Income Tax Act

Marginal note:Annual adjustment

• 117.1 (1) The amount of $1,000 referred to in the formula in paragraph 8(1)(s), each of the amounts expressed in dollars in subparagraph 6(1)(b)(v.1), subsection 117(2), the description of B in subsection 118(1), subsection 118(2), paragraph (a) of the description of B in subsection 118(10), subsection 118.01(2), the descriptions of C and F in subsection 118.2(1) and subsections 118.3(1), 122.5(3) and 122.51(1) and (2), the amount of $400,000 referred to in the formula in paragraph 110.6(2)(a), the amounts of $1,355 and $2,335 referred to in the description of A, and the amounts of $12,820 and $17,025 referred to in the description of B, in the formula in subsection 122.7(2), the amount of $700 referred to in the description of C, and the amounts of $24,111 and $36,483 referred to in the description of D, in the formula in subsection 122.7(3), and each of the amounts expressed in dollars in Part I.2 in relation to tax payable under this Part or Part I.2 for a taxation year shall be adjusted so that the amount to be used under those provisions for the year is the total of

  • (a) the amount that would, but for subsection (3), be the amount to be used under those provisions for the preceding taxation year, and

  • (b) the product obtained by multiplying

    • (i) the amount referred to in paragraph (a)

    by

    • (ii) the amount, adjusted in such manner as may be prescribed and rounded to the nearest one-thousandth, or, where the result obtained is equidistant from two consecutive one-thousandths, to the higher thereof, that is determined by the formula

      (A/B) - 1

      where

      A

      is the Consumer Price Index for the 12 month period that ended on September 30 next before that year, and

      B

      is the Consumer Price Index for the 12 month period immediately preceding the period mentioned in the description of A.

• (1.1) [Repealed, 2017, c. 20, s. 11]

• (2) [Repealed, 2000, c. 19, s. 23]

• Marginal note:Rounding

  (3) Where an amount referred to in this section, when adjusted as provided in this section, is not a multiple of one dollar, it shall be rounded to the nearest multiple of one dollar or, where it is equidistant from two such consecutive multiples, to the higher thereof.

• Marginal note:Consumer Price Index

  (4) In this section, the Consumer Price Index for any 12 month period is the result arrived at by

  • (a) aggregating the Consumer Price Index for Canada, as published by Statistics Canada under the authority of the Statistics Act, adjusted in such manner as is prescribed, for each month in that period;

  • (b) dividing the aggregate obtained under paragraph 117.1(4)(a) by twelve; and

  • (c) rounding the result obtained under paragraph 117.1(4)(b) to the nearest one-thousandth or, where the result obtained is equidistant from two consecutive one-thousandths, to the higher thereof.