Current Amendments and Rulings Directorate
Regulations Division L.A. McCarron-McGuire
957-2092Attention: B. Bryson 902293
SUBJECT: Paragraph 88(1.3)(a) of the Income Tax Act (the "Act")
We are enclosing a copy of a recent response to an inquiry concerning the above-noted provision of the Act.
In our view, the omission in paragraph 88(1.3)(a) of a reference to the "expenditure year" of the subsidiary does not allow for the proper operation of paragraph 88(1)(e.3) in situations where the parent corporation was not in existence at the end of the subsidiary's "expenditure year", as that term is defined in subparagraph 88(1)(e.3)(i).
Yours truly,
M.A. Hiltz for Director General Reorganizations and Non-resident Division Rulings Directorate Legislations and Intergovernmental Affairs Branch