“remuneration” means(a) salary, wages, allowance, benefit or other advantage paid, allocated, granted or awarded to an employee or former employee;
(b) a payment of commissions or other similar amounts fixed by reference to the volume of the sales made or the contracts negotiated, referred to as “commissions” in this chapter, if the payment is made to an employee or former employee;
(c) pension benefits, including an annuity payment under a pension plan, except a distribution thati. is from a pooled registered pension plan and is not required to be included in computing a taxpayer's income under section 313.13 of the Act, or
ii. is deemed to have been made under section 965.0.30 of the Act;
(d) a retiring allowance;
(e) a death benefit;
(f) a payment as a benefit under the Employment Insurance Act (S.C. 1996, c. 23) or a benefit under a supplementary unemployment benefit plan;
(g) a payment as a benefit under the Act respecting parental insurance (chapter A-29.011); (h) an amount that is described in any of paragraphs e.2 to e.6 of section 311 of the Act, except the portion of the amount that relates to child care expenses and tuition costs;
(h.1) an amount paid under the program referred to in paragraph k.0.2 of section 311 of the Act;
(h.2) an amount paid under a program referred to in section 313.14 of the Act;
(i) a payment under a deferred profit sharing plan or a plan designated in subsection 15 of section 147 of the Income Tax Act (R.S.C. 1985, c. 1 (5th Suppl.)) as a revoked plan, reduced by the amounts determined under sections 883, 884 and 886 of the Act;
(j) an amount paid as proceeds of the surrender, cancellation or redemption of an income-averaging annuity contract;
(k) a payment made during the lifetime of an annuitant, within the meaning of paragraph d of section 961.1.5 of the Act, under a registered retirement income fund of the annuitant, other than a particular payment to the extent thati. the particular payment is in relation to the minimum amount, within the meaning of paragraph c of that section 961.1.5, under the fund for a year, or
ii. where the fund governs a trust, the particular payment would be in relation to the minimum amount, within the meaning of paragraph c of that section 961.1.5, under the fund for a year if each amount that, at the beginning of the year, must be paid after the time of the particular payment and in the year to the trust under an annuity contract that is held by the trust both at the beginning of the year and at the time of the particular payment, is paid to the trust in the year;
(l) a payment made out of or under a registered retirement savings plan during the lifetime of an annuitant, within the meaning of paragraph b of section 905.1 of the Act, of such a plan for whom a retirement income is provided by the plan, other than a periodical annuity payment or a payment made by a person who has reasonable grounds to believe that the payment is deductible in computing an individual’s income under section 924 of the Act;
(m) a payment that is a benefit of a new plan referred to in section 914 of the Act or under such a plan, other than a periodical annuity payment or, where section 914 of the Act applies to the plan after 25 May 1976, a payment made in a year subsequent to the year in which that section 914 applies to the plan;
(n) a benefit referred to in section 311R1;
(o) a payment that is an amount that may be regarded as having been received, in whole or in part, as consideration for entering into a contract for performance of services to be rendered in Québec or for an undertaking not to enter into such a contract with a third party;
(p) an amount received from a retirement compensation arrangement or under such an arrangement;
(q) an amount referred to in section 43.2 of the Act, to the extent that it is not covered by paragraph a;
(r) a payment out of a registered education savings plan other thani. a refund of contributions,
ii. an educational assistance payment, or
iii. an amount, up to $50,000, of an accumulated income payment that is made to a subscriber, as defined in section 1129.63 of the Act, or if there is no such subscriber at that time, that is made to a person that has been the spouse of an individual who was a subscriber, if(1) that amount is transferred to a registered retirement savings plan in which the annuitant is either the recipient of the payment or the recipient’s spouse, and
(2) it is reasonable for the person making the payment to believe that that portion of the accumulated income payment is deductible for the year under sections 922 and 923 of the Act in computing the recipient’s income;
(s) a payment made in connection with the closing of a farm income stabilization account under sections 45 and 46 of the “Farm Income Stabilization Account” program established under the Act respecting La Financière agricole du Québec (chapter L-0.1); (t) a disability assistance payment made from a registered disability savings plan;
(u) an amount that is required under section 313.15 of the Act to be included in computing a taxpayer’s income; and
(v) a payment described in subparagraph w of the second paragraph of section 1015 of the Act.