1029.8.36.72.82.20. If a corporation, in this section referred to as the “new corporation”, resulting from the amalgamation, within the meaning of section 544, of two or more corporations, each of which referred to in this section as a “predecessor corporation”, carries on after the amalgamation a business carried on before the amalgamation by a predecessor corporation, the new corporation and the predecessor corporation are deemed, for the purpose of determining the amount that a corporation is deemed to have paid to the Minister under this division for the taxation year in which ends the calendar year in which the amalgamation occurred and for a subsequent taxation year, to be the same corporation throughout the period during which the predecessor corporation carried on, or is deemed to have carried on under this division, the business.