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s. 66.5
PART I — Income Tax · DIVISION B — Computation of Income · SUBDIVISION E — Deductions in Computing Income
Deduction from income
Not yet annotated · Text current to 2026-06-21 · section last amended 2004-08-31
Current text
In computing its income for a taxation year that ends before 1995, a corporation that has not made a designation for the year under subsection 66(14.1) or (14.2) may deduct such amount as it may claim not exceeding its cumulative offset account at the end of the year.
Definition of
(2)In this section, cumulative offset account of a corporation at any time means the amount, if any, by which
the total of all amounts required to be added under subsections 66(14.1) and (14.2) in computing its cumulative offset account before that time,
exceeds
the total of all amounts deducted under subsection 66.5(1) in computing its income for taxation years ending before that time.
Change of control
(3)Where at any time after June 5, 1987 control of a corporation has been acquired by a person or group of persons, the amount deductible under subsection 66.5(1) by the corporation in computing its income for a taxation year ending after that time shall not exceed the amount, if any, by which
the part of its income for the year that may reasonably be regarded as attributable to production from Canadian resource properties owned by it immediately before that time
exceeds
the total of all amounts deducted under subsection 29(25) of the Income Tax Application Rules and subsections 66.7(1), (3), (4) and (5) by it in respect of its income for the year in computing its income for the 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 66.5 links to the one before it.
Enacting and amending legislation
- 1986, c. 2, s. 19, c. 58, s. 9; 1987, c. 46, s. 22
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. 66.5.