93.9. For the purposes of section 93.6, where a taxpayer has acquired property, other than a building that is used or is to be used by the taxpayer principally for the purpose of gaining or producing gross revenue that is rent, in the taxpayer’s first taxation year, in this section referred to as the “particular year”, commencing more than 357 days after the end of the taxpayer’s taxation year in which the taxpayer first acquired property after 31 December 1989 that is part of a project of the taxpayer, or in a taxation year subsequent to the particular year, and at the end of any taxation year, in this section referred to as the “inclusion year”, of the taxpayer, the property may reasonably be considered to be part of the project and has not otherwise become available for use, if the taxpayer so elects in prescribed form filed with the taxpayer’s fiscal return under this Part for the particular year, that particular portion of the property the capital cost of which does not exceed the amount determined under the second paragraph is deemed to have become available for use immediately before the end of the inclusion year.
The amount referred to in the first paragraph is equal to the amount by which the aggregate of all amounts each of which is the capital cost to the taxpayer of a depreciable property, other than a building that is used or is to be used by the taxpayer principally for the purpose of gaining or producing gross revenue that is rent, that is part of the project referred to in the first paragraph, that was acquired by the taxpayer after 31 December 1989 and before the end of the taxpayer’s last taxation year ending more than 357 days before the commencement of the inclusion year and that has not become available for use at or before the end of the inclusion year, except where the property has first become available for use before the end of the inclusion year by reason of subparagraph b of the first paragraph of section 93.7, subparagraph c of the first paragraph of section 93.8 or this section, exceeds the aggregate of all amounts each of which is the capital cost to the taxpayer of a depreciable property, other than the particular portion of the property, that is part of the project to the extent that the property is considered, by reason of this section, to have become available for use before the end of the inclusion year.
1993, c. 16, s. 56; 1996, c. 39, s. 273.