1129.56. A university foundation that has become surety for a corporation in respect of the payment of amounts used for the financing of scientific research and experimental development provided for in a university research contract entered into between the corporation and an eligible university entity and that pays, for the first time, an amount under the suretyship shall pay, for its taxation year that includes the day that is two years following the day of that payment, tax equal to the amount determined by the formula
50% (A − B).
For the purposes of the formula in the first paragraph,(a) A is the aggregate of all amounts each of which is an amount the corporation is deemed to have paid to the Minister, under section 1029.8.6, as partial payment of its tax payable pursuant to Part I for a taxation year in respect of the amount of a qualified expenditure paid by the corporation to an eligible university entity as part of the university research contract;
(b) B is the aggregate of all amounts each of which is an amount the corporation would be deemed to have paid to the Minister, under the said section 1029.8.6, as partial payment of its tax payable pursuant to Part I for a taxation year if the aggregate of all amounts each of which is the amount of a qualified expenditure paid as part of the contract were reduced by the amount furnished under the suretyship.
However, the amount of tax determined under the first paragraph shall be reduced by the proportion of that amount that the portion of the amount that the university foundation was required to pay under the suretyship and that was repaid to it by the corporation is of the amount that the university foundation was required to pay under the suretyship.