Examples of SIFT Tax in a sentence
In June 2008 the federal government proposed amendments to the trust tax regulation ("Provincial SIFT Tax Amendments") so that, instead of basing the provincial component of the tax on a flat tax rate of 13 percent, the provincial component would be instead based on the general provincial corporate income tax rate in each province in which PET has a permanent establishment.
Under the Provincial SIFT Tax Amendments PET is considered to have a permanent establishment in Alberta, where the provincial tax rate in 2011 is expected to be ten percent, which would result in an effective tax rate of 26.5 percent in 2011 and 25 percent in 2012.
The difference was also attributable to income tax regulations enacted in March 2009 which determine the provincial component of the future SIFT Tax rate.
As described in further detail under "General Development of Enerplus Resources Fund – Developments in the Past Three Years – Changes to Taxation of Income Trusts and Enerplus' Strategy Post-2010" and "Risk Factors – Risks Relating to Enerplus' Structure and Ownership of the Trust Units", the Canadian federal government has implemented the SIFT Tax which will generally tax income trusts beginning in 2011 at the same effective tax rates as Canadian corporations.
Provided SIFT entities adhere to guidelines with respect to limitations on the amount of new equity issued, the SIFT Tax becomes effective on January 1, 2011.
Under the Provincial SIFT Tax Proposal PET would be considered to have a permanent establishment in Alberta, where the provincial tax rate in 2011 is expected to be 10 percent, which will result in an effective tax rate of 26.5 percent in 2011 and 25 percent in 2012.
In addition, many of the forward-looking statements contained in this document are located proximate to assumptions that are specific to those forward-looking statements, and such assumptions should be taken into account when reading such forward-looking statements: see in particular the assumptions identified under the headings "Update on SIFT Tax and Corporate Conversion", "Standardized Distributable Cash", "Outlook" and "Sensitivity Analysis".
As a result of the proposals to implement the SIFT Tax and the passing of the proposals into law in June 2007, the Board of Directors and Enerplus management continued to review the Fund's strategic objectives and options available to it in an effort to ensure that the Fund's capital structure was efficient and that the Fund was best positioned to facilitate the ongoing creation of Unitholder value.
The purpose of the SIFT Tax was to impose a tax structure on SIFT entities similar to that of public corporations.
As described in further detail under “General Development of Enerplus Resources Fund - Developments in the Past Three Years - Changes to Taxation of Income Trusts”, “Oil and Natural Gas Reserves - Overview of Reserves”, and “Risk Factors - Risks Relating to Enerplus’ Structure and Ownership of the Trust Units”, the Canadian federal government has implemented the SIFT Tax which will generally tax income trusts at the same effective tax rates as Canadian corporations beginning in 2011.