1029.8.36.0.0.8. A corporation that encloses with the fiscal return it is required to file for a taxation year under section 1000 a copy of the valid favourable advance ruling given or valid certificate issued by the Société de développement des entreprises culturelles in respect of a property that is a qualified property and the prescribed form containing the prescribed information, is deemed, subject to the second paragraph, where the application for an advance ruling has been filed or, in the absence of such an application, where the application for a certificate has been filed in respect of the property with the Société de développement des entreprises culturelles before the end of the year, to have paid to the Minister on the corporation’s balance-due day for that year, on account of its tax payable for that year under this Part, an amount equal to (a) if the property is a qualified sound recording for which an application for an advance ruling or, in the absence of such an application, an application for a certificate is filed with the Société de développement des entreprises culturelles after 31 August 2003 or for which, despite the filing of an application for an advance ruling with the Société de développement des entreprises culturelles before 1 September 2003, the Société de développement des entreprises culturelles considers that the work surrounding the property was not sufficiently advanced on 12 June 2003, 29.1667% of its qualified labour expenditure for the year in respect of that property;
(a.1) if the property is a qualified digital audiovisual recording for which an application for an advance ruling or, in the absence of such an application, an application for a certificate is filed with the Société de développement des entreprises culturelles after 23 March 2006, 29.1667% of its qualified labour expenditure for the year in respect of that property;
(a.2) if the property is a qualified clip for which an application for an advance ruling or, in the absence of such an application, an application for a certificate is filed with the Société de développement des entreprises culturelles after 23 March 2006, 29.1667% of its qualified labour expenditure for the year in respect of that property; and
(b) in any other case, 331/3% of its qualified labour expenditure for the year in respect of that property.
For the purpose of computing the payments that a corporation referred to in the first paragraph is required to make under subparagraph a of the first paragraph of section 1027, or any of sections 1145, 1159.7, 1175 and 1175.19 where they refer to that subparagraph a, the corporation is deemed to have paid to the Minister, on account of the aggregate of its tax payable for the year under this Part and of its tax payable for the year under Parts IV, IV.1, VI and VI.1, on the date on or before which each payment is required to be made, an amount equal to the lesser of(a) the amount by which the amount determined under the first paragraph for the year exceeds the aggregate of all amounts each of which is the portion of that amount that may reasonably be considered to be deemed to have been paid to the Minister under this paragraph in the year but before that date; and
(b) the amount by which the amount of that payment, determined without reference to this chapter, exceeds the aggregate of all amounts each of which is an amount that is deemed, under this chapter but otherwise than under the first paragraph, to have been paid to the Minister on that date, for the purpose of computing that payment.
The amount that a corporation is deemed to have paid to the Minister, under the first paragraph, on account of its tax payable for a taxation year under this Part in respect of a property that is a qualified property must not exceed the amount by which, where the property is co-produced by the corporation and one or more other qualified corporations, the amount obtained by applying to $50,000 the corporation’s share, expressed as a percentage, of the production costs in relation to the production of the property that is specified in the favourable advance ruling given or the certificate issued, as the case may be, by the Société de développement des entreprises culturelles in respect of the property or, in any other case, $50,000, exceeds the amount by which the aggregate of all amounts each of which is an amount that the corporation is deemed to have paid to the Minister under that paragraph in respect of the property for a preceding taxation year exceeds the aggregate of all amounts each of which is an amount that the corporation is required to pay under section 1129.4.0.10 in respect of the property for a preceding taxation year.
In the case of a property referred to in subparagraph a or a.1 of the first paragraph, the third paragraph shall be read, in respect of that property, with “$50,000”, wherever it appears, replaced by “$43,750”.
In the case of a property referred to in subparagraph a.2 of the first paragraph, the third paragraph is to be read as if, in respect of that property, “$50,000” was replaced wherever it appears by “$21,875”.
2000, c. 39, s. 147; 2001, c. 51, s. 114; 2002, c. 9, s. 62; 2003, c. 9, s. 206; 2004, c. 21, s. 312; 2007, c. 12, s. 154.