Income Tax Act — I-3.3 87
n 248(1), paragraph 87(7)(d) shall not apply to any debt or other obligation of the new corporation unless the terms and conditions thereof immediately after the amalgamation are the same as, or substantially the same as, the terms and conditions of the debt or obligation that was an income bond or income debenture of the predecessor corporation immediately before the amalgamation. Foreign merger (8) Subject to subsection 95(2), where there has been a foreign merger in which a taxpayer’s shares or options to acquire shares of the capital stock of a corporation that was a predecessor foreign corporation immediately before the merger were exchanged for or became shares or options to acquire shares of the capital stock of the new foreign corporation or the foreign parent corporation, unless the taxpayer elects in the taxpayer’s return of income for the taxation year in which the foreign merger took place not to have this subsection apply, subsections (4) and (5) apply to the taxpayer as if the references in those subsections to (a) “amalgamation” were read as “foreign merger”; (b) “predecessor corporation” were read as “predecessor foreign corporation”; and (c) “new corporation” were read as “new foreign corporation or the foreign parent corporation”. Definition of foreign merger (8.1) For the purposes of this section, foreign merger means a merger or combination of two or more corporations each of which was, immediately before the merger or combination, resident in a country other than Canada (each of which is in this section referred to as a “predecessor foreign corporation”) to form one corporate entity resident in a country other than Canada (in this section referred to as the “new foreign corporation”) in such a manner that, and otherwise than as a result of the distribution of property to one corporation on the winding-up of another corporation, (a) all or substantially all the property (except amounts receivable from any predecessor foreign corporation or shares of the capital stock of any predecessor foreign corporation) of the predecessor foreign corporations immediately before the merger or combination becomes property of the new foreign corporation as a consequence of the merger or combination; (b) all or substantially all the liabilities (except amounts payable to any predecessor foreign corporation) of the predecessor foreign corporations immediately before the merger or combination become liabilities of the new foreign corporation as a consequence of the merger or combination; and (c) all or substantially all of the shares of the capital stock of the predecessor foreign corporations (except any shares or options owned by any predecessor foreign corporation) are exchanged for or become, because of the merger or combination, (i) shares of the capital stock of the new foreign corporation, or (ii) if, immediately after the merger, the new foreign corporation was controlled by another corporation (in this section referred to as the “foreign parent corporation”) that was resident in a country other than Canada, shares of the capital stock of the foreign parent corporation. Absorptive mergers (8.2) For the purposes of the definition foreign merger in subsection (8.1), if there is a merger or combination, otherwise than as a result of the distribution of property to one corporation on the winding-up of another corporation, of two or more non-resident corporations (each of which is referred to in this subsection as a “predecessor foreign corporation”), as a result of which one or more predecessor foreign corporations ceases to exist and, immediately after the merger or combination, another predecessor foreign corporation (referred to in this subsection as the “survivor corporation”) owns properties (except amounts receivable from, or shares of the capital stock of, any predecessor foreign corporation) representing all or substantially all of the fair market value of all such properties owned by each predecessor foreign corpo