1029.8.16.1.4.4. For the purposes of sections 1029.8.16.1.4.1 to 1029.8.16.1.4.3, where a corporation or a corporation with which it is associated reduces its assets by any transaction in a taxation year and, but for that reduction, section 1029.8.16.1.4.1 would not apply to the corporation, the assets are deemed not to have been so reduced unless the Minister decides otherwise.