1029.6.0.1.8.1. If, at a particular time after 21 April 2005, a person or partnership pays, pursuant to a legal obligation, a particular amount that may reasonably be considered to be the repayment of a benefit or advantage that, for the purpose of computing an amount, in this section referred to as the “credit amount”, that a taxpayer is deemed to have paid to the Minister for any given taxation year under a particular provision of this chapter, or is deemed to have overpaid to the Minister, in relation to any given taxation year, under section 34.1.9 of the Act respecting the Régie de l’assurance maladie du Québec (chapter R-5), was taken into account in computing a cost, an expenditure or expenses, or the taxpayer’s share of a cost, an expenditure or expenses, the following rules apply:(a) if the cost, expenditure or expenses were incurred by the taxpayer, the provision of this chapter that applies in respect of the repayment by the taxpayer of an amount of government assistance or non-government assistance relating to the cost, expenditure or expenses, also applies in respect of the repayment of the benefit or advantage as ifi. the particular amount were an amount paid by the taxpayer at that time, pursuant to a legal obligation, as the repayment of non-government assistance referred to in that provision, and
ii. for the purpose of computing the credit amount for the given taxation year, or in relation to that year, the benefit or advantage had not been treated as a benefit or advantage but as non-government assistance that, in relation to the cost, expenditure or expenses, was received by the taxpayer;
(b) if the cost, expenditure or expenses were incurred by a particular partnership of which the taxpayer is a member andi. the benefit or advantage was obtained by a partnership or by a person other than the person referred to in subparagraph ii, the provision of this chapter that applies in respect of the repayment by the particular partnership of an amount of government assistance or non-government assistance relating to the cost, expenditure or expenses, also applies in respect of the repayment of the benefit or advantage as if(1) the particular amount were an amount paid by the particular partnership at that time, pursuant to a legal obligation, as the repayment of non-government assistance referred to in that provision, and
(2) for the purpose of computing the credit amount for the given taxation year, the benefit or advantage had not been treated as a benefit or advantage but as non-government assistance that, in relation to the cost, expenditure or expenses, was received by the particular partnership, or
ii. the benefit or advantage was obtained by the taxpayer or by a person with whom the taxpayer is not dealing at arm’s length, the provision of this chapter that applies in respect of the repayment by the taxpayer of an amount of government assistance or non-government assistance relating to the cost, expenditure or expenses, also applies in respect of the repayment of the benefit or advantage as if(1) the particular amount were an amount paid by the taxpayer at that time, pursuant to a legal obligation, as the repayment of non-government assistance referred to in that provision, and
(2) for the purpose of computing the credit amount for the given taxation year, the benefit or advantage had not been treated as a benefit or advantage but as non-government assistance that, in relation to the cost, expenditure or expenses, was received by the taxpayer;
(c) if the cost, expenditure or expenses were incurred by a corporation with which the taxpayer is associated at the end of the calendar year that ends in the given taxation year, the provision of this chapter that applies in respect of the repayment by the corporation of an amount of government assistance or non-government assistance relating to the cost, expenditure or expenses, also applies in respect of the repayment of the benefit or advantage as ifi. the particular amount were an amount paid by the corporation at that time, pursuant to a legal obligation, as the repayment of non-government assistance referred to in that provision, and
ii. for the purpose of computing the credit amount for the given taxation year, the benefit or advantage had not been treated as a benefit or advantage but as non-government assistance that, in relation to the cost, expenditure or expenses, was received by the corporation;
(d) the assumptions that, because of the application of subparagraph a or c, or of subparagraph i or ii of subparagraph b, were made in respect of the benefit or advantage must be taken into account for the purpose of applying, in relation to the taxpayer, the provision to which that subparagraph a or c or that subparagraph i or ii refers, in respect of the repayment, after that time, of government assistance or non-government assistance or of another benefit or advantage, relating to the cost, expenditure or expenses, or to such a cost, such an expenditure or such expenses; and
(e) if the taxpayer is deemed, because of the application of subparagraph a or of subparagraph i or ii of subparagraph b, to have paid an amount to the Minister, for a taxation year, under the provision of this chapter to which that subparagraph a or that subparagraph i or ii refers, the taxpayer is, for the purposes of this chapter, deemed to be so deemed in relation to an amount of non-government assistance that is repaid.
