- (i) a business carried on by the taxpayer, either alone or as a partner actively engaged in the business, or
- (ii) property, where the loss is sustained from the rental of real or immovable property,
and, for the purposes of this definition, the income or loss of a taxpayer for any period in a taxation year is the taxpayer’s income or loss computed as though that period were the whole taxation year; ( revenu gagné )
means the person referred to in the definition in this subsection with whom an annuitant has a contract or arrangement that is a retirement savings plan; ( émetteur )
means the date fixed under a retirement savings plan for the commencement of any retirement income the payment of which is provided for by the plan; ( échéance )
of a taxpayer for a taxation year means the positive or negative amount determined by the formula
is the total of all amounts each of which is the taxpayer’s past service pension adjustment for the year in respect of an employer, is the total of all amounts each of which is the amount of a contribution made under subsection 147.1(20), or deemed by prescribed rules to have been made, in respect of the taxpayer for the immediately preceding year, and is the amount of the taxpayer’s PSPA withdrawals for the year, determined as of the end of the year in accordance with prescribed rules; ( facteur d’équivalence pour services passés net )
has the same meaning as in subsection 207.01(1); ( placement non admissible )
means any periodic or other amount paid or payable under a retirement savings plan
- (a) as consideration for any contract referred to in paragraph (a) of the definition to pay a retirement income, or
- (b) as a contribution or deposit referred to in paragraph (b) of that definition for the purpose stated in that paragraph
but except for the purposes of paragraph (b) of the definition in this subsection, paragraph (2)(b.3), subsection (22) and the definition in subsection 146.02(1), does not include a repayment to which paragraph (b) or (d) of the definition in subsection 146.01(1), or paragraph (b) of the definition in subsection 146.02(1), applies or an amount that is designated under subsection 146.01(3) or 146.02(3); ( prime )
for a trust governed by a registered retirement savings plan means
- (a) an investment that would be described by any of paragraphs (a) to (d), (f) and (g) of the definition in section 204 if the reference in that definition to “a trust governed by a deferred profit sharing plan or revoked plan” were read as a reference to “a trust governed by a registered retirement savings plan” and if that definition were read without reference to the words “with the exception of excluded property in relation to the trust”,
- (b) [Repealed, 2007, c. 29, s. 17]
- (c) an annuity described in the definition in respect of the annuitant under the plan, if purchased from a licensed annuities provider,
- (c.1) a contract for an annuity issued by a licensed annuities provider where
- (i) the trust is the only person who, disregarding any subsequent transfer of the contract by the trust, is or may become entitled to any annuity payments under the contract, and
- (ii) the holder of the contract has a right to surrender the contract at any time for an amount that would, if reasonable sales and administration charges were ignored, approximate the value of funds that could otherwise be applied to fund future periodic payments under the contract,
- (i) annual or more frequent periodic payments are or may be made under the contract to the holder of the contract,
- (ii) the trust is the only person who, disregarding any subsequent transfer of the contract by the trust, is or may become entitled to any annuity payments under the contract,
- (iii) neither the time nor the amount of any payment under the contract may vary because of the length of any life, other than the life of the annuitant under the plan (in this definition referred to as the “RRSP annuitant”),
- (iv) the day on which the periodic payments began or are to begin (in this paragraph referred to as the “start date”) is not later than the end of the year in which the RRSP annuitant attains 72 years of age,
- (v) either
- (A) the periodic payments are payable for the life of the RRSP annuitant and either there is no guaranteed period under the contract or there is a guaranteed period that begins at the start date and does not exceed a term equal to 90 years minus the lesser of
- (I) the age in whole years at the start date of the RRSP annuitant (determined on the assumption that the RRSP annuitant is alive at the start date), and
- (II) the age in whole years at the start date of a spouse or common-law partner of the RRSP annuitant (determined on the assumption that a spouse or common-law partner of the RRSP annuitant at the time the contract was acquired is a spouse or common-law partner of the RRSP annuitant at the start date), or
- (I) 90 years minus the age described in subclause (I), or
- (II) 90 years minus the age described in subclause (II), and
- (A) are equal, or
