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Excise Act, 2001

Version of section 58.2 from 2017-06-22 to 2018-06-20:


Marginal note:Imposition of tax — 2017 increase

  •  (1) Subject to section 58.3, every person shall pay to Her Majesty a tax on all taxed cigarettes of the person held at the beginning of March 23, 2017 at the rate of $0.00265 per cigarette.

  • Marginal note:Imposition of tax  — inflationary adjusted years

    (2) Subject to section 58.3, every person shall pay to Her Majesty a tax on all taxed cigarettes of the person held at the beginning of December 1 of an inflationary adjusted year at a rate per cigarette equal to

    • (a) in the case of cigarettes in respect of which duty has been imposed under section 42, the amount determined by the formula

      (A – B)/5

      where

      A
      is the rate of duty applicable under paragraph 1(b) of Schedule 1 for each five cigarettes on December 1 of the inflationary adjusted year, and
      B
      is the rate of duty applicable under section 1 of Schedule 1 for each five cigarettes on November 30 of the inflationary adjusted year; and
    • (b) in the case of cigarettes in respect of which duty has been imposed under section 53, the amount determined by the formula

      C – D

      where

      C
      is the rate of duty applicable under paragraph 1(a) of Schedule 3 per cigarette on December 1 of the inflationary adjusted year, and
      D
      is the rate of duty applicable under paragraph 1(a) of Schedule 3 per cigarette on November 30 of the inflationary adjusted year.
  • Marginal note:Rounding

    (3) The amount determined under paragraph (2)(a) or (b) is to be rounded to the nearest one-hundred-thousandth or, if the amount is equidistant from two consecutive one-hundred-thousandths, to the higher one-hundred-thousandth.

  • 2006, c. 4, s. 34
  • 2007, c. 35, s. 198
  • 2014, c. 20, s. 70
  • 2017, c. 20, s. 46

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