694.0.0.1. An individual shall include, in computing the individual’s taxable income for a taxation year, the aggregate of all amounts each of which is(a) an amount received in the year by the individual as a benefit under section 4 of the Universal Child Care Benefit Act, enacted by section 168 of the Budget Implementation Act, 2006 (S.C. 2006, c. 4), if the individual does not have a spouse at the end of 31 December of the year or if the income for the year of the individual’s spouse at the end of 31 December of the year is equal to or greater than the individual’s income for the year; or
(b) an amount received in the year by the individual’s spouse at the end of 31 December of the year as a benefit under section 4 of the Universal Child Care Benefit Act, if the spouse’s income for the year is greater than the individual’s income for the year.
Despite the first paragraph, the individual is not required to include, in computing taxable income for the year, if the individual so elects, the portion of the amount referred to in the first paragraph that relates to one or more preceding taxation years that are eligible taxation years of the individual (in this paragraph referred to as the “particular portion“), if the total of the particular portion and of the particular portion described in the first paragraph of section 725.1.2 that the individual elects to deduct in computing taxable income for the year, if applicable, is not less than $300.
For the purposes of the second paragraph, “eligible taxation year” of an individual means a taxation year throughout which the individual was resident in Canada, other than a taxation year that ends in a calendar year in which the individual became a bankrupt.
2006, c. 36, s. 47; 2009, c. 5, s. 234; 2010, c. 25, s. 60.