34. (1) Every person who carries on a business or is bound under a fiscal law to deduct, withhold or collect an amount must keep registers, including an annual inventory in the prescribed manner, at his establishment, at his residence or at any other place designated by the Minister.The registers and the supporting documents that support the information contained in the registers must be kept in the appropriate form and contain the information necessary to establish any amount that must be deducted, withheld, collected or paid under a fiscal law.
The Minister may determine the form the registers and supporting documents are to take, the information they must contain as well as any other terms and conditions and, where applicable, shall inform the person concerned of such requirements by means of a writing notified by registered mail or personal service which directs the person concerned to comply with them.
(2) Every municipality to which paragraph a of the definition of “qualified donee” in section 999.2 of the Taxation Act (chapter I-3) applies, provided that it is a Québec municipality, and every person referred to in any of paragraphs b to g of that definition shall keep, at a place designated by the Minister, registers and a duplicate of each receipt containing prescribed information.Such registers shall be kept in the form and contain the information enabling verification of gifts deductible from income, or included in computing an amount deductible from the tax payable, under a fiscal law.
The registers shall be kept in such manner that the information contained in them will enable the Minister to determine whether there are any grounds for the revocation of the registration under section 1063 of the Taxation Act.
(2.1) The first and second paragraphs of subsection 2 also apply to any educational institution to which is made a gift described in paragraph e of section 710 of the Taxation Act or in the definition of “total musical instrument gifts” in the first paragraph of section 752.0.10.1 of that Act.
(3) (Subsection repealed).