- (B) are not equal solely because of one or more adjustments that would, if the contract were an annuity under a retirement savings plan, be in accordance with subparagraphs 146(3)(b)(iii) to 146(3)(b)(v) or that arise because of a uniform reduction in the entitlement to the periodic payments as a consequence of a partial surrender of rights to the periodic payments, and
of a taxpayer for a taxation year means the amount determined by the formula
- (a) the lesser of the RRSP dollar limit for the year and 18% of the taxpayer’s earned income for the preceding taxation year
exceeds the total of all amounts each of which is
- (b) the taxpayer’s pension adjustment for the preceding taxation year in respect of an employer, or
- (c) a prescribed amount in respect of the taxpayer for the year,
for a calendar year means
- (a) for years other than 1996 and 2003, the money purchase limit for the preceding year,
- (b) for 1996, $13,500, and
- (c) for 2003, $14,500; ( plafond REER )
means any amount paid out of or under a registered retirement savings plan (other than a tax-paid amount in respect of the plan) as a consequence of the death of the annuitant under the plan,
- (a) to an individual who was, immediately before the death, a spouse or common-law partner of the annuitant, where the annuitant died before the maturity of the plan, or
- (b) to a child or grandchild of the annuitant who was, immediately before the death, financially dependent on the annuitant for support; ( remboursement de primes )
means a retirement savings plan accepted by the Minister for registration for the purposes of this Act as complying with the requirements of this section; ( régime enregistré d’épargne-retraite )
- (a) an annuity commencing at maturity, and with or without a guaranteed term commencing at maturity, not exceeding the term referred to in paragraph (b), or, in the case of a plan entered into before March 14, 1957, not exceeding 20 years, payable to
- (i) the annuitant for the annuitant’s life, or
- (ii) the annuitant for the lives, jointly, of the annuitant and the annuitant’s spouse and to the survivor of them for the survivor’s life, or
- (i) the age in whole years of the annuitant at the maturity of the plan, or
- (ii) where the annuitant’s spouse is younger than the annuitant and the annuitant so elects, the age in whole years of the spouse at the maturity of the plan,
issued by a person described in the definition in this subsection with whom an individual may have a contract or arrangement that is a retirement savings plan,
or any combination thereof; ( revenu de retraite )
- (a) a contract between an individual and a person licensed or otherwise authorized under the laws of Canada or a province to carry on in Canada an annuities business, under which, in consideration of payment by the individual or the individual’s spouse or common-law partner of any periodic or other amount as consideration under the contract, a retirement income commencing at maturity is to be provided for the individual, or
- (b) an arrangement under which payment is made by an individual or the individual’s spouse or common-law partner
- (i) in trust to a corporation licensed or otherwise authorized under the laws of Canada or a province to carry on in Canada the business of offering to the public its services as trustee, of any periodic or other amount as a contribution under the trust,
- (ii) to a corporation approved by the Governor in Council for the purposes of this section that is licensed or otherwise authorized under the laws of Canada or a province to issue investment contracts providing for the payment to or to the credit of the holder thereof of a fixed or determinable amount at maturity, of any periodic or other amount as a contribution under such a contract between the individual and that corporation, or
- (iii) as a deposit with a branch or office, in Canada, of
- (A) a person who is, or is eligible to become, a member of the Canadian Payments Association, or
- (B) a credit union that is a shareholder or member of a body corporate referred to as a “central” for the purposes of the Canadian Payments Act ,
(in this section referred to as a “depositary”)
to be used, invested or otherwise applied by that corporation or that depositary, as the case may be, for the purpose of providing for the individual, commencing at maturity, a retirement income; ( régime d’épargne-retraite )
, in relation to a taxpayer, means
- (a) a registered retirement savings plan
- (i) to which the taxpayer has, at a time when the taxpayer’s spouse or common-law partner was the annuitant under the plan, paid a premium, or
- (ii) that has received a payment out of or a transfer from a registered retirement savings plan or a registered retirement income fund that was a spousal or common-law partner plan in relation to the taxpayer, or
[Repealed, 2001, c. 17, s. 246]
paid to a person in respect of a registered retirement saving plan means
- (a) an amount paid to the person in respect of the amount that would, if this Act were read without reference to subsection 104(6), be income of a trust governed by the plan for a taxation year for which the trust was subject to tax because of paragraph 146(4)(c), or
