1029.8.9.0.2. In this division,
“eligible fee” of a taxpayer or partnership, for a taxation year or fiscal period, as the case may be, relating to an eligible research consortium, means the amount obtained by multiplying the amount of expenditures made by the eligible research consortium in respect of scientific research and experimental development related to a business of the taxpayer or partnership undertaken by the eligible research consortium in Québec, after 14 May 1992, in its fiscal period ending in the taxation year of the taxpayer or fiscal period of the partnership, that may reasonably be considered to be attributable to fees or dues paid, during that fiscal period of the eligible research consortium, by all the taxpayers and all the partnerships that are members thereof by such proportion as the fee or dues paid by the taxpayer or partnership, as the case may be, to the eligible research consortium, during the fiscal period of the eligible research consortium ending in the taxation year of the taxpayer or the fiscal period of the partnership, to be a member thereof is or are of the aggregate of the fees or dues paid, during that fiscal period of the eligible research consortium, by all the taxpayers and all the partnerships that are members thereof;
“eligible fee balance” of a taxpayer or partnership, for a taxation year or fiscal period, as the case may be, relating to an eligible research consortium, means the aggregate of all amounts each of which is the amount obtained by multiplying the amount of expenditures made by the eligible research consortium in respect of scientific research and experimental development related to a business of the taxpayer or partnership undertaken by the eligible research consortium in Québec in its fiscal period ending in the taxation year of the taxpayer or fiscal period of the partnership, that may reasonably be considered to be attributable to fees or dues paid, during the particular fiscal period of the eligible research consortium, by all the taxpayers and all the partnerships that were members thereof by such proportion as the fee or dues paid by the taxpayer or the partnership, as the case may be, to the eligible research consortium, during the particular fiscal period of the eligible research consortium ending in a preceding taxation year of the taxpayer or a preceding fiscal period of the partnership, to be a member of the eligible research consortium is or are of the aggregate of the fees or dues paid, during the particular fiscal period of the eligible research consortium, by all the taxpayers and all the partnerships that were members thereof;
“eligible research consortium” has the meaning assigned by paragraph a.1.1 of section 1029.8.1;
“tax-exempt taxpayer” has the meaning assigned by paragraph b.1 of section 1029.8.1.
For the purposes of this section, the expenditures made by an eligible research consortium are attributable to fees or dues paid during a fiscal period only if the expenditures may reasonably be considered not to be attributable to fees or dues paid to the eligible research consortium during a preceding fiscal period, and for the purposes of this paragraph, the expenditures made by an eligible research consortium are attributable to fees or dues paid to it in the order in which they have been received.
1993, c. 19, s. 103; 1993, c. 64, s. 148; 1995, c. 1, s. 130; 1997, c. 3, s. 58; 1997, c. 14, s. 196; 2001, c. 51, s. 91; 2006, c. 13, s. 99.