211. A person is deemed to have received a taxable supply of property or a service where(1) the person pays an allowance to an employee of the person or, where the person is a partnership, to a member of the partnership or, where the person is a charity, to a volunteer who gives services to the charity(a) for supplies all or substantially all of which are taxable supplies, other than zero-rated supplies, of property or services acquired in Québec by the employee, member or volunteer in relation to activities engaged in by the person, or
(b) for the use in Québec, in relation to activities engaged in by the person, of a motor vehicle;
(2) an amount in respect of the allowance is deductible in computing the income of the person for a taxation year of the person for the purposes of the Taxation Act (chapter I-3), or would have been so deductible if the person were a taxpayer under that Act and the activity were a business; and (3) in the case of an allowance in respect of which paragraph e of section 39 or section 40 of the Taxation Act would apply if the allowance were a reasonable allowance for the purposes of that paragraph or that section and, where the person is a partnership and the allowance is paid to a member of the partnership, or where the person is a charity and the allowance is paid to a volunteer, if the member or volunteer were an employee of the partnership or charity, the person considered, at the time the allowance was paid, that the allowance would be a reasonable allowance for the purposes of paragraph e of section 39 or section 40 of that Act and it is reasonable for the person to have so considered, at that time, the allowance to be a reasonable allowance for those purposes.
In addition, the person is deemed to have paid, at the time the allowance was paid, tax in respect of the supply equal to the tax fraction of the allowance and to have so acquired the property or service for use in commercial activities of the person to the same extent as the property or service was acquired by the employee, member or volunteer for consumption or use in relation to commercial activities of the person.
This section does not apply where the allowance relates to property or a service in respect of which the person, if a registrant who acquired the property or service for consumption or use exclusively in commercial activities of the registrant, could not claim an input tax refund by reason of section 206.1.
1991, c. 67, s. 211; 1993, c. 19, s. 189; 1994, c. 22, s. 471; 1995, c. 1, s. 280.