(b) B isi. except where subparagraph ii or iii applies, the proportion of the life insurer’s total payroll for its taxation year, in this section referred to as the “base year”, that precedes the taxation year in which the life insurer began carrying on eligible activities, in respect of a major investment project relating to a recognized business, that 365 is of the number of days in the base year,
ii. where the base year has fewer than 183 days and the life insurer has a taxation year, preceding the base year, that has more than 182 days, the amount that would be determined under subparagraph i if it applied to the life insurer’s total payroll for its last taxation year, preceding the base year, that has more than 182 days, or
iii. where the taxation year in which the life insurer began carrying on eligible activities, in respect of a major investment project relating to a recognized business, is its first taxation year, an amount equal to zero;