Section 256.1 — Excise Tax Act: Rebate to owner of land leased for residential purposes

If an exempt supply of land described by section 6.1 or 6.11 of Part I of Schedule V is made to a particular lessee who is acquiring the land for the purpose of making a particular supply of property or a service that includes the land or a particular supply of a lease, licence or similar arrangement in respect of property that includes the land, and the particular supply is an exempt supply of property or a service, other than a supply that is exempt only by virtue of paragraph 6(b) of Part I of Schedule V, that includes giving possession or use of a residential complex, or of a residential unit forming part of a residential complex, to another person under a lease, licence or similar arrangement entered into for the purpose of its occupancy by an individual as a place of residence or lodging, or is described by section 7 of Part I of Schedule V, other than an exempt supply described by paragraph 7(a) of that Part made to a person described in subparagraph 7(a)(ii) of that Part, and will result in the particular lessee being deemed under any of subsections 190(3) to (5) and section 191 to have made a supply of property that includes the land at a particular time, the Minister shall, subject to subsection (2), pay a rebate, to each person (in this subsection referred to as the “landlord”) who is an owner or lessee of the land and who is not the particular lessee, equal to the amount determined by the formula A - B where A is the total of all tax that, before the particular time, became or would, but for section 167, have become payable by the landlord in respect of the last acquisition of the land by the landlord and the tax that was payable by the landlord in respect of improvements to the land that were acquired, imported or brought into a participating province by the landlord after that last acquisition and that were used before the particular time in the course of improving the property that includes the land, and B is the total of all other rebates and input tax credits that the landlord was entitled to claim in respect of any amount included in the total for A. A rebate shall not be paid under subsection (1) to an owner or lessee of land in respect of a supply of the land made to a person who will be deemed under any of subsections 190(3) to (5) and section 191 to have made on a particular day another supply of the property that includes the land, unless the owner or lessee, as the case may be, files an application for the rebate on or before the day that is two years after the particular day.