For the purposes of the first paragraph in respect of the repayment of a benefit or advantage that reduced, in computing the amount that a taxpayer is deemed to have paid to the Minister for a taxation year under any of sections 1029.7, 1029.8, 1029.8.6, 1029.8.7, 1029.8.9.0.3, 1029.8.9.0.4, 1029.8.10, 1029.8.11, 1029.8.16.1.4 and 1029.8.16.1.5, the amount of the wages, of the portion of the consideration, of the qualified expenditure, of the eligible fee or of the eligible fee balance, as the case may be, no account is to be taken of subparagraphs c to e of the first paragraph and its subparagraph b is to be read as follows:“(b) if the cost, expenditure or expenses were incurred by a partnership of which the taxpayer is a member, the provision of this chapter that applies in respect of the repayment by the partnership of an amount of government assistance or non-government assistance relating to the cost, expenditure or expenses, also applies in respect of the repayment of the benefit or advantage as if
i. the particular amount were an amount paid by the partnership at that time, pursuant to a legal obligation, as the repayment of non-government assistance referred to in that provision, and
ii. for the purpose of computing the credit amount for the given taxation year, the benefit or advantage had not been treated as a benefit or advantage but as non-government assistance that, in relation to the cost, expenditure or expenses, was received by the partnership.”
For the purposes of the first paragraph in respect of the repayment of a benefit or advantage that reduced, in computing the amount that a taxpayer is deemed to have paid to the Minister for a taxation year under section 1029.8.33.6 or 1029.8.33.7, the taxpayer’s qualified expenditure or the taxpayer’s share of such a qualified expenditure, the first paragraph is to be read(a) as if the following subparagraph was added after subparagraph ii of subparagraph a:“iii. subparagraph i of paragraph b of section 1029.8.33.2.1 were read as follows:
“i. the quotient obtained by dividing the amount that the taxpayer is deemed to have paid to the Minister for that year under section 1029.8.33.6 in respect of the trainee in relation to the particular week by the percentage specified in the first paragraph of section 1029.8.33.6 that is applicable in respect of the taxpayer for the particular year, and”;”;
(b) as if the following subparagraph was added after subparagraph 2 of subparagraph i of subparagraph b:“(3) subparagraph i of paragraph b of section 1029.8.33.2.1 were read as follows:
“i. the quotient obtained by dividing the amount that the taxpayer is deemed to have paid to the Minister for the particular year under section 1029.8.33.7 in respect of the trainee in relation to the particular week by the product obtained by multiplying
(1) the percentage specified in the first paragraph of section 1029.8.33.7 that is applicable in respect of the taxpayer for the particular year, and
(2) the proportion that the taxpayer’s share of the income or loss of the partnership for the fiscal period ended in the particular year is of the income or loss of that partnership for that fiscal period, on the assumption that, if the income and loss of the partnership for that fiscal period are nil, the partnership’s income for that fiscal period is equal to $1,000,000, and”, or”; and
(c) as if the following subparagraph was added after subparagraph 2 of subparagraph ii of subparagraph b:“(3) paragraph b of section 1029.8.33.2.2 were read as follows:
“(b) the amount by which the eligible taxpayer’s share, determined in accordance with section 1029.8.33.7 and without reference to section 1029.8.33.7.1, of the particular qualified expenditure exceeds the aggregate of
i. the quotient obtained by dividing the amount that the taxpayer is deemed to have paid to the Minister for that taxation year under section 1029.8.33.7 in respect of the particular qualified expenditure by the percentage specified in the first paragraph of section 1029.8.33.7 that is applicable in respect of the taxpayer for the taxation year in which the particular fiscal period ended, and
ii. the amounts determined under this section, in respect of the taxpayer and in respect of the particular qualified expenditure, for a taxation year previous to the particular taxation year.”;”.