457.2. Where a registrant who is an individual has claimed, in a return for a reporting period in a fiscal year, an input tax refund in respect of property or a service that is acquired or brought into Québec for consumption or use in relation to the maintenance of a self-contained domestic establishment that includes a work space described in subparagraph a or b of paragraph 1.1 of section 203, an amount that is 50% of the refund claimed shall be added in determining the registrant’s 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, “fiscal year” has the meaning assigned by section 458.1.
For the purposes of this section, property or a service acquired or brought into Québec for consumption or use in relation to the maintenance of a self-contained domestic establishment includes property or a service relating to the maintenance, repair or improvement of the establishment but does not include the electricity, gas, fuel or steam used in lighting or heating the establishment.
This section does not apply to an input tax refund claimed(1) in respect of property or a service acquired or brought into Québec for exclusive consumption or use in relation to the work space; or
(2) in relation to the operation of a tourist accommodation establishment that is a tourist home, bed and breakfast establishment or participating establishment in a hospitality village, within the meaning of the regulations made under the Act respecting tourist accommodation establishments (chapter E-14.2) where the registrant holds a classification certificate of the appropriate class issued under that Act, or is a participant in a hospitality village referred to in such a certificate.
1997, c. 85, s. 702; 2004, c. 21, s. 538.