Income Tax Act — I-3.3 96
pect of which paragraph 96(2.5)(b) applies shall be considered to have been actively carrying on a business on a regular and a continuous basis immediately before February 26, 1986 and continuously thereafter until the earlier of the closing date, if any, stipulated in the document referred to in that paragraph and January 1, 1987, and (e) an expenditure shall not be considered to have been required to be made pursuant to the terms of an agreement where the obligation to make the expenditure is conditional in any way on the consequences under this Act relating to the expenditure and the condition has not been satisfied or waived before June 12, 1986. Artificial transactions (2.6) For the purposes of paragraph 96(2.2)(c), where at any time an amount owing by a taxpayer or a person with whom the taxpayer does not deal at arm’s length is repaid and it is established, by subsequent events or otherwise, that the repayment was made as part of a series of loans or other transactions and repayments, the amount owing shall be deemed not to have been repaid. Idem (2.7) For the purposes of paragraph 96(2.2)(a), where at any time a taxpayer makes a contribution of capital to a partnership and the partnership or a person or partnership with whom or which the partnership does not deal at arm’s length makes a loan to the taxpayer or to a person with whom the taxpayer does not deal at arm’s length or repays the contribution of capital, and it is established, by subsequent events or otherwise, that the loan or repayment, as the case may be, was made as part of a series of loans or other transactions and repayments, the contribution of capital shall be deemed not to have been made to the extent of the loan or repayment, as the case may be. Agreement or election of partnership members (3) If a taxpayer who was a member of a partnership at any time in a fiscal period has, for any purpose relevant to the computation of the taxpayer’s income from the partnership for the fiscal period, made or executed an agreement, designation or election under or in respect of the application of any of subsections 10.1(1), 13(4), (4.2) and (16), the definition excluded interest in subsection 18.2(1), subsections 20(9) and 21(1) to (4), section 22, subsection 29(1), section 34, clause 37(8)(a)(ii)(B), subsections 44(1) and (6), 50(1) and 80(5) and (9) to (11), section 80.04, subsections 86.1(2), 88(3.1), (3.3) and (3.5) and 90(3), the definition relevant cost base in subsection 95(4) and subsections 97(2), 139.1(16) and (17) and 249.1(4) and (6) that, if this Act were read without reference to this subsection, would be a valid agreement, designation or election, (a) the agreement, designation or election is not valid unless (i) it was made or executed on behalf of the taxpayer and each other person who was a member of the partnership during the fiscal period, and (ii) the taxpayer had authority to act for the partnership; (b) unless the agreement, designation or election is invalid because of paragraph 96(3)(a), each other person who was a member of the partnership during the fiscal period shall be deemed to have made or executed the agreement, designation or election; and (c) notwithstanding paragraph 96(3)(a), any agreement, designation or election deemed by paragraph 96(3)(b) to have been made or executed by any person shall be deemed to be a valid agreement, designation or election made or executed by that person. Election (4) Any election under subsection 97(2) or 98(3) shall be made on or before the day that is the earliest of the days on or before which any taxpayer making the election is required to file a return of income pursuant to section 150 for the taxpayer’s taxation year in which the transaction to which the election relates occurred. Late filing (5) Where an election referred to in subsection 96(4) was not made on or before the day on or before which the election was required by that subsection to be made and that day was after May 6, 1974, the ele