Section 207.07 — Income Tax Act: Return and payment of tax

A person who is liable to pay tax under this Part for all or any part of a calendar year shall before July of the following calendar year file with the Minister a return for the year under this subsection in prescribed form and containing prescribed information including an estimate of the amount of tax payable under this Part by the person in respect of the year, and an estimate of the amount of the person’s allowable refund, if any, for the year; and pay to the Receiver General the amount, if any, by which the amount of the person’s tax payable under this Part in respect of the year exceeds the person’s allowable refund, if any, for the year. If two or more holders of a RDSP, or two or more subscribers of a RESP, are jointly and severally, or solidarily, liable with each other to pay a tax under this Part for a calendar year in connection with the plan, a payment by any of the holders, or any of the subscribers, on account of that tax liability shall to the extent of the payment discharge the joint liability; and a return filed by one of the holders, or one of the subscribers, as required by this Part for the year is deemed to have been filed by each other holder, or each other subscriber, in respect of the joint liability to which the return relates. If a person has filed a return under this Part for a calendar year within three years after the end of the year, the Minister may, on sending the notice of assessment for the year, refund without application any allowable refund of the person for the year, to the extent that it was not applied against the person’s tax payable under paragraph (1)(b); and shall, with all due dispatch, make the refund referred to in paragraph (a) after sending the notice of assessment if an application for it has been made in writing by the person within three years after the sending of an original notice of assessment for the year. Subsections 150(2) and (3), sections 152 and 158 to 167 and Division J of Part I apply to this Part with any modifications that the circumstances require.