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 are in respect of a particular arrangement, entity, plan, property or scheme, or (ii) a valuation activity that is in respect of a particular property or service; and (b) for greater certainty, a particular arrangement, entity, plan, property or scheme includes an arrangement, an entity, a plan, a property or a scheme in respect of which one of the main purposes for a person’s participation in the arrangement, entity, plan or scheme, or a person’s acquisition of the property, is to obtain a tax benefit. Clerical services (9) For the purposes of this section, a person is not considered to have made or furnished, or participated in, assented to or acquiesced in the making of, a false statement solely because the person provided clerical services (other than bookkeeping services) or secretarial services with respect to the statement. Valuations (10) Despite subsection (6), a statement as to the value of a property or a service (which value is in this subsection referred to as the “stated value”), made by the person who opined on the stated value or by a person in the course of an excluded activity is deemed to be a statement that the person would reasonably be expected to know, but for circumstances amounting to culpable conduct, is a false statement if the stated value is (a) less than the product obtained when the prescribed percentage for the property or service is multiplied by the fair market value of the property or service; or (b) greater than the product obtained when the prescribed percentage for the property or service is multiplied by the fair market value of the property or service. Exception (11) Subsection (10) does not apply to a person in respect of a statement as to the value of a property or service if the person establishes that the stated value was reasonable in the circumstances and that the statement was made in good faith and, where applicable, was not based on one or more assumptions that the person knew or would reasonably be expected to know, but for circumstances amounting to culpable conduct, were unreasonable or misleading in the circumstances. Special rules (12) For the purpose of applying this section, (a) where a person is assessed a penalty that is referred to in subsection (2) the amount of which is based on the person’s gross entitlements at any time in respect of a planning activity or a valuation activity and another assessment of the penalty is made at a later time, (i) if the person’s gross entitlements in respect of the activity are greater at that later time, the assessment of the penalty made at that later time is deemed to be an assessment of a separate penalty, and (ii) in any other case, the notice of assessment of the penalty sent before that later time is deemed not to have been sent; (b) a person’s gross entitlements at any time in respect of a planning activity or a valuation activity, in the course of which the person makes or furnishes, participates in the making of or causes another person to make or furnish a false statement, shall exclude the total of all amounts each of which is the amount of a penalty (other than a penalty the assessment of which is void because of subsection (13)) determined under paragraph (3)(a) in respect of the false statement for which notice of the assessment was sent to the person before that time; and (c) where a person is assessed a penalty that is referred to in subsection (4), the person’s gross compensation at any time in respect of the false statement that could be used by or on behalf of the other person shall exclude the total of all amounts each of which is the amount of a penalty (other than a penalty the assessment of which is void because of subsection (13)) determined under subsection (5) to the extent that the false statement was used by or on behalf of that other person and for which notice of the assessment was sent to the person before that time. Assessment void (13) For the purposes of this Part, if an assessment of a penalty that