1029.8.9.0.3.1. Where the taxpayer to which section 1029.8.9.0.3 applies is a corporation that has been, throughout the taxation year referred to in that section, a corporation that is not controlled, directly or indirectly in any manner whatever, by one or more persons not resident in Canada and the assets shown in its financial statements submitted to the shareholders or, if such financial statements have not been prepared, or have not been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, that would be shown had such financial statements been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, for its preceding taxation year or, if the corporation is in its first fiscal period, at the beginning of its first fiscal period, were less than $75,000,000, the percentage of 14% mentioned in the first paragraph of that section is to be replaced by the percentage determined by the following formula, to the extent that it is applied to the total of the amounts described in the first paragraph of section 1029.8.9.0.3 which does not exceed the expenditure limit of the corporation for the year:
30% - {[(A - $50,000,000) × 16%]/$25,000,000}.
In the formula in the first paragraph, A is the greater of $50,000,000 and the assets of the corporation determined as provided in this division.
Where the corporation referred to in the first paragraph is a cooperative, the first paragraph is to be read as if “submitted to the shareholders” were replaced by “submitted to the members”.