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Bill C-393

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2nd Session, 35th Parliament,
45-46 Elizabeth II, 1996-97

The House of Commons of Canada

BILL C-393

An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (business limit)

R.S., c. 1 (5th Supp.); 1994, cc. 7, 8, 13, 21, 29, 38, 41; 1995, cc. 1, 3, 11, 18, 21, 38, 46; 1996, cc. 11, 21, 23

      Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

1. Subsections 125(2), (3) and (4) of the Income Tax Act are replaced by the following:

Interpreta-
tion of ``business limit''

(2) For the purposes of this section, a corporation's ``business limit'' for a taxation year prior to 1997 is $200,000 and is $300,000 for the 1997 or subsequent taxation years, unless the corporation is associated in the year with one or more other Canadian-controlled private corporations in which case, except as otherwise provided in this section, its business limit for the year is nil.

Associated corporations

(3) Notwithstanding subsection (2), if all of the Canadian-controlled private corporations that are associated with each other in a taxation year have filed with the Minister in prescribed form an agreement whereby, for the purposes of this section, they allocate an amount to one or more of them for the taxation year and the amount so allocated or the total of the amounts so allocated, as the case may be, is $200,000 in respect of a taxation year prior to 1997 or $300,000 in respect of the 1997 or subsequent taxation years , the business limit for the year of each of the corporations is the amount so allocated to it.

Failure to file agreement

(4) If any of the Canadian-controlled private corporations that are associated with each other in a taxation year has failed to file with the Minister an agreement as contemplated by subsection (3) within 30 days after notice in writing by the Minister has been forwarded to any of them that such an agreement is required for the purposes of any assessment of tax under this Part, the Minister shall, for the purpose of this section, allocate an amount to one or more of them for the taxation year, which amount or the total of which amounts, as the case may be, shall equal $200,000 in respect of a taxation year prior to 1997 or $300,000 in respect of the 1997 or subsequent taxation years, and in any such case, notwithstanding subsection (2), the business limit for each of the corporations is the amount so allocated to it.