- (b) where
- (i) the plan is a deposit with a depositary referred to in clause (b)(iii)(B) of the definition in this subsection, and
- (ii) an amount is received at any time out of or under the plan by the person,
the portion of the amount that can reasonably be considered to relate to interest or another amount in respect of the deposit that was required to be included in computing the income of any person (other than the annuitant) otherwise than because of this section; ( montant libéré d’impôt )
of a taxpayer at the end of a taxation year means,
- (a) for taxation years ending before 1991, nil, and
- (b) for taxation years that end after 1990, the amount, which can be positive or negative, determined by the formula
- (i) the lesser of the RRSP dollar limit for the year and 18% of the taxpayer’s earned income for the preceding taxation year
exceeds the total of all amounts each of which is
- (ii) the taxpayer’s pension adjustment for the preceding taxation year in respect of an employer, or
- (iii) a prescribed amount in respect of the taxpayer for the year,
- (i) an amount deducted by the taxpayer under any of subsections (5) to (5.2), in computing the taxpayer’s income for the year,
- (ii) an amount deducted by the taxpayer under paragraph 10 of Article XVIII of the Canada-United States Tax Convention signed at Washington on September 26, 1980 or a similar provision in another tax treaty, in computing the taxpayer’s taxable income for the year,
- (iii) a contribution made by an employer in the year to a pooled registered pension plan in respect of the taxpayer, or
- (iv) the amount, if any, by which the taxpayer’s exempt-income contribution amount (as defined in subsection 147.5(1)) for the year exceeds the taxpayer’s unused non-deductible PRPP room (as defined in subsection 147.5(1)) at the end of the preceding taxation year, and
A + B where is the amount determined for F in subsection 118(1.1) for that preceding taxation year; and is nil, unless the financial dependency was because of mental or physical infirmity, in which case it is $6,180 adjusted for each such preceding taxation year that is after 2002 in the manner set out in section 117.1.
- (a) the plan does not provide for the payment of any benefit before maturity except
- (i) a refund of premiums, and
- (ii) a payment to the annuitant;
- (i) by way of retirement income to the annuitant,
- (ii) to the annuitant in full or partial commutation of retirement income under the plan, and
- (iii) in respect of a commutation referred to in paragraph 146(2)(c.2);
- (i) the depositary has no right of offset as regards the property held under the plan in connection with any debt or obligation owing to the depositary, and
- (ii) the property held under the plan cannot be pledged, assigned or in any way alienated as security for a loan or for any purpose other than that of providing for the annuitant, commencing at maturity, a retirement income; and
- (a) provides for the payment of a benefit after maturity by way of dividend;
- (b) provides for any annual or more frequent periodic amount payable
- (i) to the annuitant referred to in subparagraph (a)(ii) of the definition in subsection 146(1) by way of an annuity described in paragraph (a) of that definition to be reduced, in the event of the death of the annuitant’s spouse or common-law partner during the lifetime of the annuitant, in such manner as to provide for the payment of equal annual or more frequent periodic amounts throughout the lifetime of the annuitant thereafter,
- (ii) to any person by way of an annuity, to be reduced if a pension becomes payable to that person under the Old Age Security Act , by an annual or other periodic amount not exceeding the amount payable to that person in that period under that Act,
- (iii) to any person by way of an annuity, to be increased or reduced depending on the increase or reduction in the value of a specified group of assets constituting the assets of a separate and distinct account or fund maintained in respect of a variable annuities business by a person licensed or otherwise authorized under the laws of Canada or a province to carry on in Canada that business,
- (iii.1) to any person by way of an annuity under a contract that provides for the increase or reduction of the annuity in accordance only with a change in the interest rate on which the annuity is based, if the interest rate, as increased or reduced, equals or approximates a generally available Canadian market interest rate,
- (iv) that may be adjusted annually to reflect
- (A) in whole or in part increases in the Consumer Price Index, as published by Statistics Canada under the authority of the Statistics Act , or
- (B) increases at a rate specified in the annuity contract, not exceeding 4% per annum, or
- (a) if the trust has borrowed money (other than money used in carrying on a business) in the year or has, after June 18, 1971, borrowed money (other than money used in carrying on a business) that it has not repaid before the commencement of the year, tax is payable under this Part by the trust on its taxable income for the year;
