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surance policy at any time prior to the issuance of the policy is deemed to be an expense incurred as consideration for services rendered in the particular year that the policy is issued. Penalties, bonuses and rate-reduction payments (9.1) Subject to subsection 142.4(10), where at any time a payment, other than a payment that (a) can reasonably be considered to have been made in respect of the extension of the term of a debt obligation or in respect of the substitution or conversion of a debt obligation to another debt obligation or share, or (b) is contingent or dependent on the use of or production from property or is computed by reference to revenue, profit, cash flow, commodity price or any other similar criterion or by reference to dividends paid or payable to shareholders of any class of shares of the capital stock of a corporation, is made to a person or partnership by a taxpayer in the course of carrying on a business or earning income from property in respect of borrowed money or on an amount payable for property acquired by the taxpayer (in this subsection referred to as a “debt obligation”) (c) as consideration for a reduction in the rate of interest payable by the taxpayer on the debt obligation, or (d) as a penalty or bonus payable by the taxpayer because of the repayment by the taxpayer of all or part of the principal amount of the debt obligation before its maturity, the payment shall, to the extent that it can reasonably be considered to relate to, and does not exceed the value at that time of, an amount that, but for the reduction described in paragraph 18(9.1)(c) or the repayment described in paragraph 18(9.1)(d), would have been paid or payable by the taxpayer as interest on the debt obligation for a taxation year of the taxpayer ending after that time, be deemed, (e) for the purposes of this Act, to have been paid by the taxpayer and received by the person or partnership at that time as interest on the debt obligation, and (f) for the purpose of computing the taxpayer’s income in respect of the business or property for the year, to have been paid or payable by the taxpayer in that year as interest pursuant to a legal obligation to pay interest, (i) in the case of a reduction described in paragraph 18(9.1)(c), on the debt obligation, and (ii) in the case of a repayment described in paragraph 18(9.1)(d), (A) where the repayment was in respect of all or part of the principal amount of the debt obligation that was borrowed money, except to the extent that the borrowed money was used by the taxpayer to acquire property, on borrowed money used in the year for the purpose for which the borrowed money that was repaid was used, and (B) where the repayment was in respect of all or part of the principal amount of the debt obligation that was either borrowed money used to acquire property or an amount payable for property acquired by the taxpayer, on the debt obligation to the extent that the property or property substituted therefor is used by the taxpayer in the year for the purpose of gaining or producing income therefrom or for the purpose of gaining or producing income from a business. Interest on debt obligations (9.2) For the purposes of this Part, the amount of interest payable on borrowed money or on an amount payable for property (in this subsection and subsections 18(9.3) to 18(9.8) referred to as the “debt obligation”) by a corporation, partnership or trust (in this subsection and subsections 18(9.3) to 18(9.7) referred to as the “borrower”) in respect of a taxation year shall, notwithstanding subparagraph 18(9.1)(f)(i), be deemed to be an amount equal to the lesser of (a) the amount of interest, not in excess of a reasonable amount, that would be payable on the debt obligation by the borrower in respect of the year if no amount had been paid before the end of the year in satisfaction of the obligation to pay interest on the debt obligation in respect of the year and if the amount outstanding at each parti