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s. 285
PART XX — Reporting Rules for Digital Platform Operators
Verification of seller information
Not yet annotated · Text current to 2026-06-21 · section last amended 2024-01-01
Current text
The reporting platform operator must determine whether the information collected under subsection 283(2) and sections 284 and 287 is reliable, using all records available to the reporting platform operator, as well as any publicly available electronic interface to ascertain the validity of the TIN.
Due diligence
(2)Notwithstanding subsection (1), for the completion of the due diligence procedures pursuant to subsection 288(2), the reporting platform operator may determine whether the information collected pursuant to subsection 283(2) and sections 284 and 287 is reliable using electronically searchable records available to the reporting platform operator.
Verifying accuracy
(3)For the purpose of paragraph 288(3)(b), despite subsections (1) and (2), in instances where the reporting platform operator has reason to know that any of the information items described in section 284 or 287 may be inaccurate by virtue of information provided by the Minister, it must verify such information item using reliable, independent-source documents, data or information.
Source: Justice Laws Website. Not an official version.
Historic text
This section has not been amended since it was enacted (2023, c. 26, s. 78), so there is no earlier version.
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 285 links to the one before it.
Enacting and amending legislation
- 2023, c. 26, s. 78
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
Citation
Income Tax Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. 1 (5th Supp.), s. 285.