359.8.1. A corporation that issues a flow-through share to a person under an agreement and incurs, under the agreement and in a particular calendar year, expenses (in this section referred to as “Québec exploration expenses”) that relate to a renunciation in respect of which an amount would be included in the aggregate described in subparagraph a of the second paragraph of section 1129.60 for the purpose of computing the tax that it would be required, but for this section, to pay for a month included in the preceding calendar year under section 1129.60, is, for the purposes of either section 359.2 or section 359.2.1 and paragraph b of section 359.2.2, deemed to have incurred the expenses on the last day of the calendar year that precedes the preceding calendar year, if(a) section 359.8 applied in respect of the Québec exploration expenses that the corporation incurred under the agreement in the preceding calendar year and that relate to the renunciation;
(b) the agreement stipulates that the Québec exploration expenses were to be incurred in the preceding calendar year; and
(c) the Minister is of the opinion that the Québec exploration expenses that were to be incurred under the agreement in the preceding calendar year could not be incurred because of circumstances beyond the corporation’s control.
The first paragraph does not apply in respect of an agreement entered into after 31 December 2018 and before 1 January 2021.
2009, c. 5, s. 128; 2021, c. 362021, c. 36, s. 66.