Section 175 — Excise Tax Act: Employee, partner or volunteer reimbursement

Where an employee of an employer, a member of a partnership or a volunteer who gives services to a charity or public institution acquires or imports property or a service or brings it into a participating province for consumption or use in relation to activities of the employer, partnership, charity or public institution (each of which is referred to in this subsection as the “person”), the employee, member or volunteer paid the tax payable in respect of that acquisition, importation or bringing in and the person pays an amount to the employee, member or volunteer as a reimbursement in respect of the property or service, for the purposes of this Part, the person is deemed to have received a supply of the property or service; any consumption or use of the property or service by the employee, member or volunteer in relation to activities of the person is deemed to be consumption or use by the person and not by the employee, member or volunteer; and the person is deemed to have paid, at the time the reimbursement is paid, tax in respect of the supply equal to the amount determined by the formula A × B where A is the tax paid by the employee, member or volunteer in respect of the acquisition, importation or bringing into a particular province of the property or service by the employee, member or volunteer, and B is the lesser of the percentage of the cost to the employee, member or volunteer of the property or service that is reimbursed, and the extent (expressed as a percentage) to which the property or service was acquired, imported or brought into the province, as the case may be, by the employee, member or volunteer for consumption or use in relation to activities of the person. Subsection (1) does not apply to a reimbursement in respect of property or a service acquired, imported or brought into a participating province by a member of a partnership where paragraph 272.1(2)(b) applies to the acquisition, importation or bringing in, as the case may be, and the reimbursement is paid to the member after the member files with the Minister a return of the member under section 238 in which an input tax credit in respect of the property or service is claimed.