- (b) in any case not described in paragraph 146(4)(a), if the trust has carried on any business or businesses in the year, tax is payable under this Part by the trust on the amount, if any, by which
- (i) the amount that its taxable income for the year would be if it had no incomes or losses from sources other than from that business or those businesses, as the case may be,
- (ii) such portion of the amount determined under subparagraph 146(4)(b)(i) in respect of the trust for the year as can reasonably be considered to be income from, or from the disposition of, qualified investments for the trust; and
- (a) the amount, if any, by which the total of all amounts each of which is a premium paid by the taxpayer after 1990 and on or before the day that is 60 days after the end of the year under a registered retirement savings plan under which the taxpayer was the annuitant at the time the premium was paid, other than the portion, if any, of the premium
- (i) that was deducted in computing the taxpayer’s income for a preceding taxation year,
- (ii) that was designated for any taxation year for the purposes of paragraph 60(j), 60(j.1) or 60(l),
- (iii) in respect of which the taxpayer received a payment that was deducted under subsection 146(8.2) in computing the taxpayer’s income for a preceding taxation year,
- (iii.1) that was an exempt-income contribution amount (as defined in subsection 147.5(1)) for any taxation year,
- (iv) that was deductible under subsection 146(6.1) in computing the taxpayer’s income for any taxation year or
- (iv.1) that would be considered to be withdrawn by the taxpayer as an eligible amount (as defined in subsection 146.01(1) or 146.02(1)) less than 90 days after it was paid, if earnings in respect of a registered retirement savings plan were considered to be withdrawn before premiums paid under that plan and premiums were considered to be withdrawn in the order in which they were paid
- (v) the amount, if any, by which
- (A) the total of all amounts deducted under subsection 147.3(13.1) in computing the taxpayer’s income for the year or a preceding taxation year
- (B) the total of all amounts, in respect of transfers occurring before 1991 from registered pension plans, deemed by paragraph 147.3(10)(b) or 147.3(10)(c) to be a premium paid by the taxpayer to a registered retirement savings plan, and
- (a) the total of all amounts each of which is a premium paid by the taxpayer after 1990 and on or before the day that is 60 days after the end of the year under a registered retirement savings plan under which the taxpayer’s spouse or common-law partner (or, where the taxpayer died in the year or within 60 days after the end of the year, an individual who was the taxpayer’s spouse or common-law partner immediately before the death) was the annuitant at the time the premium was paid, other than the portion, if any, of the premium
- (i) that was deducted in computing the taxpayer’s income for a preceding taxation year,
- (ii) that was designated for any taxation year for the purposes of paragraph 60(j.2),
- (iii) in respect of which the taxpayer or the taxpayer’s spouse or common-law partner has received a payment that has been deducted under subsection 146(8.2) in computing the taxpayer’s income for a preceding taxation year, or
- (iv) that would be considered to be withdrawn by the taxpayer’s spouse or common-law partner as an eligible amount (as defined in subsection 146.01(1) or 146.02(1)) less than 90 days after it was paid, if earnings in respect of a registered retirement savings plan were considered to be withdrawn before premiums paid under that plan and premiums were considered to be withdrawn in the order in which they were paid, and
- (i) the amount deducted under subsection (5) in computing the taxpayer’s income for the year, or
- (ii) a contribution made by an employer in the year to a pooled registered pension plan in respect of the taxpayer.
- (a) the prescribed amount that would have been determined for the purpose of paragraph 147.3(4)(c) if subsection 8517(3.01) of the Regulations had applied in respect of the transfer, and
- (b) the amount of the taxpayer’s entitlement to benefits under the provision commuted in connection with the transfer;
- (a) a registered pension plan is amended or administered in such a manner as to terminate, suspend or delay
- (i) the membership of an individual in the plan for the individual’s 1990 taxation year,
- (ii) contributions under the plan by or for the benefit of the individual in respect of the year, or
- (iii) the accrual of retirement benefits under the plan for the individual in respect of the year, or
and one of the main reasons for the termination, suspension or delay may reasonably be considered to be to reduce the pension adjustment of the individual for the year in respect of an employer, the only amount that may be deducted in computing the income for the year of the individual, in respect of premiums paid to registered retirement savings plans, is the amount that would have been deductible had that termination, suspension or delay not occurred.
