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Excise Act, 2001

Version of section 43.1 from 2014-06-19 to 2018-06-20:


Definition of inflationary adjusted year

  •  (1) In this section, inflationary adjusted year means 2019 and every fifth year after that year.

  • Marginal note:Adjustments

    (2) Each rate of duty set out in sections 1 to 4 of Schedule 1 and paragraph (a) of Schedule 2 in respect of a tobacco product is to be adjusted on December 1 of a particular inflationary adjusted year so that the rate is equal to the greater of

    • (a) the rate determined by the formula

      A × B

      where

      A
      is the rate of duty applicable to the tobacco product on November 30 of the particular inflationary adjusted year, and
      B
      is the amount determined by the formula in subparagraph (i) or (ii), rounded to the nearest one-thousandth, or, if the amount is equidistant from two consecutive one-thousandths, rounded to the higher one-thousandth,
      • (i) if the particular inflationary adjusted year is 2019,

        C/D

        where

        C
        is the Consumer Price Index for the 12-month period ending on September 30, 2019, and
        D
        is the Consumer Price Index for the 12-month period that ended on September 30, 2013,
      • (ii) for any other particular inflationary adjusted year,

        E/F

        where

        E
        is the Consumer Price Index for the 12-month period ending on September 30 of the particular inflationary adjusted year, and
        F
        is the Consumer Price Index for the 12-month period ending on September 30 of the inflationary adjusted year that precedes the particular inflationary adjusted year; and
    • (b) the rate of duty referred to in the description of A in paragraph (a).

  • Marginal note:Rounding

    (3) The adjusted rate determined under subsection (2) is to be rounded to the nearest one-hundred-thousandth or, if the adjusted rate is equidistant from two consecutive one-hundred-thousandths, to the higher one-hundred-thousandth.

  • 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, for each month in that period;

    • (b) dividing the aggregate obtained under paragraph (a) by 12; and

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

  • 2014, c. 20, s. 64

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