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the amount determined by the formula A - 2(B - C - D - E) where A is the amount determined under paragraph 61.3(2)(a) in respect of the corporation for the year, B is the total of the fair market value of the assets of the corporation at the end of the year, the amounts paid before the end of the year on account of the corporation’s tax payable under this Part or any of Parts I.3, II, VI and XIV for the year or on account of a similar tax payable for the year under an Act of a province, and all amounts paid in the 12-month period preceding the end of the year by the corporation to a person with whom the corporation does not deal at arm’s length as a dividend (other than a stock dividend), on a reduction of paid-up capital in respect of any class of shares of its capital stock, on a redemption, acquisition or cancellation of its shares, or as a distribution or appropriation in any manner whatever to or for the benefit of the shareholders of any class of its capital stock, to the extent that the distribution or appropriation cannot reasonably be considered to have resulted in a reduction of the amount otherwise determined for C in respect of the corporation for the year, C is the total liabilities of the corporation at the end of the year (determined without reference to the corporation’s liabilities for tax payable under this Part or any of Parts I.3, II, VI and XIV for the year or for a similar tax payable for the year under an Act of a province), determined in the manner described in the description of C in paragraph 61.3(1)(b), D is the total of all amounts each of which is the principal amount at the end of the year of a distress preferred share (within the meaning assigned by subsection 80(1)) issued by the corporation, and E is 50% of the amount, if any, by which the amount that would be the corporation’s taxable income or taxable income earned in Canada for the year if that amount were determined without reference to this section and section 61.4 exceeds the amount determined under paragraph 61.3(2)(a) in respect of the corporation for the year.