97. (1) Every person or firm operating or having operated a system certain immoveables of which are not entered on the roll under paragraph f of section 13 shall pay, as real estate tax on such immoveables for each municipal fiscal year commencing in a particular calendar year, a tax equal to ten per cent of the net revenue for his fiscal year ending during the calendar year preceding the particular year, if he operated such a system during the latter fiscal year.
(2) Every person or firm operating or having operated a system certain immoveables of which are not entered on the roll under paragrah h of section 13 shall pay, as a real estate tax on such immoveables for each municipal fiscal year commencing in a particular calendar year, a tax based on his taxable gross revenue for his fiscal year ending in the calendar year preceding the particular year, equal to:(a) in the case of a cable-television system, two per cent of that portion of such revenue not exceeding five million dollars plus three per cent of that portion of such revenue exceeding five million dollars;
(b) in other cases, three per cent of that portion of such revenue not exceeding five million dollars plus five per cent of that portion of such revenue exceeding five million dollars.
(3) Where a person or firm contemplated in subsection 1 or 2 operates or has operated a system not confined to Québec, the tax provided for in such subsections is reduced in the manner prescribed by regulation of the Gouvernement.
(4) Every person or firm contemplated in subsection 1 or 2 shall, not later than six months after the end of each of his fiscal years, transmit to the Minister of Revenue a declaration the form and content of which are prescribed by the latter, a statement of his gross revenue earned during such fiscal year in the territory of each municipal corporation in Québec, and a statement of his net revenue or, as the case may be, of his taxable gross revenue for the same fiscal year.
(5) The amount of the tax provided for in subsection 1 or 2 shall be paid to the Minister of Revenue not later than the last day of the sixth month following the end of each fiscal year of the person or firm contemplated in the said subsections. The Minister of Revenue collects such tax on behalf of the municipal corporations.
(6) This section, paragraphs s, t and w of section 1, and section 97.1 are considered to be a fiscal law within the meaning of the Act respecting the Ministère du revenu (chapter M-31).