1029.8.36.6. If the Minister of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade issues a certificate to a qualified partnership for a particular fiscal period, in respect of a design activity, in connection with a business it carries on in Québec, carried out under a contract entered into with a qualified outside consultant, each qualified corporation that is a member of the qualified partnership at the end of that fiscal period and that encloses the documents referred to in the sixth paragraph with the fiscal return it is required to file under section 1000 for its taxation year in which the particular fiscal period ends, is deemed, subject to the third paragraph, 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 15% of its share of(a) if the qualified partnership is not dealing at arm’s length with the qualified outside consultant at the time the contract is entered into, the aggregate of all amounts each of which, determined in relation to a qualified designer or, as the case may be, to a qualified patternmaker, who reports for work at an establishment of the qualified outside consultant situated in Québec, is the expenditure that it incurs in the particular fiscal period, to the extent that the expenditure is paid and is reasonable in the circumstances, and that is the least ofi. the part of the cost of the contract that may reasonably be attributed to the wages paid by the qualified outside consultant to the qualified designer or qualified patternmaker in a taxation year of the qualified outside consultant or, if the qualified outside consultant is a partnership, in a fiscal period of the qualified outside consultant and before the end of the particular fiscal period, in relation to the part of the design activity, or to the part of the pattern drafting activity provided for in the contract, that is carried out in Québec in the particular fiscal period or in a preceding fiscal period, or that could be so attributed if the qualified outside consultant had such employees,
ii. $60,000, if the wages referred to in subparagraph i, in relation to a taxation year or fiscal period of the qualified outside consultant, are paid or, as the case may be, deemed to be paid to a qualified designer, and
iii. $40,000, if the wages referred to in subparagraph i, in relation to a taxation year or fiscal period of the qualified outside consultant, are paid or, as the case may be, deemed to be paid to a qualified patternmaker; and
(b) if the qualified partnership is dealing at arm’s length with the qualified outside consultant at the time the contract is entered into, the expenditure that the qualified partnership incurs in the particular fiscal period and that is 65% of all or part of the cost of the contract that may reasonably be attributed to the design activity or to a pattern drafting activity provided for in the contract that the qualified outside consultant carried out in Québec in the particular fiscal period or a preceding fiscal period, to the extent that the expenditure is paid and is reasonable in the circumstances.
For the purposes of the first paragraph,(a) where an expenditure incurred in a fiscal period is reasonably attributable to the carrying out of a design activity in a fiscal period subsequent to the period, the expenditure is deemed to be incurred in that subsequent fiscal period; and
(b) the share of a qualified corporation of an expenditure incurred by a qualified partnership of which it is a member is equal to such proportion of the expenditure as the share of the qualified corporation of the income or loss of the partnership for the fiscal period of the partnership ending in its taxation year is of the income or loss of the partnership for that fiscal period, on the assumption that, if the income and loss of the partnership for that fiscal period are nil, the partnership’s income for that fiscal period is equal to $1,000,000.
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, for its taxation year in which the fiscal period of the qualified partnership ends, 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.
However, the first paragraph does not apply where the amount that would be the qualified partnership’s gross revenue for the particular fiscal period from the carrying on of the business referred to in that paragraph, if, for the purposes of the definition of “gross revenue” in section 1, the qualified partnership were a corporation, is less than $150,000 or, where the qualified partnership’s fiscal period has fewer than 52 weeks, less than the amount obtained by multiplying $150,000 by the proportion that the number of weeks in the fiscal period is of 52.
For the purposes of subparagraphs ii and iii of subparagraph a of the first paragraph, the amount of $60,000 or $40,000 is to be replaced by the amount obtained by multiplying that amount by the proportion that the number of days in the taxation year or fiscal period of the qualified outside consultant during which the qualified designer or qualified patternmaker, as the case may be, reports for work at an establishment of the employer situated in Québec and during which the qualified designer or qualified patternmaker carries out the design activity or the pattern drafting activity provided for in the contract, is of 365.
The documents to which the first paragraph refers are(a) the prescribed form containing the prescribed information;
(b) a copy of the certificate issued for the particular fiscal period to the qualified partnership by the Minister of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade; and
(c) a copy of the certificate of qualification issued to the qualified outside consultant by the Minister of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade.
1995, c. 1, s. 157; 1995, c. 63, s. 181; 1997, c. 3, s. 71; 1997, c. 14, s. 224; 1997, c. 31, s. 143; 1999, c. 8, s. 20; 2001, c. 51, s. 170; 2003, c. 9, s. 277; 2003, c. 29, s. 135; 2004, c. 21, s. 350; 2006, c. 13, s. 137.