Words and Phrases - "share of income"

In the situation where a corporate general partner of the partnership has no entitlement in the particular year to profits of the partnership because of a preferential share of the individual limited partner with the threshold above which the general partner is entitled to participate not having been exceeded, the corporate partner nonetheless would be considered to have a share of the income of the partnership for purposes of s. 249.1(2), so that the election in s. 249.1(4) would not be available. Before so concluding, CRA stated:

[S]ubsection 249.1(2) has been added to allow a person - who leaves a partnership during a fiscal period in a situation where the partnership no longer allows the person, by reason of that departure, to receive a share of the income or loss of the partnership for what would have been the fiscal period of the partnership had it ended at the end of calendar year in which it began - to not be considered as partner.