Selected Listed Financial Institutions Attribution Method (GST/HST) Regulations

Marginal note:New series — reconciliation method

62 If units of a series of an investment plan that is a selected listed financial institution are issued, distributed or offered for sale in a particular fiscal year that ends in a taxation year of the investment plan, if immediately before the issuance, distribution or offering for sale no units of the series are issued and outstanding and if no election is in effect under section 49, 63 or 64 in respect of the series and the particular fiscal year, the following rules apply:

• (a) for the purposes of this section,

  • (i) the preceding taxation year is the taxation year of the investment plan preceding the particular taxation year, and

  • (ii) the reconciliation day is the day that is the earlier of

    • (A) the day that is 30 days after the attribution point in respect of the series for the preceding taxation year, and

    • (B) the day preceding the day on which a plan merger of the investment plan and one or more other investment plans first occurs;

• (b) for each reporting period of the investment plan that precedes the reporting period of the investment plan that includes the reconciliation day, paragraph 228(2.1)(a) of the Act is adapted as follows:

  • (a) the person shall calculate in the interim return the amount (in this Part referred to as the “interim net tax”) that would be the net tax of the person for the reporting period if the description of A₆ in subsection 225.2(2), as adapted by subsection 48(1) of the Selected Listed Financial Institution Attribution Method (GST/HST) Regulations, were read as “in the case of a series of the financial institution in respect of which section 62 of the Selected Listed Financial Institution Attribution Method (GST/HST) Regulations applies for the fiscal year, is an estimate of the financial institution’s percentage for the series, for the participating province and for the preceding taxation year of the financial institution, as determined by the financial institution, and, in the case of any other series of the financial institution, is the financial institution’s percentage for the series, for the participating province and for the preceding taxation year of the financial institution, determined for financial institutions of that class in accordance with those Regulations”; and

• (c) for each fiscal quarter of the investment plan that precedes the fiscal quarter of the investment plan that includes the reconciliation day, subsection 237(1) of the Act is adapted as follows:

  • 237 (1) Where the reporting period of a registrant is a fiscal year, the registrant shall, within one month after the end of each fiscal quarter of the registrant ending in the reporting period, pay to the Receiver General an instalment equal to 1/4 of the amount that would be the net tax for the reporting period if the description of A₆ in subsection 225.2(2), as adapted by subsection 48(1) of the Selected Listed Financial Institution Attribution Method (GST/HST) Regulations, were read as “in the case of a series of the financial institution in respect of which section 62 of the Selected Listed Financial Institution Attribution Method (GST/HST) Regulations applies for the fiscal year, is an estimate of the financial institution’s percentage for the series, for the participating province and for the preceding taxation year of the financial institution, as determined by the financial institution, and, in the case of any other series of the financial institution, is the financial institution’s percentage for the series, for the participating province and for the preceding taxation year of the financial institution, determined for financial institutions of that class in accordance with those Regulations”.

• (d) if the reconciliation day is not included in the particular fiscal year,

  • (i) for the purposes of these Regulations and the description of A₆ in subsection 225.2(2) of the Act, as adapted by subsection 48(1), and despite sections 19 and 30, the investment plan’s percentage for the series, for a participating province and for the preceding taxation year is equal to whichever of the following is applicable:

    • (A) the estimate of that percentage that was used for the purposes of paragraph 228(2.1)(a) of the Act, as adapted by paragraph (b), in determining the interim net tax for the reporting periods of the investment plan that are included in the particular fiscal year, or

    • (B) the estimate of that percentage that was used for the purposes of subsection 237(1) of the Act, as adapted by paragraph (c), in determining the instalments for the fiscal quarters of the investment plan ending in the particular fiscal year,

  • (ii) for the purposes of these Regulations and the description of A₆ in subsection 225.2(2) of the Act, as adapted by subsection 48(1), and despite sections 19 and 30, the investment plan’s percentage for the series, for a participating province and for the taxation year in which the particular fiscal year ends is equal to

    • (A) if an election under section 50 is in effect throughout the particular fiscal year, the investment plan’s percentage for the series, for the participating province and for the preceding taxation year, or

    • (B) if no election under section 50 is in effect throughout the particular fiscal year, the percentage that would be the investment plan’s particular percentage for the series, for the participating province and for the preceding taxation year if the particular percentage were determined in accordance with the rules set out in

      • (I) paragraph 63.1(b), if the investment plan has elected in prescribed form containing prescribed information to have that paragraph apply to the series, or

      • (II) paragraph 63.1(c), in any other case, and

  • (iii) for the purposes of the description of G in subsection 225.2(2) of the Act, for the reporting period of the investment plan that includes the reconciliation day, the positive or negative amount determined by the following formula is a prescribed amount:

    A – B

    where

    A

    is the total of all amounts, each of which is an amount that would be the net tax for a reporting period of the investment plan that is included in the particular fiscal year if

    • (A) when no election under section 50 is in effect throughout the particular fiscal year, the investment plan’s percentage for the series, for a participating province and for the preceding taxation year were determined in accordance with the rules set out in section 63.1, and

    • (B) when an election under section 50 is in effect throughout the particular fiscal year, the investment plan’s percentage for the series, for a participating province and for the taxation year in which the particular fiscal year ends were determined in accordance with the rules set out in section 63.1, and

    B

    is the total of all amounts, each of which is the net tax for a reporting period of the investment plan that is included in the particular fiscal year.