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s. 213
PART XIII — Tax on Income from Canada of Non-resident Persons
Tax non-payable by non-resident person
Not yet annotated · Text current to 2026-06-21 · section last amended 2004-08-31
Current text
Tax is not payable by a non-resident person under subsection 212(2) on a dividend in respect of a share of the capital stock of a foreign business corporation if not less than 90% of the total of the received or receivable by it that are required to be included in computing its income for the taxation year in which the dividend was paid was received or receivable in respect of the operation by it of public utilities or from mining, transporting and processing of ore in a country in which
if the non-resident person is an individual, the non-resident person resides; or
if the non-resident person is a corporation, individuals who own more than 50% of its share capital (having full voting rights under all circumstances) reside.
Idem
(2)For the purposes of this section, if 90% of the total of the received or receivable by a corporation that are required to be included in computing its income for a taxation year was received or receivable in respect of the operation by it of public utilities or from the mining, transporting and processing of ore, an amount received or receivable in that year from that corporation by another corporation shall, if it is required to be included in computing the receiving corporation’s income for the year, be deemed to have been received by the receiving corporation in respect of the operation by it of public utilities or from the mining, transporting and processing of ore by it in the country in which the public utilities were operated or the mining, transporting and processing of ore was carried out by the payer corporation.
Corporation deemed to be foreign business corporation
(3)For the purposes of this section, a corporation shall be deemed to be a foreign business corporation at a particular time if it would have been a foreign business corporation within the meaning of section 71 of the Income Tax Act, chapter 148 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1952 (as that section read in its application to the 1971 taxation year), for the taxation year of the corporation in which the particular time occurred, if that section had been applicable to that taxation year.
Source: Justice Laws Website. Not an official version.
Historic text
This section has not been amended since the start of the point-in-time record on 31 August 2004.
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 213 links to the one before it.
Enacting and amending legislation
- 1970-71-72, c. 63, s. 1“213”
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
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Citation
Income Tax Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. 1 (5th Supp.), s. 213.