Excise Tax Act — E-15 (a)
ation, (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 or part of a debt, including a service of attempting to collect, arranging for the collection of, negotiating the payment of, or realizing or attempting to realize on any security given for, the debt, but does not include a service that consists solely of accepting from a person (other than the particular person) a payment of all or part of an account unless (i) under the terms of the agreement the person rendering the service may attempt to collect all or part of the account or may realize or attempt to realize on any security given for the account, or (ii) the principal business of the person rendering the service is the collection of debt, (r.3) a service (other than a prescribed service) of managing credit that is in respect of credit cards, charge cards, credit accounts, charge accounts, loan accounts or accounts in respect of any advance and is provided to a person granting, or potentially granting, credit in respect of those cards or accounts, including a service provided to the person of (i) checking, evaluating or authorizing credit, (ii) making decisions on behalf of the person in relation to a grant, or an application for a grant, of credit, (iii) creating or maintaining records for the person in relation to a grant, or an application for a grant, of credit or in relation to the cards or accounts, or (iv) monitoring another person’s payment record or dealing with payments made, or to be made, by the other person, (r.4) a service (other than a prescribed service) that is preparatory to the provision or the potential provision of a service referred to in any of paragraphs (a) to (i) and (l), or that is provided in conjunction with a service referred to in any of those paragraphs, and that is (i) a service of collecting, collating or providing information, or (ii) a market research, product design, document preparation, document processing, customer assistance, promotional or advertising service or a similar service, (r.5) property (other than a financial instrument or prescribed property) that is delivered or made available to a person in conjunction with the rendering by the person of a service referred to in any of paragraphs (a) to (i) and (l), (r.6) a service (other than a prescribed service) that is supplied by a payment card network operator in respect of a payment card network (as those terms are defined in section 3 of the Payment Card Networks Act ) where the supply includes the provision of (i) a service in respect of the authorization of a transaction in respect of money, an account, a credit card voucher, a charge card voucher or a financial instrument, (ii) a clearing or settlement service in respect of money, an account, a credit card voucher, a charge card voucher or a financial instrument, or (iii) a service rendered in conjunction with a service referred to in subparagraph (i) or (ii), (s) any service the supply of which is deemed under this Part to be a taxable supply, or (t) a prescribed service; ( service financier )