- (a) the net loss (exclusive of payments by the trust as or on account of interest) sustained by the trust in consequence of its using the property, or permitting it to be used, as security for the loan and not as a result of a change in the fair market value of the property
is deducted from
- (b) the amount so included in computing the income of the taxpayer in consequence of the trust’s using the property, or permitting it to be used, as security for the loan.
- (a) a payment not less than the designated amount is made from the estate of the deceased annuitant to the individual who is entitled to receive the payment
- (i) as a (as defined in subsection 108(1)) under the estate, or
- (ii) under a decree, order or judgment of a competent tribunal or under a written agreement, relating to the rights or interests of a spouse or common-law partner in respect of property as a result of marriage or common-law partnership; and
- (a) all or any portion of the premiums paid in a taxation year by a taxpayer to one or more registered retirement savings plans under which the taxpayer or the taxpayer’s spouse or common-law partner was the annuitant was not deducted in computing the taxpayer’s income for any taxation year,
- (b) the taxpayer or the taxpayer’s spouse or common-law partner can reasonably be regarded as having received a payment from a registered retirement savings plan or a registered retirement income fund in respect of such portion of the undeducted premiums as
- (i) was not paid by way of a transfer of an amount from a registered pension plan to a registered retirement savings plan,
- (ii) was not paid by way of a transfer of an amount from a deferred profit sharing plan to a registered retirement savings plan in accordance with subsection 147(19), and
- (iii) was not paid by way of a transfer of an amount to a registered retirement savings plan from
- (A) a pooled registered pension plan in circumstances to which subsection 147.5(21) applied, or
- (B) a specified pension plan in circumstances to which subsection (21) applied,
- (i) the year in which the premiums were paid by the taxpayer,
- (ii) the year in which a notice of assessment for the taxation year referred to in subparagraph 146(8.2)(c)(i) was sent to the taxpayer, or
- (iii) the year immediately following the year referred to in subparagraph 146(8.2)(c)(i) or 146(8.2)(c)(ii), and
the payment (except to the extent that it is a prescribed withdrawal) may be deducted in computing the taxpayer’s income for the particular year unless it is reasonable to consider that
- (e) the taxpayer did not reasonably expect that the full amount of the premiums would be deductible in the taxation year in which the premiums were paid or in the immediately preceding taxation year, and
- (f) the taxpayer paid all or any portion of the premiums with the intent of receiving a payment that, but for this paragraph and paragraph 146(8.2)(e), would be deductible under this subsection.
- (a) for the purposes of determining, after that time, the amount that may be deducted under subsection 146(5) or 146(5.1) in computing the taxpayer’s income for the year or a preceding taxation year, and
- (b) for the purposes of subsections 146(8.3) and 146.3(5.1) after that time, in the case of a payment received by the taxpayer,
be deemed not to have been a premium paid by the taxpayer to a registered retirement savings plan.
- (a) the total of all amounts each of which is a premium paid by the taxpayer in the year or in one of the two immediately preceding taxation years to a registered retirement savings plan under which the taxpayer’s spouse or common-law partner was the annuitant at the time the premium was paid, and
- (b) the particular amount.
- (a) the premium or part thereof, as the case may be, shall, for the purposes of subsections 146(8.3) and 146.3(5.1) after that time, be deemed not to have been a premium paid to a registered retirement savings plan under which the taxpayer’s spouse or common-law partner was the annuitant; and
- (b) an amount equal to the premium or part thereof, as the case may be, may be deducted in computing the income of the spouse or common-law partner for the year.
- (a) in respect of a taxpayer at any time during the year in which the taxpayer died;
- (b) in respect of a taxpayer where either the taxpayer or the taxpayer’s spouse or common-law partner is a non-resident at the particular time referred to in that subsection;
- (c) in respect of amounts paid out of or under a plan referred to in subsection 146(12) as an “amended plan” to which paragraph 146(12)(a) applied before May 26, 1976;
- (d) to any payment that is received in full or partial commutation of a registered retirement income fund or a registered retirement savings plan and in respect of which a deduction was made under paragraph 60(l) if, where the deduction was in respect of the acquisition of an annuity, the terms of the annuity provide that it cannot be commuted, and it is not commuted, in whole or in part within 3 years after the acquisition; or
- (e) in respect of an amount that is deemed by subsection 146(8.8) to have been received by an annuitant under a registered retirement savings plan immediately before the annuitant’s death.
