) as consideration for any contract referred to in paragraph (a) of the definition retirement savings plan in subsection 146(1) of the Act to pay a retirement income; or

  • (b) as a contribution or deposit referred to in paragraph (b) of that definition for the purpose stated in that paragraph.

• (2) For greater certainty and for the purposes of subsection (1), amounts that have been paid do not include amounts that have been paid or transferred under the plan in accordance with subsection 146(16) of the Act, or those that have been transferred under the plan in accordance with any of subsections 146(21), 146.3(14), 147(19) or 147.3(1), (4) or (5) to (7) of the Act.

• (3) The return shall be filed with the Minister on or before the 1st day of May of the year in which the contribution year ends and shall be in respect of the contribution year.

• (4) The following definitions apply in this section.

  contribution year

  contribution year means the period beginning on the 61st day of one year and ending on the 60th day of the following year. (année de contribution)

  issuer

  issuer has the same meaning as in subsection 146(1) of the Act, with any modifications that the circumstances require. (émetteur)

Registered Retirement Income Funds

• 215 (1) In this section, annuitant and carrier have the meanings assigned by subsection 146.3(1) of the Act.

• (2) Every carrier of a registered retirement income fund who pays out of or under it an amount any portion of which is required under subsection 146.3(5) of the Act to be included in computing the income of a taxpayer shall make an information return in prescribed form in respect of the amount.

• (2.1) Every carrier of a registered retirement income fund shall make an information return in prescribed form for each calendar year containing the total fair market value of all property held by the fund at the end of the year.

• (3) If subsection 146.3(4), (7) or (10) of the Act or, in relation to a non-qualified investment, subsection 207.04(1) or (4) of the Act applies in respect of any transaction or event with respect to property of a registered retirement income fund, the carrier of the fund shall make an information return in prescribed form in respect of the transaction or event.

• (4) Where an amount is deemed under subsection 146.3(6) or (12) of the Act to be received by an annuitant out of or under a registered retirement income fund, the carrier of the fund shall make an information return in prescribed form in respect of the amount.

• (5) If a transfer of an amount to which subsection 146.3(14) of the Act applies is made from a fund, the carrier of the fund shall make an information return in prescribed form in respect of the transfer.

• (6) Where an amount may be deducted under subsection 146.3(6.3) of the Act in computing the income of a deceased annuitant under a registered retirement income fund, the carrier of the fund shall make an information return in prescribed form in respect of the amount.

Advanced Life Deferred Annuity

• 216 (1) In this section, designated entity means

  • (a) an administrator of a registered pension plan;

  • (b) an administrator of a pooled registered pension plan;

  • (c) an issuer of a registered retirement savings plan;

  • (d) a carrier of a registered retirement income fund; and

  • (e) a trustee of a deferred profit sharing plan.

• (2) A designated entity that transfers an amount to acquire an advanced life deferred annuity for an individual shall make an information return in prescribed form in respect of the year in which the transfer was made.

• (3) A licensed annuities provider shall make an information return in prescribed form in respect of a year in which

  • (a) a payment is made that is required by section 146.5 of the Act to be included in computing the income of a taxpayer; or

  • (b) a refund described in paragraph (g) of the definition advanced life deferred annuity in subsection 146.5(1) of the Act was received by a taxpayer.

Dispositon of Interest in Annuities and Life Insurance Policies

• 217 (1) In this section,

  disposition

  disposition has the meaning assigned by subsection 148(9) of the Act and includes anything deemed to be a disposition of a life insurance policy under subsection 148(2) of the Act; (disposition)

  insurer

  insurer has the meaning assigned by paragraph 148(10)(a) of the Act; (assureur)

  life insurance policy

  life insurance policy[Repealed, SOR/2011-188, s. 4]

• (2) Where by reason of a disposition of an interest in a life insurance policy an amount is required, pursuant to paragraph 56(1)(j) of the Act, to be included in computing the income of a taxpayer and the insurer that is the issuer of the policy is a party to, or is notified in writing of, the disposition, the insurer shall make an information return in prescribed form in respect of the amount.

Patronage Payments

• 218 (1) Every person who, within the meaning of section 135 of the Act, makes payments to residents of Canada pursuant to an allocation in proportion to patronage shall make an information return in prescribed form in respect of payments so made.

• (2) Every person who receives a payment referred to in subsection (1) as nominee or agent for another person resident in Canada shall make an information return in prescribed form in respect of the payment so received.

First Home Savings Account

• 219 (1) An issuer of a FHSA shall make an information return for each calendar year in prescribed form and manner in respect of the FHSA.

• (2) An issuer of a FHSA shall make an information return in prescribed form and manner in respect of any calendar year in which one or more of the following occurs:

  • (a) the holder makes a contribution to the FHSA;

  • (b) an amount has been transferred to the FHSA from an RRSP under which the holder is an annuitant;

  • (c) an amount is required to be included in the income of a taxpayer under section 146.6 of the Act;

  • (d) the holder makes a qualifying withdrawal from the FHSA; or

  • (e) the holder designates an amount under the definition designated amount in subsection 207.01(1) of the Act.

• (3) An issuer of a FHSA that governs a trust shall notify the holder of the FHSA in prescribed form and manner before March of a calendar year if, at any time during the preceding calendar year,

  • (a) the trust acquires or disposes of property that is a non-qualified investment (as defined in subsection 207.01(1) of the Act) for the trust; or

  • (b) property held by the trust becomes or ceases to be a non-qualified investment (as defined in subsection 207.01(1) of the Act) for the trust.

Cash Bonus Payments on Canada Savings Bonds

• 220 (1) Every person authorized to redeem Canada Savings Bonds (in this section referred to as the “redemption agent”) who pays an amount in respect of a Canada Savings Bond as a cash bonus that the Government of Canada has undertaken to pay (other than an amount of interest, bonus or principal agreed to be paid at the time of the issue of the bond under the terms of the bond) shall make an information return in prescribed form in respect of such payment.

• (2) Every redemption agent required by subsection (1) to make an information return shall

  • (a) issue to the payee, at the time the cash bonus is paid, two copies of the portion of the return relating to him; and

  • (b) file the return with the Minister on or before the 15th day of the month following the month in which the cash bonus was paid.