418.30. Where, at any time, control of a taxpayer that is a corporation has been acquired by a person or group of persons, or a taxpayer has disposed of all or substantially all of the taxpayer’s Canadian resource properties or foreign resource properties, and, before that time, the taxpayer or a partnership of which the taxpayer was a member acquired a property that is a Canadian resource property, a foreign resource property or an interest in a partnership and it may reasonably be considered that one of the main purposes of the acquisition was to avoid any limitation provided in any of sections 418.16 to 418.21 or section 88.4 of the Act respecting the application of the Taxation Act (chapter I-4), to the extent that that section refers to subsection 25 of section 29 of the Income Tax Application Rules (Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985, chapter 2, 5th Supplement), on the deduction in respect of any expenses incurred by the taxpayer or a corporation referred to as a “transferee” in paragraph e or f of section 418.26, the taxpayer or the partnership, as the case may be, is, for the purpose of applying sections 418.16 to 418.21 and section 88.4 of that Act, to the extent that that section refers to subsection 25 of section 29 of those rules to or in respect of the taxpayer, deemed not to have acquired the property.
1989, c. 77, s. 49; 1997, c. 3, s. 71; 1998, c. 16, s. 162.