669.3. For the purposes of sections 657 and 663, the amount designated by a trust in its fiscal return filed under this Part for a taxation year beginning before 1 January 2007 throughout which it was resident in Canada which does not exceed the amount determined in accordance with section 669.4 is deemed to have become payable by the trust to its beneficiaries in the year according to the share designated in the fiscal return for each of the beneficiaries.
The first paragraph does not apply unless the designated shares referred to in that paragraph are reasonable having regard to the portions of the income of the trust for the year determined without reference to the provisions of this Act which are included in computing the income of the beneficiaries for the year.
1986, c. 15, s. 94; 1989, c. 5, s. 81; 1990, c. 59, s. 236; 2005, c. 1, s. 130.