Income Tax Regulations — 1212
1212 (1) In computing a taxpayer’s income for a taxation year there may be deducted (a) where the taxpayer is a corporation, such amount as it may claim not exceeding the lesser of (i) the aggregate of (A) 50 per cent of its income for the year, computed in accordance with Part I of the Act without reference to paragraphs 59(3.3)(c) and (d) thereof, if no deduction were allowed under this subsection or subsection 1207(1), and (B) the amount, if any, included in its income for the year by virtue of paragraphs 59(3.3)(c) and (d) of the Act, and (ii) its supplementary depletion base as of the end of the year (before making any deduction under this subsection for the year); and (b) where the taxpayer is not a corporation, such amount as he may claim not exceeding the lesser of (i) the aggregate of (A) 25 per cent of the amount, if any, by which his resource profits for the year exceed four times the amount, if any, deducted by virtue of subparagraph 1201(a)(i) in computing his income for the year, and (B) the amount, if any, included in his income for the year by virtue of paragraphs 59(3.3)(c) and (d) of the Act, and (ii) his supplementary depletion base as of the end of the year (before making any deduction under this subsection for the year). (2) For the purpose of computing the supplementary depletion base of a corporation, where, after the corporation last ceased to carry on active business, control of the corporation is considered, for the purposes of subsection 66(11) of the Act, to have been acquired by a person or persons who did not control the corporation at the time when it so ceased to carry on active business, the amount by which the supplementary depletion base of the corporation at the time it last ceased to carry on active business exceeds the aggregate of amounts otherwise deducted under subsection (1) in computing its income for taxation years ending after that time and before control was so acquired, shall be deemed to have been deducted under subsection (1) by the corporation in computing its income for taxation years ending before control was so acquired. (3) For the purposes of this section, supplementary depletion base of a taxpayer as of a particular time means the amount by which the aggregate of (a) 50 per cent of the aggregate of all expenditures each of which was incurred by him before the particular time and each of which was the capital cost to him of property that is enhanced recovery equipment, (b) 33 1/3 per cent of the aggregate of all expenditures each of which was incurred by him before the particular time and each of which was the capital cost to him of property (other than property that had, before it was acquired by him, been used for any purpose whatever by any person with whom he was not dealing at arm’s length) that is bituminous sands equipment acquired by him before 1981, and (c) where the taxpayer is a successor corporation, any amount required by paragraph (4)(a) to be added before the particular time in computing the taxpayer’s supplementary depletion base, exceeds the aggregate of (d) all amounts deducted by the taxpayer under subsection (1) in computing his income for taxation years ending before the particular time, (e) 50 per cent of the aggregate of all amounts, each of which is a cost of borrowing capital, including any cost incurred prior to the commencement of carrying on a business, included in the capital cost to him of depreciable property described in paragraph (a); (f) 33 1/3 per cent of the aggregate of all amounts, each of which is a cost of borrowing capital, including any cost incurred prior to the commencement of carrying on a business, included in the capital cost to him of depreciable property described in paragraph (b); (g) 50 per cent of the aggregate of all amounts, each of which is an amount in respect of a disposition of property (other than a disposition of property, that had been used by the taxpayer, to any person with whom the taxpayer was not dealing at