- (a) the fair market value of all the property of the plan at the time of death
- (b) where the annuitant died after the maturity of the plan, the fair market value at the time of the death of the portion of the property described in paragraph 146(8.8)(a) that, as a consequence of the death, becomes receivable by a person who was the annuitant’s spouse or common-law partner immediately before the death, or would become so receivable should that person survive throughout all guaranteed terms contained in the plan.
- (a) all refunds of premiums in respect of the plan,
- (b) all tax-paid amounts in respect of the plan paid to individuals who, otherwise than because of subsection 146(8.1), received refunds of premiums in respect of the plan, and
- (c) all amounts each of which is a tax-paid amount in respect of the plan paid to the legal representative of the annuitant under the plan, to the extent that the legal representative would have been entitled to designate that tax-paid amount under subsection 146(8.1) if tax-paid amounts were not excluded in determining refunds of premiums;
- (a) the end of the first calendar year that begins after the death of the annuitant, and
- (b) the time immediately after the last time that any refund of premiums in respect of the plan is paid out of or under the plan;
- (a) the fair market value of the property of the plan at the time of the annuitant’s death, and
- (b) the sum of the values of B and C in respect of the plan.
- (a) the spouse or common-law partner shall be deemed to have become the annuitant under the plan as a consequence of the annuitant’s death; and
- (b) those amounts shall be deemed to be receivable by the spouse or common-law partner and, when paid, to be received by the spouse or common-law partner as a benefit under the plan, and not to be received by any other person.
- (a) the amount deemed by subsection (8.8) to have been received by the annuitant as a benefit out of or under the plan,
- (b) an amount (other than an amount described in paragraph (c)) received, after the death of the annuitant, by a taxpayer as a benefit out of or under the plan and included, because of subsection (8), in computing the taxpayer’s income, or
- (c) a tax-paid amount in respect of the plan; and
- (a) at any time after the death of the annuitant, a trust governed by the plan held a non-qualified investment; or
- (b) the last payment out of or under the plan was made after the end of the year following the year in which the annuitant died.
- (a) disposes of property for a consideration less than the fair market value of the property at the time of the disposition, or for no consideration, or
- (b) acquires property for a consideration greater than the fair market value of the property at the time of the acquisition,
the difference between the fair market value and the consideration, if any, shall be included in computing the income for the taxation year of the annuitant under the plan.
- (a) tax is payable under this Part by the trust on the amount that its taxable income for the year would be if it had no incomes or losses from sources other than non-qualified investments and no capital gains or losses other than from dispositions of non-qualified investments; and
- (b) for the purposes of paragraph 146(10.1)(a),
- (i) includes dividends described in section 83, and
- (ii) paragraphs 38(a) and (b) are to be read as if the fraction set out in each of those paragraphs were replaced by the word “all”.
- (a) the amended plan shall be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, not to be a registered retirement savings plan; and
- (b) the taxpayer who was the annuitant under the plan before it became an amended plan shall, in computing the taxpayer’s income for the taxation year that includes that day, include as income received at that time an amount equal to the fair market value of all the property of the plan immediately before that time.
- (a) to a registered pension plan for the benefit of the transferor or to a registered retirement savings plan or registered retirement income fund under which the transferor is the annuitant,
- (a.1) to a licensed annuities provider to acquire an advanced life deferred annuity for the benefit of the transferor,
- (a.2) to a FHSA for the benefit of the transferor, if subsection (8.3) would not apply to an amount in respect of the property in the case that the property was instead received by the transferor as a benefit out of or under the registered retirement savings plan, or
- (b) to a registered retirement savings plan or registered retirement income fund under which the spouse or common-law partner or former spouse or common-law partner of the transferor is the annuitant, where the transferor and the transferor’s spouse or common-law partner or former spouse or common-law partner are living separate and apart and the payment or transfer is made under a decree, order or judgment of a competent tribunal, or under a written separation agreement, relating to a division of property between the transferor and the transferor’s spouse or common-law partner or former spouse or common-law partner in settlement of rights arising out of, or on the breakdown of, their marriage or common-law partnership,
and, where there has been such a payment or transfer of such property on behalf of the transferor before the maturity of the plan,
- (c) the amount of the payment or transfer shall not, solely because of the payment or transfer, be included in computing the income of the transferor or the transferor’s spouse or common-law partner or former spouse or common-law partner,
- (d) no deduction may be made under subsection (5), (5.1) or (8.2) or section 8, 60 or 146.6 in respect of the payment or transfer in computing the income of any taxpayer, and
- (e) where the payment or transfer was made to a registered retirement savings plan, for the purposes of subsection 146(8.2), the amount of the payment or transfer shall be deemed not to be a premium paid to that plan by the taxpayer.
