Section 356 — Excise Tax Act: Services substantially all performed before implementation

Where a supply (other than a supply to which subsection (6) applies) of a service (other than a freight transportation service or a service that is the transportation of an individual) is made in a participating province, or is made outside the participating provinces to a person who is resident in a participating province, and all or substantially all of the service was performed before the implementation date for that participating province, no tax is payable under subsection 165(2), 218.1(1) or 220.08(1) in respect of any consideration for the supply that is paid or becomes due before the day that is four months after that implementation date. Where a supply (other than a supply to which subsection (6) applies) of a service (other than a freight transportation service or a service that is the transportation of an individual) is made in a participating province, or is made outside the participating provinces to a person who is resident in a participating province, and all or substantially all of the service was not performed before the implementation date for that province, no tax is payable under subsection 165(2), 218.1(1) or 220.08(1) in respect of any consideration for the supply that is paid or becomes due before the day that is four months after that implementation date to the extent that the consideration relates to any part of the service that was performed before that implementation date. Subject to subsections 351(8) and 352(5), where a taxable supply (other than a supply to which subsection (6) applies) of a service (other than a freight transportation service or a service that is the transportation of an individual) is made in a participating province, or is made outside the participating provinces to a person who is resident in a participating province, and any consideration for the supply becomes due, or is paid without having become due, on or after the specified pre-implementation date for that province and before the implementation date for that province, for any part of the service that was not performed before that implementation date, that consideration is deemed, for the purpose of applying subsection 165(2), section 218.1 or subsection 220.08(1), as the case may require, to the supply, to have become due on that implementation date and not to have been paid before that implementation date. For the purposes of this Division, a supply of a membership in a club, an organization or an association and a supply of an admission in respect of a place of amusement, a seminar, an activity or an event in a participating province are each deemed to be a supply of a service, but a supply of a right to acquire a membership in a club, an organization or an association is deemed to be a supply of property. Where a taxable supply of an admission to a dinner, ball, concert, show or like event in a participating province is made to a person on or before the announcement date for the participating province, no tax is payable under subsection 165(2) in respect of any supply of an admission to that event;

and no amount in respect of tax payable under subsection 165(2), section 212.1 or subsection 218.1(1), 220.05(1), 220.06(1), 220.07(1) or 220.08(1) shall be included in determining an input tax credit of the supplier in respect of any property or service to the extent that it was acquired, imported or brought into a participating province by the supplier for consumption or use in making supplies of those admissions or in holding that event. Where a supply of a membership for the lifetime of an individual is made in a participating province, or is made outside the participating provinces to a person who is resident in a participating province, and the total of all amounts that were paid after the announcement date for that province and before the implementation date for that province as consideration for the supply exceeds 25% of the total consideration for the supply, for the purpose of applying subsection 165(2), 218.1(1) or 220.08(1) to the supply, as the case may require, the excess amount is deemed to have become due on that implementation date and not to have been paid before that implementation date. For the purpose of determining when tax under subsection 165(2) becomes payable in respect of a supply made in a participating province, where any combination of service, personal property or real property (each of which is in this subsection referred to as an “element”) is supplied in a participating province, the consideration for each element is not separately identified, and no tax would be payable under subsection 165(2) in respect of an element that is property, the ownership or possession of which is transferred to the recipient before the implementation date for that province, if that element were supplied separately, the element mentioned in paragraph (c) is deemed to have been supplied separately from all of the other elements. This section does not apply to a supply in respect of which section 353 applies.