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s. 161.4
PART I — Income Tax · DIVISION I — Returns, Assessments, Payment and Appeals · Small Amounts Owing
Taxpayer
Not yet annotated · Text current to 2026-06-21 · section last amended 2007-04-01
Current text
If the Minister determines, at any time, that the total of all amounts owing by a person to Her Majesty in right of Canada under this Act does not exceed two dollars, those amounts are deemed to be nil.
Minister
(2)If, at any time, the total of all amounts payable by the Minister to a person under this Act does not exceed two dollars, the Minister may apply those amounts against any amount owing, at that time, by the person to Her Majesty in right of Canada. However, if the person, at that time, does not owe any amount to Her Majesty in right of Canada, those amounts payable are deemed to be nil.
Source: Justice Laws Website. Not an official version.
Historic text
Immediately preceding version, in force from 2004-08-31 to 2007-03-31:
Show the text in force 2004-08-31 to 2007-03-31
Taxpayer
161.4 (1) If the Minister determines, at any time, that the total of all amounts owing by a person to Her Majesty in right of Canada under this Act does not exceed two dollars, those amounts are deemed to be nil.
Minister
(2) If, at any time, the total of all amounts payable by the Minister to a person under this Act does not exceed two dollars, the Minister shall apply those amounts against any amount owing, at that time, by the person to Her Majesty in right of Canada. However, if the person, at that time, does not owe any amount to Her Majesty, those amounts payable are deemed to be nil.
- [NOTE: Application provisions are not included in the consolidated text
- see relevant amending Acts and regulations.]
- 2003, c. 15, s. 117
Earlier versions: Justice Laws point-in-time versions of the Act (from 31 August 2004), and CanLII (under “Versions”). On Justice Laws, each version of section 161.4 links to the one before it.
Enacting and amending legislation
- 2003, c. 15, s. 117; 2006, c. 4, s. 162
Text before 2004 is found in the annual Statutes of Canada cited above. Application and coming-into-force provisions are not part of the consolidation; see the amending Acts.
Cross-references
No other section of the Act refers to this section, and it refers to no other section.
References are generated from the statutory text and list other sections of the Act only.
Citation
Income Tax Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. 1 (5th Supp.), s. 161.4.