Excise Tax Act — E-15 (a)
financial service means (a) the exchange, payment, issue, receipt or transfer of money, whether effected by the exchange of currency, by crediting or debiting accounts or otherwise, (b) the operation or maintenance of a savings, chequing, deposit, loan, charge or other account, (c) the lending or borrowing of a financial instrument, (d) the issue, granting, allotment, acceptance, endorsement, renewal, processing, variation, transfer of ownership or repayment of a financial instrument, (e) the provision, variation, release or receipt of a guarantee, an acceptance or an indemnity in respect of a financial instrument, (f) the payment or receipt of money as dividends (other than patronage dividends), interest, principal, benefits or any similar payment or receipt of money in respect of a financial instrument, (f.1) the payment or receipt of an amount in full or partial satisfaction of a claim arising under an insurance policy, (g) the making of any advance, the granting of any credit or the lending of money, (h) the underwriting of a financial instrument, (i) any service provided pursuant to the terms and conditions of any agreement relating to payments of amounts for which a credit card voucher or charge card voucher has been issued, (j) the service of investigating and recommending the compensation in satisfaction of a claim where (i) the claim is made under a marine insurance policy, or (ii) the claim is made under an insurance policy that is not in the nature of accident and sickness or life insurance and (A) the service is supplied by an insurer or by a person who is licensed under the laws of a province to provide such a service, or (B) the service is supplied to an insurer or a group of insurers by a person who would be required to be so licensed but for the fact that the person is relieved from that requirement under the laws of a province, (j.1) the service of providing an insurer or a person who supplies a service referred to in paragraph (j) with an appraisal of the damage caused to property, or in the case of a loss of property, the value of the property, where the supplier of the appraisal inspects the property, or in the case of a loss of the property, the last-known place where the property was situated before the loss, (k) any supply deemed by subsection 150(1) or section 158 to be a supply of a financial service, (l) the agreeing to provide, or the arranging for, a service that is (i) referred to in any of paragraphs (a) to (i), and (ii) not referred to in any of paragraphs (n) to (t), or (m) a prescribed service, but does not include (n) the payment or receipt of money as consideration for the supply of property other than a financial instrument or of a service other than a financial service, (o) the payment or receipt of money in settlement of a claim (other than a claim under an insurance policy) under a warranty, guarantee or similar arrangement in respect of property other than a financial instrument or a service other than a financial service, (p) the service of providing advice, other than a service included in this definition because of paragraph (j) or (j.1), (q) the provision, to an investment plan (as defined in subsection 149(5)) or any corporation, partnership or trust whose principal activity is the investing of funds, of (i) a management or administrative service, or (ii) any other service (other than a prescribed service), if the supplier is a person who provides management or administrative services to the investment plan, corporation, partnership or trust, (q.1) an asset management service, (r) a professional service provided by an accountant, actuary, lawyer or notary in the course of a professional practice, (r.1) the arranging for the transfer of ownership of shares of a cooperative housing corporation, (r.2) a debt collection service, rendered under an agreement between a person agreeing to provide, or arranging for, the service and a particular person other than the debtor, in respect of all