Section 266 — Excise Tax Act: Definitions

In this section, business includes a part of a business; ( entreprise ) receiver means a person who under the authority of a debenture, bond or other debt security, of a court order or of an Act of Parliament or of the legislature of a province, is empowered to operate or manage a business or a property of another person, is appointed by a trustee under a trust deed in respect of a debt security to exercise the authority of the trustee to manage or operate a business or a property of the debtor under the debt security, is appointed by a bank to act as agent of the bank in the exercise of the authority of the bank under subsection 426(3) of the Bank Act in respect of property of another person, is appointed as a liquidator to liquidate the assets of a corporation or to wind up the affairs of a corporation, or is appointed as a committee, guardian or curator with authority to manage and care for the affairs and assets of an individual who is incapable of managing those affairs and assets, and includes a person who is appointed to exercise the authority of a creditor under a debenture, bond or other debt security to operate or manage a business or a property of another person but, where a person is appointed to exercise the authority of a creditor under a debenture, bond or other debt security to operate or manage a business or a property of another person, does not include that creditor; ( séquestre ) relevant assets of a receiver means where the receiver’s authority relates to all the properties, businesses, affairs and assets of a person, all those properties, businesses, affairs and assets, and where the receiver’s authority relates to only part of the properties, businesses, affairs or assets of a person, that part of the properties, businesses, affairs or assets, as the case may be. ( actif pertinent ) For the purposes of this Part, where on a particular day a receiver is vested with authority to manage, operate, liquidate, or wind up any business or property, or to manage and care for the affairs and assets, of a person, the receiver shall be deemed to be an agent of the person and any supply made or received and any act performed by the receiver in respect of the relevant assets of the receiver shall be deemed to have been made, received or performed, as the case may be, by the receiver as agent on behalf of the person; the receiver shall be deemed not to be a trustee of the estate of the person or any part of the estate of the person; where the relevant assets of the receiver are a part and not all of the person’s businesses, properties, affairs or assets, the relevant assets of the receiver shall be deemed to be, throughout the period during which the receiver is acting as receiver of the person, separate from the remainder of the businesses, properties, affairs or assets of the person as though the relevant assets were businesses, properties, affairs or assets, as the case may be, of a separate person; the person and the receiver are jointly and severally, or solidarily, liable for the payment or remittance of all amounts that become payable or remittable by the person under this Part before or during the period during which the receiver is acting as receiver of the person to the extent that the amounts can reasonably be considered to relate to the relevant assets of the receiver or to the businesses, properties, affairs or assets of the person that would have been the relevant assets of the receiver if the receiver had been acting as receiver of the person at the time the amounts became payable or remittable, as the case may be, except that the receiver is liable for the payment or remittance of amounts that became payable or remittable before that period only to the extent of the property and money of the person in possession or under the control and management of the receiver after satisfying the claims of creditors whose claims ranked, on the particular day, in priority to the claim of the Crown in respect of the amounts, and paying any amounts that the receiver is required to pay to a trustee in bankruptcy of the person, the person is not liable for the remittance of any tax collected or collectible by the receiver, and the payment or remittance by the person or the receiver of an amount in respect of the liability shall discharge their liability to the extent of that amount; the reporting periods of the person begin and end on the days on which they would have begun and ended if the vesting had not occurred, except that the reporting period of the person, in relation to the relevant assets of the receiver, during which the receiver begins to act as receiver of the person, shall end on the particular day and a new reporting period of the person in relation to the relevant assets shall begin on the day immediately after the particular day, and the reporting period of the person, in relation to the relevant assets, during which the receiver ceases to act as receiver of the person, shall end on the day the receiver ceases to act as receiver of the person; the receiver shall file with the Minister in prescribed form containing prescribed information all returns in respect of the relevant assets of the receiver for, or in respect of supplies of real property that can reasonably be considered to relate to the relevant assets and that were made to the person in, reporting periods ending in the period during which the receiver is acting as receiver and that are required under this Part to be made by the person, as if the relevant assets were the only properties, businesses, affairs and assets of the person; if the person has not on or before the particular day filed a return required under this Part to be filed by the person for a reporting period of the person ending on or before the particular day, and in, or immediately before, the fiscal year of the person that included the particular day, the receiver shall, unless the Minister waives in writing the requirement for the receiver to file the return, file with the Minister in prescribed form containing prescribed information a return for that reporting period that relates to the businesses, properties, affairs or assets of the person that would have been the relevant assets of the receiver if the receiver had been acting as receiver of the person during that reporting period;

and if the person has not on or before the particular day filed a return required under this Part to be filed by the person in respect of a supply of real property made to the person in a reporting period of the person ending on or before the particular day, and in, or immediately before, the fiscal year of the person that included the particular day, and that can reasonably be considered to relate to the businesses, properties, affairs or assets of the person that would have been the relevant assets of the receiver if the receiver had been acting as receiver of the person during that reporting period, the receiver shall, unless the Minister waives in writing the requirement for the receiver to file the return, file with the Minister in prescribed form containing prescribed information a return in respect of the supply.