7. The amount of the real estate tax refund to which the person contemplated in section 2 is entitled for a year, in respect of the dwelling in which he lives on 31 December in the year, is equal to 40 % of the amount by which the real estate tax ascribed to the dwelling for the same year exceeds the amount equivalent to essential needs, less 3 % of the amount by which his income for that year, as established under section 10, exceeds the amount established under section 10.1.
1979, c. 12, s. 7; 1986, c. 15, s. 219; 1988, c. 4, s. 167; 1993, c. 64, s. 229.