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Version of section 15.1 from 2018-12-15 to 2024-11-11:


Marginal note:Amount of salary and wages on which first additional contribution made

  •  (1) The amount of a person’s salary and wages on which a first additional contribution has been made for a year is the greater of the following amounts, divided by the first additional contribution rate for employees for the year:

    • (a) the aggregate of all amounts deducted as required from the remuneration of that person on account of the employee’s first additional contribution for the year under this Act, minus the portion of those amounts that exceeds the amount determined under paragraph 8(2)(a.1), and

    • (b) an amount equal to

      • (i) the aggregate of all amounts deducted as required from the remuneration of that person on account of the employee’s first additional contribution for the year under this Act or under a provincial pension plan,

      minus

      • (ii) the sum of

        • (A) the amount determined under paragraph 8(2)(c), and

        • (B) the aggregate of all amounts deducted as required from the remuneration of that person on account of the employee’s first additional contribution for the year under this Act or under a provincial pension plan, minus the sum of the amounts determined under paragraphs 8(2)(a.1) and (c).

  • Marginal note:Employer’s failure to deduct amount

    (1.1) For the purposes of subsection (1), if an employer has failed to deduct an amount as required from the person’s remuneration on account of the employee’s first additional contribution for the year and that person has, before June 30 of the following year, notified the Minister of the employer’s failure to so deduct that amount, an amount equal to the amount that should have been so deducted by the employer on account of that contribution is added to the aggregate of all amounts deducted as required from the remuneration of that person on account of the employee’s first additional contribution for the year.

  • Marginal note:Effect of payment by employer of amount not deducted as required

    (2) For the purposes of subsection 8(2) and this section, if an amount that an employer has failed to deduct as required from the remuneration of an employee on account of the employee’s first additional contribution for a year is paid by the employer on account of the employee’s first additional contribution for that year, the amount so paid is deemed to have been deducted by the employer on account of that contribution.

  • 2016, c. 14, s. 10
  • 2018, c. 12, s. 368

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