31.1. The amounts referred to in the fourth paragraph that are to be used for a taxation year subsequent to the taxation year 2007 are to be adjusted annually in such a manner that each amount used for that taxation year is equal to the total of the amount used for the preceding taxation year and the product obtained by multiplying that latter amount by the factor determined by the formula
(A/B) - 1.
In the formula in the first paragraph,(a) A is the average all-items Consumer Price Index for Québec excluding alcoholic beverages, tobacco products and recreational cannabis for the 12-month period that ended on 30 September of the taxation year preceding that for which an amount is to be adjusted; and
(b) B is the average all-items Consumer Price Index for Québec excluding alcoholic beverages, tobacco products and recreational cannabis for the 12-month period that ended on 30 September of the taxation year immediately before the year preceding that for which the amount is to be adjusted.
If the factor determined by the formula in the first paragraph has more than four decimal places, only the first four decimal digits are retained and the fourth is increased by one unit if the fifth is greater than 4.
The amounts to which the first paragraph refers are(a) the amount of $300 mentioned in paragraph e.1 of section 39;
(b) the amount of $1,120 mentioned in the first paragraph of section 39.6;
(c) the amount of $1,000 mentioned in subparagraph b of the second paragraph of section 75.2.1; and
(d) the amount of $1,000 mentioned in the first paragraph of section 358.0.3.
If the amount that results from the adjustment provided for in the first paragraph is not a multiple of $5, it is to be rounded to the nearest multiple of $5 or, if it is equidistant from two such multiples, to the higher of the two.
2009, c. 15, s. 33; 2012, c. 8, s. 41; 2015, c. 24, s. 22; 2020, c. 52020, c. 5, s. 21414.