- (a) an amount is credited or added to a deposit with a depositary referred to in subparagraph (b)(iii) of the definition in subsection 146(1) as interest or income in respect of the deposit,
- (b) the deposit is a registered retirement savings plan at the time the amount is credited or added to the deposit, and
- (c) during the calendar year in which the amount is credited or added or during the preceding calendar year, the annuitant under the plan was alive,
the amount shall be deemed not to be received by the annuitant or any other person solely because of the crediting or adding.
- (a) an amount (other than an amount that is part of a series of periodic payments) is transferred directly from an individual’s account under a specified pension plan
- (i) to a registered retirement savings plan or registered retirement income fund under which the individual, or a spouse or common-law partner or former spouse or common-law partner of the individual, is the annuitant,
- (ii) to acquire from a licensed annuities provider an annuity that would be described in subparagraph 60(l)(ii) if the individual, or a spouse or common-law partner or former spouse or common-law partner of the individual, were the taxpayer referred to in that subparagraph and if that subparagraph were read without reference to clause 60(l)(ii)(B), or
- (iii) to an account under the plan of a spouse or common-law partner or former spouse or common-law partner of the individual, and
- (i) the individual and the spouse or common-law partner or former spouse or common-law partner are living separate and apart and the transfer is made under a decree, order or judgment of a competent tribunal, or under a written separation agreement, relating to a division of property in settlement of rights arising out of, or on the breakdown of, their marriage or common-law partnership, or
- (ii) the amount is transferred as a consequence of the individual’s death,
the following rules apply:
- (c) the amount shall not, solely because of the transfer, be included because of subparagraph 56(1)(a)(i) in computing the income of a taxpayer, and
- (d) no deduction may be made under any provision of this Act in respect of the transfer in computing the income of a taxpayer.
- (a) except for the purposes of subparagraphs (5)(a)(iv.1) and (5.1)(a)(iv), an amount paid by an individual in a taxation year (other than an amount paid in the first 60 days of the year) as a premium is deemed to have been paid at the beginning of the year and not at the time it was actually paid;
- (b) all or part of the amount may be designated in writing by the individual for the purpose of paragraph 60(j), (j.1) or (l) or subsection 146.01(3) or 146.02(3); and
- (c) the designation is deemed to have been made in the individual’s return of income for the preceding taxation year or in a prescribed form filed with that return, as the case may be.
- [NOTE: Application provisions are not included in the consolidated text
- see relevant amending Acts and regulations.]
- R.S., 1985, c. 1 (5th Supp.), s. 146
- 1994, c. 7, Sch. II, s. 117, Sch. VII, s. 13, Sch. VIII, s. 82, c. 21, ss. 69, 136
- 1995, c. 3, s. 43
- 1996, c. 21, s. 34
- 1997, c. 25, s. 41
- 1998, c. 19, ss. 37, 170
- 1999, c. 22, s. 59
- 2000, c. 12, ss. 135(F), 142, c. 19, s. 42
- 2001, c. 17, ss. 139, 246(E)
- 2003, c. 15, s. 82
- 2007, c. 29, s. 17
- 2009, c. 2, s. 51
- 2011, c. 24, s. 45
- 2012, c. 31, s. 32
- 2013, c. 34, ss. 137, 296
- 2014, c. 39, s. 50
- 2016, c. 12, s. 52
- 2017, c. 33, s. 56
- 2019, c. 29, s. 26
- 2021, c. 23, s. 31
- 2022, c. 10, s. 15
- 2022, c. 19, s. 29
- 2023, c. 26, s. 37
- 2024, c. 17, s. 48
- (A) the periodic payments are payable for the life of the RRSP annuitant and either there is no guaranteed period under the contract or there is a guaranteed period that begins at the start date and does not exceed a term equal to 90 years minus the lesser of