457.1. Where a registrant is the recipient of, or pays an allowance in respect of, a supply of food, beverages or entertainment and section 421.1 of the Taxation Act (chapter I-3) applies, or would apply if the registrant were a taxpayer under that Act, in respect of the supply or allowance, 50 % of the total of all amounts each of which is an input tax refund claimed in a return for a reporting period in a fiscal year of the registrant in respect of the supply or allowance shall be added in determining the net tax(1) where the registrant ceases in or at the end of that fiscal year to be registered under Division I, for the last reporting period of the registrant in that fiscal year;
(2) where the reporting period of the registrant is a fiscal year of the registrant, for that reporting period; and
(3) in any other case, for the reporting period of the registrant beginning immediately after the end of that fiscal year.
For the purposes of this section, the fiscal year of a person is the fiscal year of that person within the meaning of section 458.1.
The first paragraph does not apply to charities or public institutions.
1995, c. 63, s. 462; 1997, c. 85, s. 701.