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 preceding fiscal year, or (b) a recoverable amount (as defined in subsection 261.01(1)) of a pension entity of the pension plan in respect of a claim period ending in a fiscal year of the pension entity that ends in the preceding fiscal year but only to the extent that the recoverable amount is in respect of an amount determined for A under paragraph (c) of whichever of subsections (5) to (7.1) is applicable in determining an amount of tax deemed to have been paid by the pension entity under this section for the purposes of section 261.01. Qualifying employer (10) For the purposes of this section, a particular participating employer of a pension plan is a qualifying employer of the pension plan for a particular fiscal year of the particular participating employer if the particular participating employer did not become a participating employer of the pension plan in the particular fiscal year, if the amount determined for A in the following formula is less than $5,000 and if the amount (expressed as a percentage) determined by the following formula is less than 10%: A/(B – C) where A is the total of all amounts, each of which is (a) an amount of tax deemed to have been collected under subsection (7) or (7.1) by the particular participating employer in respect of a specified supply of the particular participating employer to the pension plan during the fiscal year (in this subsection referred to as the “preceding fiscal year”) of the particular participating employer preceding the particular fiscal year less the amount, if any, determined for B under paragraph (c) of whichever of those subsections is applicable in determining that amount of tax, (b) if the particular participating employer is a qualifying employer of the pension plan for the preceding fiscal year, an amount of tax that would have been deemed to have been collected under subsection (7) or (7.1) by the particular participating employer during the preceding fiscal year in respect of a supply that would have been deemed to have been made under whichever of those subsections is applicable and that would be a specified supply of the particular participating employer to the pension plan, if the particular participating employer were not a qualifying employer, less the amount, if any, that would be determined for B under paragraph (c) of whichever of those subsections is applicable in determining that amount of tax, (c) an amount of tax deemed to have been collected under subsection (7) or (7.1) by another participating employer of the pension plan in respect of a specified supply of the other participating employer to the pension plan during a fiscal year of the other participating employer that ends in the preceding fiscal year, provided that the other participating employer is related at any time in the preceding fiscal year to the particular participating employer, less the amount, if any, determined for B under paragraph (c) of whichever of those subsections is applicable in determining that amount of tax, or (d) an amount of tax that would have been deemed to have been collected under subsection (7) or (7.1) by another participating employer of the pension plan during a fiscal year of the other participating employer that ends in the preceding fiscal year in respect of a supply that would have been deemed to have been made under whichever of those subsections is applicable and that would be a specified supply of the other participating employer to the pension plan if the other participating employer were not a qualifying employer, provided that the other participating employer is related at any time in the preceding fiscal year to the particular participating employer and is a qualifying employer of the pension plan for that fiscal year of the other participating employer, less the amount, if any, that would be determined for B under paragraph (c) of whichever of those subsections is applicable in determining that amount of tax; B is the total of all amounts, eac