Section 199 — Excise Tax Act: Application

This section does not apply in respect of property of a registrant that is a financial institution or a prescribed registrant; or a passenger vehicle or an aircraft of a registrant who is an individual or a partnership. Where a registrant acquires or imports personal property or brings it into a participating province for use as capital property, the tax payable by the registrant in respect of the acquisition, importation or bringing in of the property shall not be included in determining an input tax credit of the registrant for any reporting period unless the property was acquired, imported or brought in, as the case may be, for use primarily in commercial activities of the registrant; and where the registrant acquires, imports or brings in the property for use primarily in commercial activities of the registrant, the registrant is deemed, for the purposes of this Part, to have acquired, imported or brought in the property, as the case may be, for use exclusively in commercial activities of the registrant. For the purposes of this Part, where a registrant last acquired or imported personal property for use as capital property of the registrant but not for use primarily in commercial activities of the registrant and the registrant begins, at a particular time, to use the property as capital property primarily in commercial activities of the registrant, except where the registrant becomes a registrant at the particular time, the registrant shall be deemed to have received, at the particular time, a supply of the property by way of sale; and except where the supply is an exempt supply, to have paid, at the particular time, tax in respect of the supply equal to the basic tax content of the property at the particular time. Where a registrant acquires, imports or brings into a participating province an improvement to personal property that is capital property of the registrant, tax payable by the registrant in respect of the acquisition, importation or bringing in shall not be included in determining an input tax credit of the registrant unless, at the time that tax becomes payable or is paid without having become payable, the capital property is used primarily in commercial activities of the registrant. For the purposes of subsections (2) and (3) and 200(2) and (3), where an individual who is a registrant uses a musical instrument that is capital property of the individual in an employment of the individual or in a business carried on by a partnership of which the individual is a member, that use is deemed to be use in commercial activities of the individual.