176.2. For the purposes of sections 176, 176.1 and 176.3, where in a taxation year all debt obligations in respect of a borrowing of money described in subparagraph a of the first paragraph of section 176 or in respect of an amount payable described in subparagraph b of that first paragraph are settled or extinguished by the taxpayer, otherwise than in a transaction made as part of a series of borrowings or other transactions and repayments, for consideration that does not include any property described in the second paragraph, of the taxpayer or any person with whom the taxpayer does not deal at arm’s length or any partnership or trust of which the taxpayer or any person with whom the taxpayer does not deal at arm’s length is a member or beneficiary, section 176.1 shall be read without reference to the words “the lesser of” and to paragraph a.
The property referred to in the first paragraph is a unit of a unit investment trust, an interest in a partnership, a share in a syndicate, a share in the capital stock of a corporation or a debt obligation.
1990, c. 59, s. 100; 1995, c. 49, s. 54; 1997, c. 3, s. 71.