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Request for informal procedure

18.33 (1) The Attorney General of Canada or any taxpayer in respect of whom an application referred to in section 18.32 is made may request that sections 18.14 and 18.15, subsection 18.22(3) and sections 18.23 to 18.27 apply in respect of the application or determination of the question.

Consent — income tax cases

(2) Where all parties to an application referred to in subsection 18.32(1) so agree and there is a taxpayer in respect of whom the application is made whose amount of tax and penalties in issue or amount of loss in issue does not exceed the amount referred to in paragraph 18(1)(a) or (b), as the case may be, the Court shall grant the request referred to in subsection (1).

Consent — excise tax cases

(2.1) Where all parties to an application referred to in subsection 18.32(2) so agree, the Court shall grant the request referred to in subsection (1).

Granting of request — income tax cases

(3) The Court may grant a request referred to in subsection (1) where it is of the opinion that the interests of justice would best be served by having the provisions referred to in that subsection apply in respect of the application referred to in subsection 18.32(1) and there is a taxpayer in respect of whom the application is made whose amount of tax and penalties in issue or amount of loss in issue does not exceed the amount referred to in paragraph 18(1)(a) or (b), as the case may be.

Effect of order

(4) Where the Court grants a request referred to in subsection (1), sections 18.14 and 18.15, subsection 18.22(3) and sections 18.23 to 18.27 apply, with such modifications as the circumstances require, to the application or determination of the question.

Costs

(5) Where the Court dismisses a request referred to in subsection (1), there is a taxpayer in respect of whom the application is made whose amount of tax and penalties in issue or loss in issue does not exceed the amount referred to in paragraph 18(1)(a) or (b), as the case may be, and that taxpayer made or consented to the request, the Court may order the Minister of National Revenue to pay the costs of that taxpayer in respect of the application in accordance with the tariff of costs set out in the rules of Court.

R.S., 1985, c. 51 (4th Supp.), s. 5; 1990, c. 45, s. 64.